January 2015 - Blind-sysadmins - lists.hodgsonfamily.org

Accessibility of certain security and monitoring products
by Chris Nestrud 03 Jul '15

03 Jul '15

Hello all, I would appreciate comments from anyone who has used any of the following security-related products. I am particularly interested in their accessibility or lack thereof and any workarounds that you had to develop to get things done. Links included for the curious. Nessus Scanner By Tenable: http://www.tenable.com/products/nessus Web interface works best using NVDA and Firefox; reports can be exported as csv. Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis, and Response System (MARS): http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/security-monitoring-analysis- response-system/index.html HP ArcSight SIEM: http://www8.hp.com/us/en/software-solutions/siem-security-information-event- management/ NfSen: http://nfsen.sourceforge.net/ Unsure of accessibility; other CLI tools such as nfdump are available for intercepting and extracting netflow data. TippingPoint Security Management System: http://www8.hp.com/us/en/software-solutions/software.html?compURI=1344453#.U 95ick10yig Nagios - The Industry Standard in IT Infrastructure Monitoring: http://www.nagios.org Uses Perl or shell scripts for plugins, unsure of accessibility of web interface. Thanks in advance for any information, Chris

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net use
by mike 27 Jan '15

27 Jan '15

Hi, I have to reset up my office network and I don't want to use windows drive mapping as I will be adding some linux boxes in the feature. Her is what I have done so far. I have assigned all my machines their own internal IP's on the router. I started with hour lazor printer and hour inkjet printers on 02 and 03 respectively. Now what I want to do is to use net use to connect the different drives but I need some good exmples on how to do this as I don't remember how. I also no that I can put the commands in a batch file to run at startup to not have to reconnect them all the time but need examples for that as well. If anyon has any better suggestions I am all ears.

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network scanners
by mike 27 Jan '15

27 Jan '15

Hi, I am helping my wife set up her tech at work. They bought her a copy of openbook and want her to use a network scanner. However I see openbook doesn't let you use a network scanner. Does anyone no of any work arounds or any other programs that will let you do this. Thanks Mike

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Accessible method of measuring the impact of recycling an app pool and / or restarting a service.
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 27 Jan '15

27 Jan '15

Hello, Do any of you have a method of testing the impact in terms of CPU, Disk and RAM usage when restarting an IIS app pool or the W3W service / a process within this service? I need to form an argument against restarting an app pool every hour. I know why this isn't a good idea but I need to quantify it. Thanks

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Accessible method of measuring the impact of recycling an app pool and / or restarting a service.
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 27 Jan '15

27 Jan '15

Hello, Do any of you have a method of testing the impact in terms of CPU, Disk and RAM usage when restarting an IIS app pool or the W3W service / a process within this service? I need to form an argument against restarting an app pool every hour. I know why this isn't a good idea but I need to quantify it. Thanks

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problems with teraterm over RDP after window-eyes 9.0 upgrade
by Iaen Cordell 21 Jan '15

21 Jan '15

sorry for the last version of this message, it was a tad rushhed. Good afternoon, since upgrading to window-eyes 9.0 I can not get teraterm to work over RDP with windows on both the remote and host computers, teraterm will not speak the Linux command prompt. if the remote is running win XP and remote windows 7 with window-eyes 9, all works well, it is only when both machines are on W7 things stop working, nothing is spoken and the mouse and window-eyes cursors say nothing. apart from using windows XP does any one have any suggestions? thanking you in advance Iaen Cordell.

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RDP, windows9, windows 7 and teraterm
by Iaen Cordell 21 Jan '15

21 Jan '15

Good afternoon, since upgrading to windows 9 I can not get teraterm to work over RDP with windows on both the remote and host computers. if the remote is running win XP and remote windows 7 still with windows eyes 9, all works well, it is only when both machines are on W7. apart from using windows XP does anyione have any suggestions? thanking you in advance Iaen Cordell.

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Installing an Operating System as a VM Using VMWare Player
by Steve Matzura 17 Jan '15

17 Jan '15

How is the boot process of a CD or DVD accomplished from inside VMware Player? I've started operating systems from extracted ISO images, but never from a real hardware disk. Thanks in advance.

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Packet capture tools
by Sean Murphy 17 Jan '15

17 Jan '15

Hi all. Anyone on the list who feels that they are an expert with packet captures? I have many many questions to ask. Such as extracting specific data, identifying out-of-order packets, delay, jitter, extracting only specific header info, and so on. I am using Tshark and TCPdump. The GUIO of Wireshark isn’t that friendly. Thus CLI is what I am using. Sean

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Implementing RT from bestPractical.com
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 15 Jan '15

15 Jan '15

Hello, Do any of you have experience with implementing RT from bestpractical.com? If so, would you be interested in some work? Payed of course.

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