[lopsa-tech] Scality?

2014-06-30 Thread Matt Disney
Has anyone used Scality RING storage? Just wondering about general impressions. highlights, trouble, etc. Thanks, Matt ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of P

Re: [lopsa-tech] A good IDS System recommendation

2014-02-28 Thread Matt Disney
There are a variety of factors here. I assume you mean a network-based IDS, rather than host-based, and that you want to do packet inspection. Snort, suricata, and bro are popular open source options. I recommend subscribing to some kind of threat feed to get new IDS rules from a vendor or communi

[lopsa-tech] Cert management

2013-10-03 Thread Matt Disney
Hi everyone. Is anyone doing something you like for managing SSL CA certs (for example, distributing your own internal CA cert) on a broad range of operating systems and browsers in a work/enterprise environment? Windows+IE is easy enough through AD. It's all the other stuff I'm wondering about (

[lopsa-tech] ServiceNow?

2012-11-28 Thread Matt Disney
Anyone using ServiceNow? If so, how large is your site, how are you using it, and do you like it? My org is considering it to replace an aging service desk implementation. We're also hoping to get some CMDB functionality from it. Thanks, Matt ___ Tech m

Re: [lopsa-tech] [lopsa-discuss] new meetup group

2012-11-26 Thread Matt Disney
Thanks, Carolyn and Bret, this is indeed a good application of Meetups Everywhere. I just created http://www.meetup.com/sysadmins . Hopefully this will be a useful promotional tool for sysadmin related meetups, especially on SysAdmin Appreciation Day. We'll take a closer look at sprucing it up soon

Re: [lopsa-tech] Email list to request ticket

2012-06-04 Thread Matt Disney
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > This is a classic example of a situation where you need to tell the > customer "no". > I can see where you'd say that but I'm not sure that is exactly the case here. You could consider this list I'm talking about to be a tool that I want c

Re: [lopsa-tech] Email list to request ticket

2012-06-04 Thread Matt Disney
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 5:03 PM, John Stoffel wrote: > > So which has priority? Making the list handle tickets, or keep the > discussion? If it's mostly for tickets (in an ah-hoc manner > currently), then making it into a ticketing system is a good idea. > Move the discussion off to a new, well

Re: [lopsa-tech] Email list to request ticket

2012-06-04 Thread Matt Disney
gt; ** ** > > (You could also, if beneficial, tie this into whatever back-end database > you might have, so that the emails double as a ticket log.) > > ** ** > > David Smith > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun

[lopsa-tech] Email list to request ticket

2012-06-04 Thread Matt Disney
I have an email list that is mainly used for reporting issues. I want to automatically create tickets from emails to that list. However, that list also serves as a discussion list in some cases. So forwarding all messages to the list into my ticket system would mean that the discussion and replies

Re: [lopsa-tech] [lopsa-discuss] Email list and IRC channel for LISA

2011-11-30 Thread Matt Disney
Moving to Discuss only, as lanning suggested... On 11/30/11 11:25 PM, da...@lang.hm wrote: > I don't like the idea of a separate -lisa or -conference list, and the > idea of having a list and then wiping it's archives afterwords just > doeesn't make sense, you can't wipe all records of the messag

Re: [lopsa-tech] [lopsa-discuss] Email list and IRC channel for LISA

2011-11-30 Thread Matt Disney
On 11/30/11 11:25 PM, Adam Moskowitz wrote: > Worse -- we have t...@lopsa.org *and* disc...@lopsa.org, and we're > having this discussion ON BOTH LISTS! Why? At a minimum, because no > one knows the difference between the two lists. I do think we should reconsider our list structure going forward,

Re: [lopsa-tech] [lopsa-discuss] Email list and IRC channel for LISA

2011-11-30 Thread Matt Disney
On 11/30/11 9:27 PM, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > If there are 1000 important problems that LOPSA should be working to fix, > this isn't one of them. I guess I won't show you the 27 8x10 color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, showing our fancy plan to

Re: [lopsa-tech] [lopsa-discuss] Email list and IRC channel for LISA

2011-11-30 Thread Matt Disney
On 11/30/11 8:35 PM, Matt Simmons wrote: > Would it make sense to have a general "Conferences" mailing list to discuss > all-things conference related, rather than create several lists? Picked lopsa-lisa just because of list naming consistency and supporting the brands of both LOPSA and the confer

Re: [lopsa-tech] [lopsa-discuss] Email list and IRC channel for LISA

2011-11-30 Thread Matt Disney
momentum around the communication methods that do appear to work for at least some sysadmins. Matt On 11/30/11 7:07 PM, Adam Moskowitz wrote: > Matt Disney wrote: >> Anyone have more suggestions or recommendations for how >> LOPSA can improve communication among attendees at LISA

Re: [lopsa-tech] [lopsa-discuss] Email list and IRC channel for LISA

2011-11-30 Thread Matt Disney
A few comments: I'm glad to have feedback about this since people have questions or comments about it. One thing I want to make very clear: there's nothing here that is intended to be a wedge with USENIX. I think we're actually in good shape on improving our (LOPSA) relationship with USENIX and I

[lopsa-tech] Email list and IRC channel for LISA

2011-11-30 Thread Matt Disney
on IRC in #lopsa-lisa as well. Also, just to be clear, there is no LOPSA membership requirement to join the email list or IRC channel. :-) Thanks, Matt Disney ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech

Re: [lopsa-tech] Password management

2011-11-01 Thread Matt Disney
Mathew, I can't recommend anything from experience but I've been looking for enterprise password management solutions recently and came across this: http://serverfault.com/questions/119892/company-password-management There are a lot of products listed there for enterprise, multi-user password ma