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Storage Area Network Experience Summary

Veritas Netbackup ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script examples written by Travis Hutchings thutch901@gmail.com 971.226.6732 Past Storage assignment in the following environments: _______________________________________________________ Summary Netapp, EMC Symetrix, EMC VNX, EMC Centera, Dell Compellent and Dell Equallogic. Configure storage equipment providers to ensure that we are aligned with their best practices and recommended firmware versions. Identify and resolve problems affecting the customer delivery and to escalate in a timely manner. Worked with storage vendors to configure phone capabilities and work closely with vendor management teams to identify upgrade paths and work issues with the storage supported systems. Memec, Vesta, IBM, Qualcomm and Intuit In-depth understanding of network segmentation; virtualization technologies preferred. Reviewed current network environments to address and segment iSCS...

Windows Patch Management Workflow Summary

______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script examples written by Travis Hutchings thutch901@gmail.com 971.226.6732 Server and OS patch management: Microsoft Windows _______________________________________________________ Introduction: User device patch management. Network and Appliance Device patch management. KIOSK patch management. Hand Held device patch management, Windows CE or Linux CE or embedded OS patch management. Due to making it a brief and not a full implementation plan and exercise, it is certainly not an exhaustive recommendation on a patching strategy. The concepts will work with any managed environment possible minor modifications to process and requirements. I have used just scripts and good old fashioned native OS schedulers and scripted jobs and inventory results. That really is dependent on the tools used for patching. I had hands-on experience at WSUS patching mechanism. I was also using a S...

Travis H Hutchings Resume 2021 General

J Travis H Hutchings | Senior Systems Engineer, Lead | name@yourdomain.com Travis H Hutchings Senior Systems Engineer Download PDF thutch901@gmail.com (971) - 226-6732 Profile Progressively evolve cross-platform ideas in Information System Engineering to Monitoring and Automated Solutions. Skills Information System Engineering A long history in successful Information System Engineering projects. Virtualization Engineering From building virtualized systems and migrating, designing and manged virtualized solutions. Enterprise Monitoring Engineering Proven ability to lead and manage a wide variety of desig...

Splunk Dispatch Script

______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script examples written by Travis Hutchings thutch901@gmail.com 971.226.6732 Splunk Dispatch Directory count and size. If it gets above 2000 entries it stops forwarding. _______________________________________________________ Command Examples for Dispatch CLI options. df -h $SPLUNK_HOME/var/run/dispatch cd $SPLUNK_HOME/var/run/dispatch ls -l | head -4 ls -l tail -4 Script Example for Dispatch Alert Cron Script #!/bin/bash #Version: 1.2 #Owner: Optiv NGSOC #Document Purpose: Pull list of all active log sources in the last week and email them to appropriate recipients clientName="Your Company" emailFrom="Splunk_Dispatch_rp.as@yourco.com" emailTo="systemadmins@yourco.com" listFile="/splunk/scripts/dispatch_length.csv" bodyFile="/splunk/scripts/dispatch_length.txt" Echo "Dispatch Directory Progress" >> $listFile ls -l $SP...

Splunk Log Forwarding Configuration Steps

Splunk Log Forwarding Configuration Steps: There are multiple ways to send linux logs to splunk like using splunk linux app, splunk universal forwarder or syslog. Best and performance reliable way is to install splunk universal forwarder on linux machines for which you wish to forward data.Splunk universal forwarder will act as agent for log collection.It will collect logs and will forward to indexer.We can also use syslog for log collection and then install splunk forwarder on it and then forward data from syslog server to splunk indexer.Below we have provided steps for most reliable method to add linux logs to splunk For syslog installation and configuration follow steps give at below link: Refer below steps to add linux logs to splunk Step 1: On Splunk server (receiver) Download/install Splunk TA for Unix and Linux to the Splunk server (receiver) and enabled it by going to Manager|Apps|Enable Step 2: On host you want to collect data from (sender) Download and install the Splu...

Azure Data Explorer KQL cheat sheets

Azure Data Explorer KQL cheat sheets : Kusto Query Language is a powerful intuitive query language, which is being used by many Microsoft Services. KQL Language concepts Relational operators (filters, union, joins, aggregations, …) Each operator consumes tabular input and produces tabular input Can be combined with ‘|’ (pipe). Sim...