Network Admin Life - Swapping the Jail Switch

[@antonellocasu6578]

Tariq is lucky with a mentor like you, i guess that you have enough patience to transfer him your skills in the proper way.

[@NetworkAdminLife]

I don't know who need to be more patient, Tariq, or myself! LoL! God bless!

[@theroza31]

I'm glad to hear you are taking on a mentor role. I also wouldn't mind switching to an analog method of timesheets. Online timesheets are not worth the havoc if it goes down. Unfortunately as woman I'm not too stoked about the results, but hopefully in 4 years we can all go back to normal.

[@NetworkAdminLife]

The only drawback of printed timesheets is that someone needs to print them. And sometimes *someone* forgets to print and distribute them. Like this week. God bless!

[@samjones4327]

Good mornin! Grace & Peace 2 U and your family! Thanks once again 4 sharing another awesome video! Your new apprentice is in very good hands to learn about networking! You always have very cool projects to tackle so he should be getting outstanding practice and experience! Have a great, safe and blessed day! God Bless!🙏🏽

[@NetworkAdminLife]

I'm hoping he'll turn out to be a top notch network admin. He's got the desire. Praying he has the staying power. God bless!

[@eointhomas2914]

Good on you, it can be difficult to teach network concepts to those with lesser experience, a lot of networking can only be understood when you mess it up or have to resolve an issue

[@NetworkAdminLife]

He's really eager to learn. Over the next year I'm going to slow transition him to assigning IP addresses, and changing VLANs on switch ports. Little by little. Not going to make him drink from the firehose because I want him to stick around! God bless!

[@jomcalleja]

Magandang umaga sir 🙂

[@NetworkAdminLife]

Hoy pare! Salamat! God bless!

[@jomcalleja]

@NetworkAdminLife Salamat sir, Godbless! din and more power sa channel. Andami kong natututunan sa inyo. Technical support engineer po ako ngayon at sa inyo ako natuto

[@knightjocke]

The good part of working at a hospital is that you are not far from the doctors appointment.

[@NetworkAdminLife]

Lol! I have to admit that with my family history of stroke and my high blood pressure, I'm glad I work at a hospital! But no, my doctor is under a different medical system. Hard to believe that a hospital would offer two types of medical coverage other than their own. I could choose free medical if I got it through my hospital. I pay for, um, shall we say, different, medical coverage elsewhere. 'Nuff said. God bless!

[@johnhammeke7430]

very cool

[@NetworkAdminLife]

Thank you! God bless!

[@CarstenStrickland]

Can you tell me what in your crash kit hanging on the office cubicle. Work for the state in SC new to the life.

[@NetworkAdminLife]

That's just my tool bag. It's got some screwdrivers and miscellaneous things in it. My crash kit is in the black carry-on that you didn't see. I'll make a video on it soon. God bless!

[@alexm6994]

Love your content. 👍 I work in level 2 desktop support. What sort of skills are do you think required to be a good network administrator?

[@camerong4944]

As someone that went from L1>L2>Network admin: WANTING to learn networking, wanting to learn will get you to where you can understand fabric switching and complex intervlan routing. Most important specific skill I’ve learned: being able to do an old school Mac address table search. No joke being able to go from the core switch to the endpoint with nothing but MAC addresses has saved my butt so many times.

[@alexm6994]

@@camerong4944 Good to know. Thanks for the advice.

[@wiziek]

@@alexm6994 Uhm are you trolling?

[@NetworkAdminLife]

I'm going to echo what @camerong4944 said. WANTING to learn is the best trait you can have. Understand subnetting and be able to convert from subnet masks to CIDR notation in your head. It's not really that hard even though it took me a long time. Learn the basics of routing. Understand the difference between what tagging a VLAN vs UNTAGGING a VLAN on a switch port does. And remember the Internet is your friend. There is no problem that you will encounter that someone hasn't already encountered, solved, and crowed about it in a KZbin video. LoL! You can do it. God bless!

[@NetworkAdminLife]

Well said! God bless!

[@Photonkannon]

Would showing parts of your topology be a security issue at your work?

[@NetworkAdminLife]

I don't see the harm is showing the overall diagram. Even the folks where I work can't make much sense of it. It's why I removed all the IP addresses from the map. That way I can show it without giving too much away. God bless!

[@railsplitter99]

how is an IT professional (especially a Sys Analyst 4) considered hourly? is that some California thing? i havent been hourly since i left the helpdesk 15 years ago..... Deskside, Sys Admin, Net Admin, Net Eng, Sec Analyst, SecOPs, etc .etc.... all salaried.

[@Photonkannon]

It's pretty common now. I have no idea why. At Amazon you don't hit salary till 5 levels up, with an IT support tech being a level 3. Probably varies on the country tho.

[@railsplitter99]

Amazon doesn’t want to pay the min. to be salaried. Thats their deal. This sounds like more of a DemocRat state thing. Scott move out of Communist California to the Midwest or Southeast. We’ll treat you right.

[@NetworkAdminLife]

I work for a hospital but my county owns the hospital so technically I am a county worker. Managers are salaried, supervisors and workers are hourly. So saith the county board of supervisors. God bless!

[@NetworkAdminLife]

Same here. God bless!

[@NetworkAdminLife]

The thought has crossed my mind. Looking at you Nevada! God bless!

[@ryanpowell9522]

What software are you running for your network diagram?

[@samjones4327]

InterMapper👍🏽

[@NetworkAdminLife]

Yep. Sam called it. Intermapper. More info here: www.fortra.com/product-lines/intermapper God bless!

[@johng.1703]

hmm jail switch, is that where all the naughty switches go?

[@NetworkAdminLife]

This one is in the dispensary so you might say this is where drug-addicted, naughty switches go. God bless!

[@OldePhart]

You have to reduce your standby time by the amount you worked? Bummer. We treat standby as being paid to be available, if we get called that's additional.

[@Photonkannon]

This is probably why more IT positions are hourly now.

[@railsplitter99]

@@OldePhart do you treat it as comp time? just take off early at the end of the week or mark it as actual hourly paid OT?

[@OldePhart]

@@railsplitter99 We can put it in a bank (up to a cap), get paid or take time off.

[@NetworkAdminLife]

Yeah, county and union rules. We don't get double paid. God bless!

[@NetworkAdminLife]

I prefer to be hourly. Or as I call it a network 'ho. You want me to work, you pay me. I don't do this out of the goodness of my heart. God bless!

[@dank9561]

[@CompuWhizz]

Laughing at a mandarin being elected

[@NetworkAdminLife]

I don't really care what the rest of the world thinks. My employer likes the paper timesheets and so do I. God bless!

[@NetworkAdminLife]

If you live in the USA, he's your President. Like it or not. God bless!

[@CompuWhizz]

@@NetworkAdminLife Oh dear how deluded

[@tombarber8929]

It varies by company. Im in the US haven’t used a paper timesheet in over 15 years

[@smugas]

Dzień dobry

[@NetworkAdminLife]

Good morning to you too my friend! Somewhere way back in my ancestry is a woman who's last name is Probasco. So there is a tiny bit of Pole in my woodpile. God bless!

[@AndrewTa530]

Jesus left California several decades ago

[@NetworkAdminLife]

Christianity is very strong in my part of California. I've met some of the most dedicated and devout Christians in all of America right here in California. God bless.

[@JJFlores197]

Still plenty of Jesus in California. Surely Jesus wouldn't abandon the Red parts of California, would he?

[@NetworkAdminLife]

Jesus doesn't abandon anyone, red or blue.