What Are You Doing Right Now
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Spent some time re-doing my PRTG network status dashboard. This is on a 70" display in the conference room outside my door. Camera feeds are the server room (aerial pano view, can be flattened), rear server room entrance, basement phone room/demarc (lights off! stay out!), and office entrance. To keep out the riff raff, you know. (We keep it locked and installed a wireless doorbell, try getting IT support now, ha HA!)
The last dashboard I made just had one big sunburst display for all our devices, and it got to the point where the outer spokes were almost illegible. So I broke out the core nodes into individual maps (WAN, LAN, servers, IP cameras)
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@crustachio Nice!
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The neighbourhood dog is here playing with the kids.
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@crustachio said:
@scottalanmiller said:
The neighbourhood dog is here playing with the kids.
Except I think at this point the kids out number the dogs still?
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@crustachio said:
Spent some time re-doing my PRTG network status dashboard. This is on a 70" display in the conference room outside my door. Camera feeds are the server room (aerial pano view, can be flattened), rear server room entrance, basement phone room/demarc (lights off! stay out!), and office entrance. To keep out the riff raff, you know. (We keep it locked and installed a wireless doorbell, try getting IT support now, ha HA!)
The last dashboard I made just had one big sunburst display for all our devices, and it got to the point where the outer spokes were almost illegible. So I broke out the core nodes into individual maps (WAN, LAN, servers, IP cameras)
Gorgeous setup man
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@crustachio said:
Spent some time re-doing my PRTG network status dashboard. This is on a 70" display in the conference room outside my door. Camera feeds are the server room (aerial pano view, can be flattened), rear server room entrance, basement phone room/demarc (lights off! stay out!), and office entrance. To keep out the riff raff, you know. (We keep it locked and installed a wireless doorbell, try getting IT support now, ha HA!)
The last dashboard I made just had one big sunburst display for all our devices, and it got to the point where the outer spokes were almost illegible. So I broke out the core nodes into individual maps (WAN, LAN, servers, IP cameras)
Fantastic.
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@MattSpeller Thank you sir. PRTG is remarkably easy to work with once you get going. It's a great tool, and has proven its worth countless times. We use the dashboards for keeping an eye on things, and it alerts us via Slack and/or Email depending on the particular notification. We could also tie it into PagerDuty if we were insane crazy people.
I particularly like being able to look at historic metrics and averages for things like uptime and bandwidth. I also have some geo maps set up for things like WAN links (remote sites, water/cell towers, etc). The pre-canned sensors are awesome -- they have lots, and can hook right into common things like VMware SOAP, Cisco, and Dell/HP management engines, for example, in addition to the common stuff like SNMP and WMI. The mobile app is great too. All in all it's just a one-stop shop for network monitoring. And my setup is not really scratching the surface of what it can do.
Probably my biggest disappointment with it is that its syslogging functionality is pretty limited. It can receive syslog traffic and you can do basic searching, but it doesn't export or interface with anything else like ElasticSearch that I'm aware of. Kind of a shame since it's 99% there. But then again, what it does, it does really well, so I'm just as happy not to muddy the waters.
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Just had four posts answering peoples' questions on SW because the answers were posted here and you have to pay if the info is on an external site.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Just had four posts answering peoples' questions on SW because the answers were posted here and you have to pay if the info is on an external site.
What!? While this isn't the first incident of obvious pay-to-play with them, it's getting bad.
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@travisdh1 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Just had four posts answering peoples' questions on SW because the answers were posted here and you have to pay if the info is on an external site.
What!? While this isn't the first incident of obvious pay-to-play with them, it's getting bad.
We've gotten it a lot. This was a big batch
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While it is annoying, it's the biggest indicator that they recognize ML as the bigger player and are very scared of people stumbling on the site, so they hide it (and it's solutions) from their users.
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@scottalanmiller said:
While it is annoying, it's the biggest indicator that they recognize ML as the bigger player and are very scared of people stumbling on the site, so they hide it (and it's solutions) from their users.
Well, now I know where some of my disappearing posts got to.
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@travisdh1 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
While it is annoying, it's the biggest indicator that they recognize ML as the bigger player and are very scared of people stumbling on the site, so they hide it (and it's solutions) from their users.
Well, now I know where some of my disappearing posts got to.
No, they notify you when they do it. It's not secret (from the poster.) Or I assume that it always is.
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What's more awesome is that in the old days, if an ML thread got linked from SW we'd see this huge spice in traffic related to it. Now, we had four links or so today and... zero rise in traffic. Whether because ML is so much busier or SW is no longer a traffic driver we don't know, but the message is really clear. SW is no longer able to alter the traffic patterns, we aren't the little site any longer.
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@travisdh1 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
While it is annoying, it's the biggest indicator that they recognize ML as the bigger player and are very scared of people stumbling on the site, so they hide it (and it's solutions) from their users.
Well, now I know where some of my disappearing posts got to.
There has been a rash of posts disappearing... not just on SW.
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@RojoLoco said:
@travisdh1 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
While it is annoying, it's the biggest indicator that they recognize ML as the bigger player and are very scared of people stumbling on the site, so they hide it (and it's solutions) from their users.
Well, now I know where some of my disappearing posts got to.
There has been a rash of posts disappearing... not just on SW.
Now I'm confused.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@RojoLoco said:
@travisdh1 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
While it is annoying, it's the biggest indicator that they recognize ML as the bigger player and are very scared of people stumbling on the site, so they hide it (and it's solutions) from their users.
Well, now I know where some of my disappearing posts got to.
There has been a rash of posts disappearing... not just on SW.
Now I'm confused.
I've had some localized internet latency issues that made me think things were disappearing the past day or two. Dunno what's up with @RojoLoco tho, offend too many people lately?
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