What kind of consumer NIC goes with that Korean 100Megabyte connection; Forget NIC, what kinda storage runs at that speed. Sniff Sniff. I smell bUll$hit.
Well, in some areas of the Internet, you could argue that there are already multi tier services. For instance, if you have a 6Mbit/1Mbit connection (~standard top bandwidth among DSL/Cable carriers here) ISPs can offer a tier 1 service. Rogers, for instance had some high bandwidth peering with Giganews, and provided the subscription for free. That was a Tier 1 service. All the other carrier's customers in the same geography had to pay for that same service. They recently announced the end to this service (Not sure why)?.
Telcos are really looking to stop cross-carrier communications. Companies like ebay are rightly worried, and have an obvious problem with segregating customers. The real motivation from Telcos is more likely technology like VOIP, which is already killing local Telco's here. Anyone familiar with Sun's 1-800 access line understands the clarity that VOIP brings to long distance. Projects like Asterisk threaten every traditional Telco. They should be quickly finding ways to enable that, rather than compete. Providing, for instance, local numbers to Asterisk users with a subscription price much lower than a traditional phone line would be a good start. If they keep doing things like blocking ports, they are going to create one big fully meshed VPN, where they have no idea what their customers are doing.
The bottom line. Competition is healthy. I expect to see Telcos, who are unwilling to adapt to new world of software replacing hardware, to dissappear into the fold.
This is just further evidence that Telcos have been over-charging their services. The market is for the carrier; People want bandwith and SLAs. The fact that innovative home grown solutions from third parties pose a threat to paid-for hosted services is no surprise. It will be up to the Telco's to utilize their size and leverage existing tools quickly. I prefer my homemade PVR to the one that comes at a subscription price, and deletes content X days later. It is cheaper too. I prefer my email gateway, web interface and spam protection to one that comes at a subscription price from a 3rd party. The Internet drives innovation. If a Telco is using the wrong technology, or does not have the brain pan to come up with profitable solutions, then it is time to find a new CTO, and whilst at it, write a letter to the previous CTO that forced old technology down the throat of willing consumers. The future is friendly.. as somebody once said, and another, copyrighted.
Uh, Debian signs packages and repositories. And it actually maintains its' own packages. Not going to find the power of Xen signed by RedHat. In Debian, sure. With DSA updates, you can trust a rogue developer with lax programming techniques.
Anything not signed by Debian requires user intervention by default. Repositories outside the standard distribution (i.e for Adobe Acrobat, RealPlayer, non-US DVD ripping and encoding tools, etc.) have signatures too, but I have added them to my keyring myself to avoid prompts about installing untrusted software. Package md5sums still validate package integrity.
This is standard behaviour in Etch and Sid. The repository signatures are not in apt in Sarge by default.
What is the cost of all this hard security maintenance? Well using modern techniques, this
estimate is worth a read.
Agreed,
In your Utopian world where they run rsync every 5 minutes and perform backups every hour... Then you'd have to be quick:)
I think for the most part we aren't quite there yet:)
iMac.
Agreed, I have no expectation of privacy with corporate email. Still under 30, I have some silly friends, or rather don't autodelete based on the words 'Warning' in the Subject line. Rather I relocate, have a good laugh, knowing that things aren't being watched, and the next time my quota comes up short, there's no excuses sitting around in my mail folders.
I guess in my experience, assiting with mail administration here and there, and having watched a couple of dismissals, often the 'mail review' comes long after the fact.
An employee who wants a full defense to any allegation regarding work would like the benefit of knowing that the 'ol IMAP folders don't have any of those funny jokes from the competition.
Well, now that we've cleared up the benefits of IMAP, I'd like to add the real reason, which nobody seems to mention, of why people like POP3 over IMAP is PRIVACY.
The idea is 'Pull it down, and off those company servers' before you get fired because some friend forgot to use your gmail account.
When you host your own mail, IMAP rox. A Debian Cyrus/Squirrelmail solution has speedily pushed out my mail for years with much better virus and spam protection than most.
Evolution (client, nearing the end of its REALLY buggy days) allows me to merge my corporate exchange and personal IMAP on my desktop, at home and at work (via OWA). Inappropriate emails are quickly drag 'n dropped out of Work->Inbox and into Personal->Funny.
Rather than craft yourself some POP3 hack around IMAP, spend the time to setup your own personal IMAP system, and get yourself an ISP that lets you do this. (One that allows incoming port 25, authenticated outbound SMTP via ISP)
Over the years I've beefed mine up using a VPN to a second/multiple mx locations for redundancy, as I have family members in the area - I use Rogers who leave your IP alone, when on UPS.
Well, not a million users, but family and friends and an old Dell D233, on software RAID IDE. Debian packages with inherent security.. I sleep well on long vacations, and don't waste valuable company time trying to maintain my privacy.
And YES, I might consider a Cyrus based solution, if you are looking for FREE and FAST. Postfix+Courier might work too, not sure how Courier scales, but if you like Maildir, GO FOR IT.
iMac.
There was a brief mention of OpenNMS earilier; Clearly this needs some more input. Nagios is a great tool too, but it is not as geared towards enterprise use.
OpenNMS is.
OpenNMS handles all common port services and SNMP/MIB capability (as any NMS should do). It does everything all the tools mentioned above here can do (and even incorporates a few).
It has a front-end powered by apache tomcat4 and uses postgreSQL(like Nagios) for it's database. It has commercial support, is easily deployed on multiple architectures including Solaris and Linux and has packages for Debian, Redhat, etc. (Email me for the latest in stepwise Debian deployment docs)
The reporting capabilities approach Corcord's tool capability with availablility reports emailed out from the server in PDF format. RRDtool graphs handle response time reporting on any monitored service, with a user interface for specifying specific graph output intervals. SNMP graphs for mib2.system OIDs are built in.
There is a MIB compiler for integrating any SNMP event. Custom scripts can be executed on specific events.
The pollers are very advanced, checking for specific versions and responses. They have dynamic poll frequency change on outages, and built-in down-time calendars.
I could go on, but I suggest instead that you joing the opennms-discuss list and continue your research there.
Watch out OpenView, Tivoli and Spectrum. With experience on these tools, I believe that a large part of the future of enterprise NMS based management lies within the OpenNMS community.
Best of all, the community has great people involved that have good perspective on the connection between business processes and the monitoring tools. And everyone wants to help you.
One thing Nagios has that has not been a part of OpenNMS until recently is the GUI map. This is due in part to the OpenNMS focus on enterprise functionality rather than 'slickness'.
With nearly 0.1 terabytes of downloads a month and a 25MB binary release it is easy to see the popularity of this tool. (OpenNMS.org posts this information)
To be fair, I am going to fully deploy Nagios over here to see how it is doing, though I don't think it can scale like the OpenNMS java backend.
Depending on the number of devices monitored, one can appreciate the extra four minutes of load-free response time. Especially if your NMS needs to receive traps from configured devices that received the wrong community string. Well, every five minutes anyways. Perhaps the frequency might even increase dynamically in certain cases. Tune away.
With OpenNMS, the five minute gap becomes a much shorter gap quickly. i.e. If we are down, we will get probed in 30 seconds, and then again in 30 more seconds. If the last probe responds "UP" then the node has only been down 5m30s at the most. Ahah. 5 minute polls with the benefit of change granularity.
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What kind of consumer NIC goes with that Korean 100Megabyte connection; Forget NIC, what kinda storage runs at that speed. Sniff Sniff. I smell bUll$hit.
Telcos are really looking to stop cross-carrier communications. Companies like ebay are rightly worried, and have an obvious problem with segregating customers. The real motivation from Telcos is more likely technology like VOIP, which is already killing local Telco's here. Anyone familiar with Sun's 1-800 access line understands the clarity that VOIP brings to long distance. Projects like Asterisk threaten every traditional Telco. They should be quickly finding ways to enable that, rather than compete. Providing, for instance, local numbers to Asterisk users with a subscription price much lower than a traditional phone line would be a good start. If they keep doing things like blocking ports, they are going to create one big fully meshed VPN, where they have no idea what their customers are doing. The bottom line. Competition is healthy. I expect to see Telcos, who are unwilling to adapt to new world of software replacing hardware, to dissappear into the fold.
This is just further evidence that Telcos have been over-charging their services. The market is for the carrier; People want bandwith and SLAs. The fact that innovative home grown solutions from third parties pose a threat to paid-for hosted services is no surprise. It will be up to the Telco's to utilize their size and leverage existing tools quickly. I prefer my homemade PVR to the one that comes at a subscription price, and deletes content X days later. It is cheaper too. I prefer my email gateway, web interface and spam protection to one that comes at a subscription price from a 3rd party. The Internet drives innovation. If a Telco is using the wrong technology, or does not have the brain pan to come up with profitable solutions, then it is time to find a new CTO, and whilst at it, write a letter to the previous CTO that forced old technology down the throat of willing consumers. The future is friendly .. as somebody once said, and another, copyrighted.
Uh, Debian signs packages and repositories. And it actually maintains its' own packages. Not going to find the power of Xen signed by RedHat. In Debian, sure. With DSA updates, you can trust a rogue developer with lax programming techniques.
Anything not signed by Debian requires user intervention by default. Repositories outside the standard distribution (i.e for Adobe Acrobat, RealPlayer, non-US DVD ripping and encoding tools, etc.) have signatures too, but I have added them to my keyring myself to avoid prompts about installing untrusted software. Package md5sums still validate package integrity.
This is standard behaviour in Etch and Sid. The repository signatures are not in apt in Sarge by default.
What is the cost of all this hard security maintenance? Well using modern techniques, this estimate is worth a read.
iMac
Agreed, In your Utopian world where they run rsync every 5 minutes and perform backups every hour... Then you'd have to be quick :)
I think for the most part we aren't quite there yet :)
iMac.
I guess in my experience, assiting with mail administration here and there, and having watched a couple of dismissals, often the 'mail review' comes long after the fact.
An employee who wants a full defense to any allegation regarding work would like the benefit of knowing that the 'ol IMAP folders don't have any of those funny jokes from the competition.
iMac
Well, now that we've cleared up the benefits of IMAP, I'd like to add the real reason, which nobody seems to mention, of why people like POP3 over IMAP is PRIVACY. The idea is 'Pull it down, and off those company servers' before you get fired because some friend forgot to use your gmail account. When you host your own mail, IMAP rox. A Debian Cyrus/Squirrelmail solution has speedily pushed out my mail for years with much better virus and spam protection than most. Evolution (client, nearing the end of its REALLY buggy days) allows me to merge my corporate exchange and personal IMAP on my desktop, at home and at work (via OWA). Inappropriate emails are quickly drag 'n dropped out of Work->Inbox and into Personal->Funny. Rather than craft yourself some POP3 hack around IMAP, spend the time to setup your own personal IMAP system, and get yourself an ISP that lets you do this. (One that allows incoming port 25, authenticated outbound SMTP via ISP) Over the years I've beefed mine up using a VPN to a second/multiple mx locations for redundancy, as I have family members in the area - I use Rogers who leave your IP alone, when on UPS. Well, not a million users, but family and friends and an old Dell D233, on software RAID IDE. Debian packages with inherent security.. I sleep well on long vacations, and don't waste valuable company time trying to maintain my privacy. And YES, I might consider a Cyrus based solution, if you are looking for FREE and FAST. Postfix+Courier might work too, not sure how Courier scales, but if you like Maildir, GO FOR IT. iMac.
Great; I'll join the ranks and prefer ogg anyways. Thanks in advance.
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There was a brief mention of OpenNMS earilier; Clearly this needs some more input. Nagios is a great tool too, but it is not as geared towards enterprise use.
OpenNMS is.
OpenNMS handles all common port services and SNMP/MIB capability (as any NMS should do). It does everything all the tools mentioned above here can do (and even incorporates a few).
It has a front-end powered by apache tomcat4 and uses postgreSQL(like Nagios) for it's database. It has commercial support, is easily deployed on multiple architectures including Solaris and Linux and has packages for Debian, Redhat, etc. (Email me for the latest in stepwise Debian deployment docs)
The reporting capabilities approach Corcord's tool capability with availablility reports emailed out from the server in PDF format. RRDtool graphs handle response time reporting on any monitored service, with a user interface for specifying specific graph output intervals. SNMP graphs for mib2.system OIDs are built in.
There is a MIB compiler for integrating any SNMP event. Custom scripts can be executed on specific events.
The pollers are very advanced, checking for specific versions and responses. They have dynamic poll frequency change on outages, and built-in down-time calendars.
I could go on, but I suggest instead that you joing the opennms-discuss list and continue your research there.
Watch out OpenView, Tivoli and Spectrum. With experience on these tools, I believe that a large part of the future of enterprise NMS based management lies within the OpenNMS community.
Best of all, the community has great people involved that have good perspective on the connection between business processes and the monitoring tools. And everyone wants to help you.
One thing Nagios has that has not been a part of OpenNMS until recently is the GUI map. This is due in part to the OpenNMS focus on enterprise functionality rather than 'slickness'.
With nearly 0.1 terabytes of downloads a month and a 25MB binary release it is easy to see the popularity of this tool. (OpenNMS.org posts this information)
To be fair, I am going to fully deploy Nagios over here to see how it is doing, though I don't think it can scale like the OpenNMS java backend.
OpenNMS. I swear by it. Our friends use it too.
Depending on the number of devices monitored, one can appreciate the extra four minutes of load-free response time. Especially if your NMS needs to receive traps from configured devices that received the wrong community string. Well, every five minutes anyways. Perhaps the frequency might even increase dynamically in certain cases. Tune away.
With OpenNMS, the five minute gap becomes a much shorter gap quickly. i.e. If we are down, we will get probed in 30 seconds, and then again in 30 more seconds. If the last probe responds "UP" then the node has only been down 5m30s at the most. Ahah. 5 minute polls with the benefit of change granularity.