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RE: Network Monitoring & Config Backup

Posted By Blake Brown 09-03-2024 04:15:58 PM
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SolarWinds shop here. It is on the expensive side of your list but has been extremely helpful for our smaller team to monitor and backup network equipment configs over the last several years. Support has been good and there is a large community of users. NPM + NCM are needed to get the backups. We also ...

RE: Common Area phones for safety/emergency

Posted By Blake Brown 07-25-2024 12:53:05 PM
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Ron, What's been your average install rate for the LiveSafe app on both staff and students? Did you get much pushback about installing on personal devices? Thanks, Blake Brown IT INF/SEC Manager

RE: iSCSI and Jumbo Frames

Posted By Blake Brown 02-22-2024 09:04:00 AM
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Thanks to everyone for the excellent feedback. Based on this group and other feedback we will be sticking with an MTU of 1500 for this setup. ~Blake

iSCSI and Jumbo Frames

Posted By Blake Brown 02-20-2024 06:12:00 PM
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We are turning up a new VMware environment consisting of eight host, two Cisco N9K's and a Pure storage NAS, all in the same data center. The topic of configuring Jumbo frames for our iSCSI connections has come up with mixed recommendations. Anyone successfully or unsuccessfully provisioned Jumbo frames ...

Open Network Engineer Position - Mt. Hood Community College

Posted By Blake Brown 02-12-2024 12:05:00 PM
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Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham, Oregon is looking to fill an open position for a Network Engineer. This person will be the primary engineer responsible for all College network environments. Hybrid work is an option but must live within a reasonable distance of the main campus and be on site several ...

RE: Wired and Wifi network registration and captive portal

Posted By Blake Brown 01-23-2024 02:23:00 PM
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We don't have residential but are investigating PacketFence as our next NAC solution for wired/wireless. Have a call scheduled with them this Thursday to see if its the right fit for our needs. https://www.packetfence.org/about.html Thanks, Blake Brown INF/SEC MGR

RE: HPE to acquire Juniper in buyout deal

Posted By Blake Brown 01-09-2024 08:26:00 AM
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Yikes! We made the switch to Meraki wireless several years back and have been more than satisfied with the product so far. ~Blake

RE: PSA on Flipper Zero and O.MG Cable

Posted By Blake Brown 12-21-2023 02:01:00 PM
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One of our staff wanted to "play" with a Flipper recently and M365 Defender flagged us of the usage (see below). Domain joined, enrolled in Defender. M365 Defender Alert Possible Flipper Zero device was detected by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint xxxx Severity - Informational Category - SuspiciousActivity ...

RE: Streaming Live Events

Posted By Blake Brown 12-08-2023 09:20:00 AM
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Following... We use HUDL for live streaming sports events but have heard request / complaints for streaming other non-sports events with no solid solutions to date. https://www.hudl.com/ Thanks, Blake Brown IT INF/SEC MGR

RE: State of Traffic Shaping

Posted By Blake Brown 12-07-2023 09:57:00 AM
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We retired our Packetshapers when we upgraded to Meraki Wi-Fi several years back and now use the built-in per SSID shaping to manage bandwidth for Wi-Fi users. Lan users do not have shaping applied but we do have COS/QOS built in for prioritizing voice and video. Larger WAN links have provided adequate ...

ASN - Do I really need one?

Posted By Blake Brown 11-29-2023 05:38:00 PM
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Been tossing this one around for a while internally and wanted to post external for some community input. Do we really need to continue to have an ASN and use BGP for a network our size? Currently we have a /23 and /24 from a legacy carrier that we want to return, we are no longer using them for ...

RE: Endpoint segmentation?

Posted By Blake Brown 11-28-2023 02:50:00 PM
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We (MHCC) would be interested in joining a call on this topic as we are just beginning this journey. Thanks, Blake Brown IT INF/SEC MGR

RE: Endpoint segmentation?

Posted By Blake Brown 11-17-2023 08:54:00 AM
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Good morning Mark, If you can share what software/technology are using for access control with your 802.1x deployment? Thanks, Blake Brown INF/SEC MGR

RE: Breached Accounts - Domain Searches

Posted By Blake Brown 11-07-2023 09:21:00 AM
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We have not found an alternative and went with their tier 4 package. Being an EDU you can ask for an education discount (billing@haveibeenpwned.com) which is 75%. Thanks, Blake Brown IT Manager

RE: Cloudflare Free Offerings

Posted By Blake Brown 10-20-2023 09:29:00 AM
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A couple of my collogues and I have used their DDoS / DNS services in past lives with excellent results. The UI is easy to use, and the protections are top notch for a free service. Bonus is that you are not tied to a specific ISP so you can manage your own DNS destiny. We actually just had a sales ...

RE: Company Bios and Directories

Posted By Blake Brown 09-25-2023 01:20:00 PM
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We removed individuals from our public directory several years back and only list departmental contacts on the public website. We got some pushback but were able to navigate through it based on the reasonable concerns for increased phishing to these individuals. Thanks, Blake Brown IT INF/SEC MGR

RE: Windows Hello

Posted By Blake Brown 09-15-2023 09:02:00 AM
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Following. Windows Hello is on our roadmap but we were waiting for our W11 rollout to be more completed before going down this path. Also, we still have quite a few desktops without a camera currently. Thanks, Blake Brown IT INF/SEC MGR Mt. Hood CC

RE: Cloud Calling in 2023?

Posted By Blake Brown 07-18-2023 02:11:00 PM
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Migrated the college away from CUCM in 2016 over to Asterisk/FreePBX, did continue to use the 79xx handsets to this day. Was a good move for the college from a feature/cost perspective and plan to refresh that system in 2023-2024 with the latest version, mobile app and a handset refresh. Looking at Yealink ...

RE: NSC Breach

Posted By Blake Brown 07-12-2023 09:41:00 AM
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Can confirm this about TIAA as we have received several emails from them on this item. Please check with your Plan Admin (HR in our case) to see if they also received the emails. "We are writing to follow up on what we previously shared regarding the MOVEit security vulnerability, which while it ...

RE: Vendor Computers on campuses' network

Posted By Blake Brown 06-21-2023 12:58:00 PM
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If they are a 3rd party vendor, then they are asked to use our Guest of Vendor Wi-Fi networks. Long term Vendors get access to the Vendor SSID along with access to the wired LAN in the same VLAN as the vendor wireless. Currently we do not utilize a NAC on the wired side but it is on our 2024 roadmap. ...