Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE
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Once again, stepping into the role of Network Admin. I'm curious to know what are the new ideas / tools of today or is the daily tasks still the same. Any resources are welcome. Whenever I do a job, I'm passionate about it and would like to show my best.
What are some great free tools out there? What are some bare necessity tools you think an Admin for today's network world should have in their bag of network weapons?
Thank you for your time, input and tips,
Mr. Wright. -
Verify that no one has deployed SolarWinds
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@mrwright4hire an overview of your critical system log files.
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@scottalanmiller said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
Verify that no one has deployed SolarWinds
Or Kaseya.
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@mrwright4hire are you asking about software tools or actual tools, like cable tester?
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@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
What are some
You should always have good old WireSHark, nmap included and a great network scanner.
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@marcinozga said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@mrwright4hire are you asking about software tools or actual tools, like cable tester?
I'm open to all of the above. I know technology changes like the weather, therefore I'm interested in knowing what's new out there.
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A couple of years ago I came across these guys in Europe who had advertised on Kickstart. They created this device that acts as a Fluke network device, but you use you mobile phone. It's called "Pockethernet".
It's amazing!
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@dbeato said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
What are some
You should always have good old WireSHark, nmap included and a great network scanner.
@dbeato what do you use for a network scanner? I use Advanced IP Scanner.
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https://hak5.org/ - anything from here. Although those devices are for pen testing, they can be useful in troubleshooting too. For scanning nmap and Fing on phone/tablet. What else, flashlight, multitool, a knife, crocodile Dundee size.
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@mrwright4hire I use the same or Angry IP Scanner, that is for windows, mac and Linux but depends on Java.
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@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
Once again, stepping into the role of Network Admin. I'm curious to know what are the new ideas / tools of today or is the daily tasks still the same. Any resources are welcome. Whenever I do a job, I'm passionate about it and would like to show my best.
What are some great free tools out there? What are some bare necessity tools you think an Admin for today's network world should have in their bag of network weapons?
Thank you for your time, input and tips,
Mr. Wright.Are you asking us how to do your new job?
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@obsolesce said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
Once again, stepping into the role of Network Admin. I'm curious to know what are the new ideas / tools of today or is the daily tasks still the same. Any resources are welcome. Whenever I do a job, I'm passionate about it and would like to show my best.
What are some great free tools out there? What are some bare necessity tools you think an Admin for today's network world should have in their bag of network weapons?
Thank you for your time, input and tips,
Mr. Wright.Are you asking us how to do your new job?
Negative @Obsolesce. I'm asking exactly what I'm asking. I'm curious about new tools and if there are any new best Practice.
Besides, even if I or anyone was asking that, it is my understanding that this site is about building, encouraging and empowering one another in the field of IT.
Trying to make one look bad or expose someone's weaknesses as oppose to just either contributing to the question or not saying anything at all is NOT Best Practice for positive communication.
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@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@dbeato said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
What are some
You should always have good old WireSHark, nmap included and a great network scanner.
@dbeato what do you use for a network scanner? I use Advanced IP Scanner.
I use nmap, so much faster and easier.
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@scottalanmiller said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@dbeato said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
What are some
You should always have good old WireSHark, nmap included and a great network scanner.
@dbeato what do you use for a network scanner? I use Advanced IP Scanner.
I use nmap, so much faster and easier.
Generally a full subnet scan using nmap is much slower than Advanced IP Scanner.
I'm annoyed that I even know this right now, such is the state of the documentation we have.
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@travisdh1 said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@scottalanmiller said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@dbeato said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
What are some
You should always have good old WireSHark, nmap included and a great network scanner.
@dbeato what do you use for a network scanner? I use Advanced IP Scanner.
I use nmap, so much faster and easier.
Generally a full subnet scan using nmap is much slower than Advanced IP Scanner.
I'm annoyed that I even know this right now, such is the state of the documentation we have.
You aren't using Nmap properly... It's so configurable and definitely faster than any GUI scanner.
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@irj said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@travisdh1 said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@scottalanmiller said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@dbeato said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
What are some
You should always have good old WireSHark, nmap included and a great network scanner.
@dbeato what do you use for a network scanner? I use Advanced IP Scanner.
I use nmap, so much faster and easier.
Generally a full subnet scan using nmap is much slower than Advanced IP Scanner.
I'm annoyed that I even know this right now, such is the state of the documentation we have.
You aren't using Nmap properly... It's so configurable and definitely faster than any GUI scanner.
While true, I'd have to install nmap first and the boss has advanced-ip-scanner already there, sad as it is.
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@travisdh1 said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@irj said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@travisdh1 said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@scottalanmiller said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@dbeato said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
What are some
You should always have good old WireSHark, nmap included and a great network scanner.
@dbeato what do you use for a network scanner? I use Advanced IP Scanner.
I use nmap, so much faster and easier.
Generally a full subnet scan using nmap is much slower than Advanced IP Scanner.
I'm annoyed that I even know this right now, such is the state of the documentation we have.
You aren't using Nmap properly... It's so configurable and definitely faster than any GUI scanner.
While true, I'd have to install nmap first and the boss has advanced-ip-scanner already there, sad as it is.
I bet I can install it faster than you can use Advanced IP Scanner, lol.
choco install nmap -y
It's SO fast.
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@scottalanmiller said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@travisdh1 said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@irj said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@travisdh1 said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@scottalanmiller said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@dbeato said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
What are some
You should always have good old WireSHark, nmap included and a great network scanner.
@dbeato what do you use for a network scanner? I use Advanced IP Scanner.
I use nmap, so much faster and easier.
Generally a full subnet scan using nmap is much slower than Advanced IP Scanner.
I'm annoyed that I even know this right now, such is the state of the documentation we have.
You aren't using Nmap properly... It's so configurable and definitely faster than any GUI scanner.
While true, I'd have to install nmap first and the boss has advanced-ip-scanner already there, sad as it is.
I bet I can install it faster than you can use Advanced IP Scanner, lol.
choco install nmap -y
It's SO fast.
Oh, I'm adding choco everywhere I can, but they haven't even deployed that!
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@travisdh1 said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@scottalanmiller said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@travisdh1 said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@irj said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@travisdh1 said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@scottalanmiller said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@dbeato said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:
What are some
You should always have good old WireSHark, nmap included and a great network scanner.
@dbeato what do you use for a network scanner? I use Advanced IP Scanner.
I use nmap, so much faster and easier.
Generally a full subnet scan using nmap is much slower than Advanced IP Scanner.
I'm annoyed that I even know this right now, such is the state of the documentation we have.
You aren't using Nmap properly... It's so configurable and definitely faster than any GUI scanner.
While true, I'd have to install nmap first and the boss has advanced-ip-scanner already there, sad as it is.
I bet I can install it faster than you can use Advanced IP Scanner, lol.
choco install nmap -y
It's SO fast.
Oh, I'm adding choco everywhere I can, but they haven't even deployed that!
What? That's the easiest way to deploy AIPS! What the heck are people DOING over there?
