What would be a typical Network Admin Best Practice Cheatsheet...Anyone?
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Other than the unexpected, I'm curious to know if there is anyone out there that has a Network Admin flowchart or some routine that they swear by on a daily. Like some sort of checklist.
Insight on network monitoring tools would be nice as well.Allow me to be there first to say Merry Covid Free Christmas to all!!!!!
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Zabbix is quite possible the best "cheatsheet" you could ask for
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@DustinB3403 said in What would be a typical Network Admin Best Practice Cheatsheet...Anyone?:
Zabbix is quite possible the best "cheatsheet" you could ask for
@DustinB3403 Thank you Dustin. Is this free?
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@MrWright4hire free and open source
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@DustinB3403 I see their training classes are in Euros. Thank you for sharing this info Dustin. Much appreciated.
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Training, I can't say for certain but you can learn a lot about zabbix from their community.
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@DustinB3403 said in What would be a typical Network Admin Best Practice Cheatsheet...Anyone?:
Zabbix is quite possible the best "cheatsheet" you could ask for
OMG, I've been doing Zabbix work all evening, too!
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@MrWright4hire said in What would be a typical Network Admin Best Practice Cheatsheet...Anyone?:
@DustinB3403 said in What would be a typical Network Admin Best Practice Cheatsheet...Anyone?:
Zabbix is quite possible the best "cheatsheet" you could ask for
@DustinB3403 Thank you Dustin. Is this free?
It is, and it is excellent. @MC_Bol is a full time Zabbix admin and master and does some wonders with it.
I just did a Zabbix 5.0 to 5.2 upgrade like twenty minutes ago!
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Spun up a Zabbix 5.2 server on Monday and am in the process of moving our NagiosXI monitoring over. Losing our grandfathered pricing combined with something going sideways with the XI to core interface (can't create or update objects, can delete just fine) means that nagios is "buh-bye".
To reinforce @DustinB3403's point, I don't know how much training might be needed. The documentation is decent from what I've seen and google has been able to point me in the right direction for anything else.
Cheers!
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@MrWright4hire
Thank you all for your feedback on Zabbix monitoring software. However, I'm looking for an actually daily checklist that one may have developed or came across to do daily checks for Network Admins.Do anyone know or have such a checklist?
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@MrWright4hire said in What would be a typical Network Admin Best Practice Cheatsheet...Anyone?:
@MrWright4hire
Thank you all for your feedback on Zabbix monitoring software. However, I'm looking for an actually daily checklist that one may have developed or came across to do daily checks for Network Admins.Do anyone know or have such a checklist?
- Make coffee
- Check email/discord/slack/whatever for alerts - you do have alerts from app/services sent somewhere, do you?
- Verify backups
- Look at performance graphs
- Comb through logs
- Take a nap until phone rings
- Go home
Something like above?
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@scottalanmiller said in What would be a typical Network Admin Best Practice Cheatsheet...Anyone?:
@MC_Bol is a full time Zabbix admin and master and does some wonders with it.
Guide please? Nothing has been done with Zabbix on ML for a few years now.
Install may be easy, but that doesn't mean anything.
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@marcinozga said in What would be a typical Network Admin Best Practice Cheatsheet...Anyone?:
@MrWright4hire said in What would be a typical Network Admin Best Practice Cheatsheet...Anyone?:
@MrWright4hire
Thank you all for your feedback on Zabbix monitoring software. However, I'm looking for an actually daily checklist that one may have developed or came across to do daily checks for Network Admins.Do anyone know or have such a checklist?
- Make coffee
- Check email/discord/slack/whatever for alerts - you do have alerts from app/services sent somewhere, do you?
- Verify backups
- Look at performance graphs
- Comb through logs
- Take a nap until phone rings
- Go home
Something like above?
Pretty much this.
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@MrWright4hire said in What would be a typical Network Admin Best Practice Cheatsheet...Anyone?:
@MrWright4hire
Thank you all for your feedback on Zabbix monitoring software. However, I'm looking for an actually daily checklist that one may have developed or came across to do daily checks for Network Admins.Do anyone know or have such a checklist?
I do not. I find most positions like this (DBA, Net Admin, Systems, etc.) have very few, if any, universal tasks.
