by skufel | Dec 8, 2011 | Automation, Infrastructure, Scripting, SysAdmin
Some time ago I received request to automate file transfer between FTP server and Development systems. Both, FTP server and Development system, are Windows-based. FTP server was running FTP over SSL only, so that automatically eliminated built-in Windows FTP...
by skufel | Nov 29, 2011 | Automation, Infrastructure, Network
/etc/rancid/rancid.conf In this article you can find description of parameters in rancid.conf. By changing parameters in this file you can impact the way RANCID will behave, collect and process collected information. You can also define type of version control...
by skufel | Nov 29, 2011 | Automation, Infrastructure, Network, Scripting
RANCID is a great automation tool which allows you to collect configuration from network devices and store in repository with version control (CVS or SVN). In this article I will show you how to install RANCID and prepare to work on openSUSE 11.4 with subversion as...
by skufel | Nov 28, 2011 | Automation, Infrastructure, Network, SysAdmin
Quick installation how-to for Nagios on openSUSE 11.4 “Celadon” platform. Same procedure applies to other versions of opeSUSE platform. I’m using version 11.4 for my LAB purposes. lab-gw-01:~ # zypper install nagios > nagios-devel \ >...
by skufel | Nov 23, 2011 | Directory Services, Infrastructure
ADAM (Active Directory Application Mode) was predeccesor of ADLDS and Microsoft distributed it as additional download. Now in Windows Server 2008 R2 ADLDS (Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services) are built0in server role. ADLDS offers LDAP-based directory...
by skufel | Nov 15, 2011 | Infrastructure, Network
Create Read Only SNMPv3 user – IOS snmp-server group viewers v3 auth snmp-server user snmpView viewers v3 auth md5 uHNKmuLP0lXOp8ODFkmJ snmp-server group viewers v3 auth read viewConfig snmp-server view viewConfig system included snmp-server view viewConfig...