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Product Review: Paessler PRTG Network Monitor

Galido

IPv6 support. SSH: For Linux / Unix and MacOS systems. The software offers a hierarchical structure of device views with options to group similar sensors. SLA monitoring (service level agreement). Monitoring QoS (Quality of service, for example, to monitor VoIP). Environmental monitoring. Extensive event logging. Notifications.

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Technology Short Take #87

Scott Lowe

Vincent Bernat has a really in-depth article on IPv4 route lookup on Linux (and one on IPv6 route lookup as well). Andrew Montalenti discusses the state of Linux on the desktop by examining his own journey with various Lenovo-branded laptops. Here’s hoping you find something useful! Networking.

Storage 60
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Technology Short Take #49

Scott Lowe

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. What does this mean? Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Vmware 60
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Technology Short Take #51

Scott Lowe

I’m not sure if this falls here or into the “Cloud Computing/Cloud Computing” category, but Shannon McFarland—fellow co-conspirator with the Denver OpenStack Meetup group—has a nice article describing some design and deployment considerations for IPv6 in the OpenStack Kilo release. Here’s one way , using Ravello Systems.

Vmware 60
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Setting up Wireguard for AWS VPC Access

Scott Lowe

Wireguard, if you’re not familiar, is a relatively new solution that is baked into recent Linux kernels. Since the configuration of the clients and the servers is largely the same (especially since both client and server are Linux), I haven’t separated out the two configurations. There is also support for other OSes.)

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Technology Short Take #65

Scott Lowe

VMware’s Cloud-Native Apps group recently released v0.8 Want to run Docker Swarm with IPv6? This Yelp Engineering blog post talks about one of these unintended side effects (processes running as PID 1 are treated differently by the Linux kernel). Now you have no excuses for not using 2FA with your vSphere environment.

Vmware 60
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Technology Short Take #57

Scott Lowe

Tor Anderson has an article on using IPv6 for network boot using UEFI and iPXE. This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems. Welcome to Technology Short Take #57. I hope you find something useful here! Networking. Larry Smith Jr.

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