This one is neat – you can control those APC PDU Power Poles over the network via SNMP. This works for the APC Switched Rack Unit PDU, but it may work for others.
I use this on a PDU with Network Management Card AOS version v2.6.4 and Rack PDU APP v2.6.5, so of course this [...]
Categories: Code Samples, Configurations, PHP, System Administration
Tagged: PHP, private network, SNMP, telnet/web interface
Changing your cpan mirror.
Although it seems like it would be easy task to accomplish, it seems there is no easy way to change the perl CPAN module mirror list. I have only found two ways to do this.
The first way I found is to modify your Config.pm in the CPAN module. In my install, it [...]
Categories: Configurations, Linux, Perl
Tagged: Perl
SMSSend is a program used to send SMS messages over the network via command line in linux. It is licensed unto the GNU General License.
I recently aimed to integrate this into Zabbix remote monitoring software. I had a hell of a time finding the software because its original page, here, has some sort of [...]
Categories: Code Samples, Configurations, Linux, Shell, System Administration
Tagged: apache, api, cellular telephone, GSM, internet connectivity, Linux, remote monitoring software, SMS, SMS system, Steve Herrell
Network Solutions worldnic.com nameservers both appear down. Pings get through occasionally, this may be an indication that they are being DOSed. I used to think that their DNS hosting services would be stable since they were “the” original registrar. But this is the second time in a few months that they’ve been down for a [...]
Categories: System Administration
Tagged: DNS
You know how it goes – you are surfing along when all of a sudden you can’t view web pages and your IM client disconnects. Then you see that the wireless connection has reconnected, and everything works again. Annoying, isn’t it?
Windows XP users know this all too well if you use a static Wifi [...]
Categories: Configurations, System Administration, Windows
Tagged: use different wireless networks, wireless connection, Wireless Zero Configuration, Wireless Zero Configuration service
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