About me

meHi, 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Due to excessive disk usage and the fact that I no longer updated the gallery.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

Note: Welcome to my newly skinned website - the code and content is almost identical but this should be a tidier layout and will match the gallery and blog themes (see links at the top of the page). Hope you enjoy

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