Anybody familiar with what needs to be done for an SAP license server that changes IPs? DNS was updated but something is wrong with it still.

I would suggest replacing one first and making sure you like them before replacing them all. Ubuiquti makes cheap/decent stuff usually but they have done several duds too.

@RamblingBiped said:

This doesn't have a DVD drive, but it does have a whole lot of goodies for the price:

Dell Latitude e7440

http://www.ebay.com/itm/262153396868?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&var=560919744695&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

we have about 500 of the e7440 and e7450's in service. they all have quality control issues. We are working to get dell to refund them before legal gets involved.

Couple things..

You need to make sure the you have lines setup as a branch office for that side.

Second is you need a call pattern and failover 911 lines besides the PRI incase the MPLS is down. With Cisco this is all done with SRST and Route patterns.

@Breffni-Potter said:

Is the outbound dialing number the same for both sites? Or can you have different numbers outbound?

Different numbers should have different addresses for emergency services.

e.g if they dial out from Georgia they have a Georgia number. If they dial out from Cali, they use the main office number.

They don't need to be all different if you have a 911 mask.

@gjacobse said:

Opinion:

Is a Dell PE 2950, full memory and 1TB drives worth $300?

You can find Dell PE 2950's and Dell PE 1950's free all the time. They are scrap now days.

Have you checked with anyone local? I've gotten about 10-20 of the PE2950s and PE1950s free within the last three years. I usually just give them away to college kids for labs because I don't really need them but I see them free all the time. Usually with 16GB of ram and 4x 73GB SAS.

If they have 1TB they are most certainly SATA, enterprise Hitachi drives if they are original.

@johnhooks said:

Oh wow. I didn't know places would give these away like that. I'll have to look into this

That's how most of these are for sell these days. A company gives away the server to a recycler so they don't have to pay to dispose of it. Recycler either sells direct to customers or sells to an IT refurbisher. Many places don't care who gets them as long as they don't have to pay for disposal.

@scottalanmiller said:

All of this is moot anyway, no EMR vendor is going to consider providing access directly to their raw data. Never going to happen. Ever. So completely out of the question there really isn't a point in discussing it outside of a theoretical "wouldn't it be nice?" Getting API access might be unlikely, but it is a distinct possibility and a feature that better vendors would want to provide as a feature.

Even on site a lot of programs shouldn't give direct access. Wouldn't that be a violation access controls and audit. We have many programs which install the DB and we never get the encrypted SQL passwords for them.

@LAH3385 said:

So I am NOT a network guru.. and this does not make sense to me at all.
When I try to ping a workstation I received <1ms average.
When I try to ping a switch I received <1ms to =6ms. average at 2-3ms
When I try to ping our phone system I received =1ms to =5ms. average at 3-4ms.

What does this mean?

Pretty normal your phone system likely processing sip traffic and causes the slight delay for pings. It may even be setup to proiritize traffic so pings can handle less preferentially than its SIP traffic.

@Dashrender said:

1. license enough for all current users of the old system to use VDI/RDS from their machines - that's about 60

Huh? RDS is per concurrent users. not per "user"

Also it does not have to be yearly either.

@aaronstuder said:

@Dashrender We are a global company. 192.168.104.X is already used by another location.

Doesn't sound like much of a global company to me if they are overlapping subnets. Seems pretty careless. Bad idea incase something does need to talk, and also one routing BGP advertisement mistake away from causing a lot of issues.

And let's not get started on NAT translation for it, that's a bad idea too

We're looking for an off the shelf entry level one we can buy. with around 24TB usable. Most of the data is not actively used anymore just needs to be there still for research purposes. The this was a setup we got when we bought out another company and have been renting the SAN. We just need to buy another so we can have our techs replace it and vMotion to it. It's not worth our time to fix the setup at this point.

@Dashrender said:

@johnhooks said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

The without an investment is not true. There is user training, finding comparable apps and deploying OS and said apps. Those things aren't free.

True, they are relatively free, however. Keeping Windows up to date has the same costs over time. This is a common myth that people point to to keep people from moving off of Windows. But if you watch the real world, Linux can, in some cases, actually lower the cost there. It's not uncommon for the pain of moving to Linux to be lower than the pain of updating Windows. And no matter how much someone avoids updating Windows, it has to happen at some point. And all that "cost" of the Linux move bites you regardless.

And, in fact, the more that rolling updates are avoided on windows, the more costly and painful that becomes as the changes are not small, they are disruptive.

I would like to bet that the savings in licensing and maintenance will allow places to purchase real cross platform software solutions.

Maybe - but what seems more likely is the need to have one written. Not just finding an off the shelf product already ready to go.

An example. I have a client that is a distributor for HVAC systems. They have a quoting tool that only works on Windows. This tool has all of the information needed to make quotes for the things they sell. To the best of the clients knowledge, there is no other tool like it. So if they wanted to move to Linux, they would either have to use RDS or VDI to provide access to that tool, or they would have to have a custom application written for them.

Most of our vertical applications are written in house (which has allowed us to update quicker than many others as we don't rely on vendors to keep them updated) but, from what I've been told from developers it's pretty easy to change the code to get it to work natievely in linux.

most phone systems have addons for call centers, meant for reporting, recording etc.

Stupid question,

How do you configure the message waiting indicator configuration for the remote location's routers to push to the phones? I haven't found anything clear on it.

@Dashrender said:

@Breffni-Potter said:

@DustinB3403 said:

Or do you mean the individual plug inserts that you use to keep children from sticking metal objects into the outlet?

In the UK those are fun.

The top PIN opens the lower 2 pins, now the live electrics are exposed. Meaning that they can electrocute themselves. Where as without the 3 pin plastic cover, they are safer.

Wow, those plugs have to be expensive!

A standard 15 amp outlet in the US cost around $0.60 in a hardware store.

The crappy ones you shouldn't buy. The $1 ones are the ones that are decent usually, and you can get TR ones around that too.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Leviton-15-Amp-Tamper-Resistant-Duplex-Outlet-White-10-Pack-M22-T5320-WMP/100684043

Dell DPack

@brianlittlejohn said:

They also use colored ones to identify isolated ground circuits too.

yeah cause no one wants a nice shock from different in ground potentials.. well some people like getting shocked but not me.