November 2011 - Blind-sysadmins - lists.hodgsonfamily.org

Telephony systems
by Andrew Hodgson 14 Nov '12

14 Nov '12

Hi all, Our current Call Manager 4.x servers are creaking under their age, and we are looking at replacing this either with a new Cisco telephony system or a completely new system altogether. The system has to use IP as the connection to the handsets, as we don't want to add in more cables. Has anyone any experience in deploying a new Call manager setup, or a similar telephony system, and how was the accessibility? Thanks. Andrew.

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let's talk Backup Exec
by Ryan Shugart 21 Dec '11

21 Dec '11

Hey everyone: I just got a promotion at work, and with the goodness of a promotion comes more responsibilities. I'm now in charge of our backup infrastructure. We run Backup Exec 12.5, and have 16 or so media servers in various branch offices around the world. While Backup Exec used to be very accessible, over the last two versions accessibility seems to have gone into something of a decline, I already use scripts just to read the main table of jobs, and might need more just to get around the scheduling window so I can actually schedule a job. I'd consider the rest of the program accessible but clunky, tabbing doesn't always bring you where you think it will, on some screens tab order seems to be dynamic. Backup Exec also has an odd way of bringing up alert windows and grabbing your focus, even when you tell it specifically not to. While clunkyness is OK on one server, when you have fifteen individual servers to manage and no way to do it in a centralized fashion clunkyness is less acceptable. This is also less than a quarter of my new responsibilities as well. The current admin has the remote desktop console setup with all the Backup Exec servers in his favorites, stays logged into each server with a Backup Exec window open, and flicks from screen to screen and can easily glance at the output from each job. For us screen reader users, that doesn't work well. I've already got e-mail alerts set up and am using some Outlook rules to sort failure jobs out from successes, but was wondering if there's anything else I can be doing? I'd think people in really large environments with hundreds of media servers aren't logging into each server on a daily basis, so there has to be better ways to handle this. Any ideas? Thanks. Ryan

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Network Admin Tools for iPhone
by Alex Coleman 28 Nov '11

28 Nov '11

Is anyone familiar or experienced with any iPhone apps that will allow one to remotely perform routine network maintenance via an IOS device running VoiceOver? I need to be able to take care of basic issues like restarting servers, managing services, resetting passwords/unlocking user accounts, etc. We are running Win 2008 R2 and Win 2003 servers, SBS 2011, and Active Directory. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, and have a great day. Alex Coleman

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webmail and screen readers
by David Mehler 17 Nov '11

17 Nov '11

Hello, Has anyone used either of the following webmail packages with a screen reader? Screen reader being jfw, window eyes, NVDA, system access, and open-source webmail packages being squirrelmail and roundcubemail? I'm particularly wondering about roundcubemail, but thought I'd throw the others out as well. Thanks. Dave.

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webmail and screen readers
by David Mehler 17 Nov '11

17 Nov '11

Hello, Has anyone used either of the following webmail packages with a screen reader? Screen reader being jfw, window eyes, NVDA, system access, and open-source webmail packages being squirrelmail and roundcubemail? I'm particularly wondering about roundcubemail, but thought I'd throw the others out as well. Thanks. Dave.

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webmail recommendation
by David Mehler 13 Nov '11

13 Nov '11

Hello, Does anyone have Linux servers running email services? If so, I'm looking for a webmail recommendation. I've got a Postfix virtual mailbox setup with a mysql backend going and want to add in a webmail component to it. The two I know of are squirrelmail, (which I believe uses php4 said on their site which is a no no for me), and roundcubemail (which is not at a 1.0 release uneasy). If anyone has any pro conn for either or recommendations for another that they're using I'd love to know about it. Thanks. Dave.

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webmail recommendation
by David Mehler 12 Nov '11

12 Nov '11

Hello, Does anyone have Linux servers running email services? If so, I'm looking for a webmail recommendation. I've got a Postfix virtual mailbox setup with a mysql backend going and want to add in a webmail component to it. The two I know of are squirrelmail, (which I believe uses php4 said on their site which is a no no for me), and roundcubemail (which is not at a 1.0 release uneasy). If anyone has any pro conn for either or recommendations for another that they're using I'd love to know about it. Thanks. Dave.

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plesk/qmail
by David Mehler 12 Nov '11

12 Nov '11

Hello, Does anyone have any tips for dealing with a plesk control panel? Also and related does anyone have qmail experience? I don't on either and need to learn it in a crisis. Thanks. Dave.

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tteraterm
by David Mehler 11 Nov '11

11 Nov '11

Hello, Is anyone using tteraterm for telnet/ssh connections to remote computers? If so, what version? I'm looking to install on another machine for a client who does not want to pay for something like SecureCRT and so was looking for tteraterm. I found the original site but that's from over 12 years ago. I've heard rumors of an updated version but came up empty in my search. If anyone has any information i'd appreciate it. Oh, this client will be using the latest snapshot of NVDA as the screen reader. Thanks. Dave.

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plesk/qmail
by David Mehler 11 Nov '11

11 Nov '11

Hello, Does anyone have any tips for dealing with a plesk control panel? Also and related does anyone have qmail experience? I don't on either and need to learn it in a crisis. Thanks. Dave.

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