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fwd.scott.a
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fwd.scott.aEmployee
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Is adding AI to robots a good idea?

This is both incredibly amazing and absolutely frightening. The cat is extremely out of the bag now.Boston Dynamics put a generative AI into the robot dog Spot. And there are different personalities.  

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davetee
Community Manager
steve
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steveEmployee
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Operational Excellence in the Digital Age (Nov 14 - Atlanta, GA)

If you are in/near the Atlanta area on Nov 14, please join me at this Optm event where I will presenting with other executives from Optm, Infoblox, BigPanda, and LogicMonitor.  I’d love to connect in person, and happy to have additional conversations. Event Registration

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steve
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natEmployee
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Happy Halloween!

We had a fun costume contest for Forward employees and their fur babies. Here are the winners!Our co-founder, Peyman, won Best Costume!Our infra engineer, Manuel, won Most Original Costume!Our apps engineering manager, Gayathri, won Scariest Costume!Gayathri’s dog, Nash, won Best Pet Costume!What do you think of the costumes? Do you have any fun ones to share of your own? 🎃

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steve
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captainpacket
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Attaching instances to multiple VPCs

You can now attach EC2 interfaces to multiple different VPCs in AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/10/multi-vpc-eni-attachments/ The implications of this are pretty huge - previously to control access (with a firewall, etc) between VPCs you needed to use a Transit Gateway, generally associated with a centralized applicance via a Gateway load balancer.  This solution is great and scales very well, but its probably overkill for smaller environments. What if you only have 2-4 VPCs?  This solution would work great - simple attach your NVA interfaces to different VPCs and modify your route tables accordingly.  This eliminates the cost and complexity of TGWs, keeping all the performance benefits. What use cases can you see for this new functionality?  Off the top of my head, you could also provide remote access without using a VPN gateway too.  I’m sure there are more. This also models correctly out of the box in Forward as well :)

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captainpacket
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gschmittRamping Up
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Log into devices using an SSH jump server to connect to a telnet server

Is it possible to use a SSH jump server to log into a Telnet server, and then from there log into each of the devices?

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Kachow
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Splunk / SIEM Integration

I’d like to use FN APIs to integrate with Splunk and SIEM / Security systems. Has anyone else done this?

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GTurner
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mrollin
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Character Restrictions on Tags

Are there any character restrictions for tags? I would like to use ’ : ‘ in a tag as a namespace but want to be sure there won't be any caveats. I don't see anything in the docs.

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mrollin
mrollin
mrollinRamping Up
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How to create SSL Certs for Forward?

How do you create a custom SSL certificate for the fwd web interface?

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Tyson Henrie
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cHaRamping Up
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How to connect external data sources?

Is there a way to connect external sources to a postgres database or consume a postgres DB backup? We cannot collect directly from type 1 encryptors but we can get a backup of the encryptor manager DB

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Tyson Henrie
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cHaRamping Up
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Path Search Ranking

For Path Search Ranking, will devices that have a more specific subnet always rank higher than devices with a less specific subnet as the ingress device for a path?

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rob
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JenRamping Up
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How do we license HA Active/Standby clusters?

We want to run two clusters in HA Active/Standby. We deployed one cluster yesterday and licensed it. We deployed the second cluster today. I am unclear on how we would license the second cluster. I assume we need a second deployment, but can I apply the same license to that new deployment, or would it require a new license as well?

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m5lbenoit
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catbanks
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How to check snapshots logs?

Snapshots stopped working several days ago. Is there a way to check logs to determine the root cause?

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deronjohnson
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area_man
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What outside access does Forward need?

Can you confirm where Forward would need access to upgrades so we can add those policies to our Firewall? (Ex AWS, S3, Gitlab etc). Also, if there’s any other reason Forward Networks would need to reach externally.Thanks

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joe
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