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RE: Network device configuration backup

Posted By John Rodkey 02-22-2024 04:38:48 PM
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+1 for RANCID John RodkeyDirector of Servers and NetworksWestmont College Verification: Email from IT to email lists are listed at https://www.westmont.edu/it/emails

RE: ID Card process ownership and management

Posted By John Rodkey 03-15-2023 08:47:44 PM
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I'd love to see a survey that asks not only what your current practice is, but what you think the most desirable practice would be.At Westmont, IT takes ID card pictures, prints ID cards, provides proxim card numbers to the dining facilities, and programs the physical access (door) policy database.Faculty ...

RE: Network Monitoring Tools

Posted By John Rodkey 02-13-2023 12:24:04 PM
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Westmont uses RANCID as well, and zabbix for monitoring. John RodkeyDirector of Servers and NetworksWestmont College Verification: Email from IT to email lists are listed at https://www.westmont.edu/it/emails

RE: MacBook Not Able to Connect

Posted By John Rodkey 01-13-2023 01:41:31 PM
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We have experienced behavior similar to this since Extreme Network version 10.5r2 was released. We are able to have the certificate pop up when near an AP on 10.4r

RE: Keyless Locks in Residence Halls?

Posted By John Rodkey 11-28-2022 02:06:59 PM
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Westmont installed Salto XS4 wireless locks on doors in a dorm we constructed in 2017.Our experience is mixed at best. While we saved on the wiring cost to the door, we found that students were constantly losing their ID card that unlocked the door. Their solution was to tape the latch open. When the ...

RE: Anyone just said "screw 802.1X" for Wi-Fi?

Posted By John Rodkey 09-30-2022 02:29:20 PM
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We have used 802.1x on wireless to apply separate VLANs based on constituent type, and use that information to allow/disallow access to local server resources. This reduces the surface area for exposure to attack for these servers.That said, many people who don't need to access these local servers tend ...

RE: Favorite DHCP Solutions

Posted By John Rodkey 08-29-2022 01:19:52 PM
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I agree with Wil about ISC DHCP, and add that mirroring the syslog entries on Graylog makes them easily searchable for those not conversant with Linux, and reduces the need for administrative logins for your linux box. Our server has been remarkably stable - up 793 consecutive days, only a few reports ...

RE: EMF from wifi danger complaints

Posted By John Rodkey 08-25-2022 02:53:00 PM
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Well, that certainly gets marks for creativity. We had a student who was convinced that the AP in the hallway of his dorm was affecting his health (about 15 feet from his bed). We kept having reports of poor WiFi in the dorm rooms surrounding his, and eventually looking at the logs for the AP, found ...

RE: Student Versus Faculty/ Staff Accounts

Posted By John Rodkey 05-26-2022 11:28:12 AM
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At Westmont,A. In the dim dark past we used to distinguish between faculty and non-faculty accounts by having faculty email be last name only and student be the first N unique initial letters of the first name plus the last name (e.g. jrodkey, jorodkey, johrodkey, johnrodkey) and appending a sequential ...

RE: Wireless vlan design? Do you use 1 master vlan or vlan pools?

Posted By John Rodkey 02-11-2022 04:41:41 PM
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We have a single vlan pool for our access points, and assign different vlans to our clients based on the SSID they attach to and based on their affiliation to the college.So each of our SSIDs ( Visitor, IoT, etc ) have their own vlan,When attaching to the SSID backed with RADIUS authentication, we know ...

RE: Graphing Network Stats

Posted By John Rodkey 01-21-2022 02:59:22 PM
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We've in the past used prtg, cacti, solarwinds, and logicmonitor.Currently using zabbix, with an interface to grafana if needed for public consumption.Solarwinds was probably too complicated a solution for our environment, in retrospect.Logicmonitor was nice but our budget wasn't working with it. Zabbix ...

RE: Internal comms systems

Posted By John Rodkey 10-19-2021 09:04:53 AM
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The first observation I would make is that communication comes in various flavors, and email might not serve you best for what you're describing. Slack or equivalent gives much more immediate for operational communications between employees within departments, and could be used for cross-departmental ...