… since I wrote anything here and that is because i have been quite busy over the past few months. I thought I would put a quick post up on what I am doing at the moment.
In a few days I am moving from the leafy town of Leatherhead up to the “big smoke” that is London. I have spent a fair bit of time getting this sorted and looking forward to move. When I have settled in I will need to get my various network aspects updated and my “lab” will become a much more complicated setup. Planning of this is still underway.
I am also starting to look at a number of different aspects of how I can keep my networks monitored and protected as best I can. At the moment I am looking at deploying a RANCID server to maintain config files on various network devices that I am responsible for. The initial setup is not that complicated however I am looking at a way of integrating the scheduled updates with SNMP trap processing so that when a user logs out of a device the trap is sent back to the network and initiates rancid to connect to the device and pull down the current config. I am also looking at how I can log the user that makes the config changes as part of a future project to look at tieing RADIUS/IAS authentication into accessing the network devices.
There is still the ongoing interest in monitoring and I am looking at how I can further manage and maintain my opsview configurations and keep track of my network infrastructure.
Anyway – got to go. Just seen the end of 24 and need to get some food.
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MarcLoterijman · May 25, 2010 at 21:29
The only things I understood from this is that you’re moving up here, that you like watching 24 and eating food… I hope it all works out with your servers and configs and what-nots