This is the 3′rd time I am implementing the free version of Zenoss on different companies, and I can’t get enough of it.
Zenoss is an snmp monitoring tool. it has a very cool modern interface, Its very simple and easy to use, low maintenance, and efficient.
Zenoss Dashboard
Adding a new device to monitor is a matter of seconds. Nagios plugins can be used, and of course writing your own.
I really liked the alerts managing , which makes it very easy to filter out devices, get exactly the alerts you want, and by default there are hardly ever false alarms (I had 2 false alarms which needed to be tuned from 100 devices on 3 different places)
If you still don’t use Zenoss, or you use Nagios, you might wanna check this great tool, i guarantee you will come back here to praise it.
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You have an ip address but you dont know where the machine is connected
if you are lucky and you have a cisco managed switches in your network you can easily use this perl script to know where the machine is connected to based on its MAC address.
easy to find the MAC address by pinging the ip and issue an ‘arp -a’ command to get the mac address of that ip.
the script currently supports Catalyst 2900 3500 and 4500 series switches.
you have the example ini file 2950.ini which show you the format the script will except, basically it’s: |ip:name or description|
the script will ask for the password for the switches (console password) and not the enable which not needed.
it will ask for the mac address to look for.
you’ll have to reformat the mac address you feed the script from XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX to XXXX.XXXX.XXXX
and then it will produce a formated result giving you the switch and the port its connected.
this script is very useful to find new or non documented pc.
i came up with that after i have found an ip address of a dirty pc that had a virus on it and it kept infecting new pc’s in one of the networks i came accross to.
hope it will help you as much as it did for me, any comments will be appreciated you can use the forum freely.
Thanks,
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Texas based company “Fenner Investments” sues microsoft nintendo and sony for infrigment of the company’s patent – “Low-voltage joystick port interface”
The patent, filed in 1998 and later awarded in 2001, is summarized: “The joystick port interface according the present invention is a low power port which interfaces a typical 5 Volt joystick peripheral device with a lower power computer port.The low-voltage joystick port interface includes a bidirectional buffer circuit and a pulse generator which, together, generate a digital pulse signal, representing a joystick coordinate position, based on an input analog measurement signal.”
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Telegraph reports that terrorists in IRAQ using print outs of Google maps to pinpoint attacks on British Troops.
I wonder how far would Google expanding authority get…
As a google Fan, i use alot of what Google has to offer, however i can’t stop thinking about the expanding power Google has on us.
Lack of privacy was already talked about, but it doesnt stop poeple from using Gmail to recieve bank statements or classified company documents.
what about google’s cache which is now a feature of all other search engines too?
Imagin a harmful picture or an article on some website which was dropped after legal actions, however this picture or article is probably still available on search engines cache.
Another expanding behavior of search engines, is to adapt google’s Adsense trick.
If you are using your Gmail for bank statements or delicate private stuff keep in mind that having Adsense in Gmail and seeing ads chaning based on the content of your emails just explicitly point out “We ARE watching you…”
And now Terrorists taking google’s advandages off the web.
I just can’t wait to see how far this can go…
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