Don MacVittie
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There is an abundance of mature desktop virtualization solutions that are outright free or at least reasonable. From VMware’s Workstation (at cost after 30-day trial, but entirely worth it) to Oracle’s VirtualBox and Microsoft’s Virtual PC, you can get started in literally minutes. Why would you want to? Trivial backups. Tired of losing a drive and having to restore first the OS, then the applications, and finally your files? Once everything is hosted on a virtual disk, keeping that backed up frequently means a physical disk failure costs you only the time to restore the hardware...
Hello, version 10! Product launches are always exciting, for the vendors as well as the vendees, and this is no exception. I was a customer when F5 made the jump to v9, and having used the BIG-IP/3-DNS products for a couple years at that point, I was a little concerned at the magnitude of change. That evaporated quickly as I began navigating around the UI and diving into the pleasure that is iRules. So it is today with the announcement of version 10. There is an astounding level of product growth in v.10, not just with GTM, but that's our...
Welcome back for another episode of the ABC's of NSM. What's NSM you say? We'll go with Network and System Management, but you could throw Security in there as well. We'll work our way through the alphabet over the next several weeks looking at tools and concepts along the way for all the administrators out there. By the way, you can thank Joe for the format & Don for the title (I couldn't for the life of me come up with one.) Today's letter P is for Pyrlshell, my made up word for Perl, Python, & Powershell. All...
Welcome back for another episode of the ABC's of NSM. What's NSM you say? We'll go with Network and System Management, but you could throw Security in there as well. We'll work our way through the alphabet over the next several weeks looking at tools and concepts along the way for all the administrators out there. By the way, you can thank Joe for the format & Don for the title (I couldn't for the life of me come up with one.) I just realized looking back at the last entry for Nagios that it's been two weeks! Where...
Welcome back for another episode of the ABC's of NSM. What's NSM you say? We'll go with Network and System Management, but you could throw Security in there as well. We'll work our way through the alphabet over the next several weeks looking at tools and concepts along the way for all the administrators out there. By the way, you can thank Joe for the format & Don for the title (I couldn't for the life of me come up with one.) Today's letter N is for Nagios. Nagios is a web-based monitoring platform primarily focused on host and...
Welcome back for another episode of the ABC's of NSM. What's NSM you say? We'll go with Network and System Management, but you could throw Security in there as well. We'll work our way through the alphabet over the next several weeks looking at tools and concepts along the way for all the administrators out there. By the way, you can thank Joe for the format & Don for the title (I couldn't for the life of me come up with one.) Today's letter M is for MaxQ. No, not the high-flying performance bar of my beloved St. Louis...
Welcome back for another episode of the ABC's of NSM. What's NSM you say? We'll go with Network and System Management, but you could throw Security in there as well. We'll work our way through the alphabet over the next several weeks looking at tools and concepts along the way for all the administrators out there. By the way, you can thank Joe for the format & Don for the title (I couldn't for the life of me come up with one.) Today's letter L is for Looking Glass. A looking glass is a web front-end (or in some...
Welcome back for another episode of the ABC's of NSM. What's NSM you say? We'll go with Network and System Management, but you could throw Security in there as well. We'll work our way through the alphabet over the next several weeks looking at tools and concepts along the way for all the administrators out there. By the way, you can thank Joe for the format & Don for the title (I couldn't for the life of me come up with one.) Today's letter K is for Knoppix. Knoppix is no longer unique now that pretty much every linux distribution...
Welcome back for another episode of the ABC's of NSM. What's NSM you say? We'll go with Network and System Management, but you could throw Security in there as well. We'll work our way through the alphabet over the next several weeks looking at tools and concepts along the way for all the administrators out there. By the way, you can thank Joe for the format & Don for the title (I couldn't for the life of me come up with one.) Today's letter J is for Jail. Actually, the *nix command is chroot, but it has long been affectionately...
Welcome back for another episode of the ABC's of NSM. What's NSM you say? We'll go with Network and System Management, but you could throw Security in there as well. We'll work our way through the alphabet over the next several weeks looking at tools and concepts along the way for all the administrators out there. By the way, you can thank Joe for the format & Don for the title (I couldn't for the life of me come up with one.) Today's letter I is for Iperf. Iperf is an open-source tool for measuring max TCP or UDP...
Welcome back for another episode of the ABC's of NSM. What's NSM you say? We'll go with Network and System Management, but you could throw Security in there as well. We'll work our way through the alphabet over the next several weeks looking at tools and concepts along the way for all the administrators out there. By the way, you can thank Joe for the format & Don for the title (I couldn't for the life of me come up with one.) Today's letter H is for HPing, a command line utility with origins in security but robust enough...
Welcome back for another episode of the ABC's of NSM. What's NSM you say? We'll go with Network and System Management, but you could throw Security in there as well. We'll work our way through the alphabet over the next several weeks looking at tools and concepts along the way for all the administrators out there. By the way, you can thank Joe for the format & Don for the title (I couldn't for the life of me come up with one.) Today's letter G is for Ganglia. Ganglia is an open-source monitoring system specifically designed to meet the...
Welcome back for another episode of the ABC's of NSM. What's NSM you say? We'll go with Network and System Management, but you could throw Security in there as well. We'll work our way through the alphabet over the next several weeks looking at tools and concepts along the way for all the administrators out there. By the way, you can thank Joe for the format & Don for the title (I couldn't for the life of me come up with one.) Today's letter F is for FreeRADIUS, an open-source package allowing administrators to host a RADIUS (remote...
Wow, what a night! We officially launched DevCentral-China last night (US perspective, it was a morning launch in China). I really didn't know what to expect, but I have to tell you--it was wildly cool. Jeff built a page on DevCentral for the live event, incorporating streaming video feeds from Shanghai where Dan Matte, our Senior VP of Marketing presented with the F5 China team at an Internet cafe, F5 corporate with Jeff, Joe, & Colin, and from the US Midwest with me & Don. Also on the page: a live chat session for panelists and guests alike, integrating...
Welcome back for another episode of the ABC's of NSM. What's NSM you say? We'll go with Network and System Management, but you could throw Security in there as well. We'll work our way through the alphabet over the next several weeks looking at tools and concepts along the way for all the administrators out there. By the way, you can thank Joe for the format & Don for the title (I couldn't for the life of me come up with one.) Today's letter E is for Enterprise Manager, F5's own home-grown appliance for managing the Big-IP product...
Welcome back for another episode of the ABC's of NSM. What's NSM you say? We'll go with Network and System Management, but you could throw Security in there as well. We'll work our way through the alphabet over the next several weeks looking at tools and concepts along the way for all the administrators out there. By the way, you can thank Joe for the format & Don for the title (I couldn't for the life of me come up with one.) Today's letter D is for DummyNet, a network protocol testing package first implemented in 1998 in the...
Welcome back for another episode of the ABC's of NSM. What's NSM you say? We'll go with Network and System Management, but you could throw Security in there as well. We'll work our way through the alphabet over the next several weeks looking at tools and concepts along the way for all the administrators out there. By the way, you can thank Joe for the format & Don for the title (I couldn't for the life of me come up with one.) Today's letter C is for Cacti, a web-based network graphing solution based on Tobi Oetiker's excellent...
What's NSM you say? We'll go with Network and System Management, but you could throw Security in there as well. We'll work our way through the alphabet over the next several weeks looking at tools and concepts along the way for all the administrators out there. By the way, you can thank Joe for the format & Don for the title (I couldn't for the life of me come up with one.) Today's letter B is for backups, and I realize I'm only on letter number two and I'm already cheating. That's ok, though, it's my blog. I could...
What's NSM you say? We'll go with Network and System Management, but you could throw Security in there as well. We'll work our way through the alphabet over the next several weeks looking at tools and concepts along the way for all the administrators out there. By the way, you can thank Joe for the format & Don for the title (I couldn't for the life of me come up with one.) Today's letter A is for arpwatch, a utility that keeps track of mac/IP pairings. This has obvious upside for making sure IP's aren't switching in non-DHCP...
