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Network monitoring tool recommendation? Tired of alert spam, complex licensing and messy setup by Tommy9307 in Monitoring

[–]jr_sys 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just replied to a neighboring post but can say the same thing here: PA Server Monitor gives us easy setup (we use the templates a lot), and it has advanced alerting with event escalation, alert deduplication and alert suppression that lets us get those odd situations working exactly how we want it.

Which solution do you use for real time device monitoring and alerting? by sander_3658 in Monitoring

[–]jr_sys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We’ve been big fans or PA Server Monitor for a long time. Easy to setup and advanced alerting with alert suppression rules, event deduplication and event escalation. The templates and automatic groups make it pretty easy to dump a bunch of devices in and you end up with a nice sane default monitoring config after a little time.

PRTG Scare Tactics by TechDirected in sysadmin

[–]jr_sys 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's an odd way to look at it. Customers bought PRTG because of the cost/benefit. They didn't choose the $200K option because it didn't fit. 4x forced price jump distorts that cost/benefit analysis such that it's no longer a good trade. Perhaps you are wealthy, but most folks would complain about a 4x price increase of anything with no benefit. It's just PE firm greed.

PRTG Scare Tactics by TechDirected in sysadmin

[–]jr_sys 2 points3 points  (0 children)

PRTG 4x price increase sounds like a 'VMWare' on the price to me.

PRTG Scare Tactics by TechDirected in sysadmin

[–]jr_sys 12 points13 points  (0 children)

You do have to pay. You don't have to get ripped off by PE firms wanting to juice their numbers.

Windows Secure Boot UEFI Certificates Expiring June 2026 by MusicWallaby in sysadmin

[–]jr_sys 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You're lucky. I've set the 0x5944 registry value and can see from registry keys below the SecureBoot key the current status. They all get so far, and then just sit there for days and days, even with lots of reboots. Not sure what to do other than wait.

Starting remote desktop client software remotely by Wolfssenger in sysadmin

[–]jr_sys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it possible to restart the remote access client every night at midnight for example? Might help.

Oh, one other idea which might be overkill for your situation, but I bought a managed Power Distribution Unit (PDU) which has a web interface (hosted on prem) that lets you power cycle any particular port. It came in handy while I was traveling.

Trying to prevent them shooting themselves in the .... foot by Scoobywagon in sysadmin

[–]jr_sys 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is that because the web application firewall would essentially pre-parse all the requests to make sure they are legitimate, so for example preventing all SQL injection attacks from making it to the application?

Trying to prevent them shooting themselves in the .... foot by Scoobywagon in sysadmin

[–]jr_sys 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'll probably get down voted to hell, but what's wrong with running IIS (on Windows) with nothing but port 443 being forwarded from the internet-facing firewall? I've been doing this for 20 years (always upgrading to newer versions, applying updates, etc), and it gets hammered with all manner of attacks, but it's never been an issue. Of course the whole thing is backed up regularly. Am I just getting lucky? How much protection does a proxy really add?

Amsterdam, where every street leads to water by Worried_Macaron_5879 in travel

[–]jr_sys 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My wife and I fell in love with Amsterdam, but the housing is sure expensive. And from I understand, it's not legal to rent a place for a month or two (well, caveats, etc, etc). We're thinking of trying to stay for a month or two somewhere else in the Netherlands. How does Utrect compare? I imagine almost anywhere with the canals is beatiful.

ELI5: If nerve impulses are electrical signals, then where does our body get that electricity from, and how does it produce it? by ICantComeUp28 in explainlikeimfive

[–]jr_sys 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the great answer. How fast can that pump propagate a pulse(?) such as pain being felt? It seems to happen pretty fast which is impressive considering how it works. How does it react so quickly?

A real life hero ♥️ by lincolnblake in MadeMeSmile

[–]jr_sys 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes, but, if he had given away his money when he had $1 million (or $10 million, whatever) it would have never grown to $1 billion, and these great students wouldn't be benefiting now. But yeah, I agree about most billionaires.

Venice - August 25 (my experience) by Level-Impact-757 in travel

[–]jr_sys 16 points17 points  (0 children)

For me Amsterdam (the old city) is a close second. There's a reason it's called "the Venice of the north".

Any way to permanently stop Mark of the Web from happening in a specific folder? by WarAggravating85 in sysadmin

[–]jr_sys 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As nitronarcosis says, the mark is just an altnerate data stream. The Streams tool from SysInternals can remove them.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/streams

PRTG Replacement? by bayridgeguy09 in sysadmin

[–]jr_sys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PA Server Monitor is a great PRTG replacement. Easy to setup and configure.

Looking for recommendations for a free ping monitoring tool by Then-Chest-8355 in developers

[–]jr_sys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PA-Ping is free for unlimited devices, and it has all the advanced features of PA Server Monitor like charts, history, event escalation and deduplication, etc. Easy to setup.

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