How do you work with your execs when MSP/VARs are seemingly successfully working around your engineering team for infrastructure decisions? Networking

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• How do you work with your execs when MSP/VARs are seemingly successfully working around your engineering team for infrastructure decisions?
• SFP to RJ45 questions?
• Best free syslog options
• Discovery Methodologies for *Extremely* Large Networks
• Cannot connect to hole punched port

How do you work with your execs when MSP/VARs are seemingly successfully working around your engineering team for infrastructure decisions? Posted: 30 Nov 2019 08:25 AM PST Hello r/networking! Throwaway account. Does anyone have the following situation or something similar? Non-technical CIO and CSO have developed what appears to be a friendly (maybe even close) relationship with a MSP/VAR for physical security projects CIO and CSO sign support long-term service contracts without any input from IT engineering teams, then inform these teams of the decisions made and that they'll be working with them MSP/VAR does not engage IT engineering for any sort of design or deployment input (sans IP address space) until they've already been onsite and done physical installations and are requesting items such as port configurations (and is sanctioned by CIO and CSO) MSP/VAR routinely meets with CIO and CSO, and continually makes pitches for the MSP/VAR to provide additional IT infrastructure contracts, including but not limited to network support and/or hosting MSP/VAR's non-hosted contracts seem to be focused on tier 2 and 3 'support' post-deployment, and they want all hands-on to be done by IT team, or they charge hourly for hands-on support It basically seems like this MSP/VAR has keenly short-circuited our engineering team's ability to provide input into the decision process, and with some big equipment refresh coming, it seems like the MSP/VAR is going to be making a pitch to integrate their services and purchase equipment with a vendor we don't think is in our best interests. And of course, our engineering team has never asked for tier 2 and 3 services, but instead we stated we want more tier 1 support, but our organization won't hire any more people, but they'll pay for services. I'm not entirely sure how to get ahead of this and get more input into the decision making process. At times it seems like the CIO values our input when we do meet, but the MSP/VAR meets or is in contact way more than us. How do you deal with with this situation, if at all? Our direct manager doesn't seem to be able to make an impact to this, so I'm a big flabbergasted at what to do. Is this a systemic issue and I just need to start looking for a job elsewhere? It doesn't seem like our jobs are at stake, but it does seem like the execs are quite receptive to outsourcing tier 2 and 3 engineering. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time. submitted by /u/a_systemsThrowaway [link] [comments]

SFP to RJ45 questions? Posted: 30 Nov 2019 04:20 AM PST Is it just me or does autonegotiation over SFP-RJ45 transceivers, well almost never work? Sorry if this is a total noob question. Also yesterday I had a issue on ubiquity equipment wheautonegotiation on such a link failed on 9/10 reconnects. I am not feeling confident about forcing link speeds as this is just a testing setup for a switch replacement for other devices that I can't test on. submitted by /u/Irkutsk2745 [link] [comments]

Best free syslog options Posted: 30 Nov 2019 07:21 AM PST I know there are plenty out there but I'm looking for a free syslog platform that will ingest about 500 total Cisco routers and switches. Resourcing (storage, CPU, etc) isn't a huge deal. The biggest value I'm looking for is the extensibility of parsing through the logs. I consider Splunk to have a great parsing engine but it comes with a price. submitted by /u/theballenlife [link] [comments]

Discovery Methodologies for *Extremely* Large Networks Posted: 29 Nov 2019 04:31 PM PST Hi /r/networking, To preface my questions, I am fairly new to the consulting space (although I have worked for MSPs for ~6 years now, almost entirely in networking). I have just begun a network architecture assessment for a customer and to be frank, I'm totally overwhelmed by the scale of their environment. To give you an example, one of their smaller data centers contains about 30 devices, which is a small hardware footprint; but the more one digs into the configuration of each device (going off of some minimal and sometimes out of date documentation) the more questions arise. To get even more specific, one of their firewalls has ~75 static routes, with over 10 unique next-hops among those static routes for which I do not know the management IP of the device on the other end. Obviously, it's kind of a mess, but that is why they brought us in. My question is, to those of you who have been exposed to poorly documented networks of this scale; how did you manage to get a sense of traffic flows and architecture? I'm looking for both tools, and methodologies/frameworks that would help me understand this large environment in a relatively short amount of time. ​ Thanks! submitted by /u/tilphecklenburg [link] [comments]

Cannot connect to hole punched port Posted: 30 Nov 2019 01:11 AM PST as far as i know the server is on public and when client connects to the public server, nat mapped the ip and port to public but i cannot reach the goal. I've tested on Symmetric NAT and Cannot Connect to my Client's Socket and keep raising `ConnectionRefusedError: [Errno 111] Connection refused` how can i solve the problem? I've wrote the code on golang and reuse the port using `github.com/kavu/go_reuseport` submitted by /u/HeavyCoffeeDrinker99 [link] [comments]

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