Ask Noah Show 395

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?

-- During The Show --

01:50 Music Production On Linux - William

• MuseScore
• LMMS
• Audacity
• Write in if you do music on Linux!

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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