Cisco – Tunnel Async Data

December 10th, 2009 by admin

Tunnel Async Data
VER A 7/23/03
As an example, assume that async RS-232 devices are to be connected by leased line modems. Instead, the leased line modems are replaced with Cisco comm servers. Plug the RS-232 devices into async lines on the Cisco comm servers and connect the comm servers via an arbitrary topology IP network.  In [...]

Installing CentOS 5.4 using NetInstall

December 3rd, 2009 by admin

This document explains HOWTO use CentOS NetInstall to install CentOS using a FTP server.

Download : CentOS NetInstall and CentOS 5.4 DVD

CentOS NetInstall is basically installing from a very small downloaded ISO.

* Download CentOS NetInstall and burn it to a CD
* Download Cent)S 5.4 DVD and unzip it to c:\centos
* On your Windows machine install FileZilla (FileZilla Wiki)

AppSnap

September 14th, 2009 by admin

AppSnap
AppSnap is an application that simplifies installation of software. It automatically figures out the latest version, downloads the installer and then installs the software in one seamless step. AppSnap is primarily designed for Windows which does not have any decent package manager such as APT and RPM as in the Linux world.
Features
* Detect latest and [...]

Finding a computer connected to a CAT OS Switch

September 8th, 2009 by admin

If you know the MAC address use the following format:
sh cam 00-30-48-66-5A-D6
If you do not know the MAC address use the following to find it:
sh cam dynamic
If you know the VLAN and to make your search a little easier user the following:
sh cam dynamic 20
20 is the VLAN your machine is connected to.

Linux Mint – Best OS?

August 18th, 2009 by admin

One of my buddies was installing about three diffrent type of Linux OS a day. Yes, he like that .
He came upon Linux Mint and it was the best looking Linux we’ve see, not only did it look good, all my hardware worked right after install.
Linux Mint is an Ubuntu-based distribution whose goal [...]

Openfire – Does your company need a private Instant Messanger Server

June 15th, 2009 by admin

Installing Openfire on CentOS 5.5
The install process takes less than 15 minutes.

Do a basic install of CentOS with mySQL support and any other packages you want.
Installing Java:

If you don’t have Java install do the following:
Download Java from (java.com) and do the following:
mkdir /usr/java
cp jre-6u13-linux-i586-rpm.bin /usr/java
cd /usr/java
sh jre-6u13-linux-i586-rpm.bin
rpm -iv jre-6u13-linux-i586-rpm.bin

Installing Openfire 3.6.4:

(At the time of [...]

Openfiler — Openfiler Community

May 11th, 2009 by admin

Openfiler is a powerful, intuitive browser-based network storage software distribution. Openfiler ScreenshotsOpenfiler delivers file-based Network Attached Storage and block-based Storage Area Networking in a single framework.
Openfiler is built on the rPath Linux metadistribution and is distributed as a stand-alone Linux distribution. The entire software stack interfaces with third-party software that is all open source.
File-based networking [...]

NMIS (Network Management Information System) on CentOS 5.3

April 29th, 2009 by admin

This is my version for installing NMIS on CentOS 5.3
Some of this documentation came from http://www.sins.com.au/nmis
NOTES:
Root User information:
root/password
NMIS User information:
nmis/password
SSH enable
Security Disable (Firewall and SELinux)

OS Install :

Default CentOS install

PERL 5.6.0 or higher – http://www.cpan.org/ports/index.html
Apache – http://www.apache.org/dist/

Starting httpd @ startup
service httpd status (most install it’s stopped)
chkconfig –level 345 httpd on
[...]

Learning Perl with SNMP Part I

March 31st, 2009 by admin

Ok my first stab at it was great (snmp.pl)
#!/usr/bin/perl
$SNMP_GET_CMD = “snmpget -v1 -c public -Ovq”;
$SNMP_TARGET = “1.1.1.2″;
chomp($model = `${SNMP_GET_CMD} ${SNMP_TARGET} 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0`);
chomp($serial = `${SNMP_GET_CMD} ${SNMP_TARGET} 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.4.0`);
$model =~ s/\”//g;      # Ditch the quotes.
$serial =~ s/\”//g;
print <<END;
APC UPS                         ${SNMP_TARGET}
Model: ${model}         Serial No: ${serial}
END
The output:
APC UPS                         1.1.1.2
Model: 33:17:35:52.07         Serial No: NOC 555-555-5555
Basically I’m using snmp-get from a command line [...]

Diffrent Linux flavors

February 20th, 2009 by admin

This is what my buddy MikeRoo said about the different Linux flavors:
Thin (slack/debian), there’s normal (mint/cent), there’s thick (pclinuxos) then there’s obese (fedora/suse).