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[Sysadmin] Routing to null
Seidkona
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Below is a compilation of links we've found to be helpful for Sys Admins (capitalized because we're important, like a towel):
AntiVirus/AntiMalware Tools:
Networking Tools:
Miscellaneous Tools:
Printer Configuration tools:
Ransomware/Cryptoware information sheet
Stress Relief Tools:
...more to come
last updated 5.25.2017
AntiVirus/AntiMalware Tools:
- Malwarebytes
- Sophos Virus Removal Tool (Sophos product not required; free)
- Online Virus Check Upload a file and it'll check it for you. It also checks URL's which is super handy.
- Trend Micro - Hahahaha. Yeah, just kidding.
Networking Tools:
- Advanced IP Scanner
- Cisco Network Assistant - GUI for Cisco Products
- Royal TS - RDP Management Tool
- Terminals - RDP Management Tool
- Zenmap (Nmap)
- Internet appliance based on a PI to blackhole internet ads on your network.
- User Profile Wizard - used to easily migrate computers from one Domain to another.
- DNS Benchmark
Miscellaneous Tools:
- APC Power Estimator - estimates your power needs based on devices, which you can specify
- Dependency Walker - scans modules and builds a hierarchical dependency tree
- Greenshot -- Screenshot + utilies
- HJSplit -- Split/Join files
- Jing - Screenshot + utilities
- Notepad++ -- Enhanced Notepad (e.g., color coding)
- WinDirStat -- File space analysis
- HTAccess Redirect Generator -- Generate Redirects
- Hostsman Manage Multiple Hosts files from one utility.
- PC Decrapifier inventories all the bloatware (HP/Dell Utilities, etc) on a PC based on user-driven feedback and recommendations and removes them sans-uninstallers. Great for cleaning useless shit off out-of-the-box PCs.
- Recuva undelete software that restores deleted files, as well as files on damaged or freshly formatted drives. Paid corporate licensing but free for personal use wink wink nudge nudge.
- NirSoft has utilities to do nearly anything you want to do from sniffing passwords out of FTP/HTTP/SMTP traffic on your network to editing Outlook NK2 Autocomplete files to retrieving your Windows/Office product key to a nice viewer for BSOD minidump files.
- Screen Connect Free Use this to create a free tech support portal for yourself for personal use.
- VM for learning Puppet
- MobaXterm Super handy terminal program. Has local Cygwin shell and can spin up a lot of servers. Get it.
- Check to see if it's Thursday. It may or may not be.
Printer Configuration tools:
Ransomware/Cryptoware information sheet
Stress Relief Tools:
...more to come
last updated 5.25.2017
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2008 is end of life in December so I hope that instance is completely segregated from the Internet
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
In that case a good alerting system would've caught that. I mean, I don't disagree with your final statement, but each tool has a given purpose.
In the end, my preferred way of doing things would be phoenix servers. :P
We have an alerting system. It alerts on low HD space. Nobody reads the alerts because of alert fatigue.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I love it too. I actually have a section half written for it with recommended plugins.
And a cm tools section too!
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Then quit
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Man, he must have hated you.
https://blog.chef.io/2019/04/02/chef-software-announces-the-enterprise-automation-stack/
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Oh, he was just following this company's culture
Which is to turn on all the emails on everything everywhere
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Got a call today from a project manager, who responded to none of my 'emergency update: guys? a little hand here? [#41/41]' emails but who had lots of opinions about how I could have done things more efficiently
2 days in between fielding related support tickets, exacerbated by things like
-the client's Group Policy is an absolute cluster. "Oh, someone isn't seeing the Admin drive and you fixed a typo in the Downtown Office Admin Drive Map GPO? Yeah, you need to be looking at New Downtown Office Admin Drive Map."
-they're in the middle of (read: abandoned) a massive project to untangle their file shares and re-organize everything such that we don't get a ticket from a user saying they deleted a file on their P: drive, then have to spend ten minutes decyphering which P: drive is being referred to
-their helpdesk guys, who I have routinely bagged on for a number of things, are not the best. One called out sick the day after the infection hit, which had us joking that he caught Crypto Flu
HOWEVER, one of said helpdesk guys wrote a very thoughtful letter to our management team, singing my praises and that of one of my coworkers who has also been primarily tasked with dealing with this, and it almost makes it all worth it.
Oh, you. Of course it's not. Why listen to me and my hysterical warnings when you could save like a couple hundred bucks or so? <breaks another pen>
At my work the culture is that alerts cut tickets instead of sending emails.
It at least forces people to look at them for a second or two.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
They're borrowing money from their future selves. I'm sure it will work out fine.
Easy there, Tiger. Those pens don't grow on trees. That's just going to come out of your server budget.
lets encrypt has taken the headache out of it for our stuff, so that's nice
I am on putting out my third major dire this week and I am just done.
Currently on a weird issue with a cert update breaking API calls and causing them to be intermittent.
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Let's Encrypt is awesome!
Next up: code-signing certs. Though I don't know that they'll help much, since it appears that 1- everyone manages to let their certs get in bad actors' hands, and 2- half the people that do have a c-s cert only sign half their packages.
Of all the fucking things you don't want a beta version of, I'd say that's near the top.
That tells me that the devs don't use the user-facing upgrade function for internal dev.
I actually own the software upgrade subsystem on the thing I work on, and the basics of it are rock-fuckin'-solid because I make everyone use it to do upgrades. I know the workarounds for when shit breaks, but I don't tell people what they are.
I imagine a big game show floor with a Cisco exec spinning a giant wheel of fortune where 1/4 of the 'prizes' are "brick $500 of network equipment"
But this is a solved problem that's been in most software for decades at this point, why is it beta?
So they don't have to shell out for replacement hardware when someone uses it and it breaks.
Fuck this sleep-deprived earth.
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I think that's just for the "newer" organization-wide scheduling UI. The old style scheduling is still on the per-network settings pages if you want to use it.
FFFFFUUUUUUU-This is why I don't miss my old IT position. Shit like this. Nothing will ever raise my blood pressure more than getting a call on my PERSONAL cell phone because the CEO's kid who's interning for the summer called me saturday morning at 7am saying he couldn't attach a powerpoint to an email. And he only got the phone number because I was listed as a backup emergency contact for the on-call rotation. I wasn't even on call that weekend ffs.
Wud yoo laek to lern aboot meatz? Look here!
Had that yesterday. Was working on a remote user's computer and then I couldn't get in. I asked about if they had internet and they swore they did and they never lose internet so I ran them through a bunch of things trying to get on. I gave up and told them to wait until tomorrow for me to fix it. Two hours later I get a call saying their internet did go out.
Or the power being out when they were 100% adamant the computer was up and running.
"Our lights are on."
"Yes, but does the *equipment* have power?"
"Well, our lights are on."