RE: Meraki
I wonder if after 3 years you just lose the ability to manage it via the cloud. It seems pretty bad that the device itself would stop working if you don't renew the license. From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@live.com] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 7:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Meraki Yes but at the end of 3 years you have to renew the license or the device will stop passing traffic. At least that is what the sales drone told me. I still don't know a lot of homeowners or mom pop SMB's that will buy into something that requires this type of commitment or yearly price. I will know better after I do my evaluation but I don't see it happening long term. Once I am finished with my evaluation I get the lovely chore of passing my findings to my boss here at work for him to think about. We are not that commited to doing wireless except for BOD and certain officers at only certain locations. This looked like something they would think about but with the yearly cost I don't know. Jon _ From: asbz...@gmail.com mailto:asbz...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 09:03:56 -0400 Subject: Re: Meraki To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com My understanding was that the devices came with a 3 YEAR cloud license... ASB http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market. On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Jon Harris jk.har...@live.com mailto:jk.har...@live.com wrote: After a little talking to a sales drone (quite nice they let me initiate the conversation) I found out that if the Cloud Management License lapses by 90+ days then the AP will stop passing traffic. I don't know yet if that would be good thing or bad. I guess I will have to actually do some testing of the device they are shipping me to see if it is worth the MSRP of $150/AP/year. I can't see this for homeowners or even a lot of mom pop SMBs. I don't think they will be willing to fork over the year fee. Jon _ From: gswe...@acts360.com mailto:gswe...@acts360.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Meraki Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:23:41 + I love the Meraki AP's. We have 40+ over multiple clients. Easy management, great performance. We had have replaced clients that were having horrible issues with Rukus, Firetide, Cisco, etc.. Not because the equipment was bad, but because the reseller sold it without the proper controllers, or told them they could manage multiple sites from a web page, when in fact they had to connect to the controller locally at each site to manage.. Fortunately almost all of them were able to return their products to reseller or direct. Setup the info on the dashboard. SSID, policies, etc.. Connect your laptop to the Meraki, set the IP/connection info, plug in to POE or injector and 2 mins later you are on and connected. Seamless roaming across a 12000 sqft facility with multiple walls, offices, floors. We have had what we think was just a bad manufacturing batch because about 4 in a one month period arrived, plugged in and promptly (3 -4 mins) fried. Different locations. But since then no issues. Prompt RMA service also.. Now the Firewalls.Same interface, excellent performance. Seriously lacking on features and granular controls. Sonicwall, Watchguard have them beat hands down. Needs polishing on the usability of the interface as well. We are actively involved with their development team as we have some of their higher end stuff in our datacenter and I am unable to meet some client application needs, but I am hopeful for some resolutions. In the meantime I had to install my old Sonicwall 2040 to get around it. If you are just looking for basic firewall and don't need a lot of higher end firewall features the single management interface for everything is really nice. Automatic Site to Site with WAN Acceleration, Failover, etc are all included. The switches have some huge promise too. We only have one at a client due to price.. Definitely not the cheapest when you can get a 24 port HP 1910 for 400 bucks vs 1100+. Greg Sweers CEO http://www.acts360.com/ ACTS360.com P.O. Box 1193 Brandon, FL 33509 813-657-0849 Office 813-644-3479 Cell 813-644-3476 Fax From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@sfgtrust.com mailto:tmil...@sfgtrust.com ] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 8:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Meraki We're looking at Meraki for our two manufacturing facilities.Here at HQ we installed Cisco wireless last year. I've been trying to get Cisco to buy back the equipment so it would be Meraki everywhere. So far no luck - seems like they are pretty much separate companies. I'm still hopeful since I like the meraki management. From: Patrick Salmon [mailto:psal...@gmail.com mailto:psal...@gmail.com ]
RE: outlook autocomplete lost
Thanks very much, everyone! I appreciate the help. From: Derek Harris [mailto:dhar...@panoramaortho.com] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 4:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: outlook autocomplete lost This is handy: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/outlook_nk2_edit.html It also works on remote computers if you close Outlook on them first. From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 11:35 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: outlook autocomplete lost http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/copy-autocomplete-name-list-t o-another-computer-HA001139451.aspx From: James Rankin mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 1:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: outlook autocomplete lost Its a .nk2 file somewhere in AppData, at least it was in 2007 and prior. You need to ideally hive this off somehow. On 18 February 2013 18:15, Adam Greene maill...@webjogger.net mailto:maill...@webjogger.net wrote: Hi guys, We've run into the same issue a number of times: when we have to rebuild a customer's Outlook profile, Outlook loses a record of whatever it bases its autocomplete feature on (i.e. the feature where you start to type an email address and Outlook finishes it for you). Is there some way to back up reimport this record so the customer doesn't have to start from scratch each time? Thanks, Adam ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- James Rankin Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin _ This e-mail may contain information that is privileged and confidential, the disclosure of which is governed by applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of the information is strictly prohibited. E-mail is inherently insecure and Panorama Orthopedics Spine Center will not accept responsibility for any disclosure or loss of information as a result of this electronic communication. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Patch management recommendations
We've had good experience with Continuum, a MSP platform, albeit so far for clients smaller than 50 seats. On 1/17/2013 8:39 AM, Christopher Bodnar wrote: Kace Altiris SCCM with SCUP One of these should fit most of your clients needs. Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Architect I, Corporate Office of Technology:Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Services Tel 610-807-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 christopher_bod...@glic.com The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America www.guardianlife.com From: "Charlie Kaiser" charl...@golden-eagle.org To: "NT System Admin Issues" ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: 01/16/2013 06:04 PM Subject: Patch management recommendations I work for a consulting firm that manages a variety of SMB clients. As we increase our client load and the size of the clients (moving from the 3-10 seat to the 50-1000 seat clients) we are implementing more advanced products for a variety of tasks. We are currently looking at patch management solutions. Our current paradigm is a mix of WSUS and manual intervention, but it's not enough, obviously. I haven't used a centralized patch management system for around 5-6 years (used to use early versions of Shavlik) so I haven't been keeping up with the market. We're now looking for something that does 3rd party apps, not just MS stuff, so WSUS is off the table. Our clients are all on MS platforms, though; almost no *nix or Apple. I don't envision a one-size-fits-all product. I expect that we'll want a variety of solutions tailored to the size and complexity of the client. And I have no illusions about the "ease" of patch management given any product. :-) My boss would love an MSP-style of centrally managed product that can handle all our clients, but my belief is that trying to go that route is much more difficult than doing per-client implementations, especially without dedicated patch management admins. Having said all that, is anyone working with patch management systems that they really like for this space? Also, any you really DON'T like? Thanks! *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin - This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
Re: smb firewall recommendation
Hey Jimmy, I second (or third or fourth) the Sonicwall recommendation. I'm a Cisco guy myself, and love to deploy ASA5505's but the Sonicwalls are solid, less expensive, and easy for almost any IT person to administer (unlike the Cisco which requires more specialized skills). Not much experience with support; I like the product though. Thanks, Adam On 1/14/2013 6:40 PM, Jimmy Tran wrote: Thanks for the input guys and gals. -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 9:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: smb firewall recommendation I use SonicWall for anti-malware and have found their support to be very good. TVK -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 11:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: smb firewall recommendation I've used Sonicwalls, and currently have a TZ100 in a small remote office. It works very well and has given me no trouble. The old complaint was that their support was horrible. Now that they are owned by Dell, I have no idea what the support situation is like. YMMV. We have recently moved to a FortiGate. I really like it, so I recommend that you check them out as well. Last, you can always go really cheap and get pfSense or ClearOS, or some other software-based firewall. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:jt...@teachtci.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:32:22 -0800 Subject: smb firewall recommendation Hi All, I'm in the market for a firewall for a small office with les that 15 users. I was looking at the Sonicwall TZ series but people are telling me to stay away from Sonicwall. Has the product improved? Any other recommendations. Would like the UTM features. Thanks, Jimmy ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: email encryption
Thank you Paul, Greg, David and Steve. Your feedback is really helpful. My feeling of confidence in making the Zix decision has just increased substantially. I'm still not thrilled about the yearly fees that are independent of the # of licensed users, and the fact that we have to spin up a virtual machine in our datacenter to act as a SmartHost (one more thing to administer). But it sounds like those are minor caveats, if the solution is robust, easy, and, frankly, the only one which is really going to make our health care customers happy. I appreciate your help!! Adam Webjogger (845) 757-4000 http://www.webjogger.net http://www.webjogger.net/ On 11/28/2012 2:47 PM, chipsh...@comcast.net wrote: Also a 2 year Zix user here. We looked at encryption solutions from Sophos and Barracuda and could compare to Zix. As Paul stated, setup and maintenance is easy and I've have found Zix support to be top notch. I am not familiar with the McAffee offering. Steve *From: *Paul Chinnery pa...@mmcwm.com *To: *NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Sent: *Wednesday, November 28, 2012 11:50:09 AM *Subject: *RE: email encryption We, too, are using Zix. We have been for about two years now. Setup was easy (appliance based) and running upgrades is fairly simple. As one poster noted, putting Secure in the subject line will automatically flag Zix to encrypt the email. It's also nice for our Business Office as BC\BS of Michigan uses Zix so transmitting documents with PHI transparent for the users. I have not tried McAfee encryption and, frankly, based on many of the comments in the past on this list about McAfee products, I was loath to even trial it. Paul Chinnery Network Admin Memorial Medical Center 231.845.2319 *From:*Adam Greene [mailto:maill...@webjogger.net] *Sent:* Wednesday, November 28, 2012 9:59 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* email encryption Hi all, We provide hosted Zimbra and Exchange email to customers, as well as manage customers' on-site mail servers. More and more we are getting requests to provide outbound email encryption service as well. We reviewed a few solutions: Barracuda, McAfee and Zix, and chose McAfee, since they are 100% cloud based and also provide inbound filtering and archiving solutions. Their pricing model also makes it easy to start out small and grow. However, we are running into people, especially in healthcare, who feel Zix is a better solution for them. As far as I know, all these solutions basically require the recipient to log into a secure portal in order to retrieve the secured message, and in healthcare, with so much private information, the risk is that everybody will have to log into 15 portals daily to retrieve secure emails from their partners, which nobody likes the idea of. Zix's way to capture the market, as far as I can tell, is to enable full encryption when Zix customers send to other Zix customers, /without the use of a secure portal. /In other words, it's transparent to the end-user. Only if the recipient is not also using Zix will they be required to log into a secure portal to retrieve a secure message. So, we feel considerable pressure to resell Zix instead of McAfee. But before committing, we wanted to see what other people out there are doing, and what their experience has been. Some concrete questions: * Have you used Zix and if so, do you have an opinion of it? * Do you have a sense about how many health care organizations, hospitals, and Practices are using Zix (vis a vis other products)? * Why are/are'nt you using Zix? * Is it easy to use? * Is Zix interoperable with other encryption products, and might you share any specifics? * Have you any experience with McAfee encryption? Opinion? How Many are using? Thanks for any and all feedback anyone is willing to share. Thanks, Adam Webjogger (845) 757-4000 http://www.webjogger.net http://www.webjogger.net/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: iSCSI with HP/Brocade switches
Interesting thread. We just got an EQL 6100X and 4100E and, like you, we are setting up our VMware farm on them. We had wanted to use a gigabit Cisco 2960S for the iSCSI transport but Dell told us to use a 3750-X instead (more throughput). Actually they suggested PowerConnects, but we are addicted to Cisco. Have not purchased the switches yet. Just thought I'd share. On 11/17/2012 1:27 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: Jumbos on 10GBe can actually slow things down, but everybody things jumbo==sounds good therefor must be. There are a few technical reasons why it doesn't improve generally at those speeds. Some switches need certain characteristics disabled for that type of traffic. Call HP, its free for those switches and ask what they suggest. I don't know your switch specifically but before I throw the towel in, I'd give it a good shot. jlc From: Matthew W. Ross [mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 10:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: iSCSI with HP/Brocade switches Hey List. I have our new Dell/Equalogic vSphere cluster up and running, but we have been having some issues as of late with latency on switch side of the equation. When we set up the cluster, we decided to use a pair of HP 2910al-24G switches. These were not the switches recommended by our VMWare vendor (They recommended a pair of Brocade 6610 switches). Now that we have been having these latency issues, we are considering the recommended switches. So here's my questions: 1) Has anybody used HP switches (2910al-24s or similar) as the iSCSI transport? Has anyone seen similar issues, or are there some specific configurations that need to be double-checked? 2) Anybody seen any issues with the Brocade switches? (I expect the answer to be no, but it's never too late/early to ask.) --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
non-APC batteries?
Needing to replace battery on a 3-yr-old APC SmartUPS 1000xl ... any reason not to go with a less expensive non-APC alternative (like http://www.thenerds.net/AMERICAN_BATTERY.ABC_Replacement_Battery_Cartrige7.RBC7.html)? Thanks, Adam ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: non-APC batteries?
Thanks, Jack and Jonathan. Exactly the feedback I needed. Much appreciated. Adam On 11/8/2010 10:35 AM, Kramer, Jack wrote: I got my last replacement battery from RefurbUPS.com and it's performed great so far. Saved a ton of money compared to the pricing direct from APC, too. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 On 11/8/10 10:17 AM, Adam Greenemaill...@webjogger.net wrote: Needing to replace battery on a 3-yr-old APC SmartUPS 1000xl ... any reason not to go with a less expensive non-APC alternative (like http://www.thenerds.net/AMERICAN_BATTERY.ABC_Replacement_Battery_Cartrige7 .RBC7.html)? Thanks, Adam ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
IT staffing costs for email
Hi guys, How much do you think a municipality with 1300 Exchange seats might shell out per year on IT staff needed to manage the server / storage infrastructure? Context: we're quoting a municipality on outsourcing their mail to us (i.e. hosted Exchange, or some non-MS solution), and trying to show them how much money they would save by not having to worry about the infrastructure or server admin side of things. I guess they would still need IT staff to go around and respond to individual user complaints that aren't directly service-related ... What do you think? Thanks, Adam ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: dyndns for webservers
Ben, Thanks, belatedly, for your reply. This is a very useful perspective for me. I appreciate it. Adam On 10/6/2009 7:37 PM, Ben Scott wrote: On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Adam Greene maill...@webjogger.net wrote: We are considering suggesting dynamic DNS to associate his webserver domain name with the changing IP addresses. It works okay for what it is. It's a low-budget solution. If the website is critical to business, I wouldn't recommend it. If the end customer doesn't react well to we found the problem but it's outside of our control, avoid it. If it's just an informational site and not a big deal, it's appropriate. It won't work for some small segment of your users. Exactly how small varies. It's often an insignificant segment, but occasionally is not. AOL used to ignore DNS TLL all the time, but I hear they've gotten better (just in time to go out of business). How well it works is impacted by all sorts of things -- DNS propagation delays, DNS caching, stale lookups, nameservers which ignore your TTL, phase of the moon, etc. Diagnosing individual causes is basically impossible, and even when you find a cause you generally can't do anything about it. One problem is that many browsers (most?) only resolve a name once and then keep that IP address in memory until you exit the browser. This isn't a function of DNS but application design. Doom and gloom aside, dynamic DNS works very well in the general case. You just have to be willing to accept its limitations. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
dyndns for webservers
Hi, I have a customer who runs a public-facing webserver on his network and wants to have Internet provider redundancy, without getting a /24 and doing BGP. We can set him up so that if his primary connection fails, he will go out through his backup link, but his public IP addresses will change when it fails over, in that scenario. We are considering suggesting dynamic DNS to associate his webserver domain name with the changing IP addresses. Is anyone doing this, and have you found it to be a reliable solution? Thanks, adam ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Internet Routing Issues
We're an ISP in New York and since 3:20pm have been receiving some calls from customers with unusual connectivity issues. So far we have not been able to isolate anything on our network, which also suggests an issue out on the Internet somewhere. I don't see our route announcements bouncing out there ... A few minutes ago, customers reported things working again. It would be interesting to know if your issues have also gone away in the last few minutes. Adam Webjogger Internet Services ASN 20208 On 10/2/2009 3:24 PM, Carol Fee wrote: There seem to be some issues with Internet routing from the Boston area. We die in New York. Anyone else ? Carol Fee Network Administrator 617-338-0623 c...@massbar.org Massachusetts Bar Association 20 West Street Boston, MA 02111-1204 (617) 338-0500
Re: Internet Routing Issues
This just in from an outages list I'm subscribed to: We just opened a ticket with Verizon and were informed of outages for Verizon on East Coast. -Original Message- From: outages-boun...@outages.org [mailto:outages-boun...@outages.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Jackson Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 3:46 PM To: outa...@outages.org Subject: [outages] Verizon west coast outage? Anyone seeing packet loss going through .so-6-0-0.xt1.lax7.alter.net for hosts on Verizon but on the East Coast dying? Have a prefix that isn't available if data comes into Verizon on the west coast only. Joseph ___ outages mailing list outa...@outages.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages ___ On 10/2/2009 4:04 PM, Adam Greene wrote: We're an ISP in New York and since 3:20pm have been receiving some calls from customers with unusual connectivity issues. So far we have not been able to isolate anything on our network, which also suggests an issue out on the Internet somewhere. I don't see our route announcements bouncing out there ... A few minutes ago, customers reported things working again. It would be interesting to know if your issues have also gone away in the last few minutes. Adam Webjogger Internet Services ASN 20208 On 10/2/2009 3:24 PM, Carol Fee wrote: There seem to be some issues with Internet routing from the Boston area. We die in New York. Anyone else ? Carol Fee Network Administrator 617-338-0623 c...@massbar.org Massachusetts Bar Association 20 West Street Boston, MA 02111-1204 (617) 338-0500
Re: Managed Services
Yeah, I suspect there are a lot of people on this list who could act as really good subcontracting resources for each other .. between us, there's a ton of expertise ... would make us all stronger. Wouldn't it be neat to set up a sobcontracting exchange of some kind? Post a note -- I need this kind of help, who can help me? Willing to pay hourly etc. and get a few bids in return ... set up good ongoing relationships with each other ... Hmm ... how could this become a viable business model for the one who sets up / hosts the exchange? Anyways, I think I'm taking this OT ... (!) - Original Message - From: Michael B. Smith To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 10:53 AM Subject: RE: Managed Services Feel free to contact me off list. I do a lot of subcontract work for other consulting companies. -- From: David Lum [david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 10:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Managed Services And then there's us SMB consultants who do the same thing for shops that can't afford their own IT employee, we're cheaper than a FTE. Shawn I like your comments as well. Sometimes as a SMB consultant, *I* would like to be able to instantaneously contact some expertise w/out paying Microsoft $250 and waiting more than a month to get it back when they've deem the fee wasn't necessary (not that I’ve had this happen *twice* in the last month or anything….). David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 -Original Message- From: Adam Greene [mailto:maill...@webjogger.net] Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 6:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Managed Services Hey Shawn, Getting in here a bit late ... as a managed services provider, I concur that there's quite a market for these. So many companies don't have the time or want to invest in the staff to manage their IT infrastructure. In many cases, the cost of entry for establishing in-house services (like an Exchange server) is also prohibitive for smaller businesses. Paying a monthly fee for things like this, and knowing that the service provider is going to take care of the patching, A/V, updates, etc. seems to take a significant load off the plate of small business owners whose main focus is to provide their own services, not perform IT work. Virtualized datacenter-hosted services like these are our fastest growing service offering. Hope that helps and have fun ... Adam - Original Message - From: Shawn Everett sh...@tandac.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 5:43 PM Subject: RE: Managed Services One of the things we do quite well is to complement an existing company's IT staff. Are they going on vacation? Need a few extra bodies for a big project? Need another resource to bounce problems off of? We market ourselves as just being part of the team. We're not here to rightsize or downsize anyone. Interestingly we have never kicked out an existing IT person in an organization. Thanks to everyone on an off list for the comments and tips about managed services. I'll be reviewing them in more detail over the next couple of days. Shawn Completely understand this but oddly enough I'm seeing a trend where internal IT orgs are exploring options, not senior management due to overall workload or new business initiatives. Again, managed services from ANYONE is not a one size fit all; thanks for the comments. Shook -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 10:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Managed Services Or be rightsized.. -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 8:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Managed Services what could any of you accomplish if you didn't have to deal with monitoring, patching, AV, backups, hardware, event log review, security traffic analysis, storage and OS care and feeding? I could quit :-) David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 -Original Message- From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 6:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Managed Services (Disclaimer: http://www.peak10.com/Managed-Services/default.asp ) Shawn, My company and job role aside, managed services have a large value proposition in the right scenario. I talk to prospects and customers all day long about managed services. I'm a straight
Re: Managed Services
Hey Shawn, Getting in here a bit late ... as a managed services provider, I concur that there's quite a market for these. So many companies don't have the time or want to invest in the staff to manage their IT infrastructure. In many cases, the cost of entry for establishing in-house services (like an Exchange server) is also prohibitive for smaller businesses. Paying a monthly fee for things like this, and knowing that the service provider is going to take care of the patching, A/V, updates, etc. seems to take a significant load off the plate of small business owners whose main focus is to provide their own services, not perform IT work. Virtualized datacenter-hosted services like these are our fastest growing service offering. Hope that helps and have fun ... Adam - Original Message - From: Shawn Everett sh...@tandac.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 5:43 PM Subject: RE: Managed Services One of the things we do quite well is to complement an existing company's IT staff. Are they going on vacation? Need a few extra bodies for a big project? Need another resource to bounce problems off of? We market ourselves as just being part of the team. We're not here to rightsize or downsize anyone. Interestingly we have never kicked out an existing IT person in an organization. Thanks to everyone on an off list for the comments and tips about managed services. I'll be reviewing them in more detail over the next couple of days. Shawn Completely understand this but oddly enough I'm seeing a trend where internal IT orgs are exploring options, not senior management due to overall workload or new business initiatives. Again, managed services from ANYONE is not a one size fit all; thanks for the comments. Shook -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 10:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Managed Services Or be rightsized.. -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 8:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Managed Services what could any of you accomplish if you didn't have to deal with monitoring, patching, AV, backups, hardware, event log review, security traffic analysis, storage and OS care and feeding? I could quit :-) David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 -Original Message- From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 6:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Managed Services (Disclaimer: http://www.peak10.com/Managed-Services/default.asp ) Shawn, My company and job role aside, managed services have a large value proposition in the right scenario. I talk to prospects and customers all day long about managed services. I'm a straight shooter, if they are not a good fit I tell them as will my sales guys. As mentioned, they have a good play for businesses with no internal IT (better\faster\cheaper) but I will also say the BETTER play for overall managed services is the way they augment compliment an internal IT shop. Think about it, what could any of you accomplish if you didn't have to deal with monitoring, patching, AV, backups, hardware, event log review, security traffic analysis, storage and OS care and feeding? In other words, source the mundane junk and have the internal IT person\people move up the stack to core business functions and applications. Time slice a managed services provider's capabilities to keep the lights on and you migrate to a more strategic role. What I find intriguing during these discussions are people's definition of 'infrastructure'. I'm a little more leading edge in my thoughts; I consider infrastructure to include everything mentioned above as well as, the hypervisor, email platforms and databases. What about you? Every situation is different, I welcome comments and questions on or off list. Shook -Original Message- From: Shawn Everett [mailto:sh...@tandac.com] Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 6:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Managed Services Does anyone here sell managed services or subscribe to them as a service from a vendor? I'm looking for overall opinions. Do you find them useful, why or why not? Shawn ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource
Re: Kayako Helpldesk
We evaluated Kayako and found the ticketing system quite good. However, its support for associating those tickets with tasks is quite limited, and if you will need to find a 3rd party solution to integrate with if you want to track inventory as well. - Original Message - From: Carlos Garcia-Moran cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 10:16 AM Subject: Re: Kayako Helpldesk Yeah Ive looked at those before but wanted products with more features. On another note are we having lyris issues? I'm not getting any emails at all from the list, but the WebUI works fine ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Service Travel fees
Just to add one more ... we bill travel time one-way only, at same rate as the network labor ... - Original Message - From: Cesare' A. Ramos cra...@idfllc.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:01 AM Subject: RE: Service Travel fees Thanks all for your responses. They have been great. CAR Mobile: 786-412-1746 e-Mail: cra...@idfllc.com BB Pin: 304FD0D1 AIM: cramosMIA MSN: cramos...@hotmail.com Yahoo: cramosMIA This e-Mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-Mail in error please notify the sender via returned e-Mail. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this e-Mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. Although IDF operates anti-virus programs, it does not accept responsibility for any damage whatsoever that is caused by viruses being passed. ** Think before you print this message. ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Internet connectivity
Dan, you might also want to check and see if there are any fixed wireless providers in your area ... may be a cost-effective alternative to a T1 ... - Original Message - From: Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 3:47 PM Subject: Re: Internet connectivity My boss is weird that way. Another example: we don't have working AC in our datacenter. Repair cost? $5k. The cost of replacing thermally damaged equipment, and business losses due to lost productivity from network downtime, have already exceeded that cost of replacing the unit. But, my boss is not like yours and there are a lot of internal politics involved in why he won't replace it. Brian Desmond wrote: Other than in 7 months you will have paid for installing the feeder from the cable company and will be stuck on a slower platform? -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: exchange 2007 books
Thanks, guys! - Original Message - From: Webster To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 8:28 PM Subject: RE: exchange 2007 books From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: exchange 2007 books Tony Redmond's book and Luckett/Lefkovics/Suneja are the two I recommend most. Both are excellent choices and have updated versions for Exchange 2007 sp1. I agree, both books are excellent resources for us non-MVP types. Oh, and I hear there is another excellent Exchange 2007 book that deals with using OpsMgr coming out real soon now. J Webster From: Adam Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: exchange 2007 books Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! (if you're not in the US, then, well, be happy anyways!) A few days ago I got some really good suggestions about W2K3 W2K8 books from the list. Could anyone recommend a good all-purpose book for Exchange 2007? Mark Minasi's name came up as a trusted source for the W2K3/8 stuff. Wondering what everyone's favorites are for Exchange 2007. Looking for an overall admin guide, bible-type resource. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Looking for packet shaping/viewer appliance/sotware
Exinda is also an option ... www.exinda.com - Original Message - From: Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 9:36 PM Subject: Re: Looking for packet shaping/viewer appliance/sotware I run my ntop box with two NICs - one with an IP address that I use to talk with the machine, the other is unnumbered and connected to the mirror port. The firewall is connected to a switch dedicated to a subnet between the firewall and my backbone switch. That subnet contains, among other things, my squid proxy and my Maia Mailguard box, which is the gateway to my Exchange box, and filters spam and viruses coming in from the world. On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Chyka, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What if your router is your firewall too ? Do you span the port that the router plugs into the core switch and run ntop on that spanned port? Do I give the ntop machine a ip address on the same subnet as the router ethernet port? Thanks... -Original Message- From: Eldridge, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: 11/25/08 9:02 PM Subject: RE: Looking for packet shaping/viewer appliance/sotware Jesse I agree with Kurt completely if that is all you are looking at. I have ntop running on a vm/XP machine. I catch high usage people all the time. This very simple and free program will show you immediately who's talking. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 6:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Looking for packet shaping/viewer appliance/sotware If all you're looking to do is see bandwidth usage by protocol, and other monitoring tasks, such as who your top 3 talkers are, etc., I can heartily recommend putting up a *nix box on a mirror/span port on the switch to which your firewall is connected, and running ntop. ntop is really dang cool - http://www.ntop.org/overfview.html On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At one of my clients we have the need to try and determine how the internet is being utilized. The 10mb is constantly swamped and I have a hard time believing it's for work-related reasons. I'm looking at putting in some kind of software/device that analyzes the internet traffic and can tell me how much is being used for basic web surfing, streaming video, webcam usage, p2p programs, internet radio, or whatever else might be happening. I know packeteer has a product that does this, but we are NOT looking to shape the bandwidth at this time, merely view it so we can make a determination of what to do from there. They used to have a viewer product in the past long ago called PacketPup but I'm not sure if they do anymore... Any recommendations on how I can determine what the internet is being used for as it relates to Applications? Thanks JR myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft(R) Windows(R) and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately via e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake; then, delete this e-mail from your system. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: win2k3 R2 / win2k8 books
Thanks, everyone. Much appreciated. --A - Original Message - From: Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:28 PM Subject: RE: win2k3 R2 / win2k8 books -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: win2k3 R2 / win2k8 books On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Minasi came out with an update for R2. I seem to recall reading that Minasi and his team for the Windows Server books were working on something for 2008, but were actually planning to split it up into multiple volumes, since the thing was getting so big people were risking back injury lifting it. :) Yep, 3 books. http://www.minasi.com/2008class/2008books.htm https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Dapsfield-keywords= mark+minasi+2008 Webster ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
win2k3 R2 / win2k8 books
Anyone have favorite Windows Server 2003 R2 and Windows Server 2008 administration guides they would recommend? Looking for a general overall bible-type book. For example, this book has served us well: Mastering Windows Server 2003 by Mark Minasi. But need to get up to speed on 2k3 R2 and 2k8. Thanks, ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Business Contact Manager for Outlook - sqlservr (MSDE) consuming much CPU.
Zimbra has good collaborative email and shared calendaring functions ... www.zimbra.com - Original Message - From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 12:01 AM Subject: RE: Business Contact Manager for Outlook - sqlservr (MSDE) consuming much CPU. Mail Enable offers shared calendars and public folders now, they have a free version You can also look at smarter mail, imail. Not sure if that would offer enough integration to help... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
task management
Customer is looking for a good Task Management Solution. I've found these two online solutions: -- http://www.same-page.com -- https://www.teamworklive.com I wouldn't mind installing a Linux server solution for this in my datacenter, but I don't know of one. Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks. Adam ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Good book for the Cisco ASA series
Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance (Networking Technology) ISBN: 1-58705-209-1 http://www.amazon.com/Cisco-ASA-All-One-Networking/dp/1587052091/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8qid=1224594725sr=11-1 Our net admins got this when learning the ASA and it served them well, though was not the only resource they consulted. Have not looked at it extensively myself ... Thanks, Adam - Original Message - From: Eldridge, Dave To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 8:40 AM Subject: RE: Good book for the Cisco ASA series I have the (Cisco Press) Cisco ASA, PIX, and FWSM Firewall Handbook. From what I've looked into it seems ok. Very disappointed it has zilch on vpn configurations. I still have to migrate over my concentrator so I'll have to look for another reference. From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 4:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Good book for the Cisco ASA series Who has a recommendation for a good book on the Cisco ASA series of firewalls? I am in need of some information as per usual the Cisco site is less than helpful. I have 2 for the PIX line but they don't cover any of the new stuff I am finding on the ASA. I would prefer something that will get the the meat of configuring one and less on how it works. I also am looking at some of the new protocol filtering, like IM and such. I am just now off to do some research on books but recommendations are what I am looking for. Thanks in advance, Jon This e-mail contains the thoughts and opinions of the sender and does not represent official Parkview Medical Center policy. This communication is intended only for the recipient(s) named above, may be confidential and/or legally privileged: and, must be treated as such in accordance with state and federal laws. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use of this communication, or any of its contents, is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please return to sender and delete the message from your computer system. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: temp sensors
Yep, our minigooses are serving us well ... Adam - Original Message - From: Kevin Lundy To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 12:41 PM Subject: Re: temp sensors www.itwatchdogs.com Affordable and work like a champ. On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Dave Eldridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i need to get a couple of small temp only sensors to be able to send snmp/email/page messages. Google comes up with Enviromux-Mini. Anyone have any good/bad experience with these? any others out there that only do temp? dave ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
site-to-site VPN for proxy sharing
Hi guys, I'm trying to connect two customer sites via a site-to-site VPN so that all machines at Site A can be forced to go through a proxy server at Site B to access the Internet. I am toying with the idea of placing both sites on the same network (i.e. 10.2.0.0/16) and then providing the machines at Site A with a default gateway of the proxy server at Site B. However, I'm not convinced that this will work. I mean, if the Site A machines don't use their local VPN device as their gateway, how will that device know to forward packets over the VPN to the proxy server at Site B? Customer doesn't want to set up static NAT entries on the VPN device at Site A for all the other network resources they need to access at Site B (Exchange, Sharepoint, and more) otherwise I think we could just leave Site A on a 192.168.0.0 network and NAT the proxy server at Site B to a 192.168.0.x. address. To complicate things further, customer has a Sonicwall TZ170 on one end and a Cisco PIX on the other. They are willing to change the Sonicwall to a PIX / ASA if that will facilitate the setup. Any ideas? Hey, you didn't all go home for the weekend, did you? --Adam ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
windows version for terminal services
I have a client who wants us to host Quickbooks in our datacenter for them, which they would access via Terminal Services. Do I need a specific version of W2K3 server for this? Or would Web edition work fine? I guess I need a Terminal Services access license for each user Adam ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: emaillists, semi-massive e-mails
Haven't worked with CC, but have had great experience with Emma (http://www.myemma.com/) - Original Message - From: Micheal Espinola Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 10:22 AM Subject: Re: emaillists, semi-massive e-mails Please do follow-up. I use CC with a non-profit in Boston. CC is well recognized, and we do not have filtering issues with them. CC is great for my org, because it pretty much forces the people using it to keep the list clean and current. They otherwise would not (based on past experiences which forced them to move to CC). I would love to hear how 1and1 works out for you though. On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Holstrom, Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That wasn't bad, it would work out to less than a $100/month. This non-profit is truly tight, though. I figured out a way to do it for $10-20/month, but we'll see how it works. 1and1 now offers mass mailing of your domain's e-mail, in the business domain hosting: $10-20/month. Other hosting places may follow suit, or may already have such a beast in operation. There's did not. It means a little more hands-on than Constant Contact, or others like it, but they have people, just not as much dough. The true test, as with any mailing house, is how much of it gets through all of our spam/virus/bad stuff filtering. I'll follow up in a couple of months with my/their experience. -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 2:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: emaillists, semi-massive e-mails thirded. On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Durf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I second Constant Contact - I know some of the folks who work they (they're local to Boston), and it's a great, ethical company that does what they say they do - help you bring legit mass email to your audience. Highly recommended. -- Durf On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Martin Blackstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You definitely want to outsource this and there are tons of companies that will do this for you. If you are using a CRM package, some of them will work with the CRM. Check out Constant Contact, Vertical Response, Exact Target, etc -Original Message- From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 7:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: emaillists, semi-massive e-mails I have a client, fairly small, 28 employees. I have their website hosted offsite for bandwidth, and use their offsite hosting for their e-mail as well. This host has a limit of 300-500 e-mails sent at once, and they offer a maillist service, but only for 1,000. My client has a list of opted-in clients of their own of nearly 10,000. Is there a service or software or way I can set them up for regular, monthly mostly, e-mails, preferably connected to the Access database they use, that won't cost an arm and a leg: they are non-profit. Should I find another hosting service? ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: SPLA reseller?
Hi Ryan, Thanks. We may give them a try, then! Adam - Original Message - From: Ryan Finnesey To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: Adam Greene Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 10:27 PM Subject: RE: SPLA reseller? I have used HP in the past. Cheers Ryan From: Adam Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 5:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SPLA reseller? Hi all, We're trying to decide who to buy SPLA services from. We've tried to work with Insight but it's been, frankly, impossible. The sales rep is simply unresponsive. We'd love to use Ingram Micro because they've been great in other ways for us, but they have not yet rolled out their SPLA program and have no ETA to share. Who do any of you guys use for this? Any recommendations (even a sales rep to try) would be highly appreciated. Thanks! Adam ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
SPLA reseller?
Hi all, We're trying to decide who to buy SPLA services from. We've tried to work with Insight but it's been, frankly, impossible. The sales rep is simply unresponsive. We'd love to use Ingram Micro because they've been great in other ways for us, but they have not yet rolled out their SPLA program and have no ETA to share. Who do any of you guys use for this? Any recommendations (even a sales rep to try) would be highly appreciated. Thanks! Adam ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: BES capacity
John, Sorry for the late reply. This was exactly the kind of info I was looking for. Thanks for the help! Adam - Original Message - From: Barsodi.John To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 6:39 PM Subject: RE: BES capacity If you plan to use solely for messaging and not for additional MDS applications, that should be fine. If you're running the DB services locally(MSDE/DQLExpress) I'd expect your top end to be ~400 users depending on how much your other VM's are hitting disk and CPU. RIM's guidance is that exact configuration for 500 users with a locally installed DB Service. - John Barsodi From: Adam Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 2:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: BES capacity Hi, We're trying to roll out BES services to integrate with Zimbra (kind of painful since Zimbra's support for this is in Beta right now, but we've been promised it will work right by end of Q3!). Right now the BES is sitting on a Win2K3 VPS with 1.5GB RAM, sharing a 2GHz Xeon quad processor with two other VMs. I wonder how many devices could sync to a VM like this. We're aiming at a minimum of 125. Do you think this is realistic? Thanks for the help, Adam ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: etherchannel compatibility
Phil, Thanks, we're definitely going with LACP, for the reasons you mention. Excellent to hear about your interoperability success. I think we may trust in the Netgear in this case. Interestingly, got some feedback on another list from a service provider that they have recently swapped out their entire Cisco / HP / Extreme network with Netgear GSM and have been very happy in all regards. A partner of ours recommends the higher-end Netgear equipment as well. Maybe it's time to rethink my if it's not Cisco, it sucks mentality. Adam - Original Message - From: Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 5:16 PM Subject: Re: etherchannel compatibility That's not necessarily a simple question to answer. EtherChannel applies to both a Cisco-proprietary link bundling protocol - Port Aggregation Protocol, aka PAgP - as well as link bundling in general. Netgear does not support Cisco's proprietary PAgP, never will. I seriously doubt a Cisco 3560G does - Cisco has been phasing it out in favor of IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation and Control Procotol (LACP) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_aggregation. Any half-way current managed switch worth it's salt will support LACP, and I've never had any problem with cross-vendor compatibility - HP-Dell, HP-Linux, HP-Cisco, Cisco-Dell, HP-Foundry, etc. So, aim for LACP and I don't think you'll have any problems. Adam Greene wrote: Need to bond some fiber lines ... Anyone have experience getting Etherchannel to work between Cisco (3560G) and Netgear (GSM7224)? -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
etherchannel compatibility
Hi guys, Need to bond some fiber lines ... Anyone have experience getting Etherchannel to work between Cisco (3560G) and Netgear (GSM7224)? Not sure if I should even try, or if I should just replace the Netgear with a Cisco ... Thanks, Adam ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: etherchannel compatibility
My fears exactly ... customer saves $1000 by buying Netgear, experiences service interruptions, then spends $1000 hiring me to fix things over the course of a year when things go down. Don't want to go there! - Original Message - From: Andy Shook To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 1:18 PM Subject: RE: etherchannel compatibility I would replace the Netgear with Cisco. I realize etherchannel is layer 2 but dude, its netgear and to quote Mr. Ely, it sucks donkey balls MHOO, Shook -- From: Adam Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 1:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: etherchannel compatibility Hi guys, Need to bond some fiber lines ... Anyone have experience getting Etherchannel to work between Cisco (3560G) and Netgear (GSM7224)? Not sure if I should even try, or if I should just replace the Netgear with a Cisco ... Thanks, Adam ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
BES capacity
Hi, We're trying to roll out BES services to integrate with Zimbra (kind of painful since Zimbra's support for this is in Beta right now, but we've been promised it will work right by end of Q3!). Right now the BES is sitting on a Win2K3 VPS with 1.5GB RAM, sharing a 2GHz Xeon quad processor with two other VMs. I wonder how many devices could sync to a VM like this. We're aiming at a minimum of 125. Do you think this is realistic? Thanks for the help, Adam ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: How to measure packet loss/delay/jitter
You can obtain stats like these using the IP SLA feature on Cisco devices. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/customer/docs/ios/12_4t/ip_sla/configuration/guide/htvoipj.html http://www.cisco.com/en/US/technologies/tk648/tk362/tk920/technologies_white_paper09186a00802d5efe.html http://www.cisco.com/en/US/customer/technologies/tk648/tk362/technologies_white_paper0900aecd8022c2cc.html http://www.cisco.com/en/US/technologies/tk648/tk362/tk920/technologies_white_paper0900aecd8017f8c9.html Another option is to run something like iPerf on PCs on both ends of the link to obtain stats. http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/ (there is a Windows version available) Thanks, adam - Original Message - From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 3:26 PM Subject: Re: How to measure packet loss/delay/jitter On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Thomas Mullins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anyone has any suggestions on how to measure packet loss/delay/jitter, I would greatly appreciate them. FYI, the term packet delay variation is the term the IETF recommends be used, in favor of jitter (which I guess can be ambiguous). I've had the free and Open Source SmokePing recommended to me for this purpose. I haven't gotten around to trying it yet. Screen shots look impressive as hell, though. :) http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/ There's also good old fashioned ping, which will give you min, max, mean, and standard deviation for RTT time, and packet loss. -- Ben ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: GB switches
Richard, Have not used the Extreme Black Diamond in particular, however, 4-5 years back, we did decide to try the Extreme Summit series as an alternative to Cisco for some of our core infrastructure. We were attracted by the price: at that time, Cisco didn't have an affordable layer 3 switch -- this was just before the 3550 was being released, if I remember correctly. We found the Extreme OS to be less intuitive than the Cisco IOS, and we experienced various minor issues with simple things like interface speed / duplex negotiation. Sometimes the telnet CLI would freeze up on the Extreme when making config changes. Here and there there were features which Extreme simply didn't support. We found ourselves saying, If only this were a Cisco switch, and having to support and train engineers on both Cisco and Extreme didn't make sense for us. As a result of the frustrations with Extreme, after deploying 3-4 of them, we decided to take them all back out of production and replace them with Cisco 2960 / 3560 / 3750. Good luck obtaining further feedback!! Adam - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 8:24 AM Subject: RE: GB switches FINALLY - I thought I'd have to hijack my own thread here! Although I appreciate knowing that cheap fast ethernet switches have worked for some folks, it really doesn't answer my question... I forgot to mention that, yes, we shall be needing POE. So, back to my dilemma... We do have a stack of 3 Cisco 10/100 switches. Although they are managable, it seems we have lost that ability. They are not POE, although we have a little gizmo that sends POE to my desk for a little outlet ethernet switch. The thing about the Catalysts is, we've never needed to manage them, and they've been hang 'em in the rack and forget about them. We are an incoming call center which handles about 450 veteranary emergency toxicology cases PER DAY. At the busy times, we do seem to need the additional through-put of the Gig switches. SO, our installers suggest Cisco. Our IT folks at national headquarters suggest Extreme Black Diamond. So, again please, does anyone have any personal experience with both Cisco and Extreme and could make some recommendations? Thanks! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org Cesare' A. Ramos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/17/2008 07:55:53 PM: Agreed with past posts with regards to the 1GB thought. We have rolled out Asterisk, 3Com NBX, 3Com VXC, Avaya, and Cisco. Never saw the need for 1GB switches at all end points. But would highly recommend POE functionality. As per switch, I am on the same snob group as Phil. I go ballistic whenever I see or hear an office running a DLink, Netgear, or Belkin. We have had great success with 3Com (primarily 3Com 4500 POE family) and Cisco. Of course 3Com is a bit lower in cost then Cisco. Lates. CAR Phone: 305-443-0331 xt. 1202 Mobile: 786-412-1746 Fax: 305-443-0350 e-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] BB Pin: 23E727FF AIM: cramosMIA MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: cramosMIA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 1:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: GB switches Perhaps a wee bit OT, and I know there are some of you who sell and service Cisco. However... Currently most of our network is on fast ethernet. (We have a couple of racks, each of which has a small GB switch to tie the servers in that rack together.) We are soon to dump our NEC PBX and go with VOIP. (It will _not_ be Cisco or Avaya VOIP.) We need more robust switches... Currently, we have about 100 desks, each with an XP Pro PC and a phone. We will be going with VOIP phones (Polycom) rather than soft phones. NOW, although we have some of their products and appreciate them, none of us are Cisco people, either by devotion or in knowing how to manage them. We have some folks recommending Cisco GB switches. We have another group recommending (highly, and some of them are our equivalent in the NYC office) Extreme Networks BlackDiamond switches. Does anyone out there have enough experience with the products of both companies to be able to tell us the advantages of each? For example, might the Extremes be easier for a non-certified user to do port management? Anyone come across any tests as far as reliablility (both for HW failure and for dropped packets), etc? Thanks! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation
Re: color printer???
Thanks all, it sounds like Xerox is a serious contender, though I'd want to be sure to get the extended warranty and supplies sound a bit steep. Will check out the HP options mentioned on the list as well, and maybe stop by Staples to test drive the card stock. I appreciate all the responses. Adam - Original Message - From: Phillip Partipilo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 10:29 AM Subject: Re: color printer??? The crayon printers? Those do put out fantastic color prints, but do scratch. I have always wondered if you could get away with putting actual Crayola crayons into them, their sticks dont seem too far off from them. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: power management over the net
We've had good results with these too: http://www.digital-loggers.com/EPCR2.html http://www.digital-loggers.com/lpc.html Thanks, Adam - Original Message - From: Rubens Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 7:06 AM Subject: Re: power management over the net Dell - DRAC http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Server_Applications/productdetail.aspx?c=usl=ens=bizcs=555sku=313-6179 IBM - RSA http://www-304.ibm.com/systems/support/supportsite.wss/docdisplay?lndocid=MIGR-50116brandind=508 HP - ILO http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/10861_div/10861_div.html Regards, ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: EMPLOYEE TIMEKEEPING SYSTEM
Murray, not sure if you're still looking for an answer to this question we've implemented Dovico and have been quite pleased. I also recently looked at Commit CRM because we need to do more sales contact management, and it looked like it had some good features. Thanks, Adam - Original Message - From: Bill Lambert To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 5:37 PM Subject: RE: EMPLOYEE TIMEKEEPING SYSTEM Sharepoint has a template for this..both are free. Bill Lambert Concuity 847-941-9206 From: Murray Freeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 4:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: EMPLOYEE TIMEKEEPING SYSTEM Unfortunately we're a Not-For-Profit! Don't have large budget! Thanks anyway! Murray -- From: Bob Fronk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 4:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: EMPLOYEE TIMEKEEPING SYSTEM Sometimes you have to pay for what you want! Bob Fronk From: Murray Freeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 5:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: EMPLOYEE TIMEKEEPING SYSTEM We looked at that program a while back but it was much too expensive for the size of our organization Murray -- From: Bob Fronk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 4:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: EMPLOYEE TIMEKEEPING SYSTEM I just implemented the WebTimeSheet by http://www.replicon.com/ Bob Fronk From: Murray Freeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 4:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: EMPLOYEE TIMEKEEPING SYSTEM We are a small office, approx 40 employees, and we keep track daily of projects worked on by number of hours. We would like to implement a new system that would have a web component and would allow us to either print timesheets or just email them to the payroll dept. Any ideas would be appreciated. Murray This email and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the author and do not represent those of the Davis H. Elliot Company . Warning: Although precautions have been taken to make sure no viruses are present in this email, the company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage that arise from the use of this email or attachments. This email and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the author and do not represent those of the Davis H. Elliot Company . Warning: Although precautions have been taken to make sure no viruses are present in this email, the company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage that arise from the use of this email or attachments. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Help with HP/Cisco switch communication
Joe, Are you using a crossover cable? Adam - Original Message - From: Joe Heaton To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 3:11 PM Subject: RE: Help with HP/Cisco switch communication Well, no joy. I’ll take a look at those links on Monday, I’m not going to spend the whole day in here trying to figure this out. Anyone that wants to see the config on the router that is working, and/or the config of the switch that is NOT working, let me know and I’ll shoot em out offline. Joe Heaton From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 12:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help with HP/Cisco switch communication try googling trunking hp to cisco. here are a couple of links i used for info. good luck. www.seem.nu/lighthouse/hp-cisco%20trunking.pdf forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=357448 -- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 12:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help with HP/Cisco switch communication Dunno yet, gotta get a laptop hooked up in the server room, so I can console into the Cisco. Hopefully will know in about 15 minutes or so. Joe Heaton From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 11:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help with HP/Cisco switch communication yea forgot the dot1q did it work? -- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 12:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help with HP/Cisco switch communication The commands we’re using are: Switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q Switchport mode trunk No shut Aaron was saying that doing this would by default allow all VLANS to come through. I think I’ll add the allow line, just to see what happens. Joe Heaton From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 11:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help with HP/Cisco switch communication Yes there are sort of. Hp calls them tagged ports what Cisco calls trunks. I believe the port connected from the cisco to the hp has to be trunked on the cisco side if you are passing more than one vlan. interface gigabit 1/0/1 or whatever port you are using. switchport trunk allow vlan 20,39,68 etc... whatever vlans you are trying to pass. switchport mode trunk I just did this between two hp 2848's and a cisco 6509. hope this helps -- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 11:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help with HP/Cisco switch communication Yes VLANS are involved. We’ve got the Cisco set to accept/allow all VLAN traffic, and the HP port is tagged in all VLANS that I want it to work with. There are no HP “trunks” involved. Joe Heaton From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 10:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Help with HP/Cisco switch communication Are VLAN's involved? Is the port you're plugging the HP into trunked? On Feb 9, 2008 10:26 AM, Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't know if anyone is out there today, but if you are, I could really use some help. I've got a brand new Cisco 3560 layer 3 switch that I am using to replace a Cisco 2651 router. I have, with the help of Aaron Rohyans, configured the 3560 to emulate the operation of the 2651. Unfortunately, when I plug the 3560 into the HP 4108 switch, there is no communication between the two. The HP never detects the MAC address of the Cisco, and I cannot ping to it from the other side, either, which is plugged into my firewall. The Cisco is not talking to anyone. I have the configs of both the router and the 3560 if anyone would like to see them, and if anyone has any advice, I'd really appreciate it. I'm also sitting at my desk, if you'd like to give me a holler… Thanks, Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.0/1268 - Release Date: 2/9/2008 11:54 AM No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.0/1268 - Release Date: 2/9/2008 11:54 AM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free
