A few weeks ago i was given an interesting task to play with: Get the power data from all of our APC power rails and graph it. I thought: Ok, this should be a fun little project! And it was fun. In brief – the rails have SNMP, and a OID that gives you the …
Nov 21
Welcome to Whale!
Hazzah! Another post, another server…… even if it is 6 months later. I was given a nice upgrade to a new server – Poweredge 2950 – not bad given that we were on a Poweredge 860. We dont need the processing power, but hey, its nice to have! So this one is called Whale. Its …
May 08
Welcome to Bronte!
Hazzah! The Attic Network has moved again, having such a minimal site at the moment has made it quite easy! We have now moved to a new VPS in the Cloud (don’t you just love it *makes gaging noises*) Hopefully no one would have noticed the move – we tried to keep it as smooth …
Feb 25
Looking Glass
So, ive been on holidays for the last week and was looking for something to do. I have always found looking glasses helpfull. Im talking looking glasses that show routes, allow pings from locations other than your local computer. They can be essential in diagnoising problems that occur with networks. I wanted to write one …
Jan 05
PECL and dio
How i loathe PECL – At first, simple plain straight out hate. after 12 hours, it was loathe (with some time to sleep hahaha) So, the aim was to install the dio extension to php 5.2 – PHP installed via repo. Base server is a CentOS x64 server, PHP installed from the utter ramblings repo …
