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. […]
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