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Internet Explorer posted:At least you had a spare switch I guess? A lot of times cheaper than having it on a support contract.
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skipdogg posted:AD SME with a large corporation here Good post, I almost completely forgot about AuthN issues but I haven't touched that in years. Personally, I'm angling for a standard or Senior IAM Engineer position with Entra ID. Not sure you if you are anyone works in that world but I think I'm pretty well versed with the platform but goddamn sometimes senior engineers blow my head off with their knowledge of SAML or OIDC but I don't get how they know these things without extensive experience.
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Gucci Loafers posted:Good post, I almost completely forgot about AuthN issues but I haven't touched that in years. So it's like that Farmers' Insurance commercial. "We know a thing or two, because we've seen a thing or two". You just run into weird poo poo over the years, or crazy edge cases, stuff like that you pick up along your career. This is going to sound crazy, but I don't actually manage the data inside our AD environment. Our IAM Teams handle that. We just make sure the domain controllers are healthy, maintained and running properly. It kinda sucks because I'm 3 years removed from dealing with Entra ID, and other Modern Auth stuff that I used to do at my last company. I try to stay up to speed on my own, but being pigeonholed supporting a legacy service like Active Directory probably isn't the best career move and I need to start looking at moving to a full time role in a modern IAM or Auth stack. They keep talking about wanting to move away from AD, but haven't come up with a solution for the thousands of apps we support that use LDAP or Kerberos. Any given minute of the day the pool of LDAP dc's are servicing 8,000 + queries a second. I'll retire in 22 years before we ever get rid of AD. skipdogg fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Apr 13, 2024 |
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Thanks Ants posted:It's cool when people enable things like BPDU guard but don't set a timer for turning the port back on, you end up with a 48 port switch where people assume 30 of the ports are dead. code:
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GreenNight posted:A lot of times cheaper than having it on a support contract. We buy 2960x by the pallet. They're about 300 dollars each lol. MTBF is still higher on 2960x refurbs than it is on cat 9200 or 9300s. Works perfectly fine for random campus access junk that's not super critical, like if i need 20 cameras hooked up, or some random field devices that don't stop primary process. For the critical stuff everything new gets Arista for MSS and VXLAN/BGP evpn. Yes, even at the campus level (manufacturing control systems). Layer 2 is the enemy and VXLAN is the light. Nuclearmonkee fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Apr 15, 2024 |
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guppy posted:Any CLI is confusing if you aren't used to it, but Cisco's is decent and not all that confusing. It gets annoying when they have separate platforms (IOS, IOS-XE, IOS-XR, NX-OS...), which tend to be similar in syntax but different in important ways, and I despise their documentation. But generally it is perfectly fine, and nearly everyone who does networking knows their way around it because it's such a standard. If you haven't looked at it before, Arista EOS is the same on every piece of hardware, super similar to Cisco CLI, and very happily/easily integrates with your IaC management platform of choice. If I connect into a datacenter switch with hundreds of logical ports, the syntax and commands are identical to the 12 port PoE guy we threw into a dirty cabinet. All that's different is the hardware capacity and feature capability, which is limited on lower tier hardware simply due to the lack of cpu/mem or whatever. It's just better.
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Does anyone have recommendations for online CS degrees? I've been back in college a couple months planning on going for MechE because I figured any BS degree would be good enough to get by the HR filter, but being unemployed for 5.5 months now has me anxious about this ever happening again when my living expenses aren't super low and I don't have reliable part-time employment to keep me afloat. I'll probably look into whichever I plan on applying to in order to see what transfer credits work, it seems like some programs want normal math classes and then some want specialized math classes and I am not taking any version of calc 2 again if I pass it this semester. I don't want to do the WGU self-paced thing because once I get a full-time IT position again I'll be back to working 60-ish hours per week and I'm not going to be able to dedicate enough time to school to do full time or more than full time course load, so I'm paying more rather than less. I'm also not looking to become a proper dev, really the biggest things I'd want to get out of it are more SRE stuff, scripting, IAC, config management, CI/CD, but so many job listings specifically say computer science that I want it to either say computer science or something so close to it that a HR drone will think "Oh that's the same thing."
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Probably any in-state school would be fine. Colorado State and University of Colorado both have online computer science degrees. Are you at either one of those already?
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I, uh, might owe CSU roughly $7k from the last time I was there. Long story. I'm also planning on moving out of the state in a couple years so the in-state tuition wouldn't be a thing at that point.
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GreenNight posted:A lot of times cheaper than having it on a support contract. That was literally what we did at my old job, skip the support contract, get two for nearly the same price. If something failed at a remote site, we'd just pull the config for the old device off Oxidized, drop it on the new device, and overnight it out. They failed so rarely that we rarely needed to replace the same model more than once, at least for the switches and routers. Now the ASAs on the other hand we had nothing but problems with. We had a whole generation of them get hit with the clock failure that permeated some of the older models and we had like 5 fail one after the other over the course of two weeks.
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I know why they do it, but it’s still frustrating that vendors won’t let you pay them to get software support on hardware that you bought used. I can understand not wanting to deal with RMAs of bad hardware that might have been mistreated, but I should be able to pick up Arista switches that someone is getting rid of and be able to legitimately access the software images for them, and go to Arista for support. Every vendor that does this will have some mission statement on their website about their commitment to the environment as well.
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As it turns out just randomly replacing a switch with a different model at 5pm on a Friday has resulted in a flurry of tickets 9am Monday. So far it looks like it's DNS because of course it is, but my boss is driving into the office to restart the switches. I offered to do it remotely since I now have the password to do so, but she just ignored my email afaict.
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"What do you mean the VLANs have to match??"
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Thanks Ants posted:"What do you mean the VLANs have to match??" Yuuuuuup. tokin; consider grabbing CatTools to backup switch configs.
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Do NOT bother grabbing CowTools though. It's entirely incomprehensible.
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I was assured on Friday that the switches had "no special configurations set," since how else could we have moved around patch cables? Anyway it's very evident my boss does not know networking, which is adding to an array nearly overflowing already.
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Apr 15, 2024 17:55
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Switch had 48 trunk ports configured and no access ports. Or it was never configured to begin with.
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GreenNight posted:Yuuuuuup. Oxidized was always my go to. It was primarily a web interface, but it integrated into Observium / LibreNMS so you could pull configs in your main observation pane and have it all in one place.
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Apr 15, 2024 18:19
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This is the place where I'm not supposed to have installed an ad blocker, my boss isn't going to approve anything 
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I'm in my 40s and still flabbergasted people like that exist. And have jobs. And authority.
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tokin opposition posted:This is the place where I'm not supposed to have installed an ad blocker, my boss isn't going to approve anything I can give you the commands to do show the running config and you can copy and paste into notepad.
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GreenNight posted:I can give you the commands to do show the running config and you can copy and paste into notepad. This is real G poo poo right here
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tokin opposition posted:This is the place where I'm not supposed to have installed an ad blocker, my boss isn't going to approve anything In my new job I'm fighting my boss to be able to have permission to install Keepass XC. His argument begins and ends with "password managers bad" and completely glosses over the objectively worse reality of everything just being written in sticky notes in folders in his desk. He also blocks my request for mRemoteNG because he doesn't understand why I'd want a management pane for RDP when I've consistently been bouncing between servers all working day. This may very well be the job that fully drives me insane. DeathSandwich fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Apr 15, 2024 |
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Apr 15, 2024 18:39
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But you see the reason productivity is down because you young'uns don't want to come into the office 
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Thanks Ants posted:But you see the reason productivity is down because you young'uns don't want to come into the office Unironically kind of this. My bosses fundamental theory of IT operations and security seems to have calcified around the year 2005 and he has not thought to update or even examine why things probably ought to change. Edit: he blocked my request for RSAT tools and powertoys, even though it's literally Microsoft first party based on the justification of "well I never heard about it". Then hard denys it again when power toys lead to Microsoft's github repro because "nothing good comes from github". DeathSandwich fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Apr 15, 2024 |
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GreenNight posted:I can give you the commands to do show the running config and you can copy and paste into notepad. Thanks for the offer, but at this point I've given up trying to do things right, I'm just here for a paycheck and doing DEI stuff since at least there I don't need permission to do things right
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DeathSandwich posted:Unironically kind of this. My bosses fundamental theory of IT operations and security seems to have calcified around the year 2005 and he has not thought to update or even examine why things probably ought to change. Our bosses may have been separated at birth. My only suggestion is to act your wage and just check out.
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Alright nerds how thick of plywood do you need to mount a 12U rack cabinet to a concrete basement wall
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18mm, space it away from the wall slightly with timber battens. I guess that's 3/4 inch.
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Thanks Ants posted:18mm, space it away from the wall slightly with timber battens. I guess that's 3/4 inch. Appreciate. I already got a buddy with one of those 22 bolt guns.
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Spacing it off the wall is mainly to let air get behind if your basement walls get damp at all rather than rotting the wood. If this area is dry all the time then don't worry about that part.
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Yeah it's pretty dry all the time. It's right next to a whole home dehumidier vent.
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Assuming you're in America, we seem to all be oscillating between so dry everything burns to so wet everything floods. So plan your rack to deal with both. I don't know how much plywood you need to withstand a tornado though. Probably a lot.
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xzzy posted:Assuming you're in America, we seem to all be oscillating between so dry everything burns to so wet everything floods. So plan your rack to deal with both. Midwest, yes. If a tornado takes out my house I'm not worried about my rack. But my plex 
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Thanks Ants posted:But you see the reason productivity is down because you young'uns don't want to come into the office I have a coworker who loves the office. Goes there every day from 8 to 6. Doesn’t mind a 2h single trip commute. Understands that not everyone wants to work at the office but doesn’t understand why they don’t. Always mentions “I overheard x, y and z at the watercooler because I was at the office! Working from there has so many benefits!”. I pointed out that the commute, 5 people next to you constantly having noisy meetings, bad coffee, constant distractions, suboptimal lighting/window shutters and worse screens/chair than I have at home don’t really offset hearing about information that’ll come to me through mail or teams. Also, I can’t take my pets to work, which is probably the best reason to wfh.
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4 hours travelling to do an 8 hour day 
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Thanks Ants posted:4 hours travelling to do an 8 hour day And being happy to do so on top of it. Absolutely bonkers. I only understand it if you’re trying to fasttrack moving up the corporate ladder and/or not having friends, family, hobbies and a social life.
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LochNessMonster posted:I have a coworker who loves the office. Goes there every day from 8 to 6. Doesn’t mind a 2h single trip commute. See, I'm one of those office mutants because I need the work / life separation. If I have to set up to work from home there is no getting away from the stress. It probably doesn't help that I love in a one bedroom and home office means "set up on dining table". If I had a 2br where I could lock the accursed work gear away when it's not in use it wouldn't be as bad probably. I feel like my home apartment is filled with way more distractions in part because of the cat being the cat.
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I don't mind being in an office and I do miss some of it. If I could have the good parts of an office environment and zero commute I'd do it. But there will always be a commute and if I'm not getting paid for that time.. gently caress off. I'm WFH.
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