Creating a graphing / monitoring system with RRDTool

Categories: General Announcements, Security

rrd exampleFirst off let me say that there are tons of monitoring application out there and even using rrdtool,namely Cacti, but I found that they were all lacking one thing or if they had that feature, they were to expensive. Full…

First off let me say that there are tons of monitoring application out there and even using rrdtool,namely Cacti, but I found that they were all lacking one thing or if they had that feature, they were to expensive. Full view of multiple graphs,zoomable, without pestering interfaces. The system should have a simple but flexible admin interface but nothing else. We looked at different systems to monitor more then 20 gateway routers, graph the traffic and more then 40 Windows Servers (including domain ... Read More

SEP - Part 1: Location, Location, Location

Categories: Security, Symantec

SEPOne of the great improvements and features of Symantec Endpoint Protection is the location awareness. t allows for very good administration and security configurations. You can, for example, have all your different subnets or IP address ranges assigned to specific…

One of the great improvements and features of Symantec Endpoint Protection is the location awareness. t allows for very good administration and security configurations. You can, for example, have all your different subnets or IP address ranges assigned to specific Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager (SEPM) servers to fetch updates from. This allows you to save on bandwidth and provides high availability to all your clients. You can have multiple sites that connect to a specific server. Another option you can have is locations ... Read More