The quiz asks questions such as whether participants plan to use wireless devices, how they rate their technical skills and whether they are installing the operating system on a desktop or portable computer.
Once the quiz is complete, the applications recommends one particular Linux distribution and lists a number of alternative distributions, along with the criteria they failed on.
Linux Distribution Chooser [zegenie Studios]
Cisco NAC (Network Admission Control) enable security policy enforcement on end-devices attaching to the network. This video produced by net-security.org reveals a critical vulnerability:
Read more…
The check_ups plugin was created to facilitate monitoring of a number of UPS vendor products. To use the plugin you will need to install UPSD daemon distributed with Russel Kroll’s Smart UPS Tools on the remote host. (See the REQUIREMENTS at the end of this post).
I do however believe that this plugin works with the old NUT API, which has been deprecated when switching from 1.4 to 2.0 version of NUT.
Read more…
These are specified in the $NAGIOSHOME/etc/checkcommands.cfg file. Where there are parameters available for a command, these can be passed through from services.cfg.
Read more…
Booting up the Router
Cisco routers can boot Cisco IOS software from these locations:
1. Flash memory
2. TFTP server
3. ROM (not full Cisco IOS)
There are some options which provide flexibility and fallback alternatives: Read more…
Cisco announced more details on its plans to bring IP routers to the world of satellites (or shall we say ‘solar system of satellites’?).
At its Cisco Live user conference last week, the company said that it was about to launch a trial run of its Internet Routers In Space (IRIS) program with the US defense department. READ MORE AND VIEW VIDEO:
Read more…
If you want to practice radius configuration, or if you are testing a Cisco RADIUS setup without having access to the production server, here is a nice solution and sample config.
The Cisco configuration is for the IOS. If you want to know how to configure on CatOS, read this post Read more…
This has been available since IOS 12.3(4)T/12.2(25)S. For each configuration command that is executed, the following information will be logged:
• The command that was executed
• The configuration mode in which the command was executed
• The name of the user that executed the command
• The time at which the command was executed
• A configuration change sequence number
• Parser return codes for the command
You can have this information stored in a local buffer or sent to a syslog server. Here’s a basic configuration that will get you going:
Read more…
Have you lost or corrupted an IOS? These procedures descibe:
- How to recover an IOS from rommon using TFTP
- How to recover an IOS from switch: prompt using Xmodem Read more…
BPDU guard and root guard are similar, but their impact is different. BPDU guard disables the port upon BPDU reception if PortFast is enabled on the port. Read more…
