Monthly Archives: December 2012

Cacti on FreeBSD – the setup

Posted on December 23, 2012 by danmassey99

I’m going to make a new cacti server using the latest, greatest FreeBSD, Apache, PHP, MySQL and Cacti. My old server was migrated in using the dump and restore into vmware method documented earlier. Now its time to move on, … Continue reading →

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Cisco ASA clearing individual remote sessions

Posted on December 20, 2012 by danmassey99

Today’s ‘tricky’ support call was about a remote user using a Cisco ASA to connect to their head office using the Microsoft IPSec over L2TP method from the built in Microsoft VPN client. Putting aside the ‘noise’ on this call … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD routing issues resolved

Posted on December 18, 2012 by danmassey99

Today I had a call from a customer saying their Nagios server was showing incorrect ping results. Gconnect, (my $dayjob) host an MPLS network for this client which is in a transitive state between a traditional IPSec network and the … Continue reading →

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Autossh and Cloud Backup Appliance

Posted on December 12, 2012 by danmassey99

Part of the Cloud Backup solution was to add a client site appliance which would ‘stage’ the backup prior to them being moved off site to the replication servers. The software we use for this product requires a local copy … Continue reading →

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