We use Monitis.
Can monitor connections and has agents to monitor thinks like CPU, disk space, etc.
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We use Monitis.
Can monitor connections and has agents to monitor thinks like CPU, disk space, etc.
Can anyone recommend ISP services in Manhattan? We’ve been using a “Business Class” service which is sometimes more like “cable guy” class.
Thanks,
Pete Morrissey
We use a Visualware product called: MyConnection Server. If someone has complaints, we send them a link to the speedtest, and they can send us the results. We also use it ourselves after an install. It is a pretty cheap annual cost. It is a nice way to quickly get some objective results beyond: “the network is slow.”
Pete Morrissey
Hey everyone,
We’re opening discussions in our network group on whether we should be using local accounts or AD/LDAP/RADIUS to access the management consoles of our network gear. I see pros and cons of both.
Opinions?
-Brian
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Brian Helman, M.Ed
| Director, ITS/Networking Services |
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978.542.7272
Salem State University, 352 Lafayette St., Salem Massachusetts 01970
GPS: 42.502129, -70.894779
We are reviewing the use of the Xunlei download manager, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xunlei, on our campus network. The current question is, is this being used for legitimate purposes or another way of illegally sharing copyrighted material. I would be interested to know what others have found about its use and what steps, if any, have been taken.
Thank you
Bruce Entwistle
Network Manager
University of Redlands
(OK, hijack alert)
. We’ve been thinking about using the network drop label/port alias to help with e911 when we move to VoIP. (Very likely Lync). Is there a way using say LLDP-MED to communicate that to the phone, which can communicate its location to a server. It would also assume that you have a good database of where all of your network drops are located, and I...
We are replacing the wireless in one of our buildings and I was wondering what POE-Edge switches should I buy. I am going to have about 180 APs in the building. We are a Cisco shop but I am open to buying another brand.
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Nicholas Urrea
UC Hastings College of the Law
Network and Systems Engineer
Information Technology
e: urrean@uchastings.edu
ext: 4718
helpdesk:
e: helpdesk@uchastings.edu
ph: 415-581-8802
I was wondering if anyone had used any of the ManageEngine products and what your experience has been with them. They look compelling on paper, but then don’t they all. J
Pete Morrissey
Director of Networking
Syracuse University
We are beginning a project to upgrade our core and distribution layers on campus. So items that are looking at is the ability to dual home buildings to the distribution layer.
Our current environment is cisco cat6509s for the core layer 3 and cat6509s for the distribution layer that homes the building.
One item we currently use is each distribution router/switch has a cisco firewall service module that we use in transparent mode to create 'zones' for staff, student, services, infrastructure devices, etc. Endpoints are placed on the network in the appropriate zone using Clean Access server.
The challenge we are looking at is how we would utilize something like Cisco Nexus in the distribution layer that would allow us to dual home buildings with the vPC feature, but this leaves us with the FW layer that does not fit...
We’re testing Cayuse in a small setting right now, and are seeing some odd issues due to our firewall NAT timeout (users having to log back in within seconds due to the public IP on the NAT has changed). Our border is the SRX 5800 (HA-cluster), and we’ve had little success in altering the “inactivity-timeout” so far. If anyone else has seen similar issues, then please contact me off-list. Thanks! If your university uses Cayuse, I’d like to talk about any challenges you had.
Danny Eaton
Office - 713-348-5233
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Results shared this Friday. Approaching the 170 respondent mark.
-Lee
Lee H. Badman
Network Architect/Wireless TME
Information Technology and Services (ITS)
Syracuse University
315 443-3003
Anyone have some tips on multicast streaming with an NCAST to the WAN? Multicasting beyond locally is beyond my expertise.
I have a brand new PR702R that I have streaming fine to those on my subnet, but need to be able to allow viewing from the other WAN connected CCV centers. Any assistance is appreciated.
-Charlie
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Charles Bombard
Assistant Chief Technology Officer
Community College of Vermont
1 Abenaki Way
Winooski, VT 05404
802.654.0665
Chris Mielke
NETWORK ENGINEER 3
COMPUTER...
Hello list members,
We recently upgraded our Internet bandwidth to 500 Mbps and were hard pressed to test it to see if the Internet Service Provider actually provided us with that amount of bandwidth. The traditional web-based test sites (ie. speedtest.net) typically top out at 100Mbps.
Does anyone have a different test available or a more reliable way to test your bandwidth? We would like to make sure we actually are getting that amount without having to wait for our usage graphs to show us.
Thanks,
Brad
Bradley A. Kauffman
Systems Administrator
IT Services
Albright College
...We are looking to provide multiple 10 Gig connections to some of our buildings. Can any end users recommend a building switch that provides two 10 Gig connections as well as at least one gigabit connection along with the usual PoE gig copper ports.
Thanks,
Pete M.
We have been getting complaints of youtube intermittent performance issues. We’ve eliminated local problems. Someone discovered that a lot of the streaming was coming from a server in Taiwan. It looks like youtube determines the preferred server as I can see in Wireshark the server being queried by the client via DNS. We have registered a complaint and I’m sure Google will be all over it shortly. J
Has anyone else dealt with this. My impression is that youtube just isn’t always reliable for lots of reasons at home or here.
Faculty use it during class and seem to be surprised when it doesn’t perform well. It is a shame though, because there is a lot of great content.
Pete M.
Sorry for the cross posting. Normally try to avoid it. I posted on Security and there wasn’t much of a response. So I thought I might try here.
Anyone have any experience and willing to chat via email or phone? I can summarize if there is any interest.
I’d love to know how long you’ve used them, bandwidth and population sizes, how you are utilizing the box, what protections you have active, if you are using Application based rules, etc. Good things, not so good things.
Thanks.
Chris
Chris Davis
CIS Security Manager
The Principia
Wondering if anyone in the groups is using large scale NAT (say 50K private IPs translating to X public IPs) with any sort of appliance kind of thing? I know you can NAT directly from certain routers but curious about other options.
-Lee Badman
Lee H. Badman
Wireless/Network Engineer
Information Technology and Services
Adjunct Instructor, iSchool
Syracuse University
315 443-3003
Hi,
We are a Cisco shop and must stay that….
We have some limited funds to upgrade some of our edge network switches in our student residence halls. We currently have Cisco 2950’s fed by 1G links. Our main campus uses, and is suggesting, Cisco 3750X switches. Because of cost and a somewhat unclear understanding of the need for these, we are looking more towards the Cisco 2960S as a lead switch into the closet. We are looking to convert from 1G to 10G into the stack.
Any input would be appreciated.
Bill
We have a somewhat potentially exotic challenge to try to solve. Will anyone admit to having tried this sort of low-cost solution in a production networking role, leveraging only voice grade cable?
http://www.netsys.com.tw/products/vdsl2/nv600l.htm
Regards,
We use Monitis.
Can monitor connections and has agents to monitor thinks like CPU, disk space, etc.
Hey everyone,
We’re opening discussions in our network group on whether we should be using local accounts or AD/LDAP/RADIUS to access the management consoles of our network gear. I see pros and cons of both.
Opinions?
-Brian
____________________________________
Brian Helman, M.Ed
| Director, ITS/Networking Services |
(:
978.542.7272
Salem State University, 352 Lafayette St., Salem Massachusetts 01970
GPS: 42.502129, -70.894779
We are replacing the wireless in one of our buildings and I was wondering what POE-Edge switches should I buy. I am going to have about 180 APs in the building. We are a Cisco shop but I am open to buying another brand.
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Nicholas Urrea
UC Hastings College of the Law
Network and Systems Engineer
Information Technology
e: urrean@uchastings.edu
ext: 4718
helpdesk:
e: helpdesk@uchastings.edu
ph: 415-581-8802
All,
We’ve had a strange report from our Athletics division. The report is the Daktronics wireless scoreboards and shot-clocks freeze, but eventually reconnect and catch-up. This building just went through an extensive renovation where the previous system was used, but only the scoreboards were wireless, and not the shot-clocks. The Daktronics control console the official uses seems only to broadcast the signal one-way with no board or shot-clock return acknowledgements.
We’ve gone down with a R&S FSH323, and found the 2.4 is bursting at the seams. We had disabled the 2.4Ghz frecency on our campus Aruba system throughout the building, and although the clocks didn’t freeze as much, they still continue to freeze and loose time.
Daktronics...