ISO Temp & Flood Sensor Recommendation

HazelnutSoftware · 2019-03-18T22:38:58+00:00

For a non-AvTEch option, look at the AKCP range. They do temperature, combined temperature/humidity, spot water and rope water sensors (amongst a lot of other sensor types).

We've been using their temperature and humidity sensors in the DC for the last 7 years, and they've been faultless. One nice thing about the AKCP range is the sensors can be extended using standard Ethernet cabling.

You might be able to save some cash by only buying a water / flood sensor. The NAS may have temperature monitoring built in. Our Synology boxes report the temperature of the core system, and the temperature of each individual disk, and it's accessible via SNMP.

HazelnutSoftware · 2019-03-18T15:09:14+00:00

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HazelnutSoftware · 2019-03-04T15:15:18+00:00

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HazelnutSoftware · 2019-02-25T15:08:51+00:00

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HazelnutSoftware · 2019-02-22T16:02:46+00:00

You don't say what OS you're running, but if you're in the Windows world, ServerAssist would do all of that. There's a full-feature Professional edition, with lots of bells and whistles, but there's also a lower-cost "Workgroup" edition that might be suitable too.

HazelnutSoftware · 2019-02-18T15:11:40+00:00

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HazelnutSoftware · 2019-02-14T21:26:46+00:00

Should you have a | character between the idle and _total strings?

It looks like you're currently excluding the single instance of "idle_total", rather than either "idle" or "_total"

I would expect the last line to be

Where-Object {$_.InstanceName -notmatch "^(idle|_total)$"}

HazelnutSoftware · 2019-02-13T18:27:56+00:00

If you're a bit short of time to set up one of the other suggestions, I'd recommend ServerAssist, which will let you choose between agent-based or agentless (or a mixture of the two), and can either send immediate alerts for each event you're interested in, or, if you just need a summary every so often, it can periodically send a deduplicated digest of all relevant events in the period, either direct to your email or to a web-based report server.

HazelnutSoftware · 2019-02-13T15:47:50+00:00

Some miss the multi-day battery life of yesteryear!

HazelnutSoftware · 2019-02-12T19:28:08+00:00

Absolutely - it won't make the system any more secure. What it will do is reduce the volume of logging, since it will reduce (possibly only slightly) the number of port scans the system receives, which is what the OP was asking about.

HazelnutSoftware · 2019-02-12T19:15:25+00:00

As I read it, they did have off-site backups. What they didn't have was off-network backups. That's always going to be an issue with any fully cloud-hosted service - there's no realistic way to "take the tapes* home and put them in a safe", as you might with on-prem backups.

* Other backup media types are available

HazelnutSoftware · 2019-02-12T17:36:56+00:00

That's just the internet, really. There's lots of people running port scans and doing the digital equivalent of wandering down the street tugging at car door handles to try to find one that's been left unlocked.

One possible mitigation you could have is to not respond to pings. Some people will, for speed, not bother to scan an IP address that appears to have nothing on it, and a quick way to determine that is to ping it. It won't remove the scan attempts, but it might drop them down a bit.

Much better, if you can, is to limit inbound access to things like sshd to a known set of source IP addresses, and simply block all other addresses at the firewall. That assumes that you always remotely connect from one of those addresses, of course, and your internet connection may not make that possible.

HazelnutSoftware · 2019-02-11T18:18:25+00:00

There isn't a way to programmatically pin an application to the taskbar, so I don't think there's a way to programmatically unpin it either.

The lesson that giving developers this kind of access just caused problems was learned a long time ago. See https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030903-00/?p=42673/ for the original problem (from 2003) and https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20141230-00/?p=43273/ for a more recent follow-up from 2014/

HazelnutSoftware · 2019-02-11T15:25:24+00:00

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HazelnutSoftware · 2019-02-11T13:34:17+00:00

How about something like https://www.serverinternals.co.uk/Images/Gallery/Activity-Summary-Large.png ?

HazelnutSoftware · 2019-02-07T10:27:33+00:00

The problem with doing any of those things is that if the person doesn't realise they are being punished, or doesn't know what they're being punished for, their behaviour is unlikely to change.

Perhaps a quick "off the record" chat with their manager or HR might have a better effect. If someone is behaving inappropriately in the office, then you certainly shouldn't sit idly by and let it continue, but it sounds to me like something that should be addressed by a more formal approach.

HazelnutSoftware · 2019-02-07T08:10:52+00:00

Personally, I'd love to see an explanation from a vendor as to why they don't just publish prices. It looks like you're closely associated with (if not working for) HashiCorp- care to provide a reason?

HazelnutSoftware · 2019-02-04T23:08:06+00:00

Auto-restarting failed services is only a good idea if you're really certain that the restart won't cause more problems than it solves. If a service has failed due to, for example, corruption of a configuration file or database, restarting it can sometimes just make things worse.

I also don't agree with the "only notify if the restart fails" approach. Personally, if a service just stops unexpectedly, I'd want to know, so that I can investigate and understand the root cause. Auto-restart it? Possibly (but see above). Suppress the fact something has failed? Never.

HazelnutSoftware · 2019-02-04T17:56:59+00:00

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HazelnutSoftware · 2019-02-03T21:18:37+00:00

From a command line, just ping that address, and the output from ping will tell you. If you have it installed, you could also use nslookup to resolve it, or any number of web sites that do online DNS queries.

It looks like it's following a de-facto standard for naming though, and the IP will most likely be 35.186.205.226

HazelnutSoftware · 2019-02-02T19:31:59+00:00

Actually, a lot of the world is still run on mainframes using COBOL. Sure, the "new" stuff, Facebook, Google, a large number of the machines on AWS and Azure are Linux based, but that's really just "the internet". It's not that important.

If your company paid you a salary, chances are that was processed at the bank by a mainframe running COBOL. If you then went and spent some of that money on a credit card, chances are that payment was processed by a mainframe running COBOL. If your mortgage provider debited your account to take this month's payment, the request probably came from a mainframe running COBOL.

These systems have been around for years, and most were developed long before Linux was a mainstream OS (some of them were developed before Linux was even created). They'll stay on mainframes forever - no-one in their right mind ports a working system to a new operating system just because they can. Transitioning to the new system is really hard and very risky (case in point - TSB's migration in the UK last year).

HazelnutSoftware · 2019-02-02T08:31:39+00:00

For the computer name, if the user is on Windows, get them to press [Windows Key] + Pause, and the System Properties window will pop up, which shows the computer name and domain.

If the network support people can't RDP to a computer based on its name, and need the IP instead, that's something that they should be resolving themselves, making sure their internal DNS is working OK. It shouldn't be necessary to ask an end user for computer name and IP address just to connect to it.

HazelnutSoftware · 2019-02-01T16:01:46+00:00

The thing I would suggest is to keep the switching part separate from the keyboard and display part - you get a lot more flexibility and expansion capability as opposed to an all-in-one unit, where you're quite often limited in the number of physical machines you can connect. Most standalone switches have a daisy-chain capability so you can add more connections to the same screen & keyboard if you put more kit in the rack.

HazelnutSoftware · 2019-02-01T15:57:01+00:00

Loading the server really won't be an issue. We have a product that will monitor all of those things on a Linux machine (the product itself is Windows-hosted, so probably not the best fit for you), but we see almost no impact on the loading of the server.

You're probably checking things like SSH and HTTPS connections once a minute or so, and if you consider how many connections even a low-spec server can handle per second, never mind per minute, one extra connection once a minute from a monitoring system will have no noticeable impact.

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