by skufel | Dec 11, 2011 | Automation, Infrastructure, Network, System Center
As we can download SCOM 2012 RC from Microsoft, I decided to do quick installation in LAB environment. Whole test environment is based on VMware Workstation 8. Deployment of SCOM 2012 will be spread across few servers to separate certain functions (in fact similar to...
by skufel | Dec 8, 2011 | Infrastructure, Network, Virtualization
VMware Workstation and GNS3 are two platforms which are very handy to test and evaluate solutions before live implementation. By default each of those platforms is separate, however both have components which allow integration. What that means is that it is possible...
by skufel | Dec 8, 2011 | Infrastructure, Network
This is simple Lab environment I built when was working on IPsec VPN tunnel between our internal network environment and 3rd party vendor systems. As we had some issues with establishing IPsec communication, to make sure that everything is fine on my side I start...
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 \ >...
