IT BS thread

So at work we are building out a new room in our DC and all of the devices will have 10G fiber connections. We just finished putting in several Cisco Nexus 9k with 100G SFPs in the line cards.

Also excited because my group will be getting trained on and taking over Cisco UCS. We already do physical maintenance but taking the logical side too

 

@amaes nice! What do you do there?

 

I do data center operations for a very large Internet company. Fixing and troubleshooting Hardware or connections is mostly what I do and anything else on a physical level. Server, SAN and Network. I do logical troubleshooting too but it's not really my role. Its always fun logging into a switch and telling network ops that their port is link flapped on one side not actually disconnected. We have over 23,000 devices between the two locations I work at currently.

 

Apparently this was a hoax propagated by the owner of the company to get more business. Seriously?
What some people won't do for attention.
https://developers.slashdot.org/sto...ire-company-with-a-line-of-code-it-was-a-hoax

 

Hm. Well maybe someone could help turn his hoax into reality...

 

Someone found a way to break the encryption. No need to restore backups or pay for the key.

 

Link?

 

I guess this is for Petya ransomeware and not for crypto.

http://www.computerworld.com/articl...-password-to-decrypt-hard-drive-for-free.html

 

Oooooooo new toys for testing fiber!!!!



https://www.cdw.com/shop/products/F...lyzer-network-tester-kit/3079254.aspx?pfm=srh

 

cool thread guys. Im in Operations for a major financial company.. Monitoring and escalating to other groups. The "easy" work haha. But on night shift, 8pm-8am.
I work with HP NonStop and Tandem. Not sure if anyone knows what that is. I think its mainly used with banks? Have been in this field for almost 5 years

 

Anyone running CentOS in production with a kernel over the standard 3.10.0-327 ? I've got a virtual machine to take an upgrade on it to 4.5.3-1 without crashing or complaining so far but it also isn't running DHCP, DNS, or Samba...

I just want UAS support....

 

yowza.

But it's Linux, ain't broke: don't fix it. Right?

 

What are you guys running for help desk software? Our current vendor rewrote their system and to say the new version sucks is like saying the ocean is big. (we are actually going back to the old version until we figure out what to do) My organization is kind of big and we live by our tickets so a replacement has got to come soon.

Tell me what you like/don't like about your system.

 

Tigerpaw it's more from old school telecom and cable contractors.



It's horrible.

 

My Org uses remedy, we are switching to Service Now in the near future. I've used Dell KACE and Altiris in the past.

 

At my previous gig I chose Service Now to replace the system they had. Actually Remedy was my first choice but they wanted too much money, so I went with Service Now. Best decision ever. That was a gig and 8+ years ago, so I'm trying to get caught back up to what the current world of helpdesk software looks like. At this gig they've been using footprints and the latest version 12 is a complete rewrite and complete garbage.

 

Our help desk guys use JitBit. We're a small shop. My previous company was much larger and we implemented KACE which was a really powerful tool.

 

We have a choice to upgrade to the latest version of Remedy or migrate to Service Now. We brought both in to give our dept presentations and Service Now took the show hands down.