Use PRTG Monitor Internet Connection
If you are looking for an all around great network monitoring tool, then PRTG Network Monitor is a great choice. It is a pay for product, however, if you only…
Free Rogue Network Device Detection
If you have ever looked for free rogue network device detection, such as similar to what McAfee EPO provides, I wrote an article not long ago about monitoring your home…
Autonetkit not working VIRL
Recently, I decided to get my hands on VIRL which is the Virtual Internet Routing Lab software from Cisco. Being a long time GNS3 user, I wanted to see how…
Agentless protection Rapid Recovery 6.0.1
As I mentioned here in the upgrading to Rapid Recovery 6.0.1 post, one of the most anticipated features for me of Rapid Recovery was the agentless backup. Having to maintain…
Upgrade AppAssure 5.4.3 to Rapid Recovery 6.0.1
For those of you that don’t know, Dell’s AppAssure product has been rebranded as Rapid Recovery. With 6.0.1 being released, and touting some very worthy features, I decided it was…
Configuring jumbo frames between two servers
In tweaking an AppAssure environment recently, I ran through Dell documentation on performance tweaks that are mentioned to help improve AppAssure backup performance. One of the recommended tweaks for network…
Untangle 12 Installation and configuration
I am constantly on a quest to keep finding the better or best firewall/UTM appliance for home/lab purposes as well as for small business use cases where installing a virtual…
Cisco SG300 time configuration
Recently, after working with some logging on my Cisco SG300-20 switch, I wanted to write up a quick post on Cisco SG300 time configuration and how to go about setting this…
Cisco Native VLAN mismatch
After installing a test Meraki MS220-8 switch in my lab environment at home, I noticed when I remoted into my core switch for my lab, a Cisco SG300-20, it was…
Arpwatch SMTP configuration
One of the more obscure sources of information when configuring arpwatch is arpwatch SMTP configuration. There are so many flavors of linux and SMTP servers, how can you easily setup…