About me
Hi, if you don't know me i'm Matt and this is my home on the Internet. If you want to know more about me then please follow the links below to look at my blog and photo galleries. I graduated from Durham University in June 2006 with a degree in Software Engineerig and I am currently working out what I want to do with my life - if you have any decent suggestions please let me know (I don't however want to do anything related to software development!
I try to spend as much time as I can in the theatre and whilst in Durham I was involved teching a large number of events over the 3 years. If you want to know more about my life then click here.
Latest blog entries
Here you will find my latest blog entries. Click the title to read the full entry
Opsview - patch for check_route plugin
I was playing around with the check_route plugin and noticed a few issues with it not running. In order to get it to work on my Opsview boxes I had to install a new package, change some settings on thread more
Configuring Juniper SSG Firewalls to failover between Internet connections
I have been working with the Netscreen, and then Juniper firewall products for the past five years and am still learning new and interesting features they offer. One thing that I have been configuringread more
Opsview Labs
I had an unexpected, but much welcomed, tweet today from the team at Opsview who would like to make use of some of my writing about Opsview on their own read more
Monitoring HP ESXi Hosts using Insight Remote Support
This is just a direct link to the HP Blog article itself but worth a read if you are looking at monitoring any HP server running ESX or ESXi. The main bit that I have always found is that you need to read more
RANCID: Backing up Juniper EX switches
As part of my drive to backup all my switch/firewall configs I have been trying to get RANCID to backup the remaining devices on my networead more
Latest gallery albums
Due to excessive disk usage and the fact that I no longer updated the gallery. This section of the site has been removed. Thanks