I'm sorry if this is a repeat post, seems my first attempt failed...
A little context first.
Firstly, I have inherited one of the classic networks from hell. Amongst a number of other things, I discovered that the majority of the clients data, including a heap of compliance data, is currently ...
@ScottPack I gave your funky tap+bonding question some thought and a quick re-reading of the bonding docs -- there's a couple of modes which I think will break, but the rest should be fine)
Actually it's... Failed to handle packet: java.lang.NullPointerException java.lang.NullPointerException at ep.a(SourceFile:1048) at ew.b(SourceFile:42) at jh.a(SourceFile:89) at hc.a(SourceFile:126) at bi.a(SourceFile:223) at jh.a(SourceFile:34) at dr.a(SourceFile:85)
@MikeyB Yeah, probably not cheap enough for us though. I've yet to find a 4-line phone in the Polycom line anywhere near the price point that would turn management's head.
@JoelESalas I have several boxes set up like that.
@voretaq7 Yes, Polycom provides great documentation. They even provide documentation on recommended methods to manage phone configs. You have the phone use the model /firmware defaults, overrided by site settings, overrided by phone settings.
Ever try asking Cisco how to configure their phone for third-party SIP? "We don't support that." Or even tell you how to do it.
@MarkHenderson Thanks so much for the PS link... now I just gotta see if I can punch up a script in less time than it would take me to make the helpdesk guys nearby do manually.
4 guys x 28800 seconds in a workday... divide by 5 for one deletion every 5 seconds... only ~23,000 a day. 6.9 days to do it manually. Damn. Gonna have to script this.
Or reserve manual deletions for punishment... "Go do a thousand certificate deletions for escalating that ticket to me without making sure the user had network connectivity!"
@HopelessN00b No worries. The syntax looks pretty simple so hopefully it won't be too bad. You can probably do a Get-Certificat and pipe it into Remove-Request (probably)
Yeah, should be easy enough. Unless anyone asks. In that case, I'm far too busy working on an incredibly difficult and complicated scripting problem to help them, of course.
Since years I use vshadow + robocopy to backup data partitions to a remote disk (connected thru iSCSI). This is really a very efficient method.
This allow me to have a "perfect" copy. Open files are copied without any problem, as well as ACL and everything. In case of major disk fault, I just ...
Did make me think, though... about exactly why you can't do a proper backup of a Windows system Drive with a script + VSS or the like. Damn bastard, making me think. >:/
I like the self-deprecating, tongue-in-cheek, glib, not-taking-myself-too-seriously-thing.
I dunno how people who take themselves seriously hack it as SAs... then again, I know a few of those people who've had heart attacks in their early 30's, so maybe they die. Seems like not the way I want to approach my work life.
@HopelessN00b Vast majority windows, with some BSD routers and firewalls
It sounds like at one stage they had some less-than-stellar sysadmins, and after they got rid of them people are still tidying up the mess that was made
I got the impression that a lot of their work is also related to maintaining a poor design decision very early on in their FogBugz product
(which is understandable, nobody ever gets it right the first time around)
For example, the work i did for them was to design a self service portal that could run scripts against databses by pulling meta-data from other databases
@MarkHenderson Well, that makes me feel less intimidated. My bet would be they did what all dev shops try at first - "enh, let the coders do the SA work, it won't make that big a difference!" :)
@HopelessN00b In fact it was Joel Spolsky himself who set up their first network. I think it went something along the lines of Joel > Good sysadmin > Bad Sysadmin > Great Sysadmins
apple really needs to fix imessages. talking to my father on my imac via txt - the macbook pro gets notified, my iphone gets notified. my ipads get notified. someone had an article on this. send the conversation to the other devices but only notify the device where the msg originates from
@Satheesh - I have closed and/or merged your three recent questions as they are barely coherent, asking the same thing, and this one represents the best of a bad lot. Please take a moment to think through your problem, then edit this question to clearly explain what you are trying to accomplish, what steps you have taken to make that happen, what your expected results are, and what is actually happening in your environment. Configuration and log file excerpts are especially helpful. Flailing about repeatedly posting half-formed thoughts does not help us help you. Thanks. — voretaq72 mins ago
I need help routing over a virtual server to a IPSec tunnel.
I have:
Mac OS laptop (10.20.4.0/24)
VMware Fusion
Centos running on VMware (192.168.141.0/24) that has a Cisco IPSec tunnel (10.255.254.0/24)
Remote servers on the other side of the tunnel. (10.0.11.0/24)
The Cisco IPSec Tunnel ...
@HopelessN00b Well you gotta remember once upon a time, Joel didn't know if FC was going to be successful or a flop, and for a long time it was just two or three people there, keeping costs down like most small businesses
@voretaq7 Not too harsh at all. In fact I think thats an excellent response. You should be a politician
Other than database size, is there anything you can think of that would prohibit "restoring" a database from a paid version of MSSQL 2008 R2 to the Express version?
(Database-wise, not... disk space or drunken asshatery, etc.)
@MarkHenderson Thanks. That's what I thought... and actually, given that I've done it in production a few times at my current place, I had a pretty big "oh shit!" moment and sinking feeling in my stomach.
@HopelessN00b We do that too. We provide a backup of a 40Mb database that seeds our systems. We've had people restore from express to enterprise clusters without issue
@HopelessN00b somehow I think there might be a bit of a conflict of interest in there somewhere... Assuming this is were you work, and normally your responsibility shouldn't you always be trying to find the most cost effective solution?
(A general query as well, I don't understand why we don't do that, to offset some of the cost of new gear, or supplement IT salaries, or create a beer fund, etc.)
I'm sorry if this is a repeat post, seems my first attempt failed...
A little context first.
Firstly, I have inherited one of the classic networks from hell. Amongst a number of other things, I discovered that the majority of the clients data, including a heap of compliance data, is currently ...
Since years I use vshadow + robocopy to backup data partitions to a remote disk (connected thru iSCSI). This is really a very efficient method.
This allow me to have a "perfect" copy. Open files are copied without any problem, as well as ACL and everything. In case of major disk fault, I just ...
I need help routing over a virtual server to a IPSec tunnel.
I have:
Mac OS laptop (10.20.4.0/24)
VMware Fusion
Centos running on VMware (192.168.141.0/24) that has a Cisco IPSec tunnel (10.255.254.0/24)
Remote servers on the other side of the tunnel. (10.0.11.0/24)
The Cisco IPSec Tunnel ...
