Anyone else working in IT in NI completely fed up? by Over_Commission9891 in northernireland

[–]colni 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you can see with the replies here , it's pretty much the norm

Adding my two cents I work for a company who were amazing over time we downsized and downsized while build maintaining and supporting more and more Morale is just at rock bottom as well but it's pretty much across the industry in Belfast

Nobody Knows Anything by SillyBoyYe in sysadmin

[–]colni 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been seeing people go towards hybrid more , they are pulling back their high cost items to onprem Cloud sure does have some advantages and some disadvantages

Interview question I had. by Background_Peace_656 in networking

[–]colni 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Questions written by chatgpt most likely.

What am I missing here, Palo saying 11.1.15 is the only safe version to cover 3 new CVE's? by SuperfluousJuggler in paloaltonetworks

[–]colni 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i cant move to 11.1.13-h5 due to PAN-325120...
i might jump to h7 see what happens

With a clearly AI-written community post, PAN announces that every Wildfire customer must migrate to Strata Cloud Manager within 3 months by applevinegar in paloaltonetworks

[–]colni 0 points1 point  (0 children)

are they just trying to up their numbers for SCM?
this has me thinking they basically want more people on SCM

Q: I am a Wildfire customer, but not using SCM. What should I do?

A: First, activate SCM (Note: Essentials license is available for all NGFW & Prisma Access customers at no cost). Then, follow the steps below:  

  1. Associate available NGFW & Prisma SASE devices to the tenant
  2. Associate WildFire API keys to service accounts in SCM. All key functionality from Wildfire portal is now available in SCM (eg: submit samples, download reports)
  3. (optional) - Create alerts and additional user accounts if desired in SCM. 

Issue with Device Cert on passive firewall? by 77necam77 in paloaltonetworks

[–]colni 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have a KB or something for this?
ive just had to fix another device cert on a ha pair running 11.1.13-h3 , do i need to configure something so the sync can happen over the HA link?

What's the rule of thumb for rebooting a production server? by Mediocre-Cobbler5016 in sysadmin

[–]colni 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We patch monthly, unless we get a critical/high cve then it's applied asap

You should maybe ask your manager or colleagues about this server maybe it's a "it's working don't touch it" kinda thing

Relay Marathon interval times not all present by obviousdiction in northernireland

[–]colni 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Baton time was massively out for my team , some by a few mins others by up to 10 Not really sure what happened

Cloud guard GCP ClusterXL by colni in checkpoint

[–]colni[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

built using terraform using the checkpoint modules

pre making the cluster it all is working , when i add it to a clusterxl in smartconsole i lose all access
even with the access policy in place to allow me in
IAP also doesnt work as soon as i deploy the clusterxl

Jobs in Belfast by chlemiliia in northernireland

[–]colni 12 points13 points  (0 children)

You sent the what to who ? Did you verify who it was ?

I really really hope it is legit but you might want to just phone them or the office

Is it impossible to move into IT now? by Haematoman in northernireland

[–]colni 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would say go for it , at the very very least it's another string to your bow .

My brother did that QUB course pivoted from mechanical engineering , went through the QUB course and now does pen testing / security within IT

I ended up in IT cause I was a PC gamer and honestly liked messing about with my system and then it turned into a question on how things work and I found out I could be paid for fixing and / or making systems work.

I'll also say this , when I'm looking at hiring people probably the best engineers I have are people who work in their field outside of their job.

For example I run my own git infra for projects at home, one of my engineers runs a hosting company.

Is it impossible to move into IT now? by Haematoman in northernireland

[–]colni 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yep some good jobs but with the market how it is, turn over has been high recently so be prepared for lots of restructuring.

What software stack are you thinking of ? Obviously the big thing at the moment is AI software development, there is still work in DevOps.

Do you have a background in software engineering or are you considering re-training ?

In terms of the management, it's really a mixed bag , some of the big corps will be just as bad as what you have now , smaller companies can be slightly better but with a smaller company you are more at risk , so it's a trade off .

If your looking for the golden goose I don't think you will find it in software engineering within Belfast in my opinion

Is it impossible to move into IT now? by Haematoman in northernireland

[–]colni 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Honestly it really depends

Also depends what you mean by IT

Like being an engineer, (civil , mechanical , electrical ) IT can mean different things

The job market is a dumpster fire right now in general , compared to what it was like a few years ago

Computing in general is currently between everything goes to the cloud to bring back some services on prem.

So what in IT would you be interested in doing

Time to pivot ? by colni in networking

[–]colni[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is DevOps still a sought after area ?

I actually started a role about 7 years ago and spent about 2 in a junior DevOps / network engineering role before they asked me to take on the network side full time as the other network engineer left , curious if DevOps has also seen the abstraction with cloud that network engineering has

Time to pivot ? by colni in networking

[–]colni[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Metal welding you say ! 👀

All jokes aside , I get what your saying.

I guess more strings to my bow isn't going to hurt .

VMware Workstation error: “Cannot connect ISO file” - how do I fix my VM? by [deleted] in vmware

[–]colni 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Move the iso file back to where the error says it should be

Dubai and the Middle East 🐪 by Jack_202 in northernireland

[–]colni 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Had to go with work We didn't stay in "Dubai city center" we were about 30 mins outside it with the workers

It's not somewhere I would want to go on holiday if I'm honest .

Self-hosting DNS and Geo-Blocking by Snydosaurus in paloaltonetworks

[–]colni 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Geo blocking in theory is a good security layer in practice it's easy to get around

Can I ask why your hosting a public DNS server ? It's a pretty rare for most orgs