IrritableTech

Or do what @Domino suggested. If your your switches are hp as well - telnet in and run show mac-address

Have you got any logs of your MAC addresses? I guess you're looking for the NIC with 00:1e:0b:4a:20:b6 (which could be a HP device?). Check DHCP logs and cross reference with DNS? We have all our machine macs within our cloning solution - that may be something you can look at? If you are still unable to identify the device and it's causing you big issues then you need to start pulling switches out of your core until the traffic stops. Then go to that switch and start unplugging devices. Dodgy printer NIC might be my guess looking at the info you gave us.

Are all your clock synchronized between servers?

And the result is millions of tweets shortly to have broken links. 'tis one of the reasons why I host my own images (and short links) and don't rely on third parties.

@kevin_lane We don't have many negative comments at all on our twitter. One could argue that having a presence on the network reduces the potential for negative use of it directed at the school. If we see a negative comment, we would send a tweet to the users saying we're sorry they feel like this, please contact us directly at the school so we can resolve the issue. Nobody wants their dirty laundry aired in public, but a quick professional response pointing the user to the correct avenue to report an issue can nip the problem in the bud very quickly. In my experience on twitter, few people search for tweets that mention an account. For someone to see a negative tweet about a school, the third party would need to follow both the school and the person making the complaint. We've bagged a facebook page, but never used it. We should have probably before now. Perhaps this is a platform that might attract more serious complaints, due to the demographic of users. There is a larger parent to pupil ratio I'd argue. I guess if we ever get it off the ground, we will find out. Dealing with complaints isn't very much different on social media as it is in the real world. A parent comes into reception to make a complaint, and they are clearly very upset, generally a senior member of staff will take them off into a private place to ascertain the full facts, then deal with the matter quickly and fully. If you are not on the network used to complain about the school, you'll find it harder to find out about the issue. Which could leave the complaining party feeling like the school isn't interested in their complaint. @DrCheese Using both facebook and twitter, do you gear your output differently? From limited research here, I'd suggest the ratio of pupils to parents is very different on the networks. Pupils like twitter, where as parents, generally, like facebook. Generally I think the positives of social media engagement hugely outweigh the negatives.

You seem to have dragged up a seven year old thread - which I'm fairly sure is completely out of date? The vast majority of our staff have read only rights to our sims drive and can run updates when we've completed the server install.

I believe the address depends on the certificate. We requested a certificate as a subdomain of our normal web address. Ie. wifi.school.com. Upload the cert and that address becomes the default.

Yeah I think when a product built around keeping your stuff safe is so cheap I'm happy to pay the full whack. Genuinely couldn't do without lastpass, I hope these offers don't indicate a need for more customers to keep the service afloat.

Love the fact you type with a Leeds accent! Looks like a good plan - you didn't mention whether you decided on Cat 5e or 6 though...

Wire. I've done one link in my house, but the rest is power lines. They don't perform nearly as well. Plan to end up with wireless and wired in as many places as possible. We're geeks after all.

I think you'll need an SQL licence too if you want to use full blown SQL. We use SQLExpress for our DPM server (which is included on the DPM media) as it's more than capable for our DPM deployment.

I read an interesting article on driverless cars a while ago - all around the ethics. For example - how do you program a car to crash - they will at some point. Say a child runs out from behind a wall. There was no indication what so ever that it could have been there, and the car needs to decide - take evasive action, possibly into oncoming traffic, or hit the child? If we as individuals behind the wheel were put in that decision, we'd make different decisions. Driverless cars quite possibly make the decision based on the person who wrote the program - and in the event of an identical accident it would make the same decision. How about a crash where the driverless car is going to hit one of two motorbikes. One rider is wearing a helmet, the other (stupidly) is not. How do you program a car to make a decision? The rider with the helmet is statistically more likely to live - but should they be punished for wearing the correct equipment and following the laws or should the car be programmed to hit the rider who seems to take less regard of their life? Do we need to humanize the program and add in a random number generator to decide someones fate? I thought it was a fascinating subject.

It is very basic - but that will tick boxes for people who want a simple, familiar platform.

They have released a patch - it's likely the link is sat in your bursars inbox. It's publicly downloadable I think.

If your LEA has allocated IPs with a view to schools expanding, you may be able to do what @Michael suggested with their approval. It means you change the subnet mask, but you don't have to re-ip everything. My former LEA provider did not do this, and we had to re-ip everything when we ran out of addresses. Not a massive issue as long as you plan well.

There are various different reasons why your installers have quoted different amounts of APs. The biggest two being the wave pattern/radio technology and profit margins of each solution. We run unifi in three of our primary schools and ruckus in two - where we only visit once a week. All three have worked perfectly whilst we're not in the building. It's when we're in and changing things that they restart and kick everyone off!

I have used both solutions quite extensively and for bang for buck Unifi is amazing. However it is difficult to compare the two - they are not direct competitors in my view. Ruckus is a whole solution in a box and a fantastic one at that. If you want to complete some of the more advanced stuff that Ruckus can do on a unifi system, you'll need to also use Radius along side and probably some decent switches. If you already run radius, or just want a simple straight forward wireless network - unifi will do the job really well. What are your plans for your wireless network and do you expect them to be the same in three to five years time? School owned devices, BYOD, 1:1, Canteen tills?

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I've had a fitbit flex since Christmas. I think the most powerful thing is the app. Logging the exercise and hitting my active minutes target seems to motivate me best. I often get to the end of the day just a couple of hundred steps from my step target, but it doesn't make me walk round the block. The app got a big update a couple of weeks ago - it'll now track your walk run or cycle route. Only used it once so far though as it doesn't work so well in the gym!

Minecraft Edu is around half the price, but currently only available in US dollars I think (anyone know of a way a school can purchase using a purchase order?). Check out https://minecraftedu.com/about for more info.

Can you see if it has picked up a DHCP address? Worth trying the Web GUI?

Are you sure it's password protected? If you can't get into the CLI you might need to open the case and short the buttons on the circuit board. Which Procurve is it?

Any idea of an ETA @Marci?

The sims.net app is not designed for tablet use really. We have a MS Surface pro we've shoved it on, but the user feedback was poor. You have to use the pen to navigate small links, enlarging text caused links to move position. As for the surface, people found it heavy and hot. The next option is to look at iPads and Emerge, but this has it's limitations and extra licencing cost.

Thanks to both @Gibson335 and @caffrey for your answers. I know it's easy for me to suggest measures to reduce risk (and consequences of not doing so) but in practice it's much harder. As pointed out, sometimes the hardest battle is winning the hearts and minds of senior leaders who may think we are obstructing teaching and learning. Keep chipping away and hopefully you'll gain some ground. The move from Ofsted (for those who are inspected by them) to improve their inspection of eSafety, and to outline that Leadership and Management cannot achieve outstanding without suitable eSafety standards should speak volumes to our superiors. @caffrey - My suggestion of Radius was more to do with BYOD than school owed devices. School iPads might be better served using an MDM to connect to a SSID that has a long and complicated shared pass phrase. Your unifi wireless network may better served by another radius server too - I'm not sure how advanced the smoothwall one gets?