This week we talk about network documentation and alerts! What makes a good alert? When should you tap a human on the shoulder, and what should be left to the backlog?
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01:50 Music Production On Linux - William
05:45 DIY Smart Plug - Charlie
- Instructables
- TH3D Studio
- Enough electricity it could kill you
09:15 Thoughts from the AMA - Steve S
- "good enough"
- "Class of tool" vs "disposable"
- CLECs moving away from copper
- Convert to VOIP and ATA
- Cell companies not held to the same standard
- Right tool for the right job
17:30 Frappe.io - theendbeta
- Frappe.io
- Looks cool
- Lots of apps
- Haven't used it
22:00 News Wire
Perl 5.40 - Perl Doc
Tor Browser 13.0.16 - Tor Project
Firefox 127 - Mozilla
ICEWM 3.6 - Github
Cinnamon 6.2 - OMG Ubuntu
Opensuse Leap 15.6 - Opensuse
Open Standards - Health Care IT News
Open Source Summit - PR News Wire
In-Vehicle Linux Milestone - Businesswire
DISGOMOJI - Bleeping Computer
Unity Catalog - Datanami
OpenVLA - Venture Beat
OpenSora - GitHub
Stable Difusion 3 Medium - Stability.ai
23:20 NetBox Interview
- Adam Kennedy - Senior Network Admin
- Network documentation
- NetBox
- Single source of truth
- DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management)
- Holds tons of information
- Documenting changes
- Importing/Exporting information
- Netbox and Ansible
- Extra information
34:00 Best Practices
- OS Ticket - Client notes
- Markdown docs
- Plain text
- Explorable and discoverable
- GNS3
- NetBox falls down with multiple clients
- Menu Bar hides
- What is standard documentation?
- 3 Choices
- Plain text
- Wiki system
- Purpose built software
- Good to re-evaluate from time to time
- Cost of up ending the apple cart
48:00 Alerts
- What is a good alert?
- They need to be actionable
- What the problem is
- How it happened
- Where do I go
- Why dashboards are bad
- Ticket back log
- Human attention
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