IT Operations & Networking
Running systems and networks, at work or at home.
We run Terraform from two separate pipelines that share the same a Consul backend state for prod. Since this week, one of them randomly fails with: retrying usually works. is this just a race, and how do people normally avoid it? our setup grew organically,…
ok so question for endpoint ppl: were halfway through moving workloads with a few hundred laptops. Co management works, but were running two systems. Is that a stable long term state, or should we commit to one?? Some people on the team are very attached to…
long time lurker first post lol our site with a remote SUP sync times out halfway. Heres what i see: No new updates in teh console, deployments look stale, and security is asking why the patch reports are flat. Is it teh network, WSUS itself, or ConfigMgr?…
so annoyed rn setting up a work laptop for a new colleague 😅 It joins the hotel Wi Fi, the password is accepted, and then: they start tomorrow morning, i tried the troubleshooter, it fixed nothing... any ideas before i just give them my own laptop?? the…
hmmmm ok inherited a ConfigMgr single primary site :) the previous admin warned me that WSUS is fragile... now the no new updates since last month: Ive restarted teh server. It worked once, then failed again. Id love to understand whats going on rather than…
i raised the limit for the Go microservice to 512Mi after the first OOMKill. Then it happened again: im afraid to just keep doubling it, my team lead asked is it a leak? and i honestly dont know how to tell. i don't want to just throw more memory at the…
guys pls help some new Dell laptops at the imaging bench PXE boot, some don't. The failing ones end like this: same VLAN, same DP. the only difference i can see is firmware settings, but i dont know which ones matter. the working and failing machines are teh…
im literally losing my mind here routine patching on our openSUSE cloud instance :) updates installed without errors, i rebooted, and this is what greeted me on the console: the services on this box matter. i have console access but Ive never dealt with a…
im literally losing my mind here planning to redo the network at a retail store. im thinking: one VLAN for staff PCs, one for guests, one for printers. is that sensible, or over engineered for this size? curious what others actually run. im also not suree…
ive been tasked with restoring from backup for an old server, now running on Hyper V. everything looked fine until I powered it on: the virtual disk is attached and teh right size, the original machine booted fine yesterday... where did my OS go? I can see…
help!! setting up a Windows 11 laptop for a new colleague 🔥 it joins the hotel Wi Fi, teh password is accepted, and then: They start tomorrow morning ;) i tried the truobleshooter, it fixed nothing. Any ideas before i just give them my own laptop? the…
we run Terraform from two separate pipelines that share teh same Terraform Cloud state for teh networking stack :/ since this week, one of them rnadomly fails with: retrying usually works. is this just a race, and how do people normally avoid it?? Our setup…
ok weird one myapp.service was fine until todays server patching. Now it wont start: the status line says status=217/USER. I didnt touch the unit file. did the update change something underneath? The update touched a bunch of packages, sooo it could be…
we need to image new Dell laptops at a branch site. they start a network boot and then: The distribution point has PXE enabled and the boot imgaes are distributed. Other locations work fine 🙏 I have a stack of boxes and a deadline 🙏 Where do I look? The…
in our site with a remote SUP, teh software update point sync has been stuck for days: The console just says the sync failed. I need teh latest updates for this month's deployment and I'm running out of time 🤦 Which logs actually matter here?? WSUS runs on…
were a hospital IT department and use authenticator app codes for MFA today. after haering about push bombing attacks, Im wondering whether were as protected as we think. users approve things without reading, and phishing kits proxy everything aynway. whats…
ok weird one since yesterday my Windows 11 laptop wont get online on teh hotel Wi Fi: the Wi Fi icon has that little globe and the status says 'No internet, secured'... other ppl around me are fine... i think Windows upadted overnight but i'm not sure. Im…
ok so weird one. From my parents house, OpenVPN connects and then nothing itnernal resolves: if i type teh IP address of the file share dierctly it sometimes works! but names fail every time, help me before i start memorizing IP addresses. ive also flushed…
We renewed teh certificate on our internal API yesterday. On my desktop browser everything looks fine. But Python requests now fails with: the certificate isnt expired, the name matches... nothing else changed... why would only some clients complain?? Ive…
help!! starting fresh with on prem servers. I can either do classic CI/CD where teh pipeline deploys, or set up a GitOps controller watching a config repo.. 😂 two ops people, limited time, what would you choose today? I have about two weeks to set this up…
hmmmm ok we run a retail store with one flat network: PCs, the server, security cameras, everything. it works. but i keep reading that IoT devices are a big risk and should be isolated 🙏 is a separate VLAN worth the effort here, and what tends to break when…
ok so odd one. software update based installation reports success on the site server, but the devices never show a client: on one machine i found ccmsetup.log ending with 0x87d00227. is there a checklist Im missing? im not even sure whether teh push really…
help!! every pipeline on our Jenkins agent started failing at npm install. The error is basically no space left on device, and the monitoring shows this: We never stored anything big on that machine xD I deleted some old logs and freed maybe 2 GB, which was…
Question for endpoint people: were planning a migartion with several branch offices 😅 Co management works, but were running two systems. Is that a stable long term state, or should we cmomit to one? Some people on the team are very attached to ConfigMgr…
curious how others handled teh move away from authenticator app codes at a place like a law office... who got hardware keys, who stayed on app based approvals, and how did u handle lost devices? Im also curious about what happens when someone loses their…
