Grow Your Sysadmin-Fu

There are a few commands that the Linux sysadmin simply can't live without.  The need to see exactly what is going on with your army of *nixs and what any one is doing at any particular time is a must.  Here are a few commands that I would seriously miss, and ones that I make sure are installed on every box I administer.  So, in no particular order....

US Army, US Navy. US Air Force, US Marines, NASA, Google

Google - Rise Of The Cyberspies

Google's parent company is called Alphabet.  Whether this is just a coincidence or whether it has meaning I don't know, but you have to wonder what is Aphabet?  Could it be just 3 of the 26 available letters? NSA for example? Or CIA? DoD?

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Re-subnet a Cisco Switch, The Easy Way! **With Pictures**

In good old internet backwardness, here is my first Vlog, taking 14 minutes to explain how to re-subnet a Cisco switch in seconds.

Monitoring With MRTG

After much more of a battle than I was expecting, I finally have MRTG running on a Pi and generating some useful graphs about my home network and it's boxes.  If you're not familiar, MRTG is the Multi-Router Traffic Grapher (although it almost stood for Memcard Reformatted Totally Gone).  It gets it's information via SNMP and then draws pretty graphs with the data.

October News

OCTOBER NEWS

Well, it's been a while since my last post, I can only apologise for my absence. I haven't been totally idle in that time, I recently acquired a Cisco Catalyst 3750 which I've been tinkering with.