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IT Project Management: Or how to properly plan a project rather then fight fires.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/on-linuxs-25th-anniversary-development-has-gone-corporate/

You're now old enough to rent a car without the penalty!

@AmanBhogal said:

Hey Everybody!

Aman here from Cloudatcost.

As many of you already know, we are currently having an issue with an upstream provider at our data center. Our technicians are working on this.

I will keep you all updated with any information I receive.

Thanks for letting us know Aman, in the intro video you posted a bit ago it mentioned you had redundant upsteam providers. Did something not flip over correctly?

We did this yesterday.

Linux for Systems Admins, Linux 102 a bit more then the basics. Something that goes over many of the useful tools, bash, maybe some security best practices?

I wonder which source that could possibly be...

So... are you looking for a firewall or a UTM? If you're looking for a firewall take a look at the ER-Pro line from Ubiquiti. There are a lot of people that use them around here that love them.

SAM is not just one person. He is a collective of people all posting on the same account.

The SAM Bot collective is taking over ML now.

Sounds legit.

Damn autocorrect.

You can do Offline MDT deployments pretty easily. It can pull in the entire task sequence and dependencies.

@siringo said in windows based FREE imaging app:

@obsolesce said in windows based FREE imaging app:

@siringo said in windows based FREE imaging app:

hello.

i'm looking for a windows based (or anything that can be used easily by a non linuxite) FREE imaging app that can perform restores via a script / command line.

I have to reimage 50 new PCs.

in the past i've used free gui based apps, booted up, clicked here and there and the job was done. But i'm getting lazy and would just like to be able to boot up, click on script and walk away.

I could afford up to 10 bucks if the right thing can be found.

thanks everyone.

You try MDT?

No I haven't. I need something that doesn't need a network. Thanks for the help.

You can do network less MDT deployments.

@obsolesce said in NG AV / Endpoint Protection in 2021:

@notverypunny said in NG AV / Endpoint Protection in 2021:

Any vendors people want to recommend or warn off with regards to endpoint and server protection? We're shopping options to replace our current NG solution. Currently on a call and it's kinda meh.... I'm not a fan of sales in any context and this seems to be lots of sizzle and not a lot of steak (or bacon... substitute your delicious protein of choice)

Crowdstrike has worked well in a few large places I've seen. It's great cross platform.

That's what we just moved to.

@dashrender said in VMware Carbon Black:

@coliver said in VMware Carbon Black:

@gjacobse said in VMware Carbon Black:

While still in my first few days, it’s normal to encounter applications you haven’t worked with- yet.

VMware Carbon Black is such an application. Has anyone used this previously?

We're using the monitoring and discovery portion of it. Decent but would steer towards Defender for Endpoint or Crowdstrike.

I've only ever heard of Crowdstrike - as for Defender - do you mean the included bits with Windows 10? or the supp'ed up version MS sells?

Supp'ed up version.

@gjacobse said in VMware Carbon Black:

While still in my first few days, it’s normal to encounter applications you haven’t worked with- yet.

VMware Carbon Black is such an application. Has anyone used this previously?

We're using the monitoring and discovery portion of it. Decent but would steer towards Defender for Endpoint or Crowdstrike.

@notverypunny said in Discovery of the week:

@coliver said in Discovery of the week:

@notverypunny said in Discovery of the week:

If anyone else needs something for IPAM / network documentation I've just fallen in love with phpipam (https://phpipam.net/)

I'd tried netbox in the past but this just seems to work better for me. You can also set up polling / discovery of the configured ranges (on a per-range basis) either from the central server or from remote agents.

Anyways, it's rare that I'll advocate for something out of the blue, but I'm almost enjoying moving our horrible excel spreadsheet documentation over to this.

Happy Friday all

Yeah, we've been using it for a year or more. It has a nice API that @stacksofplates helped me dig into to automate DHCP reservations.

That sounds sexy.... windows server DHCP or something else?

dhcpd. The developers are working on built in Kea integration, although that's been on the table for a while.

@notverypunny said in Discovery of the week:

If anyone else needs something for IPAM / network documentation I've just fallen in love with phpipam (https://phpipam.net/)

I'd tried netbox in the past but this just seems to work better for me. You can also set up polling / discovery of the configured ranges (on a per-range basis) either from the central server or from remote agents.

Anyways, it's rare that I'll advocate for something out of the blue, but I'm almost enjoying moving our horrible excel spreadsheet documentation over to this.

Happy Friday all

Yeah, we've been using it for a year or more. It has a nice API that @stacksofplates helped me dig into to automate DHCP reservations.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/china-linked-hackers-used-pulse-secure-flaw-target-us-defense-industry-2021-04-20/

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just inherited a vSphere 5.5 system running Windows 2012 R2 on several systems! Damn, this was about to be deployed as a new production platform! Everything is 6+ years out of date!

Are you looking at our production system?

It also does a lot to improve airflow. You're no longer shoving all those components in a hot box. I've been looking at doing a custom setup but have heard no so great things about the riser cables for newer graphics cards.