Joe Pruitt
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I'm always fascinated by the creative outlets people come up with when toying with iRules. My favorite is still Joe's FTP Hunt the Wumpus, which he blogged about a while back (the code is here in the wiki). The latest is a great entry from Lori this morning, giving you, the community, a handy dice roller. After a careful read, a few thoughts came to mind, in no particular order. Wow, what a great way to collide two completely independent planets in the geek solar system. Role playing games take too much time, I just want to load...
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...
