[NTSysADM] WAY OT! FrankenRAID

2015-02-23 Thread Richard McClary
Situation 1 - service program expired Situation 2 - disk failure Question - can a disk from a decommissioned RAID appliance (NetApp FAS-2050) be used as a spare on an identical unit? We have two identical NetApp FAS-2050 appliances (2 controllers in each). We decommissioned one of them in

[NTSysADM] Synology CloudStation vs Commercial filesharing

2015-02-23 Thread J- P
Hi all, We are deploying a synology with 12tb or storage and we were wondering if anyone has opted to use the Cloudstation in lieu of commercial services, and how it stacks up? I personally do not use ANY cloud services (call me paranoid) but thats just me. This article which is a year old

[NTSysADM] MS CA

2015-02-23 Thread Daniel Chenault
I've been looking and while I've found these fields referred to I've yet to find a description of them and their values. In the Microsoft CA interface (I'm on 2003 but it's the same in 2012) there are two columns: Request Flags and Request Type. The majority of the first is 4 with some showing

RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Chrome Policies for whitelist/blacklist

2015-02-23 Thread Mayo, Bill
I know and understand that whitelisting applications is the most secure approach, but that's not really under my purview and I don't think there would be much support for it. I also understand that PDF's can be malicious, but I am also not going to get any support for blocking PDFs. If I

Re: [NTSysADM] OT: QoS for voice on home network

2015-02-23 Thread Andrew S. Baker
To add to what Ben has said, a typical VoIP call on my network averages about 16-20kbps. I've had VoIP since 2004, using 2 different providers, and I've been able to control the quality with QoS on my end almost that whole period. I did have a couple of ISP related issues which undermine call

RE: [NTSysADM] Troubleshooting HTTPS slow traffic. Dell iDRAC

2015-02-23 Thread Edward Berner
Maybe something DNS related? A DNS resolution timeout would be consistent with a 10-20 second delay. Edward -- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of elsalvoz Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 1:58 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com

Re: [NTSysADM] OT: QoS for voice on home network

2015-02-23 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Have you ever tested your line with pingtest.net? -- Espi On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote: OT here, but thought I'd ask anyway. I've got cable modem at home, 25 down/ 2 up. Also have MagicJack for VoIP. I've always had issues with

[NTSysADM] OT: QoS for voice on home network

2015-02-23 Thread Christopher Bodnar
OT here, but thought I'd ask anyway. I've got cable modem at home, 25 down/ 2 up. Also have MagicJack for VoIP. I've always had issues with voice quality on the other end of the voice call, not just with MagicJack but other VoIP providers as well, and I know it's due to the low upload speeds

Re: [NTSysADM] OT: Way OT but maybe someone has a trick

2015-02-23 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 11:27 PM, Jon Harris jk.har...@live.com wrote: At this point I will lose nothing by breaking it open. It is a sealed plastic unit so opening it is not going to be fun ... That is why God gave man Dremel. ;-) Once you've got it open, you can look at drilling holes

Re: [NTSysADM] OT: QoS for voice on home network

2015-02-23 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote: I’ve got cable modem at home, 25 down/ 2 up. Also have MagicJack for VoIP. I’ve always had issues with voice quality on the other end of the voice call, not just with MagicJack but other VoIP providers as

[NTSysADM] RE: Chrome Policies for whitelist/blacklist

2015-02-23 Thread Aakash Shah
Just a thought: if the goal is to prevent malicious software from running via Chrome, perhaps implementing application whitelisting in Windows may avoid the need to block running items from Chrome? This will allow things like PDFs to run, and will still prevent malicious software from running.

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Chrome Policies for whitelist/blacklist

2015-02-23 Thread Kurt Buff
PDFs *are* malicious software, containing, among other things, javascript and other nastiness embedded in them. Kurt On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Aakash Shah aakash.s...@uci.edu wrote: Just a thought: if the goal is to prevent malicious software from running via Chrome, perhaps

[NTSysADM] Chrome Policies for whitelist/blacklist

2015-02-23 Thread Mayo, Bill
Based on guidelines from the NSA, I setup a set of policies for Chrome that we deploy through GP. One of those policies blocks Chrome from opening files on the local drive. The problem we have encountered is that sometimes when people click a PDF on a web site, it downloads to the computer

RE: [NTSysADM] Troubleshooting HTTPS slow traffic. Dell iDRAC

2015-02-23 Thread elsalvoz
That's a great suggestions. This is a new environment I started working at and there is certainly DNS issues here. I will look into that path as well. Cesar On Feb 23, 2015 1:37 PM, Edward Berner bern...@yosemite.edu wrote: Maybe something DNS related? A DNS resolution timeout would be

RE: [NTSysADM] Troubleshooting HTTPS slow traffic. Dell iDRAC

2015-02-23 Thread elsalvoz
Thinking it over it can't be DNS, I'm using IP addresses in the URL address and still slow. Great suggestion though. Cesar On Feb 23, 2015 2:44 PM, elsalvoz elsal...@gmail.com wrote: That's a great suggestions. This is a new environment I started working at and there is certainly DNS issues

RE: [NTSysADM] OT: Way OT but maybe someone has a trick

2015-02-23 Thread Freddy Grande
To me 100 degrees Fahrenheit is cool in computer terms. Desktop video cards regularly run at 100 degrees Celsius under stress and this is considered normal operating conditions. My desktop RAID card also had a safe operating temp rage between 55 and 100 degrees Celsius. Having said that, many

RE: [NTSysADM] Troubleshooting HTTPS slow traffic. Dell iDRAC

2015-02-23 Thread J- P
apologies, havent read every thread, but have you done a netmon trace ?, that's where I start when when there are signs of network problems Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Troubleshooting HTTPS slow traffic. Dell iDRAC From: elsal...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 18:50:21 -0800 To:

Re: [NTSysADM] Troubleshooting HTTPS slow traffic. Dell iDRAC

2015-02-23 Thread Daniel Chenault
There are two kinds of network guys; the ones who listen carefully and just go fix it (hey! It just started working!) and the ones who want you to prove it's their baby that's ugly. Which do you have there? On Feb 23, 2015, at 18:51, CESAR.ABREG0 elsal...@gmail.com wrote: Got ya. Yes,

Re: [NTSysADM] Troubleshooting HTTPS slow traffic. Dell iDRAC

2015-02-23 Thread Daniel Chenault
I know,what tracert is; I used way too few words to ask the OP if he had done a tracert. On Feb 23, 2015, at 18:22, CESAR.ABREG0 elsal...@gmail.com wrote: My mistake I meant to write 'tracer or trace route' Cesar A. Meaning is NOT in words, but inside people! Dr. Myles Munroe. On Feb

Re: [NTSysADM] Troubleshooting HTTPS slow traffic. Dell iDRAC

2015-02-23 Thread CESAR.ABREG0
Got ya. Yes, I've done trace route and there is no delays on it or ICMP returns. This also sent me to theorize on firewall/proxy some how grabbing the request and delaying it. I just don't want to stand in front of the network security guys and just say 'I think your firewall rules are

Re: [NTSysADM] Troubleshooting HTTPS slow traffic. Dell iDRAC

2015-02-23 Thread Daniel Chenault
Tracert? On Feb 23, 2015, at 15:14, Edward Berner bern...@yosemite.edu wrote: In theory it could still be the other end doing a reverse lookup, but I don't know whether DRACs do that, especially for the web interface. Or maybe something in the middle. I think you mentioned a proxy and a

Re: [NTSysADM] Troubleshooting HTTPS slow traffic. Dell iDRAC

2015-02-23 Thread CESAR.ABREG0
LOL! That's a good one and have worked with both kinds in the past so I just try doing my due diligence a head of time. To be honest I don't know yet, just started working in this environment a couple of months back so have not had a chance to work with them yet, this will be an introduction.

RE: [NTSysADM] Troubleshooting HTTPS slow traffic. Dell iDRAC

2015-02-23 Thread J- P
We believe is related to firewall or proxy since we have no problem opening the same URL/IP from a server on a different network. It opens instantly. Are there any other webpages/services on that netowrk (where the drac is) that you can test ? Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Troubleshooting

RE: [NTSysADM] Troubleshooting HTTPS slow traffic. Dell iDRAC

2015-02-23 Thread Ken Schaefer
Wireshark/Netmon are basically the same thing. You can either post the Wireshark log if you're not confident of interpreting it yourself or use a browser-based tool like Fiddler to see if there's anything it can tell you. -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com

RE: [NTSysADM] Troubleshooting HTTPS slow traffic. Dell iDRAC

2015-02-23 Thread Ken Schaefer
Tcp.port==443, or you can just use: ssl to filter for ssl/tls traffic From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of CESAR.ABREG0 Sent: Tuesday, 24 February 2015 3:00 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Troubleshooting HTTPS slow

Re: [NTSysADM] Troubleshooting HTTPS slow traffic. Dell iDRAC

2015-02-23 Thread CESAR.ABREG0
My mistake I meant to write 'tracer or trace route' Cesar A. Meaning is NOT in words, but inside people! Dr. Myles Munroe. On Feb 23, 2015, at 6:04 PM, Daniel Chenault dani...@hotmail.com wrote: Tracert? On Feb 23, 2015, at 15:14, Edward Berner bern...@yosemite.edu wrote: In theory it

RE: [NTSysADM] Troubleshooting HTTPS slow traffic. Dell iDRAC

2015-02-23 Thread Edward Berner
In theory it could still be the other end doing a reverse lookup, but I don't know whether DRACs do that, especially for the web interface. Or maybe something in the middle. I think you mentioned a proxy and a firewall? In theory either of those could be doing DNS lookups, although I suspect