@scottalanmiller said in Distro Selection for OSSEC:
Running 6.7 isn't a very secure way to go about things. That means that they are not patching... like more or less the most basic thing you do in security!!
Well, I think they just aren't patching the pre-built OVA. They have later releases of the OSSEC server version from what I saw. And if I were deploying it, I would just install the bits on my own Linux server rather than use the OVA.
I never saw in the thread referenced here what folks chose as their distro for running OSSEC. We're considering using it, but it looks like the virtual appliance they have is version 2.8.3 (updated in 2015 sometime) and runs CentOS 6.7. What distro do you / would you use to run OSSEC if you were deploying it today?
Here's the link to the downloads page if anyone wants to read more on the various install packages available - https://ossec.github.io/downloads.html.
@jmoore said in Fighting the Afternoon Energy Dip:
If you are healthy otherwise and don't have sleep apnea then its just lack of exercise. Walking doesn't cut it. Do some squats or pushups for 10 min and you will be fully energized and muscles primed for some heavy-duty powershell scripting lol.
In most cases if your eating right and healthy its being too sedentary in the day. The longer commute could certainly be the difference and it happens as we get older regardless so do more light exercise to combat it.
I could always use more Powershell in my life. Thanks! Are you recommending just do this at some point in the day (i.e. morning before work) or specifically when I have the energy dips?
@dafyre said in Fighting the Afternoon Energy Dip:
B12 after a meal is probably good. Or after a mid-morning snack.
Water and walking will usually help me as well.
I drink water like a fish all day long but could definitely use more movement. I'm on one of the higher floors of a building and have been going either up or down a flight for restroom breaks during the day.
@hobbit666 said in Fighting the Afternoon Energy Dip:
Do you have lunch in the office at your desk?
I've found just popping down to get a drink or snack from the shops meaning I've got out and stretched my legs sometimes has helped.
I make sure to not eat lunch at my desk. We have a break room here in the office that I'll take my lunch into and eat. But it's not a long walk at all.
@penguinwrangler said in Fighting the Afternoon Energy Dip:
You might need a sleep study done. You might not be getting enough quality sleep. I have sleep Apnea I believe @scottalanmiller has it really bad like I do as well. My heart is enlarged because of it. The doctor told me that without my CPAP, if I sleep 8 hours, I am working the equivalent rest of someone with no sleep problems would feel like after maybe 2 hours of crappy sleep. If I wear my mask I will usually wake up right before my alarm feeling refreshed. Without it, I could sleep much longer, possibly with the fishes. So it isn't something to dismiss.
So before you had this done, you weren't waking up multiple times per night or anything like that and felt like you were fully asleep the entire time?
@minion-queen said in Fighting the Afternoon Energy Dip:
I have started taking B12 mid day and then some green tea. That has done the trick for me.
I've been taking some B12 in the mornings. Maybe I need to change when I take it.
In the last year, I'm noticing an extreme dip in energy after lunch. It does not seem to matter how much sleep I get. Between 1 and 3 PM I am going to get super sleepy (whether weekend or weekday). I haven't changed anything in my diet surrounding lunch or breakfast that in my mind would have an effect on this. I am getting to the point where I'm almost mentally impaired for a little while unless I drink more coffee or get up and walk around for a while.
I don't remember this happening until I took a job with a much longer commute this past December. I'm thinking of going back to the Body for Life way of eating where you have 5 - 6 smaller meals throughout the day to see if that would help. I will willingly admit I don't exercise as much as I should.
Do any of you have this issue? What do you do to combat it? Am I just getting old?
@storageninja said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@travisdh1 said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@scottalanmiller said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@jmoore said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@tim_g said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
If one were to search those types of jobs on indeed for example,
It could just be me but I am thinking the jobs on Indeed are on the verge of fraudulent. There are so many in the tech fields that seem unrealistic. Again it could just be me and when I was looking, but there were many IT jobs that wanted at least 5 years experience in a networking, system admins, sql expert and so on with 5 years experience in each category.
Each job was different but it was some combination of skills that just seemed unrealistic such as jobs with 15 years experince in both Linux and Windows admins. When I would try to contact about these jobs to see if they would entertain a person with less experience I could never get in touch with anyone, ever. I'll never use Indeed again because I think many or most of those IT jobs are just fraudulent but maybe thats just my experience.
Remember that I said 85% of job listings anywhere are fake .... and that was back when people had to pay to post them!
Do you know of any good headhunters accepting new people? Some of us could really use good help.
We don’t use headhunters at our company and everything is posted on our jobs site. (VMware.jobs)
I’ve posted my referral link before for gigs. Something like 2/3 of our hires come internal references.General advise is:
Get to know employees of the company you want to work for. I was referred by the chief technologist in the BU. That likely went a ways towards making sure I got a call back.
I wrote some blogs that he liked, and met him at a conference. Go to conferences.
We hire all over the place for Field SEs. We have to staff weird regions or accounts (Like Kansas City) all the time.
We hire for PSO all the time. Be willing to fly anywhere and travel 80% and you can get a job.
I was wondering why no one mentioned Pre-Sales or Technical Marketing until now. And there's also Product Management too, but I'm not sure if many sysadmins can make that leap.
This year was the first time I was able to attend VMworld US, and it was an amazing experience. Just before the conference, I was contacted by someone at Spiceworks and asked to write a few articles about what it’s like to attend. Since there were several articles, I wanted to list all of them here. It was a blast writing each of these, and I hope sharing my experiences will provide some value to the community as a whole. The last article in the list is more general and contains some recommendations for any tech conference.
Read the full post with information about VMworld, VMUG UserCon, and Spiceworld here - http://blog.thenetworknerd.com/2017/09/24/conf-heartbeat-vmworld-vmugusercon-spiceworld/
@mike-davis said in site to site VPN only works with Keep Alive:
It's really odd. I had a continuous ping going as I was changing settings. At some point I checked the box and all the sudden I started getting replies. I kept checking and unchecking boxes until I found that that was the thing that was doing it. As soon as I turn it off, the connection drops, even though there should be a continuous ping going across the connection.
Man, this sounds really odd like the issue I had with a Cisco ASA and a Meraki device, especially the part about the tunnel dropping. I know it's not the same scenario here, but this one peaked my curiosity and gave me a touch of deja vu.
I wonder if Sonicwall Support can explain it?
@dustinb3403 said in Enterprise 15K SAS drives vs consumer grade SSD in a Dell server?:
It is extremely ill advised to run Hyper-V from a USB or SD-Card.
It's not officially supported and prone to failure.
Oh really? Oops. Ignore that then. Too much time running VMware I guess....
@dave247 said in Enterprise 15K SAS drives vs consumer grade SSD in a Dell server?:
@networknerd said in Enterprise 15K SAS drives vs consumer grade SSD in a Dell server?:
@dave247 said in Enterprise 15K SAS drives vs consumer grade SSD in a Dell server?:
@networknerd said in Enterprise 15K SAS drives vs consumer grade SSD in a Dell server?:
Spend the $15 to get a USB drive to be the install target for Hyper-V, and then boot the server from that USB drive each time. Like others have said, keep the SSD to give yourself some fast storage to play with and not to run a hypervisor.
If you're only playing with a single SSD you could even leverage it and use the free version of Starwind to accelerate the VMs running on the spinning disk datastore (I think). Someone else may want to verify this specific point.
I do have plenty of extra USB drives. I was considering that also but I don't know if I want a USB drive sticking out of the back of my server.
You can get a really slim USB stick online for cheap.
https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Cruzer-Low-Profile-Drive-SDCZ33-008G-B35/dp/B005FYNSUA/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1506622655&sr=8-3&keywords=small+usb+driveoh man.. yes, that would be a lot better. Maybe I will just install Hyper-v on my current USB just for S&G. I've never installed Hyper-v before so I don't mind having to do it again on a different, smaller USB later..
It never hurts to practice so you have the install down cold. 
That way if this is used in production at some point (I mean Hyper-V and not your lab gear), you will be ready for a complete re-install if absolutely needed in a DR scenario.
@dave247 said in Enterprise 15K SAS drives vs consumer grade SSD in a Dell server?:
@networknerd said in Enterprise 15K SAS drives vs consumer grade SSD in a Dell server?:
Spend the $15 to get a USB drive to be the install target for Hyper-V, and then boot the server from that USB drive each time. Like others have said, keep the SSD to give yourself some fast storage to play with and not to run a hypervisor.
If you're only playing with a single SSD you could even leverage it and use the free version of Starwind to accelerate the VMs running on the spinning disk datastore (I think). Someone else may want to verify this specific point.
I do have plenty of extra USB drives. I was considering that also but I don't know if I want a USB drive sticking out of the back of my server.
You can get a really slim USB stick online for cheap.
https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Cruzer-Low-Profile-Drive-SDCZ33-008G-B35/dp/B005FYNSUA/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1506622655&sr=8-3&keywords=small+usb+drive
Did you say what size the SAS drives are (2.5" or 3.5")? I missed it if so. I'm curious if the SSDs will fit in the Dell drive cage chassis properly if they are 2.5" and the SAS disks you have are 3.5".
Spend the $15 to get a USB drive to be the install target for Hyper-V, and then boot the server from that USB drive each time. Like others have said, keep the SSD to give yourself some fast storage to play with and not to run a hypervisor.
If you're only playing with a single SSD you could even leverage it and use the free version of Starwind to accelerate the VMs running on the spinning disk datastore (I think). Someone else may want to verify this specific point.
@rojoloco said in KnowBe4 E-mail Exposure Check:
They POUNCE on anyone using their free services.
And they pounce quickly (probably within a couple of hours of you using one of their free tools). Even when I used the EEC tool mentioned here, I received a follow up from our Customer Success Manager within an hour.
@dbeato said in KnowBe4 E-mail Exposure Check:
@networknerd I am a Knowbe4 customer
Same here - we just signed with them not too long ago. After you mentioned you used the tool, I decided to go ahead and check it out. There are a ton of invalid addresses on the list but also some that are valid. It's time to dig into the data a bit further.
@dbeato said in KnowBe4 E-mail Exposure Check:
@networknerd Yes, it works well. I get monthly emails of exposures with the emails of our company posted online so we can remove them.
Are you also KnowBe4 customers or just using this free tool?
Has anyone out there used the e-mail exposure check tool from KnowBe4?