The Dude 2.0 Beta reached 11 version. The Dude is a nice network monitoring and discovery utility that simplifies mapping of the network. You can download this version from this url: http://www.mikrotik.com/download/dude-install-2.0beta11.exe Technorati : monitoring, network Del.icio.us : monitoring, network Ice Rocket : monitoring, network
One week has passed after MS released its newest web browser, Internet Explorer 7. Microsoft managed to pack in a number of improvements in new IE. In my experience new IE is quite smooth and stable browser. Together with improvements in security, CSS handling, tabs and looks, IE7 seems to be a decent upgrade from previous version. Firefox 2.0 on the other hand is the same old Firefox and improvements in FF2.0 are quite minor. Given this, I believe that many Windows users will be compelled to upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 for its features and novelty. Most probably CIOs would support migration as well. Due to this admins would have no choice but to migrate users to IE7 eventually.I ve started preparing for the process, just in case I receive the request for migration ;-). Technorati : Internet explorer, browser, www Del.icio.us : Internet explorer, browser, www Ice Rocket : Internet explorer, browser, www
Firefox 2.0 has been made available for download. It hasn't been officially released yet. Probably Mozilla Foundation is waiting for mirrors to catch up. Anyway, here is the link: Firefox 2.0 Windows Releases Page. Here is the direct link to US English Firefox 2.0. The official release will follow later on today. Technorati : Firefox, browser Del.icio.us : Firefox, browser Ice Rocket : Firefox, browser
London, UK, 12 October, 2006 - GFI, a leading international developer of network security, content security and messaging software, has today launched GFI EventsManager, its next generation solution for centralized event log management and reporting. GFI's latest release delivers insight into all that is happening on the IT infrastructure and ensures maximum network uptime; acting as an early-warning system for all potential hardware and software failures, whilst monitoring and alerting on possible security breaches. GFI EventsManager has also been developed to satisfy the increasing demands of event-log based legal compliance.Research shows that 44% of companies do not perform event log management, primarily quoting sheer volume of data to manage as well as the cryptic nature of the information contained within them as the main reasons. These challenges often lead to event logs being unmanaged, underutilized and ignored - until disaster strikes. Events constitute an invaluable source of information, answering core questions about security breaches, IT infrastructure health status, legal compliance and forensic investigation.GFI EventsManager is a results-oriented event log management solution which integrates into any existing IT infrastructure; automatically collecting event data from all network components, normalizing it to a central database and providing meaningful reports on its findings. With continuous 24 hour activity monitoring and alerting, GFI EventsManager empowers the administrator to prevent network disasters through notification of illicit activity or possible hardware and software failures on their network, supplying info such as; which software is being installed/uninstalled, health status of Microsoft Exchange and other servers, which users are accessing sensitive files, login related activity and more."GFI EventsManager is an essential tool for monitoring your network," said Andre Muscat, GFI EventsManager Product Manager. "Most administrators
Sometimes it is needed to upload a number of files automatically without any user intervention. WPUT utility might be a solution in this case. wput is a powerful ftp upload utility supporting resumed uploads, rate-limiting, TLS. wput is modelled after the famous UNIX download manager wget and has simple command line interface. Here is the the list of options available in wput: Usage: wput [options] [file]... [url]...url ftp://[username[:password]@]hostname[:port][/[path/][file]] Startup:-V, --version Display the version of wput and exit.-h, --help Print this help-screen-b, --background go to background after startup Logging and input file:-o, --output-file=FILE log messages to FILE-a, --append-output=FILE append log messages to FILE-q, --quiet quiet (no output)-v, --verbose be verbose-d, --debug debug output-nv, --less-verbose be less verbose-i, --input-file=FILE read the URLs from FILE-s, --sort sorts all input URLs by server-ip and path--basename=PATH snip PATH off each file when appending to an URL-I, --input-pipe=COMMAND take the output of COMMAND as data-source-R, --remove-source-files unlink files upon successful upload Upload:--bind-address=ADDR bind to ADDR (hostname or IP) on local host-t, --tries=NUMBER set retry count to NUMBER (-1 means infinite)-nc, --dont-continue do not resume partially-uploaded files-u, --reupload do not skip already completed files--skip-larger do not upload files if remote size is larger--skip-existing do not upload files that exist remotely-N, --timestamping don't re-upload files unless newer than remote-T, --timeout=10th-SECONDS set various timeouts to 10th-SECONDS-w, --wait=10th-SECONDS wait 10th-SECONDS between uploads. (default: 0)--random-wait wait from 0...2*WAIT secs between uploads.--waitretry=SECONDS wait SECONDS between retries of an upload-l, --limit-rate=RATE limit upload rate to RATE-nd, --no-directories do not create any directories-Y, --proxy=http/socks/off set proxy type or turn off--proxy-user=NAME set the prox