Re: [lopsa-discuss] Hype Convergence: Nutanix Questions

And, coincidentally, here comes the latest Gartner report on this. (generous seasonings suggested) https://www.nutanix.com/pdf/?file=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gartner.com%2Fdoc%2Freprints%3Fid%3D1-3BVLFTR%26ct%3D160719%26st%3Dsb?utm_source=gartner&utm_medium=emailnurture&utm_campaign=2016gartner&mkt_tok

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Hype Convergence: Nutanix Questions

Oh, I didn't answer your maturity question. Both Simplivity and Nutanix have been around for 7+ years and have been drastically increasing market share recently. Nutanix has about 2 years on Simplivity. Architecturally, both seem very solid. I can't answer the support question yet. On 12/1

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Hype Convergence: Nutanix Questions

No practical experience yet, but we are in the process of making a quite large purchases (1000s of vms), and I have done a number of technical deepdives on converged and hyperconverged options of various sorts. Nutanix and Simplivity are probably going to substantially outperform a traditional

Re: [lopsa-discuss] NAS throughput

On 12/7/2016 8:24 AM, Skylar Thompson wrote: I think ZFS can do this, although it's been a while since I've looked and might just be for caching metadata. Most enterprise filesystems can support it as well, though probably aren't an option for Drobo. We have that option on our GPFS (er, Spectrum

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Out-of-Band Management Solutions

out of band access network device request ... Pete, take a look at Fortinet-60d or smaller. You get a full mini security appliance with VPN, optional USB/Cell modem, backup connectivity, IDS, A/V, and 7 port switch all integrated into one device. ___

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Cabler recommendation in Manhattan?

Ditto. 2nd'd. On 7/8/2016 4:55 PM, Will Dennis wrote: First Line Communications (Joseph Tuzio Jr, owner) - 201-599-9106 or email firstline...@aol.com Always have been very happy with their work... *From:*discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:discuss-boun...

[lopsa-discuss] service desks

Looking for a service desk and integrated workflow manager for the new job, and I found this page. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2489457,00.asp Has anybody used HappyFox? I had never heard of it but it seems highly rated. I've been considering Jira Core + Jira Service desk (integrate

Re: [lopsa-discuss] What do you do for Antivirus/Anti-malware at your company

On 4/12/2016 5:22 PM, Ski Kacoroski wrote: Hi, I work for a school district and we are seeing an uptick in virus/malware events - especially on the mac workstations. We currently run antivirus on some windows servers and our windows workstations, but not on our mac workstations, iPads, chr

Re: [lopsa-discuss] KVM's and PDU's

You can run a cat5e patch from a cat6 panel. Or you can run a Cat6 patch to any rj45 port. It should "just work". You don't need to replace stuff. The rj45 end is the same: https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090924211618AAjS7qH Also, if you do want to change PDUs anyway, I second D

Re: [lopsa-discuss] KVM's and PDU's

finicky than previous versions, as you might expect) On 3/18/2016 9:51 PM, Robert Hajime Lanning wrote: On 03/18/16 18:30, Doug Hughes wrote: All of the important electrical properties for Cat6 should have no impact on Serial. I'm pretty sure it is not a normal "serial" signal

Re: [lopsa-discuss] KVM's and PDU's

cat6 infrastructure. Even the newer paragon switches only work over cat5. Something is even different between cat6 and cat5 that it breaks some KVMs. cheers, ski On 03/18/2016 02:39 PM, Doug Hughes wrote: You can run a cat5e patch from a cat6 panel. Or you can run a Cat6 patch to any rj45 port. It s

Re: [lopsa-discuss] KVM's and PDU's

standardizing on a cable spec that has a path forward, without having to rip out the cable plant again. What you are talking about is dedicating part of the patch panel to legacy non-10GBase-T, for the foreseeable future. On 03/18/16 14:39, Doug Hughes wrote: You can run a cat5e patch from a ca

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Bluetooth Headsets for Use in DC

I just got a pair of Turtle Beach. They have active noise cancellation that appears to work really well. I haven't used them in the D.C. yet, but they work really well. They do not have a boom mic, but they do have some kind of reasonable built-in mic. They come multi-device Bluetooth capabilit

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Bluetooth Headsets for Use in DC

It's not exactly what you asked for since it's not Bluetooth, but it does work well when plugged into a voip phone or other phone that has a normal handset. I wouldn't write it off as an option. This one is also pretty expensive, but works great in a datacenter. I use it with the remote handset

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Network Layout Question

+1 for vlans If you have a server that needs to be part of multiple and you kill want to keep things mostly separated, you can use vlan tagging on that server to be local on each subnet. On 1/15/2016 5:53 PM, Ski Kacoroski wrote: Hi, I am part of a smallish (16 people) IT group and we are p

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Question on 10GB cabling in a server room

We mostly stick with SFP+ based switches and use SFP+ DAC, Active Optical, or fiber, depending upon distance. The switches are a bit cheaper, use less power, and have more connectivity options. But, if you need to leverage your existing copper infrastructure for some reason, then the RJ45 connectio

Re: [lopsa-discuss] experience w. Infortrend & other less-than-tier1 storage

On that score, the V3700s are smaller, less expensive, and take up some amount of space that is rather porous by today's standards, but perform well for at least one application that we are doing. (better than old DDN 6000 shelf, fwiw). Ymmv On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Ray Van Dolson wrote

Re: [lopsa-discuss] experience w. Infortrend & other less-than-tier1 storage

The questions you need to ask yourself are somewhere along these lines: 1) how much storage space do I need 2) how do I plan to manage it a) will it do tiering? b) does it have or require policy based allocation c) does it support active or passive management like snmp traps, polling and per

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How to mark broken LAN ports?

colored dots or stickers like you'd get at an office supply store. Invent your own scheme. e.g. black = broken, orange = only good for 100m, etc. Of course, you should know if the switch port is bad (less likely) or the cable is bad too. Switch ports you can mark bad in the description of the por

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Question on autofs on laptops

This gets into pretty strange complexity, but you could do something like this with an executable mount map that calls a script that does a ping of the host and only if the response time is < some threshold or if the ip address of your host is in some range then echo back the remote mount path o

Re: [lopsa-discuss] VoIP Monitoring

I wouldn't consider netflow/sflow ideal for this. They are great at monitoring utilization of a link, but the way they do it means they are not good for monitoring jitter, latency, or loss, which are very important for VOIP and video. Sflow (and Netflow before it) work by sampling every nth pack

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Does LOPSA have a project manager?

I think there are 2 relatively consequential points that may be getting glossed over in some of the discussion. Whether lopsa needs an E.D. (debatable) is orthogonal to whether LOPSA can afford one. Given the salary needs of a good E.D. (evidence posted earlier by Adam et al.), this seems doubtfu

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Does LOPSA have a project manager?

-Original Message- From: Gilbert Wilson To: Matt Simmons Cc: Lopsa Discussion Sent: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 15:19 Subject: Re: [lopsa-discuss] Does LOPSA have a project manager? It appears to me that LOPSA as an organization, and the board of directors, are performing substantially better wi

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Does LOPSA have a project manager?

There were different rates for different functions, like e.d., assistant director, event planner etc. None was full time, though. Lopsa does not have the funds to afford a full time e.d. (imnsho). I think we have ample proof of this based upon recent past history, Adam's post, and known revenue str

Re: [lopsa-discuss] What is a System Administrator

IMHO, the old sage descriptions are quite dated (see another recent thread in the archives relating planning for sysadmin/machine ratios that has some intersection) and responsibilities have expanded beyond that, but also changed significantly in some ways. Unfortunately, I'm not helpful enough (to

Re: [lopsa-discuss] NIce Fraud alert system - American Express

To answer Mario's original 'how they figured it out'. The $1 charge followed by a large charge is the 'tell'. That is a very common technique that criminals use to see if a card is good. They figure that $1 won't raise suspicion. And, to an extant that is true. However, $1 plus $$$ is a pretty good

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Any way to block software broadcasting bad dns packets

Do you have a decent smart switch with Acl capability? You could easily use that to block multicast addresses to port from ip on ingress. On some switches, you can also alarm into your event mgmt system when you see those (on others, not). If you have an sflow/netflow collector, you could u

Re: [lopsa-discuss] sysadmin / infosec poll

On 12/3/2014 10:42 AM, Jan Schaumann wrote: Hello, I'm currently exploring the intersection of #sysadmin / #infosec[1] a bit. There is obvious overlap, yet at many companies the two camps also frequently end up at loggerheads. I'd like to collect some feedback: What #infosec or (PCI) complia

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Home UPS power question

On 11/26/2014 4:35 PM, Adam Levin wrote: Hey all, I have a tangentially-related computer power question. I have one of these at home: http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B000RZPK1M/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 It's just good enough to keep my home network running for 1-2 hours du

Re: [lopsa-discuss] For-Profit Subsidiaries?

On 7/31/2014 9:13 PM, Matt Simmons wrote: It was decided after LOPSA-East of this year that PICC should shut down for reasons personal to PICC management. Since LOPSA local chapters aren't incorporated (or at least, these aren't), it's unrealistic to expect individual members of the community to

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Https - the solution to net neutrality and ISP monopolies

Bringing this back semi-on-topic, we have a similar problem with Verizon peering with my provider in NYC, Cogent. Cogent's peering point with Verizon for the east coast is in Miami. Verizon, thus far, has been totally unwilling to peer with Cogent in Ashburn, VA or in NYC, both of which seem like t

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Server name (and other stuff) in output file?

It looks like we're top posting this thread, so I guess I'll follow suit. Some good ideas so far. You can combine a bunch of them with a tool like rsyslog. You can send to a single tagged file if you want, or you can insert them directly into a database (Mysql? Postgres?) of your choice with i

Re: [lopsa-discuss] NIST IT System Security Standards Draft

Risk avoidance usually means something different than the meaning you are trying to impart. Yes, it could mean doing something that increases risk over the long run, given that interpretation. But, risk is not a zero sum game. There are often ways to avoid risk without taking on longer term risks.

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Looking for an organizer for the first virtual LOPSA Chapter

On 5/14/2014 7:08 PM, Evan Pettrey wrote: There's one other that I forgot to add that needs to be mentioned: * *Be Flexible - *I can't tell you how many great ideas I've seen killed by our rigorous adherence to bylaws that none of us created and procedure written by somebody none

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Looking for an organizer for the first virtual LOPSA Chapter

I think it's tough to ignore the timezone, and possibly language distinction for multiple virtual chapters. It's easy to ponder a French or Spanish virtual chapter, or Chinese for that matter. I wouldn't expect the national group to attempt to run any of these. I think your example of east/west coa

Re: [lopsa-discuss] FCoE experiences?

One thought. There are now a fair number of 10g switches with FCOE and ISCSI QOS optimizations builtin (Dell/force10, Arista, Brocade, etc.). If you are going to jump into FCOE (not saying you should or shouldn't), it's worth looking at this. They act as virtual fabric enhancers. On Tue, Apr 1, 2

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Hardware burn-in tools

It is almost never the motherboard that fails early for us. We use a 'lot' of supermicro. It is things like slow memory (non supermicro), or failed disk (non supermicro) that are the usual problems. Methinks you have a different perspective on the problem than we have seen in reality. Slow memor

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Hardware burn-in tools

The tool is certainly useful, but have you also thought about having Dell (or HP) integration service doing the burn-in for you before delivery? We have our integrator run a lot of tests before shipping us a rack of machines using off the shelf tools that stress memory and CPU in particular. Mem

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Physical monitoring system for our server rooms.

The first thing to decide is if you want/need to buy anything over what you already have. Very high probability that every server in your infrastructure already has the capability of measuring input temperature. Many manged switches can measure temperature and possibly humidity as well. Your physic

[lopsa-discuss] Missing fleece from wednesday night

I left a navy blue pullover nautica long sleave hoodless fleece somewhere likely in bof rooms on wednesday night. If anybody has seem or found it, please ket me kmow. Thanks. Sent from my android device.___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org h

Re: [lopsa-discuss] LISA: activities / food in D.C.

If you are an aerospace afficionado, you should definitely make the effort to see the Udvar-Hazy center which is an annex of the air &space museum adjacent to Dulles airport. See it on your way out of town since you will have a car to get there. Among other things: rare WWI and WWII fighters, *t

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Big centralized temperature monitoring system?

Have you looked at these? POE and small. I haven't tried them myself, but they look interesting and versatile (SNMP and HTTP). http://www.serverscheck.com/sensors/ Not bad in comparison to a lot of other choices. Base unit is $210 and probes are $54, but the base unit is small enough that you

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Math for SysAdmins - Conference tutorial?

Oh, and P95/P99 distributions (commonly used for billing by network carriers on MPLS) some practical guides to estimation for risk analysis also.. (e.g. what are the odds of X failing, how much will it cost in downtime, and what replacement or mitigation options are viable under what condition

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Math for SysAdmins - Conference tutorial?

heavily favoring statistics mean vs median and when you want to use each (usually median). mode standard deviation variance quantization (e.g. into buckets to calculate distributions) numerical distributions (poisson, uniform, random, etc.). brief graph theory (directed, undirected). CLOS netwo

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Can anyone recommend a very trustworthy PC person in Philadelphia?

On 8/19/2013 12:57 PM, David Bronder wrote: On the subject of remote support/remote control for family/friends when you don't have the same apps (or OS)... I jury-rigged something similar for helping my mom with her Windows box using a VNC server and a batch file configured to start it with opti

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Mark Burgess quote from April 2013 ;login:

On 7/2/2013 12:34 AM, Dave Close wrote: The professional organizations which seem to me most like what LOPSA aspires to be are the Computer Society or the ACM. IEEE offers group insurance. ACM offers a host of online services. Both charge more than twice what LOPSA charges. both IEEE and ACM o

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Data recovery service in Lehigh Valley PA area?

Why would it need to be in that area? all of the services offer a 'ship it to us and we'll repair it for a price' capability. On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Y E wrote: > A client of my accountant lost a hard drive and is looking for a data > recovery service in the Lehigh Valley PA area (Alle

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Ideal router recommendation for a small/medium office?

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Morgan Blackthorne wrote: > We have around 40 or so users (looking to expand to more but not above 100 > any time soon). Right now we've got a Netgear UCS device which we got > because we wanted something with integrated IPSec VPN. Except that > Netgear's implement

Re: [lopsa-discuss] power cord search

stayonline.com has these and many, many more. Also servertech sells these. On 3/7/2013 7:18 PM, Patrick Landry wrote: Several years ago I purchased a rack of 1U machines from Sun. The rack came with vertical PDUs and matching power cords. The cords were C13 to C14 cords but the C14 plug was this

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Escaping the Office

Funny, I'm also in a corporate sailing league. It's great when the company helps to sponsor it. They have races near the Statue of Liberty one day a week for 6-8 weeks in 3 season rotation. Last year we did one season. This year is potential for more (hopefully!). A 35ft boat would be nice, but

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Android Tablet recommendation?

sending this email from my Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7" procured through Amazon for less than $200. It has all the specs you want. The battery life isn't amazing if you are using it constantly, but you will get a good 4-6 hours. My one complaint is that it has a funky charging/usb port that is almost

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Network configuration question

On 1/14/2013 6:36 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: From: discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:discuss- boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Morse, Richard E.MGH Hi! Thanks to everyone who responded with suggestions! Apparently, it works if I turn *off* spanning-tree on the child switch

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Network configuration question

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Morse, Richard E.MGH wrote: > Hi! Thanks to everyone who responded with suggestions! Apparently, it > works if I turn *off* spanning-tree on the child switch, leaving the parent > switch configured with RSTP. I'm not sure why, not what deleterious side > effects I'

Re: [lopsa-discuss] security video monitoring options for 60+ cameras

On 12/10/2012 2:03 AM, Jo Rhett wrote: On Dec 9, 2012, at 8:47 PM, Zack Williams wrote: On Dec 9, 2012, at 4:18 PM, Jo Rhett wrote: Has anything else sprung up or that I overlooked on my previous review which we should consider? Note that solutions which depend entirely on unix hackery are

Re: [lopsa-discuss] FYI - No more free google apps

On 12/9/2012 5:27 PM, Jo Rhett wrote: Sorry, I wasn't looking for an official announcement. More of a "has anyone found that you can use your own domain with google now" ? I know of hundreds of people with 1-account google apps domains. I shifted to Free Apps long, long before they did the recen

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Fwd: [TUHS] unix horror stories

On 10/24/2012 12:48 PM, Matt Simmons wrote: Oh yes, I can 99% guarantee that those particular mistakes won't happen again. I promise to make all new mistakes this time around ;-) --Matt If the old mistakes were like grenades, destroying a machine (albeit an important one), the new ones are l

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Backup Options

On 10/19/2012 12:15 AM, Ski Kacoroski wrote: Hi, I could use some advice on backup options. I have a 4yr old Data Domain that has worked perfectly, but it is totally filled (actually overfilled) and pricey to maintain. It is located at the remote site connected to my primary site by fiber a

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Mailman providers

In other words, they will neither let you run config_list yourself (you don't have that level of access) nor are they willing to run it for you? Is that correct? On 7/15/2012 3:38 PM, Moose Finklestein wrote: Folks, An organization I work with is looking to move a number of Mailman-based ma

Re: [lopsa-discuss] UPS Woes (208v vs 240v)

I just checked the specs for that unit online. It's a wide sensing input, as most single phase devices are: http://excessups.com/smartups-3000-rackmount-dla3000rmt2u-sua3000rmt2u-208v-p-74.html Input voltage range for main operations: 141 - 255V You can plug it into 240V no problem, as long a

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Maybe I don't get it -Harassment policy

On 5/25/2012 4:24 PM, Michael Ryder wrote: Matt, I think I understand where you were coming from when you brought this up. But there's been a number of opinions in this thread that have given me pause to reconsider things. We're all against harassment of any kind, that much is clear. The f

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Maybe I don't get it -Harassment policy

On 5/25/2012 10:50 AM, Matt Simmons wrote: So if we can agree that the intent is to restrict the policy to concerning LOPSA events / professional situations, what should the wording be? Also, I think employers are allowed to discriminate based on illicit drugs, since they can be a fireable of

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Any good system builders in the LA area?

Yup, done that. There are just so many really good integrators out on your coast. :) No, shipping between countries ought to be avoided at all costs (oh the India stories I could tell...) On 5/23/2012 12:04 PM, Tom Perrine wrote: I would re-think about the coast to coast shipping. We shipped

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Any good system builders in the LA area?

On 5/23/2012 11:45 AM, Kenneth Voort wrote: Hello list, We're based in Toronto and in the process of opening a datacentre in the LA area. Normally, a large number of our servers are purpose built by a local company we have a long standing relationship with, however, shipping servers across

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How do you backup your VMs

On 5/20/2012 6:36 AM, John Slee wrote: On 8 May 2012 06:17, Anton Cohen wrote: Hosting in your own building is frankly silly. The cost of AC cooling and electricity alone is astronomical. Combined with other data center logistics like owning your own IPs so you can do BGP with multi-homed inter

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Do Sysadmins have a half-life?

Yes and no and bleh, in no particular order 1) Do people change careers out of IT and move on to something else? Yes of course, but that is true of almost any career.. I've heard it said that the average person has 2-3 career (not job) changes in their life. But: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Seeking rideshare from New York to New Brunswick on May 10th (going to PICC)

yes, LIRR is much less time and only a buck or so more. On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:35 PM, drich wrote: > ** > > Or on a weekend take LIRR. It's only $3.75 if I remember correctly and > will get you from JFK Jamaica to NY Penn in under 25 mins. I have done this > twice now for LOPSA board meetings

Re: [lopsa-discuss] LOPSA NYC Meeting - What Knewton has learned from Amazon's AWS services - April 10th @ 7PM

And please put in your real name! Building security can't check identity on a nickname. ;) On 4/3/2012 9:16 PM, Justin Lintz wrote: Reminder, this is next week, don't forget to sign up - Justin Lintz On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Justin Lintz wrote: Hello All, This month we're moving

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Security Camera Software

On 3/15/2012 8:53 AM, Evan Pettrey wrote: Good morning LOPSA, I'm currently in the process of researching security camera recording software. Our current solution is antiquated and needs to be replaced. A Windows-based solution would be preferable as our door security system is currently host

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Candidate Recruiting

The economic slump didn't hit IT as badly as most others and certainly hasn't seen under employment for a year now. On Mar 6, 2012 9:14 AM, "Brodie, Kent" wrote: > The only input to this I can add is, “we’re seeing the same thing”. We > recently posted a (windows-based) sysadmin position, and t

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Weekly oncall rotations: Which day do you start on?

On 3/2/2012 9:48 AM, John Stoffel wrote: Handling tickets could be as easy as "I don't know how to do this, I'll give it to Bob", or you would just handle the issue. This let project work get done more quickly and in a more focused manner. I guess what I'm saying is that on-call is a seperate

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Weekly oncall rotations: Which day do you start on?

On 3/2/2012 9:39 AM, Matt Disney wrote: Funny little issue. I've always worked places with weekly oncall (or help desk) rotations and they always started on Monday, but in almost every case the new Monday oncall person was responsible for addressing non-critical events that came in over the w

Re: [lopsa-discuss] The ethics of enabling big data

On 2/16/2012 11:20 PM, Dave Close wrote: Ok, so they convert the number to their own "Guest ID". But that would be a one-time conversion unless they keep a map. And if they have a map, isn't that keeping the card number? One way, unique hashes are old hat. see also: md5. mapless, fast, unique (

Re: [lopsa-discuss] The ethics of enabling big data

On 2/16/2012 4:30 PM, Benjamin Krueger wrote: It's worth pointing out that this isn't the credit card company, but rather Target (or your favorite retailer) here doing the data mining. Does using a credit or debit card automatically grant them the right to profile your purchases simply because

Re: [lopsa-discuss] LISA, and the conference hotel

I think, as Tom pointed out, unless you can compare based upon relative size and #rooms *and* reserving the space for an entire week, its not really a good comparison. Also note at this last conference free wifi was thrown in, which as somebody else pointed out is about a $25 difference. (For som

Re: [lopsa-discuss] LISA, and the conference hotel

Given that LISA moves from city to city each year, does it really need to pick the city more than a year in advance? You do want to be able to say at LISA one year where the next one will be, but do you really need to know 3+ years ahead? yes, because there's usually only one hotel in that c

Re: [lopsa-discuss] LISA, and the conference hotel

Caution: If Usenix does not meet its room block (as Jo pointed out), they get severely penalized. The net effect of this will be either to drive up the conference rate or to make it so that there is no conference. If a few people do this, it's not a big deal, but if a lot do this, they lose a lot o

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Datacenter Surveillance System

On 1/6/2012 11:30 AM, John Stoffel wrote: Brian> I will be installing some Bocsh NDC255 dome cameras shortly. Brian> They use a standard h.264 video stream and can store a month of Brian> video on an internal SD card. I started to look at things like Brian> Zoneminder and dedicated DVR boxes

Re: [lopsa-discuss] looking for graphing software to turn a text-based list into a graph of a circle with sectors and sub-sectors(?)

On 1/5/2012 11:22 AM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: Hi. I'm looking for a way to automatically generate a graph from a nested list. For example, here is a list: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 And here is the graph: http://www.verticalsysadmin.com/crude_drawing.png I want the top level

Re: [lopsa-discuss] looking for graphing software to turn a text-based list into a graph of a circle with sectors and sub-sectors(?)

gnuplot can do nested overlapping pie graphs now? that's new.. I've only ever used it as a coordinate system grapher (2d and 3d). I know it can do polar, but that's not the same as what he's asking. On 1/5/2012 11:36 AM, Brad Bendily wrote: On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Justify your existence

On 12/15/2011 10:57 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: You're in a social situation - at a party or something - You're talking with some CFO or otherwise interesting financial person about work, and Dilbert cartoons, and the wastefulness and inefficiencies of typical corporations or typical organiz

Re: [lopsa-discuss] What happened to basic routers?

Dell/force10 (S55) and HP (2910) both have a 1u switch that would work and should do that small number of ports plus l3 very easily. On Dec 13, 2011 10:07 AM, "Nathan Hruby" wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 7:35 AM, List Bounce > wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > We've been trying for days to come

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Shipping racks

What company did you use? On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Doug Hughes <mailto:d...@will.to>> wrote: On 11/15/2011 3:58 PM, Martin James Gehrke wrote: Anyone have an experience or pointers on shipping racks? I need to get an empty 48U APC rack packaged and shipped.

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Shipping racks

On 11/15/2011 3:58 PM, Martin James Gehrke wrote: Anyone have an experience or pointers on shipping racks? I need to get an empty 48U APC rack packaged and shipped. They arrive bolted to a pallet with copious wrapping. Seeing as they cost ~1200, if this costs too much we'll just a new one. T

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Internet proxy/filter/bandwidth management?

On 11/3/2011 6:17 PM, Atom Powers wrote: Management is not-quite happy with our current Internet filter and has asked me to look for a better product. Specifically, I'm looking for a product that does more than just block URLs, something that policy-based bandwidth shaping so that, fPaloor exampl

Re: [lopsa-discuss] LOPSA NYC Meeting Sept 13th @ 7PM - Hadoop Monitoring Best Practices Meets Whirlwind tour

Do we want to try the event reg on the www.lops-nyc.org page even if it is a little leggy on response? On Sep 6, 2011 9:16 PM, "Justin Lintz" wrote: > This month's meeting we'll be having a talk on Apache's Hadoop framework. > > "The Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for th

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Budget Cooling

I agree. When you need a highly reliable unit with a maintenance contract and periodic checkups, hardly anything beats a liebert. It doesn't seem like that is your situation. Like another said, invest in a decent temp monitor and some auto shutdown mechanics. Ps 75 is fine. In a recent press relea

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Most simple security policy?

On 7/22/2011 11:25 AM, Gregory Boyce wrote: On Jul 22, 2011 11:22 AM, "Dave Close" > wrote: > > Dan Foster wrote: > > > - Periodic password changes > > I have never heard a reasonable explanation for this common policy. If > you don't share passwords and block re

Re: [lopsa-discuss] ethernet AB toggle switch

On 7/13/2011 1:40 PM, Joseph Kern wrote: Because VLAN tagging is not for security. It's for administrative separation. Clearly, if wifi was in the mix here and only got thrown out for reasons of bandwidth, vlan tagging ought to be equally acceptable... Methinks you missed my point. _

Re: [lopsa-discuss] ethernet AB toggle switch

On 7/13/2011 11:44 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: I have a location with two networks that must not be bridged. Users must easily be able to access both networks. VPN is not a possibility for reasons I won't go into. Yes, we can have wifi on one network ... Let users have the wire on this

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Best Practices for racking

On 7/7/2011 5:32 PM, Matt Lawrence wrote: On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, Eric Sproul wrote: I'd also add that for heterogeneous equipment, favor putting equipment with similar rack depth together. There's nothing worse than having a short 1U server sandwiched between two deeper ones and not being able to

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Best Practices for racking

On 7/7/2011 10:45 AM, Eric Sproul wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Doug Hughes wrote: color code the LOM/KVM cable and the data cable. I'm also interested to hear opinions on vertical cable management. Do folks prefer big rings for single racks of servers (not core swit

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Best Practices for racking

You are using top-of-rack switches? if so, wire the server at rack elevation 1 to switch port 1, second to 2 and so on. Consistency is your friend. Do you have KVM/LOM on each? Get a second cheap switch for that (I like HP procurve 10/100 - they are managed, but inexpensive, why waste a gigabit

Re: [lopsa-discuss] video recording equipment for NYC LOPSA talk

On 6/8/2011 4:55 PM, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > I'm willing to be livestreamed. I'll just have to remember not to > swear since we can't fix it in post. :-) > > Tom > > P.S. Why isn't this discussion on the NYC mailing list? > https://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lopsa-us-ny-nyc/ probably my f

Re: [lopsa-discuss] video recording equipment for NYC LOPSA talk

yes! we have both internet access and a computer in the room, though laptops are available too if there's stuff that needs admin privs to install. hitch a ride with Tom. ;) On 6/8/2011 1:40 PM, Nicholas Tang wrote: > Would you guys be interested in having it Livestreamed? We > (Livestream) m

Re: [lopsa-discuss] video recording equipment for NYC LOPSA talk

I'm wondering. How many people (here) are planning on attending? Should we consider moving it? I know of at least 4-5 people now who are not able to attend that day. On 6/8/2011 11:35 AM, Justin Lintz wrote: > The NYC LOPSA chapter is having Tom Limoncelli talk on the 14th on > Ganeti and there'

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Racks with Cable Management

On 6/5/2011 10:13 PM, Meenoo Shivdasani wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Jason Healy > wrote: > > On to the question: does anyone have a rack that they recommend for > small standalone usage? We're talking about 2 racks here, and > they'll be filled w

[lopsa-discuss] Fwd: 2011 Patent Reform Act

Another great example of advocacy/policy in action. (and I highly encourage everybody to participate in this action) Original Message Subject:2011 Patent Reform Act Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:12:52 GMT From: Russell Harrison Reply-To: Russell Harrison To:

Re: [lopsa-discuss] I know that this is probably futile, but is there a search engine out there that doesn't SUCK???

I'll echo what Derek said. I search for a lot of technological stuff as part of the job, and the completion helps me to adjust my query to similar wordings of the thing that I'm working for. It's usually a good recommendation and improves my search efficiency. And yes, when I'm searching for t

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Writing Skills

> American English and British English have a number of disagreements > about how a collective noun is used, in terms of number. The word > "data" actually originated as a plural, as above; but is often used as a > collective noun these days with dashing disregard for its history. > > what is the

Re: [lopsa-discuss] toward a more comfortable datacenter (KVM location)

On 2/11/2011 2:28 PM, berg...@merctech.com wrote: > > Agreed...KVM over IP is the way to goand it's what I use for 99% of > anything requiring a "keyboard", > but that's only after the bootstrapping step to get the out-of-band port onto > the network. I currently do not have auto-provisioning

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