The Open Invention Network (OIN) aims to protect Open Source Software, and Linux in particular, against patent lawsuits. It maintains a pool of patents centered around Linux, and builds a continuously growing patent non-aggression community. In October 2015, OIN looks back to ten successful years: OIN press coverage netnea is a member of OIN since […]
In a project or upgrading Zenoss for a large customer, I have had numerous issues regarding i/o performance. This was certainly expected, but not to that level. Some numbers to explain the situation: the NMS monitors about 1’900 devices Includes about 700+ routers and 1000+ switches Some switches are stacked On routers, we collect 8 […]
If you change Cisco switches from SNMP V1/2 to V3, it may go unnoticed that part of the SNMP polling in Netdisco stops working. Specifically, the collection of per-VLAN MAC address tables will fail, with authorization errors in the macsuck log. Additional snmp-server config commands on the switch are required to enable access to the […]
Domenico Salvati and Adrian Leuenberger of DefCon Switzerland ran a workshop on corporate risk management in Zurich. This one-day event addressed two goals: To present a model of risk “compatible” with upper management in order to allow techies to talk with high-ranked business representatives. To talk about a second model which measures and calculates probabilities […]
This is a brief report from the convention Cyber Risks Switzerland 2014 (Tagung Cyber Risiken Schweiz), Berne November 20, 2014. The conference, organised by ISB/MELANI, was meant to give some insight into the implementation of the various tasks formulated in the National Cyber Strategy (NCS). Meeting and networking between all sorts of players in the […]
