I haven't been asked this, but, hey, it could happen. Businesses ask for five year plans for long-range planning reasons. And sometimes, IT gets asked this as well. And IT is what you call a fast-moving field, and five years is a long time. So. Now what?At WWU, if you had asked me that I probably could have given you one. Our core mission doesn't change, educate students, thought the details of…
My company has asked our department for a five year plan. This is hard for us to conceive since we are a smallish shop and mostly reactionary to peoples needs. Does anyone have any advise for creating a plan such as this?
That's probably because you're planning the wrong things. Do you have a fixed (or at least planned) rotation schedule for servers and networking equipment on a long-term basis? Or is everything an as-needed firefighting operation?
I work for a small business outsource IT company. We work for MANY small businesses. They look at IT purely as a cost to their business that often they wish they could do with out. Not ALL our businesses are like that, but getting them to purchase a server that they NEED is hard enough, more or less get them to plan for the life cyle of a server.
I've seen all sorts of answers to that. Probably the best one was someone that their DC would litterally crash 2 or 3 times a month. They kept asking us to fix it. This was on a server they probably had for close to 12 years. They kept telling us that they didn't have the budget to afford a new one.
I guess that's one of the disadvantages to outsourcing your IT. You don't relaly get a stake at the budgeting table
@womble In that organization, there were lifecycles for all devices. The things that we couldn't plan for were the things that blew up the plan - managers taking over a department and reorganizing everything, high-ups getting enamored with a saleperson's pitch.
:) Some times small business owners have strange ways of rationalizing things. Having to spend money on their business, even if it is to make it better, means... less money that they bring home for their expensive house and toys
Ok serverfault admins ... I have a Win7Ult64 laptop and a WinXP32 that I want to network together. What do I need to do? They don't seem to see each other over the wireless.
@WesleyDavid My favorate run command is ncpa.cpl . That works on EVERY version of windows, at least 2000 and above. I had to learn that after Vista came out because it would take like 12 MILLION mouse clicks to get there via GUI
what do you mean they can't see each other? Do they get an IP from the same dhcp scope, can you ping one from the other. Have you permitted the kind of access you want through the firewalls, have you tested using IPs \\192.168.1.1 instead of names...
You might just want to manually retag those, or ask on meta to have that created. Given the small number of questions I doubt there is enough people who pay attention to synonyms to actually get it created via a vote.
So I cannot vote for it, because I do not have 5 answers in that tag that have upvotes.
as far as I can tell only you and voretaq7 could even cast a vote.
i want to check how much Windows Server performs using application that can access data perfmon can by the same names.
Generally i want to check how CPU, memory, network and HDD performs.
What counters should i check and what are the advisable values for those counters.
I moved it because a number of users had asked for it to be - very often mods are really just reacting to what the community are requesting - it's not like mods know everything about everything so we can't always judge every request on its technical merits
he's not the geek I initially thought he was going to be, plays bass, rows for his school and talks to girls, really thought he was going the way-of-geek for a few years but he's too tall and good looking I think, plus educationally he's too much of an all-rounder, I was only good at geek classes myself
@Chopper3 i stumbled upon this question of yours recently and what you could do about the ESXis try the following: Set ESX4is link failure detection mechanism to beacon probing instead of link detection only: kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/…
if every ESXi host is on one or more switches this should protect from the fault you described
We're lucky, every server we have has multiple NICs/HBAs/CNAs connected to multiple switches and this approach has kept our platform up on numerous occasions. That said we ran into a problem last week that I'm not sure how to fix.
We had a switch that was carrying a good chunk of our traffic cra...
ah yes, think we tried that - it didn't work in that scenario as we have inter-switch links for VSS so both switches see all beacons but it didn't recognise that the links from one switch was down - I think anyway, it was a while ago - cheers anyway
@ShaneMadden Sure, you don't try and plan everything out to 5 years. That's where people get in trouble (or disheartened) and say "well, I can never get these plan things right so let's just not bother at all", which is a pity.
@Nixphoe Were you contracted to provide long-term planning for them? If not, it's not really your problem not to provide a plan.
@womble That's exactly it. Actually because of that converstation I've brought up to my managers at least the idea of throwing a life cycle for new equipment out there so our clients are at least aware "about" how long the server's life cycle is and how much money-ish it's costing them per year
Guess I haven't been around the block long enough to get that one. So now I have to find a good quesiton that doesn't have an answer and could use some clarification
I guess the badge is already working it's intended purpose
My job loves keeping http management enabled on our firewalls. I love disabling it and forcing https. BWAHAHAHA
They borked the link to "/review" too, used to be in "/tools" which is linked at the top for 10k+ users... Now there's no link I can find, and I don't like the context switch penalty between keyboard and mouse.
I once had a Macbook pro due to a USB glitch (that our helpdesk refused to call into apple) start answering YES to every question during a NetWare to SUSE migration, since there was no cable to yank my fist through the keyboard shut it down as quickly as possible.
@MarkM Moto used to be the Cadillac of mobile devices, then they got complacent and have been milking the cash cow the last few years, maybe Google will return them to their previous 'glory'...
Official "Google Phones" where google controls the hardware and software from start to finish should be great. The biggest problem with Android is that so many low/mid range phones run it poorly and the iphone's experience blows it away.
Plus Google almost certainly will not use Moto Mobile to make much profit directly; they're almost certainly going after the Seach and Ad traffic. In that context, Samsung making and selling Android phones just puts more money in Google's pockets.
I mean, it makes sense to do ARM in notebooks, especially airs if they transition to IOS. Lion has all of the best iOS features integrated into it. It's the next logical step.
Plus, a lion is the king of the jungle, so they're kind of fucked if they need another cat name for the next version.
too bad it doesnt alter the main button on the galaxy.. if I double-tap it (wich i often do in my pocket etc) some kind of voice activation bullshit pops up
Would the solution as being somewhat proposed be to have a redundant "cloud" host do the DNS, and point their DNS to primarily their live data center, and if the data center is unavailable point it to their "cloud backup" server(s)?
So the DNS would always point to the outsourced balancer in the third party network, and make a quick cutover to the virtual servers when necessary?
Because if their data center is the point of failure they couldn't use load balancing to point DNS somewhere else.
But he keeps bringing up TTL on DNS records...shouldn't be much of an issue if it's hosted in an already redundant provider that has their VM's on standby.
@BartSilverstrim The DNS record is cached for the period of the TTL. If it's, say, 1 day, it'll take anyone who got that record a full day to recheck DNS.
So from what I'm thinking, the only way that guy could have the redundancy for his web app is to have the VM's and the primary hosting area both running and synced with a load-balancer at the host provider configured. Otherwise there would be issues with the DNS cutover. Or he'd have to focus on having his datacenter fortified against everything short of a natural disaster.
Much like people accused of violent crimes are denied bail and have to stay in the jail until the trial is over. Doesn't mean they're necessarily guilty.
@MarkM There has to be something "innovative" as the reviewer understands the concept (or doesn't understand, as is more often the case with tech patents)
afaik, you can't patent a form factor. that's like patenting a square and asking for royalties every time something that's a square is made. What they can patent is a square that has a specific kind of touch input that's different than anything else around
@Jacob: there are very simple things that have been patented, like being able to transmit files to another computer using bluetooth, things like that. That's what patent trolls sue over.
@MarkM You could claim that square shape is useful for something; like bashing people with; and patent the shape for that general purpose. Our Patent laws were formed long before people started pulling "technicalities" on legal wordings (and consistently getting away with such)
My company has asked our department for a five year plan. This is hard for us to conceive since we are a smallish shop and mostly reactionary to peoples needs. Does anyone have any advise for creating a plan such as this?
i want to check how much Windows Server performs using application that can access data perfmon can by the same names.
Generally i want to check how CPU, memory, network and HDD performs.
What counters should i check and what are the advisable values for those counters.
I am experiencing issues getting Bind9 to start.
Output from "tail /var/log/messages":
Aug 15 06:50:30 iceweb kernel: [125973.964184] type=1400 audit(1313409030.779:50):
apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" parent=7227 profile="/usr/sbin/named"
name="/var/lib/named/etc/bind/named.conf" ...
It's also linked on the bottom in the footer, so scroll down on your page.
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