Alternatives to Nagios

Knowledge about the things happening on hosts and network is essential to a system administrator. That’s why they usually install a bunch of software tools to get the required informations from their systems. Nagios is one of the most infamous programs to do so. It monitors your machines and sends out alerts to the appropriate administrator. The disadvantages […]

Das war’s dann wohl…

Es ist schon eine Weile her, seit ich über Viren und deren Einfangen gebloggt habe – und noch länger seit ich angefangen habe, selbiges zu tun. Alles begann im März 2006 als ich Kontakte zu den einzelnen Antivirus-Laboratorien herstellte um die gefangenen Viren fachgerecht zu Leibe rücken zu lassen. Doch leider habe ich nicht mehr die entsprechenden Ressourcen […]

Theory and reality

This article should show you that some things might sound beautiful although they don’t work in reality. But even here we’re learning our share… Today we’re looking at my Lenovo Thinkpad W500, which should be already known to you from some of my previous posts – especially at the HardDrive Active Protection System (HDAPS). The system should prevent […]

Windfall

Today I have really started thinking about apple computers again due to the latest incident. This time we’re talking about windows shares in a cooperated network, called smb or samba shares in combination with an active directory. The task itself shouldn’t be that hard as it was just accessing a windows share on a remote server – but […]