2010
06.10
Tags: Database Administrator, Exchange Administrator, Network Administrator, Security Administrator, System Administrator, Utilities
Posted in EXCHANGE, FIREWALL, INFRASTRUCTURE, LINUX, Management, Network, SOLARIS, Security, UNIX, WINDOWS | No Comments »
LANguard Network Scanner – LANguard network scanner is a freeware security scanner to audit your network security. It scans entire networks and provides NETBIOS information for each computer such as hostname, shares, logged on user name. It does OS detection, tests password strength, detects registry issues and much more. Reports are outputted in HTML.
HotFix Control – Tells you what hotfixes and service pack you have applied, neat utility. (163K)
Disk Investigator Disk Investigator is a program that allows you to see everything on your computer’s hard disk, undelete previously deleted files, and recover lost data
PRTG Network Monitor Full featured and easy to use network monitoring software for bandwidth, usage, and availability monitoring. Freeware supports up to 10 sensors. Learn more about PRTG Network Monitor. (The most popular of our free network monitoring tools)
PRTG Traffic Grapher Small footprint MRTG-like network tool for bandwidth monitoring. Also known as “MRTG for Windows”. Freeware supports up to 10 Sensors. Learn More about PRTG Traffic Grapher. (The second most popular from our free network monitoring tools)
Card Packet Counter Shows short term statistics about the network data packets passing a local network card using PRTG.
Local IP Lister Local IP Lister shows the list of IP addresses that are configured on your PC.
Process Explorer Freeware process viewer for Windows, which displays much more information on each running process than the built-in Windows task manager.
DNS Tools Resolve/reverse lookup, whois (domain name), whois (ip owner), check port, ping.
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2010
05.23
Tags: Future Applications, HTML 5, TCO, Web Application
Posted in INFRASTRUCTURE, LINUX, Management, Network, SOLARIS, Security, ServiceDesk, Storage, UNIX, WINDOWS | No Comments »
Future applications are web based. Web applications are offering lot of advantages. Technology advances in web applications and tools giving more growth in this area. The flexibility, easy to build, rich contented, speed, run all devices (mobile devices). HTML 5 is giving more advancement in web applications. It’s integration; add video, audio, images. All the browser are supported applications and open standards. What are the benefits of web applications?
1. Installation not required. If you have a web browser you can run the application.
2. Updates are seamless to user. You don’t want to do any user system level upgrade of application.
3. Available anywhere any time. It can be accessible from any device, from anywhere.
4. Platform independent. No dependency with client OS and browser.
5. Easy of deployment, and Ease of access.
6. Lower TCO.
7. Secure.
8. User friendly, simple to use. Users are familiar to use.
9. Speed of application is higher. Access is faster.
10. Availability.
2010
05.19
Tags: GNU, GPL, SUN Solaris, VirtualBox
Posted in INFRASTRUCTURE, SOLARIS, Virtualization, WINDOWS | No Comments »
VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Some of the features of VirtualBox are:
• Modularity. VirtualBox has an extremely modular design with well-defined internal programming interfaces and a client/server design. This makes it easy to control it from several interfaces at once: for example, you can start a virtual machine in a typical virtual machine GUI and then control that machine from the command line, or possibly remotely. VirtualBox also comes with a full Software Development Kit: even though it is Open Source Software, you don’t have to hack the source to write a new interface for VirtualBox.
• Virtual machine descriptions in XML. The configuration settings of virtual machines are stored entirely in XML and are independent of the local machines. Virtual machine definitions can therefore easily be ported to other computers.
• Guest Additions for Windows, Linux and Solaris. VirtualBox has special software that can be installed inside Windows, Linux and Solaris virtual machines to improve performance and make integration much more seamless. Among the features provided by these Guest Additions are mouse pointer integration and arbitrary screen solutions (e.g. by resizing the guest window). There are also guest additions for OS/2 with somewhat reduced functionality.
• Shared folders. Like many other virtualization solutions, for easy data exchange between hosts and guests, VirtualBox allows for declaring certain host directories as “shared folders”, which can then be accessed from within virtual machines.
• Virtual USB Controllers. VirtualBox implements a virtual USB controller and allows you to connect arbitrary USB devices to your virtual machines without having to install device specific drivers on the host.
• Remote Desktop Protocol. Unlike any other virtualization software, VirtualBox fully supports the standard Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). A virtual machine can act as an RDP server, allowing you to “run” the virtual machine remotely on some thin client that merely displays the RDP data.
• USB over RDP. With this unique feature, a virtual machine that acts as an RDP server can still access arbitrary USB devices that are connected on the RDP client. This way, a powerful server machine can virtualize a lot of thin clients that merely need to display RDP data and have USB devices plugged in.
Ref: VirtualBox
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