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Category: Programming/Scripting

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    Forwarding Your Zimbra Domains

    On one of my Zimbra servers I’ve got a customer with about 8 domains. They are going to be migrating two of their domains elsewhere. While they do this, they want their old email still accessible on the old server. The problem is that if the old domains still exist on the old server and…

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    Autoit Script To Measure File Download Or Page Load Time

    Schedule this program to run at whatever interval you like. It creates a folder for Year and Month. It then saves the statistical information in a CSV file via the name of the day. To change what URL you are accessing and the file to save it as, edit the config.txt file 🙂 It records…

  • Mikrotik Proxy/Caching Server Test Script
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    Mikrotik Proxy/Caching Server Test Script

    So Jason paid me to write this script so everyone say thanks to his insane self for the script. What he needed was a way to disable or enable his proxy NAT rules for his caching server depending on whether or not the service appears to be online. He’s using a simple destination NAT rule…

  • Launch Menu For The Dude
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    Launch Menu For The Dude

    As a consultant I use the dude a lot. I connect to a myriad of dude servers on a regular basis, which can be somewhat cumbersome. Why is this cumbersome…because you don’t have the ability to save multiple sets of connection information in the dude. Sooooo, I wrote a little menu system so you can…

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    Parse Your Cisco Devices To Reconcile Customer Information

    Since I work for a datacenter, we have a LOT of ports. Our customers hang off of a handful of pieces of equipment, but we have a lot of density on these devices. Every so often we run the numbers for how much bandwidth is subscribed to each customer as well as how much are…

  • Windows Port Knock Application
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    Windows Port Knock Application

    ****The application now accepts DNS names and will correctly resolve them when knocking…rejoice!**** I’ve been getting a lot of false positives from virus scanners: IE Virustotal This is a known issue with all autoit compiled scripts. They are NOT infected, it’s just that Autoit code has been picked up by virus scanners at one point,…

  • Automated Mikrotik Backups From Windows Securely
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    Automated Mikrotik Backups From Windows Securely

    So what this little autoit script does is SSH(using plink) into your Mikrotiks and issue the export command. It has a GUI to add all of your routers, and you use the windows scheduler to run the program to do automated backups. It creates a sub folder in the script directory. It then creates a…