A PHP SNMP Library for People Who HATE SNMP, MIBs and OIDs!
I hate SNMP! But I have to use it on a daily basis with my company, Open Solutions. Don’t get me wrong, it’s an essential tool in the trade of network engineering but it’s also a serious PITA. Finding...
View ArticleNOCtools – A Mixed Bag of Tools and Utilities for NOC Engineers
NOCtools is a mixed bag of tools and utilities that are useful for NOC engineers. This project originally started out as a way to highlight and utilise our OSS_SNMP library (a PHP SNMP library for...
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Monitoring Asterisk via SNMP (with OSS_SNMP)
Over on the company blog, we just announced that we committed a complete Asterisk MIB implementation to OSS_SNMP in addition to a proof of concept Asterisk wallboard to NOCtools which includes active...
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Centralised Logging
I’m currently looking at some centralised logging tools and the following stand out: Octopussy – one I cam across a long time ago but looking at some of the others below it may be past its sell by...
View ArticleTracking and Stalking on the WWW
I followed a link to a TED talk by Gary Kovacs, CEO of the Mozilla Corporation, earlier today in which he talks about the use of cookies and embedded objects to track us through the Internet. I always...
View ArticleNagios Plugin for Checking Backups via rsnapshot
We’ve just added a check_rsnapshot.php script to our nagios-plugins bundle on Github. This script will verify rsnapshot backups via Nagios using a number of checks / tests: minfiles - checks the number...
View ArticleAdventures with LDAP (OpenLDAP) – SSL, Multi-Master Replication and Monitoring
In my career to date, I successfully managed to avoid all but the periphery engagement in OpenLDAP. Until recently that is – we had to build a Microsoft Exchange like environment with open source...
View ArticleWoot! We hit 50Gbps at INEX!
Quietly at just after 10pm, #INEX traffic went over 50Gig for the first time – 51.178Gig. Taking bets on when we hit 100! #peeringprizes — INEX (@ComePeerWithMe) January 31, 2013
View ArticleMySQL 5.6 – Memcached / NoSQL Support and More
MySQL 5.6 has been released with some interesting new features and performance increases: What’s New in MySQL 5.6 DBA and Developer Guide to MySQL 5.6 InnoDB Integration with memcached:MySQL 5.6...
View ArticleSynchronising Microsoft Exchange to Another IMAP Server
This post is much less of a detailed how-to but rather some useful links. We were tasked with the job of sync’ing about 1,000 MS Exchange mailboxes to a Dovecot server. This needed to be done via an...
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