- Joined
- Nov 29, 2001
- Location
- NC, USA
Who's got one? I just got a promotion to Network Administrator where I work. I'm in healthcare I.T. I have been pretty much running the Help Desk there for the last few years, as well as wearing the hats of:
Technical admin for radiology (Carestream PACS administration)
Technical admin for Surgery (PICIS Healthcare Suite)
Enterprise AV admin
Sophos WS1000 internet security appliance
WSUS admin
Barracuda BSF400 admin
Barracuda BSW460 admin
A few other odds and ends, but that's neither here nor there. The barracudas and the web filtering appliances will come along to network side with me, as will the AV server. Anyway, I'm stoked about the promotion. This is where I have always wanted to go. I have virtually no Cisco networking experience, but have impressed my superiors over the past few years, and they have given me the opportunity. Really pretty cool
Anyhoo, on to the reason for the new thread..
So I'm not around here that much any more, haven't been for a while. Re-married, couple kids, house to maintain, working in healthcare I.T, and just overall rediculously busy. I visit and lurk a lot, but rarely ever post. I wanted to jump on here and see who is around that is in the field, and to see what advice they might have to offer. My manager has requested that I acheive my CCNA within 90 days of starting the new position, and to do it with only self-study. This means no Cisco boot camp, or real lab work, nothing. The current netork admin, who I will be working under, is not sure it's possible. I have a few books and have started studying. I have always been pretty proficient with microsoft client side networking, but not so much with anything Cisco. If there are CCNA's or CCNP's or maybe even a CCIE lurking around here, feel free to post up any helpful tools you may know of that would be helpful while preparing for the CCNA exams. I have brought home an 1800 series router, and a 3560 switch, so I can set this stuff up downstairs to mess around with. I've also installed GNS3 on both work and home PC's and gotten a few IOS images and generic config files from the other network admin. So this is enough to get started I think, but time is short, I need to be efficient!
Technical admin for radiology (Carestream PACS administration)
Technical admin for Surgery (PICIS Healthcare Suite)
Enterprise AV admin
Sophos WS1000 internet security appliance
WSUS admin
Barracuda BSF400 admin
Barracuda BSW460 admin
A few other odds and ends, but that's neither here nor there. The barracudas and the web filtering appliances will come along to network side with me, as will the AV server. Anyway, I'm stoked about the promotion. This is where I have always wanted to go. I have virtually no Cisco networking experience, but have impressed my superiors over the past few years, and they have given me the opportunity. Really pretty cool
Anyhoo, on to the reason for the new thread..
So I'm not around here that much any more, haven't been for a while. Re-married, couple kids, house to maintain, working in healthcare I.T, and just overall rediculously busy. I visit and lurk a lot, but rarely ever post. I wanted to jump on here and see who is around that is in the field, and to see what advice they might have to offer. My manager has requested that I acheive my CCNA within 90 days of starting the new position, and to do it with only self-study. This means no Cisco boot camp, or real lab work, nothing. The current netork admin, who I will be working under, is not sure it's possible. I have a few books and have started studying. I have always been pretty proficient with microsoft client side networking, but not so much with anything Cisco. If there are CCNA's or CCNP's or maybe even a CCIE lurking around here, feel free to post up any helpful tools you may know of that would be helpful while preparing for the CCNA exams. I have brought home an 1800 series router, and a 3560 switch, so I can set this stuff up downstairs to mess around with. I've also installed GNS3 on both work and home PC's and gotten a few IOS images and generic config files from the other network admin. So this is enough to get started I think, but time is short, I need to be efficient!