In our environment we use Barracuda Spam Firewalls to handle in and outbound mail delivery. Wanting to keep an eye on the in and outbound queues to make sure we are not seeing any delays with delivery I went looking for ways to monitor the queues and alert when they are above certain thresholds. Barracuda [...]
Being proactive about managing system capacity is always a good idea. If you happen to use the OCS Inventory NG tool then here is a way for you to automatically have reports emailed to you (or various people) regarding systems with disk capacity below a threshold you set in a configuration file. This solution is [...]
The NORSK page and downloads have been updated with a new release (0.6). This release adds the following: Additional checking for blank users names returned from Contivity switches, when detected the blank is replaced with UNKNOWN Additional administrative functions to enabled NORSK administrators to modify the configuration file and the .htaccess file via the web [...]
NORSK is a web based utility that allows administrators of Nortel Contivity switches to delegate the ability for other groups (such as a Call Center or Helpdesk) to terminate orphaned sessions on Nortel Contivity switches. This is done using a web interface and does not require granting full administrative rights on those devices. You can [...]
We lost a disk in the RAID 5 array on one our Dell 2550 Linux servers today. Usually this is no big deal, just replace the disk and the array rebuilds right? Not quite – for some unexplained reason the array was “inconsistent” and we had to destroy and rebuild the container. No big deal, [...]