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August 28, 2008
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| My home network is as sophisticated as many corporate networks. I use 2 switches, 2 routers, a firewall, UPS battery backup, primary and backup data connections. Internet access is provided by a cable modem from Comcast. Secondary access is provided by a US Robotics 56k Serial/USB modem and a standard dialup account. More details can be found on the Network page. | ||
Systems |
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| I currently have five computers connected with a Fast Ethernet switch. Internet access is a cable modem from Comcast and a 56k modem. Being a fan of the Dune novels all my systems are named after planets in the books. Details can be found in the Systems page. | ||
Web Site |
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| The web site started out as a single page that I put up to learn some basic HTML and say I had a web page. For 18 months I didn't do much to it. In April, 2001 I was looking to learn something new and began to design a new page. In doing this I decided a couple of things, it had to be cross platform, I wanted it to be script and database driven, and it had to be hosted somewhere other than my home server on it's 56k dialup connection. I had been seeing a lot of talk about PHP and MySQL as web site tools and found they were cross platform (for me that means Win32 and *BSD unix) and free. That crossed the first two requirements off my list. Now I needed to host it somewhere. I looked at all the big names in webhosting and they all had some drawback so Mike and I talked to our friend Dave at InfoVue and decided to build a machine and host it there. So the site is running on OpenBSD with Apache, MySQL and PHP at InfoVue. More details on on the Web Site page. | ||
Software |
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| Any system uses a lot of software and I have some favorites. Paint Shop Pro, Mercury, MRTG, Servers Alive, D4, MS Outlook 2003, Araneae, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Cygwin, SSH, SamSpade, SecureCRT/SecureFX, Winzip, GetIf, VNC, the Gimp, Apache. You can find more details on the software page. | ||
Misc |
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| Other items on the network are our three printers, a Dell 3100cn, a Canon BJ-4304 Photo, and a Panasonic KXP-1124 dot-matrix printer and a Canon NP-1220U scanner. | ||
Whitepapers |
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Security |
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| STOP USING UNENCRYPTED PROTOCOLS!!! | ||
Monitoring |
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| I check the status on my network devices with Servers Alive. Each device is pinged and if it responds is the checked for various items such as running services, disk space or SNMP value. The information is then formatted into a web page and any alerts are sent via SMTP email to my email address and my cel phone. You can see the current status of my network on the Status page. All logs are sent to a syslog server where they are parsed, notifications sent if necessary, then zipped daily for archival purposes. MRTG is used to graph bandwidth, CPU, disk space, and a number of other SNMP queries. | ||
Statistics |
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I run MRTG to keep track of what my network and machines are doing. MRTG takes SNMP or other data input and logs it in 5 minute intervals, then Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Yearly graphs are created. I monitor network traffic, CPU and memory utilitzation, disk space and others. You can see the data on the Statistics page. I use the MRTG Statistics Updater from Queso.com to run MRTG as a service. I am looking at software to use for web site statistics but have not decided which to use. The two I am considering are Analog and Webalizer. I also log everything that happens to a syslog server and run scripts that parse the data into something meaningful. |
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