This week I went to the Alamo Drafthouse theatre here in Austin and saw the new film " I Love You, Man " with Jason Segel and Paul Rudd. It was quite an experience. First, they served some great food and wine (I'm not much of a beer drinker), then I got to watch the new Star Trek trailer, and then, once the tears has dried from my eyes (yes, I get that emotinal about a good sci-fi film) I laughed 'till it hurt. It was a really, really good time. Afterwards though, I started thinking about some of the more serious messages in the film and the value of having a support...

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I was asked a question today about how Orion's Universal Device Poller (UnDP) works within a large, multi-poller environment. Usually I try to keep these blog entries somewhat product agnostic but this is a question I've been asked a lot and that a lot of you may encounter so I thought I'd spend a few minutes explaining. First off, let's setup the environment. In the scenario we're talking about you've got a main Orion server and because of the number of devices that need to be managed you've also deployed two Orion Additional Polling Engines. As you know...

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I'm sure you've heard the term " drinking from the firehose " used to describe being fed information at an insane, maybe even overwhelming rate. For most people this is probably a bad thing, but for geeks like us sometimes it's just what the doctor orderred. I'm sure you've been there. It's the night before an important meeting and you're going to be expected to be an expert on some cool new area of technology. Problem is, you've never worked with it before and you need to find a firehouse to start guzzling information from ASAP. I remember...

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Sometimes doing things the hard way can get a bit tiresome. Don't get me wrong, I love the CLI. I love the God-like power that I feel when I'm sitting in front of a router and the entire team is standing behind me watching while I bring forth the magic. I love the fact that I've memorized all kinds of IOS syntax that that my skills when invoking this knowledge can bring young network padawans to their knees, bowing in homage to the network jedi that I have become... Of course, not everyone has an ego as large as mine and that needs such constant nourishment and so, thankfully...

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