In addition to rolling your own Nagios UI, there is Nagvis http://www.nagvis.org/ for Maps. I was using a much earlier version, but the latest versions look much easier to implement and very promising. I have also been known to use Cacti with Nagios watching the RRD files every few min so I can still get my performance monitoring while letting Cacti do all the work. I had Nagios check the Cacti RRDs because Nagios has better options for communicating events.
Actually, these kinds of fixes have already been done. They showed up in March on slashdot about how to fool nmap. The slashdot article here also has a link to the original paper which talks about tools for various flavors of BSD. There weren't tools for linux, although now there probably are. So, no hacking required, just install some software someone already created. This fix was made before the problem.
My fear is two-fold. First, what kind of people are going to be using this wireless. Is my laptop at starbucks open to attack? I'm not behind a firewall, unless I actually install one on my laptop, easy if I'm using linux, but for the occasional time when I'm not...
Also, what is going to happen when someone starts breaking into stuff using the Starbucks wireless? Is Starbucks going to be under a legal onslaught because they ran the network? Or because their "users" were attacking somewhere? I have this image of someone sitting in their car in the parking lot and hacking away for hours at a time using the Starbucks connection.
I also want to know which technology they are going to be using? 802.11b? Is it going to be open to anyone, or are they going to charge for usage? I can't imagine the coffee people behind the counter being able to help with configuring laptops for use on the wireless network. How are they going to handle pesky users who can't get connected and get all upset. They're already high on quad shot vente capachino. This will be an interesting story to watch.
I have a similar problem and I'm going to be getting $15 shelves made for a 19 inch rack. Then you can put your machines in the rack, just don't move it with the machines inside.
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In addition to rolling your own Nagios UI, there is Nagvis http://www.nagvis.org/ for Maps. I was using a much earlier version, but the latest versions look much easier to implement and very promising. I have also been known to use Cacti with Nagios watching the RRD files every few min so I can still get my performance monitoring while letting Cacti do all the work. I had Nagios check the Cacti RRDs because Nagios has better options for communicating events.
Actually, these kinds of fixes have already been done. They showed up in March on slashdot about how to fool nmap. The slashdot article here also has a link to the original paper which talks about tools for various flavors of BSD. There weren't tools for linux, although now there probably are. So, no hacking required, just install some software someone already created. This fix was made before the problem.
You do realize there are some places in the Eastern Time Zone that do not switch for Daylight Savings. Some parts of Indiana for one.
My fear is two-fold. First, what kind of people are going to be using this wireless. Is my laptop at starbucks open to attack? I'm not behind a firewall, unless I actually install one on my laptop, easy if I'm using linux, but for the occasional time when I'm not...
Also, what is going to happen when someone starts breaking into stuff using the Starbucks wireless? Is Starbucks going to be under a legal onslaught because they ran the network? Or because their "users" were attacking somewhere? I have this image of someone sitting in their car in the parking lot and hacking away for hours at a time using the Starbucks connection.
I also want to know which technology they are going to be using? 802.11b? Is it going to be open to anyone, or are they going to charge for usage? I can't imagine the coffee people behind the counter being able to help with configuring laptops for use on the wireless network. How are they going to handle pesky users who can't get connected and get all upset. They're already high on quad shot vente capachino. This will be an interesting story to watch.
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I have a similar problem and I'm going to be getting $15 shelves made for a 19 inch rack. Then you can put your machines in the rack, just don't move it with the machines inside.