I’ve had some “amusing” times with my ntop server(s) lately… Ntop has been my tool of choice when it comes to monitoring network traffic for a couple years now. It generally does exactly what I need it to do. For the last year or so I’ve happily been running it from a CentOS Linux
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I manage a handful of WatchGuard Firebox Edge series firewalls at work. I’m generally pretty happy with them and have found that they do just what I need done.
Lately I’ve been wrestling with some provider issues and have been trying to get some better data on sporadic network outages. That caused me to look closer
Continue reading Sending WatchGuard logs to Syslog
I have two CentOS based servers at the office. Both built within a day or so of each other and both with the same set of packages.
As mentioned last week, I have both servers setup to notify me when updates are ready (as opposed to automatically updating themselves). However, I’m not quite sure how much
Continue reading Widely Varying Update Notifications?
With my new CentOS (Linux) servers, I wanted to be sure that I didn’t fall in to the trap of having them do any sort of automatic updates. I don’t do that with Windows servers and I sure don’t intend to start with Linux servers either! That way lies madness, right?
Most of my Linux experience
Continue reading Automating Update Notification — NOT Automating Updates
As mentioned in a post last week, I’m rolling out some Linux based web servers at work (CentOS to start with). This will allow me to handle the assorted LAMP stack web apps that we use or would like to use in the future (currently WordPress and Joomla!, for example).
Up to this point I’d had
Continue reading I Want to Be Like a Web Host. I think.