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A Hole In The Wall
What happens with the air conditioner falls out of the wall in an IDF? Lets also say that the AC has been missing for a year and the sprinkler system sits next to the hole.
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Mikrotik X86 Interfaces Always Appear Running
I just recently noticed that some of my server based mikrotiks were showing “R” by ethernet interfaces that I knew were down. I did some quick searching and found that on X86 installs by default there is an option “disable-running-check” enabled. What this does is make the interface appear to always be running. As a…
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Cacti – Syslog Alert SQL Insert
I was inserting lots of new syslog alerts and didn’t want to do it through the GUI, so I wrote a quick mysql query: INSERT INTO syslog_alert (name,type,message,user,date,email) VALUES("MessageTitle","messagec","MatchMe","ADMIN",1186586067,"[email protected]"),("MessageTitle2","messagec","MatchMe2","ADMIN",1186586067,"[email protected]")
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Apache – IP Address Restrictions
I wanted to protect my web-meetme folder on my trixbox install, so I made a couple of allowances in the apache config file like so. <Directory /var/www/html/web-meetme> #Order allow,deny Order deny,allow deny from all allow from 10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 allow from 1.1.1.1/255.255.255.255 </Directory> Note the allow/deny entries.
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Run Reports In Ccure 9000
We occasionally have to run access control reports that show who enters and exits specific doors. This is relatively easy to do in the Ccure system, as long as you know where to look. First, click on “Options & Tools”: Second, click on Journal: At this point the journal default query dialog will pop up.…
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Mikrotik – Use The Serial Port To Connect To Other Equipment
It’s sometimes useful to connect the serial port on your Mikrotik over to another piece of network equipment. I don’t need it very often, but it is quite useful for out of band management. The wiki article is here. I made a quick video showing how to connect to a Cisco device. I’m using a…
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Mikrotik ROS4.13 Changelog
Change log is here. *) added USB power reset feature; I know several people will be happy to see this feature. It allows you to reboot 3G modems attached to the mikrotik without having to reboot the whole router. Some people were experiencing issues with the initialization of the modem, so this should fix the…