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 […]
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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