I’ve talked to some of you about this, but I wanted to catch up the rest of the Internet—because they’ve been waiting for me to update my blog so they could have the low-down on my medical particulars, right? Just before Cisco Live I got one of those dreaded summer colds. You know the ones [...]
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Cisco Live in Vegas this year was pretty awesome. I was there to set up and work the booth for Sigma Solutions. The objective changes a little each year, but this time it was to talk about our SolarWinds appliance, STATlight. This beast is loaded with drives, memory, Windows 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 and [...]
The mentoring continues. Here’s the breakdown for each day since I started with the networking training mind meld picking up where we left off Monday in the Launching post. Tuesday We talked a little about IP addressing the day before when we statically assigned a couple addresses to our laptops so we could ping one [...]
Everyone is supposed to get one professional freebie growing up. If your dad was a mechanic, you probably aren’t afraid to swap out your own car battery. Heck, if you really paid attention you may be doing your own brakes in the front driveway. If your mom worked in law, then terms like plaintiff, deposition, [...]
Today I passed the SolarWinds Certified Professional exam. The test was just how the Head Geek described it: mostly NMS configuration/planning with some SolarWinds-specific questions sprinkled throughout. Of course I won’t go into any specifics – I don’t want to ruin the surprise – but I will mention a few things that you really ought [...]
