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

2016-07-28 Thread Peter Grace
Howdy, fellow sysadmins: We are looking for any feedback members of the list might have regarding a pretty common problem: reliable out-of-band access to our network when WAN(s) and/or site2site links go down. We currently have multiple connections at each office but we've run into situations wher

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Dev Ops stack exchange in area 51?

2016-04-25 Thread Peter Grace
to use at all. So > these tight little topics never get any air or life. > > -- Craig Constantine, http://constantine.name > > > > On Apr 25, 2016, at 9:58 AM, Peter Grace wrote: > > Disclaimer: I work at stack but I am not speaking as an employee of > stack. I do have mo

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Dev Ops stack exchange in area 51?

2016-04-25 Thread Peter Grace
Disclaimer: I work at stack but I am not speaking as an employee of stack. I do have moderator on Server Fault, however I don't participate much. Forgive me for asking perhaps a loaded question, but isn't devops already in-scope for stackoverflow.com and serverfault.com? Pete On Mon, Apr 25, 2

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Looking for some help on exposing High schoolers to system administration

2015-01-19 Thread Peter Grace
I've already delivered some Q&A this year for some kids in the Philadelphia school district; I'd be happy to have a look at your presentation and present it to interested schools. It seems like schools get the most interest in technology around the "Hour of Code" events. Pete On Mon, Jan 19, 201

[lopsa-discuss] Fwd: December LOPSAgram Newsletter

2014-12-23 Thread Peter Grace
Since >1 people seem not to have it... -- Forwarded message -- From: LOPSA Communications Committee Date: Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 7:02 PM Subject: December LOPSAgram Newsletter To: Peter Grace Please email bo...@lopsa.org with any questions, comments, or ideas. We always want

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Is there a well curated list of tech conferences somewhere?

2014-12-23 Thread Peter Grace
I received it December 21st, I'll forward it to you. On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Adam Levin wrote: > Did we recently get a lopsagram? I don't recall seeing one pass my > inbox... > > -Adam > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Peter Grace wrote: >> &g

[lopsa-discuss] Is there a well curated list of tech conferences somewhere?

2014-12-23 Thread Peter Grace
So, I skipped LISA this past year thinking that I'd just catch up with everyone at LOPSA-East in May, but the recent lopsagram has announced that lopsa-east isn't happening this year. I'm curious if there is a good list somewhere of all the scheduled tech conferences. Lanyard seems like a good pl

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Curious problem with DNS

2014-10-16 Thread Peter Grace
> > Would you happen to have any overly-stringent firewall rules that would > block overlong DNS UDP replies or prevent DNS over TCP? This could > especially be an issue if DNSSEC is involved too. > > This was my thought as well; ASAs by default are not very forgiving for EDNS queries,which Window

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Graduating to management and the pains thereof

2014-01-07 Thread Peter Grace
g > >> picture. While The Phoenix Project is written specifically for DevOps I > >> think The Goal is the better of the two books but I recommend reading > both > >> > >> The Effective Executive - Written by Peter Drucker in the 80s this is > >> still wi

[lopsa-discuss] Graduating to management and the pains thereof

2014-01-07 Thread Peter Grace
Hello list, Well, I've been an IT Director for about half a year now. In this time I have learned quite a bit more about what it takes to be a manager and the amount of self discipline it requires to keep all of the pieces on the chessboard moving safely. After 6 months, my self evaluation is I

[lopsa-discuss] Any experience with using Okta, or cloud SSO in general?

2013-12-19 Thread Peter Grace
Hello List! Our business office is really interested in finding ways to reduce the number of passwords our salespeople need to keep track of. To that end, we're investigating some SSO apps that will help us keep everything keyed off of our Active Directory setup. I'm kicking the tires on Okta wh

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

2013-11-03 Thread Peter Grace
Thanks for that, unfortunately I'm not arriving until Wednesday. Maybe next year! Pete On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 2:07 AM, Phil Pennock < lopsa-discuss+p...@spodhuis.org> wrote: > On 2013-11-01 at 08:58 -0400, Peter Grace wrote: > > I missed details on the keysigning BoF. Ca

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

2013-11-01 Thread Peter Grace
I missed details on the keysigning BoF. Can I get details or a link to information (including who to submit keys to.) Pete On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:52 PM, Phil Pennock < lopsa-discuss+p...@spodhuis.org> wrote: > I need help filling my schedule for next week. :) > > I'll be driving into D.C.

[lopsa-discuss] Anyone looking for tech talent in the Springfield, MA area?

2013-06-14 Thread Peter Grace
Hello all, First off, I'm sorry if this is off-topic for discuss, I haven't seen a lot of posts regarding employment on this mailing list. Feel free to give me the lash off-list. I have a close friend who has been working for a large company in Springfield for years. His primary skillset has to

[lopsa-discuss] Anyone really confident with SIP and Asterisk?

2013-04-25 Thread Peter Grace
Hello list, I'm a heavily seasoned Asterisk admin, having maintained it at three separate workplaces now. I've run into a problem with some Polycom VVX phones with transferring. The REFER gets a response of 481 (call leg doesn't exist) and the phone fails to transfer. It happens intermittently

Re: [lopsa-discuss] "Network Engineering" Stack Exchange site in Area51

2013-04-09 Thread Peter Grace
I know it's tough to change a cemented opinion, but for what it's worth, I'm sorry your experience with SE sites is predominantly closed questions. I'm going to toss some things out and if you're not interested in hearing more, just delete this e-mail. Many of the questions people have about our s

Re: [lopsa-discuss] "Network Engineering" Stack Exchange site in Area51

2013-04-09 Thread Peter Grace
Just to add to this, I can say that internally our community team is excited to see the commitment put forth on this proposal. It's possibly the fastest we've seen a proposal go to commitment organically, thanks mostly to Jeremy Stretch's cheerleading. There's a bit of divide among the ServerFaul

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Seeking Transportation to LOPSA-EAST from DC

2013-04-09 Thread Peter Grace
I know that it's offtopic to Job's request, however amtrak to trenton then the NJ Transit northeast corridor line to New Brunswick, the train station is practically across the street from the hotel. I can't speak to the amtrak fare, but I believe the NJT fare would be no more than about $10-15 one

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Linux problem, need some help

2012-10-15 Thread Peter Grace
One thing to keep in mind as well is that using multiple vcpus in a vm environment can actually decrease performance for all your VMs on the same host. If I weren't typing on a smartphone I would provide more detail on why this happens. I will try to elaborate in a bit. Pete On Oct 15, 2012 11

Re: [lopsa-discuss] online forum?

2012-09-11 Thread Peter Grace
As a SysAdmin at Stack Exchange, I just want to say thanks to all of you who've shown support for our sites! It's awesome to sit down to a ML thread and see our work so highly regarded. Just so you are all aware, we are VERY interested in finding ways of growing ServerFault's community and partic