Monthly Archives: November 2005

If you have a Cisco PIX 515 and want to upgrade to the new 7.0 software, you are required to upgrade memory first. By default, the pix comes with 64Mb memory unless you buy a unit after the 7.0 software became generally available. What I am about to describe is by no means a recommendation [...]

Last Article – I went through the basic installation of installing CentOS 4.2 using the single Server Install CD. Since this machine was to be used on the Internal network and I didn’t really want the performance overhead of a host based firewall – I decided to not enable the firewall during the installation. Note: [...]

I am writing this as a series. This particular article will discuss just the operating system installation. I will follow with some add-on articles that deals with setting up a centralized log host. The server used in this project is a Dell 1650 with (2) PIII 1.2 Processors and 2G of Ram. Disk configuration is [...]

In this world of auditing and compliance, if you don’t have policies documented to change anything that is remotely related to a system password on a regular basis – I would highly encourage you to give it serious consideration.

Let’s say you have a bunch of Windows Servers in your Data Center running the SNMP service. Let’s also say that they are running the < *gulp*> default community strings. It is definately time to change them.

This script will help you automate this process.