MVPs Podcast

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05 - The Agent Debate

MVPs PodcastJun 03, 2019

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05 - The Agent Debate

Mark, Jez & Holger on the Pro's & Con's of Agent vs Agentless collection in and outside of SolarWinds Orion. Sadly this episode got corrupted due to some technical issues, so we are missing the first 30 minutes aired time. Sorry all ;)

Mark: Thwack - @m_roberts / Twitter - @ProsperonMark
Jez: Thwack - @silverbacksays / Twitter - @JezMarsh
Holger: Thwack - @HerrDoktor / Twitter - @HolgerMundt

Main Topic: Agents vs Agentless

Follow Up

Deploy SolarWinds Agents

Portapocalypse - WMI Demystified

Non Domain Admin for WMI

Skynet

Grumpy Cat

- Podcast Edited by Thwack MVP David Smith @dgsmith80

Jun 03, 201951:20

04 - The Toxic Avengers

Paul, Matt, Zack and Jeremy cut through the topics of keyboard purchases, semi-mandatory custom properties, and inside-baseball about podcasting. Jeremy asks the team for help about a work situation. This is just like a sitcom!

Paul: Twitter - @radioteacher

Zack: Twitter - @zackm

Matt: Twitter - @usagemayvary

Jeremy: Twitter - @jeremyxmentzell | Web - jeremyxmentzell.org

Follow Up
SWQL-Functions

Optimus Keyboard

Zack's Logitech K800

Jabra Speakerphone with mute ability

Main Topics: Mandatory Custom Properties

Subtopic: Toxically Avenging

Mindfulness

Stockholm_syndrome

Hurry up and wait

Workplace Politics

Throwing the Elephant: Zen and the Art of Managing Up

Go the F**k to Sleep

Afterthoughts: What was the first computer you had access to?

Apple IIe

Tandy 1000 RL

MAI Basic Four

Star Trek 1971 Video Game (Written in BASIC)

Floppy disk

The Fellowship of the Ring Audiobook

What happened to Matt?!?!

Apr 01, 201901:33:22

03 - Brexit for Dinner

Mark, Holger, & Jez inform the audience on what Brexit is and why you should care. They then go deep on what today's modern data centers consist of and finish up slinging arrows of alert knowledge right into your brain matter.

Mark: Twitter - @ProsperonMark

Holger: Twitter - @HolgerMundt

Jez: Twitter - @JezMarsh

Brexit

European Union (EU)

GDPR

Data Sovereignty

Article 50

Facebook Outage (USA Today)

Integrate Orion & Slack

Mar 24, 201901:07:54

Mar 19, 201901:34:60

01 - Presenting Operationally

Zack, Matt, Kevin and Jeremy assemble to talk about presenting on the road, alert procedures and concepts, configuring hardware for performance, and the costs of…lots of things.

Kool Aid Man - https://media.giphy.com/media/JqpbEVBmryvN6/giphy.gif

Duff Man - https://media.giphy.com/media/xT5LMSxyc8kpzT5dYs/giphy.gif

Twitter Handle - @mvpspodcast

Forecast - @MarcoArment

Kevin’s Blog Links - http://blog.kmsigma.com/2017/02/06/building-my-orion-server-step-1/

Game Day Exercising - https://stripe.com/blog/game-day-exercises-at-stripe

“Tech Debt” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt

Clearing ‘default email’ - https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Network_Performance_Monitor_(NPM)/Knowledgebase_Articles/Clear_all_fields_in_Configure_Default_Send_Email_Action_page

Used Volvo - https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/classic-cars/videos/a31719/1982-volvo-glt-turbo-motorweek/

TNG Anomaly - DPA: https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Customer_Service/Knowledgebase_Articles/Database_Performance_Analyzer_12_1_Anomaly_Detection_Powered_by_Machine_Learning_And_Other_Cool_Stuff_-_Webinar

AvenueQ - http://www.avenueq.com/#home

Yip Yip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_trSIBCgF0

Jeremy bought all of these - https://s3.amazonaws.com/demand-gen/2019/22-February/1000x1000.jpg

Mar 10, 201901:33:03

00A - Tear Down Those Silos Mr. Monitoring Engineer

Our heroes Matt, Jez, & Nick go down on the farm to discuss how all it’s silos migrated into IT teams and how to get rid of them no matter what role you find yourself in.

Twitter!

Jez Marsh - @JezMarsh

Nick Zourdous - @nickzourdos

Mar 01, 201943:23