@dmacf10 said in User Profile Discs:

User Profile Disks

Before you start moving things around, I'd try to get some monitoring in place to see where your bottleneck is now. If the server's disks just can't keep up it doesn't matter where things are located with regards to networking.

Given what you've described, it's a reasonable expectation that there might be gains to be made on the network side of things, but don't forget the basics:

• Host firmware updates
• Host BIOS settings (SR-IOV and friends)
• Hypervisor updates
• Networking
  -- Dedicate a NIC to this VM if possible
  -- Look into 10G networking if not already there
  -- Jumbo frames?
  -- SMB optimization (SMB3 / other optimizations)

.... I'm all about eeking the most out of what's already there before throwing something new into the mix...

GLPI + FusionInventory could look after your ticketing and asset management

We're in the process of moving away from OSTicket, it's great for basic stuff but doesn't have much in the way of reporting out of the box.

RMM is sort of on commodo / Itarian... I don't use it much so I can't speak to how well it does or doesn't work.

@valentina said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

I ate 2 boneless bbq wings

Isn't that just marketing chicken fingers to adults? :face_with_stuck-out_tongue:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Find any that stood out from the crowd?

No keep changing my mind on what to use for the prices
But the Dell X1052P look nice at the moment.

Quite Expensive though.

For what it is, that looks very reasonable to me. 48 1gb ports, 369W PoE, and 4 10gb SFP+ ports. But now I'm curious, do you have a favorite?

I'm seeing a lot of HP and Cisco gear around, and most of you know my opinion on Cisco already.

We're pretty much 100% on HP. Lifetime warranty is great.

stir-fried chicken and veggies with rice

https://it.slashdot.org/story/19/04/02/1712248/it-and-security-professionals-think-normal-people-are-just-the-worst

@scottalanmiller said in Server Monitoring:

@notverypunny said in Server Monitoring:

On the monitoring topic, has anyone gotten Zabbix to work reliably without installing an agent?

Why would you try? Having an agent is part of the benefit. Agent means easier to manager, and more reliable.

Was thinking a test deployment might be easier if it's just a matter of setting up a service account and pushing permissions via GPO

Seeing as how we've strayed from the initial monitoring topic, I'll throw my standard vote of GLPI+FusionInventory as a SW alternative. Inventory, deployment, ticketing, financials, reporting.... we don't use most of what it can do since certain people don't find it "pretty" enough, but I've got it pulling inventory for something like 600+ endpoints, a fleet of Xerox MFPs and most of our networking gear. They've added a whole datacenter / server room / Rack management module in the last couple of versions that looks like I might be able to move away from Digital Ocean's Netbox system for our datacenter / switch closet documentation.... anyways, I'll stop evangelising now....

On the monitoring topic, has anyone gotten Zabbix to work reliably without installing an agent? google turns up some results for WMI integration, just wondering how well it works

Our go-to solution for VSS problems is to set up a dedicated snapshot volume. Otherwise we were getting timeouts and M$ does ugly things that don't make sense when VSS doesn't work properly.

Don't want to hijack, but how does Zabbix compare to Nagios?

Here's a pretty good breakdown of business types available here in Canada.

Corporation would be the only one that provides a discrete legal entity for the business, keeping business liability separate from personal.

https://www.thebalancesmb.com/can-you-set-up-a-limited-liability-company-llc-in-canada-2948227

Depending on where you're located, there might be agencies or other resources to help with info and getting a small business off the ground. If you're in the Atlantic Provinces like me theres the CBDC:
http://www.cbdc.ca/en

Going through the results from my recent Nedi install... Network needs a bit more attention than I was expecting...

Is the impetus to change the computers legitimately the OS EOL or are we trying to get a HW lifecycle routine going? If the true concern is actually the OS and they're already OEM licensed, just do as someone else suggested and reformat the existing machines with W10 (I'd change the drives to SSD if they're still mechanical) and you should be good for another decent timeframe.

@JasGot said in Veeeeeeerrrrrryyyyy long paths and filenames:

@DustinB3403 said in Veeeeeeerrrrrryyyyy long paths and filenames:

@notverypunny said in Veeeeeeerrrrrryyyyy long paths and filenames:

Quick fix is to remount the folder to an unused drive letter closer to the target.... so c:\stupid\long\folder\path\file1.txt becomes x:\file1.txt

subst works great for this

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/subst

This, while it works to address the symptom, doesn't fix the plague.

An a plague it is!

You can't fix stupid.... you can only try to maintain your sanity

having another go at getting RANCID setup to backup our networking gear

Quick fix is to remount the folder to an unused drive letter closer to the target.... so c:\stupid\long\folder\path\file1.txt becomes x:\file1.txt

subst works great for this

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/subst

@scottalanmiller said in RMM Ideas for MSP:

@jmoore I have to say, having used NinjaRMM and now testing Itarian, I don't think you'd convince me to pay for the difference. Itarian might not be "as nice", but from a profit standpoint, it's going to do much better.

We had looked at Commodo's suite of products and it all seemed to be FOSS stuff stitched together and rebranded (for example, their ticketing system is just OSTicket with custom branding). If that's the case for the RMM you might be able to roll your own if you can see what's under the covers.

You could do something with GLPI and fusioninventory. There isn't much out of the box, but you can build reporting and dashboards, the patching would require creating the packages and managing the deployment but it would be fully FOSS and should be able to scale as big as you want.

So the laptop is my main driver and runs the 3 displays + it's own.

The lower display to the right is for a workstation that's used for building / maintaining our windows 10 deployment images as well as a GNS3 install that I need to find the time to use to mock-up our WAN / VPN topology.

The fireplace on the arm is a drastically underpowered 20" inspiron all in one touchscreen that had been doing nothing for years so I've taken it, put linux on it and it's just a toy / conversation piece.

EDIT: fireplace has now become an ASCII aquarium

@anthonyh said in GPO Software Deployment Woes:

Just a side note: I can confirm that @Dashrender 's suggestion of creating a CNAME works like a charm. I created a new software deployment GPO and added the source via the CNAME record and deployment was successful.

Glad to see that I was mistaken