IrritableTech

How do we feel about networks adjusting our traffic? Three could start replacing ads with their own promotions for example.

We use the dude to monitor servers, switches, APs, links and printers. Doesn't take too long to set up either.

Absolutely true - but the SLT and governors may well ask the advice of the IT team as it is quite possible they are the most qualified to answer questions around filtering and monitoring. There are basically two elements to this - what you legally required to do and what you feel as a school is the morally correct approach. Legally you now must monitor digital communications within Prevent. You need to highlight concerns that someone is being radicalized or is radicalizing, planning or promoting hate or violence. Much of this will be monitored in the classroom - but only if your staff have had relevant training. This can also be monitored digitally and looked over - but only if the reviewer has had the training. I have heard that Ofsted will be asking more around questions around Prevent. How would you identify an issue, what systems have you in place to identify a concern etc? You also have a responsibility to safeguard the children in your care - both in school and externally. The external bit is usually covered within teaching them the do's and don'ts rather than installing software on their mobile though! Whether you think current systems are adequate to safeguard your pupils will depend on the schools curriculum, the pupils ability, their maturity etc. even before looking at the technology. Your provider sounds much like our old LEA provider. Don't worry they said - your pupils are safe because we have blocked everything that isn't - if anything does happen to slip through the net let us know. This simply doesn't work in 2016, as it didn't when we left them in 2013. I asked the head of the service in a public meeting - if I had a concern about a pupil, was he confident he could present the logs in a timely manner to prevent harm. He said he could - I wasn't convinced. If a pupil is searching for a way to harm themselves and there is real desire to do so - isn't there a high chance that harm will happen within the three to five working day response? And if that pupil was on that computer in the library which is slightly round the corner which people struggle to keep an eye on - without an alerting system of some sort, what chance do you have as a school to intervene and prevent harm? Forget the backlash that would come from parents, the authorities or even the public - someone has come to harm and school missed an opportunity to safeguard. Schools should be using filters which alert trained staff on potential dangers and actually sometimes that means you allow pupils to be exposed to a little more risk - you might be a little more lenient in your filtering because you are monitoring more closely - and that in it's self yields more opportunities to safeguard. It's always worth remembering that risk doesn't automatically mean harm however and people sometimes need to be exposed to a little risk to build resilience. Getting the balance is tricky and it should be a whole school approach.

Can you find a window to test this? If it doesn't go as planned you can always restart the physical machine and go back to the drawing board. I've P2V'd a couple of sims servers. One to a HyperV host and another to XenServer. Both went fine and continued to work swiftly. Is it just a sims server - or does it run other associated services - intouch, solus3, emerge, groupcall etc? Sims is pretty easy to move I've found if planned carefully.

Another good point. @CHiLL - log onto the CLI and run 'show run' There isn't usually anything you shouldn't be showing us in there, but if there is something you're uncomfortable about showing blank it out. If we can see the config someone will be able to determine if it's that at fault.

Have you got 'ip routing' enabled for a start - that's not in your supplied instructions? Have you got any VLANs set up already? If so what? You can't give an IP to a port, you've given it to the switch to use in VLAN 2 - is Port F2 configured for VLAN2?

There's some very basic QOS settings in your router according to this manual - http://www.solwise.co.uk/downloads/files/adsl-dsl-n55u_manual.pdf I presume you can lower the streaming priority? Otherwise it's a more advanced router as suggested above, or possibly a more advanced wifi access point, but managing at that level will obviously affect internal and external bandwidth allocated to the device.

Interestingly when my wife changed phones and needed a nano sim rather than a micro sim we walked into a three shop and they simply cut her existing sim down to size using one of those punch thingies!

Not blocked here - Classified as Education by lightspeed

I like it. Raspberry Pi might be a bit overkill though - thought about getting into arduino?

Thanks for clearing up any confusion @Steve-Broadband4 - I was having a look around your site - I can't find a single mention of firewalls - can you let us into the secret of what you use? I had another company approach me the other day around connectivity (none of those mentioned here - so far). I got quite shirty with the rep due to the fact that he said they'd blatantly copied another providers offering and knocked a couple of hundred quid off the price. The information he left me with about the solution was basic - content filtering in line with regulation, security firewall, onsite management and blocking service. That rep really had no idea what he was trying to sell to schools. Educational connectivity is a specialist market and schools unfortunately need to be on their guard from some. Cheap does not always provide best value.

DPA principle 8 says: Safe Harbor was meant to be a quick way of ensuring that adequate levels of protection were in place. Organisations governed under the DPA are still able to transfer data outside of the EEA as long as they are happy with the level of protection and declare it in their statement. Each service will need to be assessed more closely until any other agreement comes into practice. It's a risk assessment and review type thing.

I'd suggest a PSU fault. Caps usually to blame or something conductive floating around inside.

If it doesn't work out with @strawberry, give @SchoolsBroadband a shout - they had a boat load a little while back.

Not a name I recognize, but I only deal with support these days (although not very often). We've found the finger scanners to be pretty reliable. If there were long pauses between customers (serving hundreds in literally twenty minutes here) I'm sure I'd know about it. Now you mention it however we did have one issue where the canteen manager thought it would be nice to serve food outside on a hot sunny day - the daylight did cause finger reading issues, but our quick thinking low tech solution was to cover it with a serviette and place the thumb underneath!

We've been happy with Live Register. Not a big name, but the software does everything we needed it too and they were a fair bit cheaper than the other mentioned here. We've five tills, two revals (although now we probably only need one), it links to sims and most parental payment systems (we use tucasi) and three of our vending machines also use the biometrics as well.

Just a quick note which I don't think anyone has mentioned. If you change your subnet you probably need to speak with your ISP unless you also run your edge router and know exactly how it's set up.

Shame - we were advised not to use alarms as this could cause someone causing a lockdown to escalate the situation when it was heard. I'm not sure I fully agree with this advice though.

Do you have a tannoy or a telephone broadcast system? We have a procedure in place for this, but we're having a meeting next week to review it.

It's usually fairly straight forward as long as you plan each step. We did multiple migrations from the LEA to Schools Broadband a couple of years ago - quite a few of them during the school day. We didn't need to change our internal subnet - although I have done this in the past for other reasons, and again with proper planning it's not too hard. @Oaktech's list above is a great starting point. A couple to add - Change SMTP server details where required (notifying servers, photcopiers etc.). Ask for a copy of your current firewall rules from your existing provider - so you can check what needs to be set up on the new one.

A good friend of mine worked on Halley for the same length of time. Absolutely loved the whole experience. She traveled there by ship over the equator (doing the whole ceremony thing) and via the Falkland Islands. She was a meteorologist on the base. Over winter there is a core of about 30 on the base I think - in summer there is a whole lot more. There are chances to jump on a skidoo and travel up to the coast where there are more pengiuns than you could possibly imagine. She also did some camping on her days off. It's worth noting that as accommodation and food are provided (although alcohol is not - and they seem to get through quite a bit), there's not much to spend your salary on when you are there - so for those who think this is for them - you'll come back with a good nest egg in your bank account!

Thanks - registered for a new one. Does anyone remember MS having to do a similar power cord replacement on the original xbox? They sent out new leads with an inline RCD because the issue was internal to the xbox (solder joints cracking resulting in arcing) and a new cable with extra safety measures was far easier. Different issue this time though by the looks of it.

I did the Network Fundamentals and Server Administration Fundamentals in a little over half an hour. It was a good opportunity for a sit down! If I'd had more time I think I would have attempted a few more!

Isn't part of the issue that if the terms used to detect radicalization are widely published, those who wish to radicalize will simply use different terms?

There's quite a lot of threads on here with example switch configs and guidance on how to set up ruckus for VLANs. What switch gear have you got currently?