It’s been a while since I’ve been up close & personal with a nokia firewall , but recently I’ve needed to play.

The first thing I noticed was that the console cable has changed, now let’s not focus too much on the design floor where by you can’t actually get your fingers in properly to release the cable, but at least they got rid of the db9 type, serial thing that kept breaking.

The good news is, looking at the cable colours you can see that the cables are roll over cables - exactly the same as cisco use - great ! One less thing to carry around in the laptop bag

Been looking for something like this for a while…..

Nagios Checker | Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Corporation
The statusbar indicator of the events from the network monitoring system Nagios. Information is parsed from Nagios web interface. In the extension settings dialog simply fill the start page URL of your Nagios web interface, eg. http://www.yourfirm.com/nagios/ and let the button to locate status script url.

“Oh the anticipation will send me mad!”

Posting has been a bit slow, November really was a poor month ! The reason will become clear if you peak over to my new business site … yep that’s right, I have a local linickx !

I’ve been busy writing guides on some basic Internet stuff, and the really techie bits will end up here, hence my post about linux security.. it’s been a while since I’ve had to do some operation maintenance, but all the old favourites are back, in fact my nagios knowledge has improved so I’ll try and share that too !

November was a slow posting month, the reason being that I’m working on a rather time consuming project, one of the areas I’ve had to focus on again is Linux Security.

Security goes on and on forever, you can do as much or as little as you deem necessary, too much will consume resources*, too little opens you up to attack; this article talks about some steps I take, be advised tho’ this will generate a load of e-mails, and if you’re not going to read them why bother implementing them.