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CactiEZ

Published June 14, 2009

Want a easy Cacti setup with all the additional plugins? Look no further than CactiEZ…

CactiEZ is the fastest possible way to get up and running with Cacti. CactiEZ is an auto-installing CD based on CentOS 4.X?. The disk is a completely remastered CD (from the 4 CD version, not the Server CD) and stripped down to the bare essentials (no GUI). The CD weighs in at roughly 355 Megs, and installed is roughly 855 Megs. At only 305 packages, it still includes a preconfigured firewall (only allowing http, https, ssh, netflow, webmin, and remote Syslog).

  • Net-SNMP? (5.x)
  • RRDTool? (1.2)
  • webmin?
  • eAccelerator? (0.9.5-beta2)
  • NTop? (3.1)
  • Netflow support (listening on port 2055)
  • Netflow redirect to NTop (you need to setup the interface on NTop yourself, listening on 2056, which is not allowed through the firewall)
  • Cacti (0.8.6h)with latest patches
  • CactiD (0.8.6g)
  • Plugin Architecture with the following plugins
    • Discovery
    • Mactrack
    • Monitor
    • NTop
    • RRD Cleaner
    • Syslog (Haloe)
    • Thold
    • Tools
    • Update
    • Weathermap
  • A pile of templates

Everything is preconfigured and completely working after the initial install. This all requires ZERO input from the user except inserting the CD. This should make it very easy for anyone to test out Cacti, or to even deploy Cacti in their enviroment without the hassles that come with configuring Cacti and the services that it requires.

Website: http://cactiez.cactiusers.org/

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New Cisco 877 IOSes

Published April 30, 2009

Cisco recently released new version of its IOS for the 877 router:

c870-advipservicesk9-mz.124-24.T.bin
c870-advsecurityk9-mz.124-24.T.bin

Giving advsecurity ios a test, and seems to work really well, also this IOS works with the various DSL firmware releases eg.adsl_alc_20190.bin.4.0.15 etc, unlike where -22 did not work! Cisco finally fixed it it in this new release 🙂

UPDATE: It seems this IOS is a bit buggy, can crash at times and create a crash dump file 🙁
Work harder cisco 😛

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Cisco 877W [Wireless Config]

Published April 17, 2009

Well i thought id post a Cisco877W wireless config, configured only as a access point. So..you can cut bits here and there and fit it into your existing 877 configuration. Bold indicates what you may need to change..

Cisco uses the Centre Frequency MHz to configure its wireless channel. So in our example below 2442 is used, which means that is actually Channel Identifier 7.

For more info on this you can see go here http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/routers/access/1800/wireless/configuration/guide/s37chan.html

version 12.4
no service pad
service timestamps debug datetime msec
service timestamps log datetime msec
no service password-encryption
no service dhcp
!
hostname yourhostname
!
boot-start-marker
boot-end-marker
!
enable secret yoursecretpass
!
no aaa new-model
!
resource policy
!
ip subnet-zero
ip cef
bridge irb
!
!
interface ATM0
no ip address
shutdown
no atm ilmi-keepalive
dsl operating-mode auto
!
interface FastEthernet0
!
interface FastEthernet1
!
interface FastEthernet2
!
interface FastEthernet3
!
interface Dot11Radio0
no ip address
!
encryption mode ciphers tkip
!
ssid YourAPssidhere
authentication open
authentication key-management wpa
guest-mode
wpa-psk ascii yourwirelesskeyhere
!

speed basic-1.0 basic-2.0 basic-5.5 basic-6.0 basic-9.0 basic-11.0 basic-12.0 basic-18.0 basic-24.0 basic-36.0 basic-48.0 basic-54.0
channel 2442
station-role root
no cdp enable
bridge-group 1
bridge-group 1 subscriber-loop-control
bridge-group 1 spanning-disabled
bridge-group 1 block-unknown-source
no bridge-group 1 source-learning
no bridge-group 1 unicast-flooding
!
interface Vlan1
no ip address
bridge-group 1
bridge-group 1 spanning-disabled
!
interface BVI1
ip address 192.168.1.3 255.255.255.0
ip access-group 102 in
ip nat inside
ip virtual-reassembly
ip tcp adjust-mss 1452
!
ip classless
!
no ip http server
no ip http secure-server
!
!
control-plane
!
bridge 1 route ip
!
!
line con 0
password yourconsolepass
login
no modem enable
transport preferred none
stopbits 1
line aux 0
line vty 0 4
session-timeout 240
access-class 2 in
password yourtelnetpass
login
transport preferred none
!
scheduler max-task-time 5000
end

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