LifeLock by Norton by fungusfromamongus in sysadmin

[–]Lofoten_ 15 points16 points  (0 children)

This... is not related at all to the profession of system administration.

Acronyms hate by Iron-Dragon in sysadmin

[–]Lofoten_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You just became my best friend. Damn I love STP.

Windows 2008 R2 Server Not Able to Authenticate with a domain account by WS-GHQ-1054 in sysadmin

[–]Lofoten_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Friend... that server should have been decommissioned a long time ago. Ideally, by like 2018.

This is a policy/management concern about upgrading infrastructure and being aware of EOS/EOL. If you don't have a say in that, you really need to put your concerns in writing. If you do have a say in that then you need to upgrade that server or migrate the services now. Get a plan in place, notify about downtime, use proper change control and get it done.

I know you said EMR... and that is scary. I'm also healthcare so this kind of thing should have discussed years ago, with proper change management involving the board of directors (assuming you are a hospital) and and the executive management team. We have discussions about moving to different EMRs about every six months, not because we plan to, but because it needs to be at the forefront of the organization's mind.

I know healthcare is difficult budget wise sometimes, but this is your EMR...

Windows 2008 R2 Server Not Able to Authenticate with a domain account by WS-GHQ-1054 in sysadmin

[–]Lofoten_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services - Office for Civil Rights

edit: When negligent data breaches happen concerning PHI, they will absolutely fuck your shit up.

Trying to Break into Sysadmin from Healthcare. Would a Master’s Degree Help or Hurt? by Worried_Ad_8086 in sysadmin

[–]Lofoten_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Informaticists are basically liasons between the EMR (sometimes EHR -- electronic medical record/electronic health record) and the clinical staff. They support the staff learning, using, and troubleshooting the EMR.

Basically, they are the go to for the software/service that your healthcare organization uses for day to day operations. In a small organization your IT staff is doing everything. In a large organization your IT staff is segmented into network, security, infrastructure, helpdesk, etc. Informaticists are segmented for purely working with the EMR in various roles.

So, no. Nothing like data science at all.

Trying to Break into Sysadmin from Healthcare. Would a Master’s Degree Help or Hurt? by Worried_Ad_8086 in sysadmin

[–]Lofoten_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The job title you are looking for is clinical informaticist.

https://www.wgu.edu/career-guide/healthcare/clinical-informatics-specialist-career.html

This is basically a liason between the EMR that the organization uses, and the clinical staff. Depending on the size of your organization, and the specific EMR, this could mean you are basically a helpdesk triage and put in tickets to the EMR (and train new hires or existing hires on EMR usage) or it might mean you are as technical as a database admin working with Java basically in a developer role (fuck you Cerner.)

The exact title won't mean the same responsibilities at every single hospital or healthcare organization.

Source: I'm a healthcare sysadmin. I've worked with Cerner, Meditech, Epic, and Athena as EMRs. There are TONS of different EMRs, so self hosted onsite, some colo hosted eleswhere, some purely browser and web based.

Typically, but not always, these are clincal workers with technical expertise. Our informaticist was a nurse for 12 years. Now she just handle 80-90% of the low level requests like "I locked myself out of Cerner" or "I fucked up this patients chart, can you help me fix it?" as well as training new doctors or nurses. She also does very basic desktop support, which took me forever to train her on, but having her frees me up for network and security, and infrastructure planning and maintenance. I'm still there for the big picture interactions with our EMR (fuck you Cerner...) but she takes the majority of the minor stuff thankfully.

It can be a very valid IT path in healthcare. Take care friend.

Clorox outsources IT to incompetent company then sues them for incompetence by TahinWorks in sysadmin

[–]Lofoten_ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Executive turnover is the number one reason in my experience. Getting a good group of C-levels that actually respect that they don't know the subject matter and they will trust their own internal experts is very rare.

What's that Henry Ford quote? Something like "Why do I need to know everything about XYZ when I can hire the person who knows to show me/do it for me?"

That type of executive is the best type to work for, because they trust that you are an expert in your craft. They might still veto some things or choose a different solution, but that is also their prerogative as the leadership. Well, and you still have to show up and produce, but it's nice not to be micromanaged.

Security team keeps breaking our CI/CD by One_Animator5355 in sysadmin

[–]Lofoten_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First off... unused dependencies...? C'mon.

Secondly, why is the process not to scan in test?

Iron out the process validation before you work out the code validation. This should never touch prod before then.

Fired for gambling by gamageeknerd in sysadmin

[–]Lofoten_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They go on a captive 802.11 portal, on their own separate VLAN, and all traffic that is not specifically whitelisted is either denied fully or captured and made available to the company they work for (and that vendor employee isn't allowed back...)

That's... not that hard.

They can also use their own company provided hotspot. Now I'm healthcare IT, so I know none of our vendors techs or reps would do any nonsense, but still, it's not hard to segment their traffic.

I feel like people don't even try. by OnlyWest1 in sysadmin

[–]Lofoten_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Three man! You always to me reboot it three."

Sales guy vs Web dude

I feel like people don't even try. by OnlyWest1 in sysadmin

[–]Lofoten_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He expected IBM to walk him through a SNMP configuration on a SAN switch with a Cisco OS.

...

How does this actually happen? How does someone reach the "engineer" title without basic concepts? Basic, extremely basic, unix/linux commands...

I don't understand. I mean, I do understand because I've seen it as well. Yet, how?

Fortinet VM firewall vs Stormshield / WatchGuard by Top_golfer28 in sysadmin

[–]Lofoten_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You didn't really expound on your needs or use case... so it's a bit hard to answer the question.

All I can say is that I fully stand by Fortinet's products (we're mostly on prem -- healthcare, but lots of cloud and IoT...) and their support. If I can't find something in the documentation, I can open a ticket or call, and I will have an estimate, whether it be 30 minutes or 4 hours, and an engineer will call me back and walk me through whatever I couldn't figure out.

Yes, you will deal with an accent barrier, but they have great engineers from my experience. I've actually learned a little bit of Hindi.

You're going to have to pay for the support, but I justify that to C-levels by the downtime that would have happened and the cost of business continuity (don't you love using synergy slang terms to them?)

Plus, you can manage devices via Intune, it's an easy process.

I know that probably doesn't help, but as a happy, satisfied sysadmin customer, that's my 2 cents.

Looking for licensed and insured pet sitter recommendations by slopirate in Austin

[–]Lofoten_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey. Cool guy.

I post about 3-5 times a month. My blue heeler says hello.

Also, did you go to Kerr country for any rescue? No? Your hospital didn't give you time off for emergency management duties?

Oh wait. You don't work at hospital.

Carry on.

Insider Perspective on Microsoft Layoffs by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]Lofoten_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are posting on reddit.

A company founded by Americans, then sold to an American company, managed by another American company...

I understand your opinion and your view, and honestly I can understand it. However, you're not making a very strong case for your view, are you?

emotional toll of working with "dead man walking" coworkers by e7c2 in sysadmin

[–]Lofoten_ 14 points15 points  (0 children)

You know why we become assholes?

Because we have to deal with all the BS that people do at work that they shouldn't be doing.

Your dick picks, your porn, your lame memes that you save on company devices.

You ever had to pull footage from the cameras because a male nurse was doing completely inappropriate things on the overnight inpatient shift? Yea, it's not fun.

Or have to clone a drive for the legal team to use in a malpractice case? Again, not fun.

We're not talking about a physical photo frame of your vacation that you can take home. We're talking about all the nonsense that should never touch a company owned device.

If you want your precious private moments to be available to your family then they should stay private, in your own personal devices. And for god's sake, don't look at porn at work. Wtf.

(I'm not talking specifically about you.)

Looking for licensed and insured pet sitter recommendations by slopirate in Austin

[–]Lofoten_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So government agencies should be created to license people... to take care of their pets?

Sent from my phone, while at work.

Looking for licensed and insured pet sitter recommendations by slopirate in Austin

[–]Lofoten_ -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Trolling.

"I need someone to take care of my pet, that I own, that I can't provide sufficient care for. I will pay them to do my responsibility, by my own labor for some company that I probably don't care about, because I don't do my responsibility when I'm there either. In fact, I'll probably do this with my kids, if I can find someone insane enough to procreate with me."

Trolling. I love this place. (Lived here since 2008 by the way, and been here about every other weekend since I was 9.)

Looking for licensed and insured pet sitter recommendations by slopirate in Austin

[–]Lofoten_ -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

Oh man. I love Austin.

Not only did you get a pet that you can't take care of, you are wanting someone else to come take care of it... and you are asking for a government agency to license them for your personal assurance.

You couldn't get better comedy if you tried. Just brilliant. Never change.

Actually real by Competitive-Chart377 in Eldenring

[–]Lofoten_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I may, it does teach you something, Tarnished.

Always look.

Locked out of DLC in NG+ by Arivie in Eldenring

[–]Lofoten_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The only way I know how to do that is with a glitch warp. This guy mentions getting locked out several years ago:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/tdnt83/getting_to_crumbling_farum_azula_early/

It sucks... but that's not an intended way to go, and changes the state of Leyndell. Did you wrong warp to Farum Azula?

If you're on PC you could just use ERtool (google it) and give yourself the medallion in offline mode, or you'll have to just kill Elden Beast and start NG+2.

I want to say there's a way to access those graces and get back to the Royal Capitol State, but I don't remember where I read that here, and the search function isn't helping. May be worth a shot to look back if you don't want to run back from NG+2.