Re: [WISPA] Systems Management - Process

2010-11-10 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
customer or take an old one out via the old system. We're hoping to get that under 15 minutes with Freeside. marlon - Original Message - From: Mark Nash To: WISPA General List Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 1:34 PM Subject: [WISPA] Systems Management - Process

Re: [WISPA] Systems Management - Process

2010-11-08 Thread Scott Lambert
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 09:15:42PM -0400, Tom DeReggi wrote: This automagically happens when your script to automagically update Nagios removes accounts which are marked as inactive. Be careful with that idea. Automating that almost killed us. The reason is that sometimes you may want to

[WISPA] Systems Management - Process

2010-11-05 Thread Mark Nash
This is lengthy, but worth discussion, I think... I just had a long meeting with our general manager about Systems Management (monitoring, documenting, updating, etc) Let me explain... We ALL have systems to 1. monitor our network 2. document our systems (IP addresses, equipment type, etc) 3.

Re: [WISPA] Systems Management - Process

2010-11-05 Thread Josh Luthman
I can tell you how I solved these problems but it might start a big thread again... The key is to force the documentation, activity (monitoring, cpe function) and billing in sync. I've not seen multiple applications stay together by human hand. Maybe it would work if someone's entire job was

Re: [WISPA] Systems Management - Process

2010-11-05 Thread Mark Nash
- From: Josh Luthman To: WISPA General List Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 2:45 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Systems Management - Process I can tell you how I solved these problems but it might start a big thread again... The key is to force the documentation, activity (monitoring, cpe

Re: [WISPA] Systems Management - Process

2010-11-05 Thread Robert West
Plates are a better choice, I found. From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 5:46 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Systems Management - Process I can tell you how I solved

Re: [WISPA] Systems Management - Process

2010-11-05 Thread Mark Nash
: [WISPA] Systems Management - Process My old system of writing it all on the back my business cards and discarded Burger King napkins found on the floor of the van worked for awhile but quickly failed. Napkins sometimes got used for other purposes after they had the information on them so I

Re: [WISPA] Systems Management - Process

2010-11-05 Thread Mark Nash
being out of sync with our billing at least, then it was mainly monitoring and keeping track of IP addresses equipment types. - Original Message - From: Josh Luthman To: WISPA General List Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 2:45 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Systems Management - Process

Re: [WISPA] Systems Management - Process

2010-11-05 Thread Scott Lambert
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 02:34:01PM -0700, Mark Nash wrote: This is lengthy, but worth discussion, I think... Unless there is a good process in place to ensure that these systems get updated when components on our networks are added/removed/replaced/changed. That place is the billing

Re: [WISPA] Systems Management - Process

2010-11-05 Thread Cameron Crum
This is why we wrote wispmon. Handles virtually all this in a single platform. Cameron On Friday, November 5, 2010, Scott Lambert lamb...@lambertfam.org wrote: On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 02:34:01PM -0700, Mark Nash wrote: This is lengthy, but worth discussion, I think... Unless there is a good

Re: [WISPA] Systems Management - Process

2010-11-05 Thread Tom DeReggi
, November 05, 2010 8:22 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Systems Management - Process This is why we wrote wispmon. Handles virtually all this in a single platform. Cameron On Friday, November 5, 2010, Scott Lambert lamb...@lambertfam.org wrote: On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 02:34:01PM -0700, Mark Nash wrote

Re: [WISPA] Systems Management - Process

2010-11-05 Thread Blake Covarrubias
Scott hit the nail on the head with a number points so I will not rehash them, but I do agree you should integrate most of that info with your billing system (PowerCode, if I'm not mistaken). We've written scripts to integrate our billing system, Platypus, with all of the back-end systems used

Re: [WISPA] Systems Management - Process

2010-11-05 Thread Wilson H
billing at least, then it was mainly monitoring and keeping track of IP addresses equipment types. - Original Message - From: Josh Luthman To: WISPA General List Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 2:45 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Systems Management - Process I can tell you how I solved

Re: [WISPA] Systems Management - Process

2010-11-05 Thread Wilson H
Luthman To: WISPA General List Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 2:45 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Systems Management - Process I can tell you how I solved these problems but it might start a big thread again... The key is to force the documentation, activity (monitoring, cpe function) and billing

Re: [WISPA] Systems Management - Process

2010-11-05 Thread Robert West
Sadly. I agree! J I think most of us were there in the beginning! From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Mark Nash Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 5:54 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Systems Management - Process

Re: [WISPA] Systems Management - Process

2010-11-05 Thread Robert West
to be elsewhere. -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Scott Lambert Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 8:06 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Systems Management - Process On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 02:34:01PM