Mike Courtney
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I was kind of meh after season one of WoT... I started watching Season 2 last week and now I'm through Season 3... holy shit did they start cooking near the end of S2! Season 3 was a complete banger. LFG for a Season 4! #RenewWOT Ha, buying the books on Audible now
To continue from Wednesday. We double checked the VMWare functionality and found that VMotions were not working. There is nothing worse than moving all of the physical connections in a data center and having to move it back. 20/100 #SiliconPrairie #Networking #NetworkingIsCool
The design of Labs 5-7 brought back a memory of a time when I completely failed, but had the trust of management to push forward. This is a story in two parts. 19/100 #SiliconPrairie #Networking #NetworkingIsCool
Update on Prairie Park Elementary Assaults (+ How to Help) It will be SEVENTY NINE days since the first report of EIGHT children raped at Prairie Park Elementary School. Here are some other numbers:
I was telling this story the other day, and I figured it would also make a good post. The gist is "your corporate network is not your lab." #SiliconPrairie #Containerlab #Networking #NetworkingIsCool 19/100
I want to talk about what happened at a sprint review at Ramen Inc. a few months back, as it is one of the things that I like most about the company. We have development sprints where we discuss the product, the roadmap, direction - all of the pieces of a growing technology company.
Lab 4 is the culmination of the past two labs. We can now migrate workflows from our legacy network to our new network with minimal downtime. The goals of this lab are the following: 17/100 #SiliconPrairie #USNUA #Containerlab #Networking #NetworkingIsCool
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This is the repo used for the KC NUG Keynote Project - chronot1995/Engineer2Architect
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In my last post, 15, I discussed the consolidation of the SSIDs and how only half of the students were using the secure network. How did I force the students at my University to move to the secure SSID? 16/100 #SiliconPrairie #Networking #NetworkingIsCool
As part of our summer of consolidation, we also added a new secure and guest SSID without a special character. This is not something you can do on the fly, as it does require some planning. Here's how we went about doing it: 15/100 #SiliconPrairie #Networking #NetworkingIsCool
In post 8 I talked about the need to consolidate three different WiFi systems on campus. I wanted to dig a little bit more in the methodology around that. Often in Higher Ed there is only one time to make large-scale changes and that is when 14/100 #SiliconPrairie #Networking #NetworkingIsCool
In lab 3, you will build upon the dynamic routing in lab 2 and expand this to the edge. The goals of this lab are the following: 1. Enable BGP on campus-edge-01 with Arista cEOS #SiliconPrairie #USNUA #Containerlab #Networking #NetworkingIsCool 13/100
To continue on the VAR discussion from yesterday. At this point, I knew that this VAR wasn't going to help with the long-term solution, but I still needed their help. Just to reiterate, the network was a hub and spoke with a spanned #SiliconPrairie #USNUA #Networking #NetworkingIsCool 12/100
One of the most important things that you can do as a Network Architect is to cultivate a relationships with worthwhile VARs. A VAR is a "Value-Added Reseller." They act as the glue between your organization and a set of manufacturers. #SiliconPrairie #USNUA #Networking #NetworkingIsCool 11/100
I had someone ask me the other day, "why are you writing about all this stuff?" This whole process has been helpful to get my thoughts together for the keynote at the inaugural KC NUG event next Thursday, 4/10. #SiliconPrairie #USNUA #Networking #NetworkingIsCool
In lab 2, you'll configure dynamic routing, using OSPF, on top of the same lab 1 topology. The goals of this lab are the following: #SiliconPrairie #USNUA #Containerlab #Networking #NetworkingIsCool 9/100
Let's talk about what steps we took to fix the wireless issues with the three competing systems. First, we took an inventory of where the three wireless systems were geographically installed. The third system, with the lowest density, #SiliconPrairie #USNUA #Networking #NetworkingIsCool
I next pivoted to the wireless network. What I'm about to describe is something I have not seen in a long, long time. Often, you may have one primary wireless network and maybe a second as part of a transition or a Proof of Concept. #SiliconPrairie #USNUA #Networking #NetworkingIsCool 7/100
On April 1st, the kids made me brown E’s This made me laugh out loud! Alright kids, game on next year
I began building the next two labs over this past weekend, and it brought back a lot of good memories as I virtually recreated the work the team and I did at the University. And, to come back to where we were on Friday. #SiliconPrairie #USNUA #Networking #NetworkingIsCool
I can't stress how valuable this is: sometimes THE most important thing a network needs is a new set of eyes. If you're working at a Fortune >100 company, there is a good chance that a lot of old habits are baked into the cake. A new set of eyes can help with triaging.
In this lab, you'll spin up a topology that includes 6 routers and a monitoring server. The main goal of lab1 is to triage the environment. This happens in two ways in the first lab: 1. Monitoring - is the monitoring server correctly reflecting the environment?
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