IT Blog The other day, a smart user (i consider him evil) attached a ADSL modem to the network port. What he didn't realize that his device was programmed to work as DHCP server. As a result, the whole vlan started getting the wrong IP address, and connectivity was lost. After investigation, we realized a r...
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IT Blog Welcome, thanks for stopping by to check us out and share in our common interest/passion for Data Center Automation. My mission with this blog is to provide insights and coaching perspectives around 1) leveraging software to automate data center management functions and 2) helping identify and sele...
IT Blog As a semi-paranoid admin like me, perhaps you have used (or have wanted to use) applications like Tripwire and Kiwi CatTools to log all Cisco IOS configuration changes. However, maybe we don't need external tools. Have you seen the Configuraton Change Notification and Logging features? It has been...
IT Blog Network security is one of those topics where everyone has an opinion, but there's no way to know what's right until you try it. We've tried to alleviate the need to frantically practice trial-and-error on every last network security product for the enterprise by polling IT Knowledge Exchange member...
IT Blog In this sort of configuration, which is pretty normal actually, I would but the SQL Server binaries on the C drive. Denny
IT Blog Exchange has a great feature called message tracking that enables you to track messages. It works for both directions inbound/outbound it also does internal messages. This function has a low overhead so I leave it enabled so I can get my hands on the info when I want,although I do have a la...
IT Blog I recently received the following question related to debugging: Debugging takes up a lot of my team's time. What are some shortcuts, process changes or alternatives that can reduce the need to debug frequently? How can TDD or IDE help? Figuring out what process changes you might be able to make to...
IT Blog Not the best of weeks for Team Oracle in or out of the water. First came reports late Tuesday that the European Commission (EC) was nearing a decision to issue an official statement of objection over Oracle's proposed bid to acquire Sun Microsystems. Issuing such a statement is largely considered t...
Oracle database, MySQL, open source database IT Blog I've decided that since I shall start learning Juniper, widen the horizon. First anyone starting Juniper will have to get the associate certificate, JNCIA-JUNOS. The topics that are covered can be seen from the website exam topics. They include: Junos OS Fundamentals Explain the Junos OS architec...
juniper, Certification, track IT Blog Hi folks! So as I previously mentioned in my blogs, the age of IPv4 is quickly dying out. The exhaustion of the address space will probably happen some time in 2012 according to industry experts. So how does one track this if they have an iPhone? Well of course, there's an app for that! There's an ...
IPv4 exhaustion counter, app, iPhone IT Blog In a previous blog entry (Using Text Capture in HyperTerminal to backup and restore your Cisco IOS configuration) I demonstrated how to use the Hyperterminal Text Capture to backup your Cisco IOS configuration. In this post, you can see how to restore that Cisco IOS configuration. Here is how you d...
IT Blog This gem didn't have a home on any of our sites, but I didn't want the reporting to go to waste. So it's going underground on the Enterprise Linux Log. On that note, enjoy some session coverage from LinuxWorld 2007! SAN FRANCISCO -- Everyone in IT uses storage in their data center, therefore everyo...
IT Blog Even when you think you've elicited and validated all of your stakeholders' requirements, you're still bound to have users who are unhappy with an application or a feature within an application. Determining what the problem is and what users would prefer, however, can be challenging. But a feature i...
Software Quality, Agile software development, Requirements gathering IT Blog VMTN Communities forum users have recently been asking how to make use of a LUN or partition on your local host within a virtual machine (VM) the same way you would if you had a SAN available. This is a more difficult task than some, and not every RAID controller allows this when using the VMware In...
Edward L. Haletky, Texiwill, VMware ESX IT Blog SQL> select user from dual; USER ------------------------------ Rich :-) Hi, My name is Rich and I've started yet another Oracle blog for you to keep track of (use Google Reader, it rocks!). Will this one be better than the rest? Different from them? How about at least above average? Proba...
IT Blog The Los Angeles Police Department and the Florida Highway Patrol will be the first two beta testers for the StarChase Fixed/Mobile Asset Tracking System. More cop technology designed to make car chases obsolete. The StarChase system, which is fairly low tech compared to other schemes like HPEM...
Gps, Asset management, Technology IT Blog For some time now, Linux has been the dominant operating system in high performance computing. For everything from IBM, with its rockstar status supercomputer Blue Gene, to NEC or U.S. HPC players SGI and HP--the bulk of the leading HPC clusters today are Linux-based. Four of the top five HPC sys...
IT Blog As with any IT architecture item, to address the entitys processing needs, virtual machines require execution of effective configuration management. Application of effective configuration management principles and practices enables management to reduce the risk of requiring back-out due to ina...
Availability, Hypervisor, Multiprocessing IT Blog The various iterations of the iPhone Configuration Utility could be successfully used in smaller, depot-style support environments, but the tools as currently structured lack the security and remote reach for large deployments to use effectively. Andrew Garcia, Apple's iPhone Configuration Util...
IT Blog Microsoft announced a number of updates to the Windows Azure cloud platform at TechEd 2010 in New Orleans this week. The biggest of these was support for the .NET 4 runtime and with it, parallel libraries, routing and IntelliTrace. Other updates included: Visual Studio 2010 support and direct ser...
IT Blog I've recently written several articles on new backup and storage features in vSphere and spent a lot of time trying to learn more about the vStorage APIs and the new Changed Block Tracking (CBT) feature to understand how it works, so I thought I would share that information. CBT is a new feature in...
IT Blog With everything in place you can now start suricata. [code]suricata -c /usr/local/etc/suricata.yaml -i em0[/code] Got a good start. [code]70 rule files processed. 7977 rules succesfully loaded, 5 rules failed[/code] Here is the 5 that did not load, I only added the emerging threats rules not the...
suricata freebsd, suricata install, suricata install freebsd IT Blog The federal government was given an overall grade of C-minus for information security improvements from 2005 to 2006, according to a report released today by Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), who heads the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee. Here's a link to the FISMA '06 report card. The C-minu...
IT Blog A question on the forum got me wondering about setting the Alternative Configuration on a TCP/IP properties of a network adapter. NICs are normally configured to either DHCP or a static address. If you use DHCP another tab Alternative Configuration appears on the IPv4 properties dialog. This c...
