Rackstuds are one of those things that you didn’t know you needed until you first get some. Cage nuts have caused me more pain than just about any other non-powered piece of hardware I’ve ever used. I’ve been pinched, bled and even hit in the nose(they can fly I tell you) by cage nuts. What’s […]
This post was originally posted to my old blog January 25, 2012. In previous posts, I’ve explained terminology, color coding, and how to trace cables. Now it’s time to actually connect something. As I showed in the first post of this series, there are two styles of punch down blocks for telephony, the 66 block, […]
This article was originally posted to my old blog on January 23, 2012. One of the first things that I learned in my foray into the world of telephony was how to effectively use a cable toner. Although I had used a toner before to trace network cabling, it was a different ball game using […]
This post was originally published January 19, 2012 on my old blog. Telephony is definitely not an area for the color blind. Telephone cables and wires are all color coded to help with pair identification. Mainly in older installations you will find the Bell Company solid color code which was as follows: Pair One Green […]
This is the first of a multipart series of articles on Telephony from my old blog that I’ve decided to recycle. It was originally posted January 10th, 2012. My last post generated a lot of comments about what I would call traditional telephony or what VoIP (IPT) installers refer to as Analog, Public Telephone Switched […]
Although I don’t currently run LibreNMS in my own network, it is one of those tools that I keep in my toolbox. LibreNMS is a fork of the Observium project. The tool is written in PHP and can be run on any Linux with either Apache or NGINX. Setup One of the reasons I like […]
I’m often asked what my favorite tools are for networking. Today I’m going to feature one of them. Switchmap has been in my toolbox for many years. It was created as an Open Source project by Peter Siemsen. The tool is a set of Perl scripts that are run periodically, usually by a cron job. […]
A long time ago in what almost seems like another galaxy, I was a server jockey. I was doing Linux before Linux was cool. BASH and Perl were my go to tools. Fast forward to now and the Windows server guys have finally found the joy of the shell script through PowerShell. PowerShell isn’t just […]
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