Re: NOC display software
On 13 February 2013 15:19, JoeSox joe...@gmail.com wrote: Just wondering if anyone can recommend Windows software (it could be Linux too but I might need to create a separate host for that configuration) that enables rotating [on one monitor] several webpages (dashboards) or windows (application dashboards). It would be nice if it was freeware or open source but whatever works best is what I am looking for. For example, if I wanted one monitor to cycle thru my local SolarWinds Orion, Office 365 Health Status, and anyother webdashboards. Install firefox, open tabs for everything you wish to display, install Tab Slideshow and set it to cycle. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/tab-slideshow/ Then just hit F11 and put Firefox into fullscreen mode, works on Win/Mac/Linux. -- Nat 07531 750292 http://natmorris.co.uk
Re: Big Temporary Networks
On 14 September 2012 11:16, Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org wrote: On 13/09/2012 21:32, Måns Nilsson wrote: Get lots of IP addresses. A /16 probably still can be borrowed for this kind of event. I know RIPE had rules and addresses for this kind of use a couple years ago, at least. yes, you can get a bunch of IP addresses from the ripe ncc if you only need them on a temporary basis: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-526 We tried to apply using this policy to get address space for EMFCamp, no good in reality. The RIPE hostmaster would only allocate us address space 7 days before the event started, needed longer than this to begin building out the network which span multiple data centres. Especially with time, access and change freeze constraints due to the Olympics this year. They didn't seem to want to budge on this, easier in my opinion to borrow some off a friendly organisation or ISP than jump hoops with RIPE. Only other option would be to build your infra out in an existing spare /24 you can get hold of - put router loopbacks, point to points etc in there. Then a week before the event attempt to get the larger /19 assignment from RIPE to put your clients in. I wouldn't be happy doing that though, as in my opinion it doesn't leave enough time for any reachability testing / debugging. -- Nat http://natmorris.co.uk http://twitter.com/natmorris
Re: Big Temporary Networks
On 14 September 2012 11:54, Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org wrote: On 14/09/2012 11:50, Nat Morris wrote: The RIPE hostmaster would only allocate us address space 7 days before the event started, needed longer than this to begin building out the network which span multiple data centres. Especially with time, access and change freeze constraints due to the Olympics this year. They didn't seem to want to budge on this, easier in my opinion to borrow some off a friendly organisation or ISP than jump hoops with RIPE. I'm in the process of trying to get this changed. To be completely fair on the RIPE NCC, they don't have flexibility on this issue - the original policy was broken. This is good news Nick :) I have spoken to others in the past few weeks who were hoping to raise it at the next RIPE meeting. I am happy to share our ticket details with you off list if it'll help. -- Nat http://natmorris.co.uk http://twitter.com/natmorris
Re: Big Temporary Networks
On 13 September 2012 22:13, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Josh Baird joshba...@gmail.com Besides this, we have a fairly beefy box that handles DNS and DHCP and basic firewalling. Have you had to/been able to haul in your own bandwidth to feed it? What class? (Real DS3/OC1/OC3, FiOS/HFC, something else?) Two weekends ago EMFCamp took place north of London in Milton Keynes, the UK’s first maker weekend long festival, ran along the same lines as CCC / HAR2009 etc. A small team of us designed the infrastructure for it, we started at the end of May, 3 months in advance. The CCC noc team in Germany were kind enough to lend us their event /19 + /48 + ASN, we built a temporary network spanning from Telehouse East in London Docklands up to a local data centre (Pulsant) in Milton Keynes. Pulsant sponsored us with a 1gb/s L2 circuit from Telehouse to Milton Keynes, we placed a router (c7202+npe-g2) in each decenter. We took on transit in both sites and had temporary membership to LONAP in Telehouse where we connected to their route server for v4,v6 peering and even multicast. Biggest cost was the 2 mile link from the dc back to the festival site, we rented 2 portable 30m trailer mounted masts. A microwave company loaned us some DragonWave kit which ran on 18ghz at 385mb full duplex, this was our primary link and they applied for a UK OFCOM temp telco license for this on our behalf. We also bought a pair of Ubiquiti Nanobridge M5’s for backup, running at about 100mb. We didn’t firewall anything, users were made aware what they were connecting to, there were no passwords on the SSID’s, we had no agenda to monitor traffic. We published abuse email addresses and a number that people could call if required and we would act on it (the RIR contacts for the address space were updated too) Our NOC: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nottinghack/7929611918/ https://dl.dropbox.com/u/74717/2012-08-30%2017.40.26.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/ru/7909193016/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/nottinghack/7929909834/ Onsite core and servers http://www.flickr.com/photos/nottinghack/7929611592/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/andy_d/7902260210/ For wireless we deployed a pair of Cisco wireless controllers, all the APs were lightweight and RF allocation was easily managed centrally. https://twitter.com/emfnoc/status/241944863887749121/photo/1 Just like CCC + HAR we deployed portaloo’s / datenklo around the campsite and campers connected up to them for power and Ethernet: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ne0hack3r/7924490940/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/je4d/7924689482/ Sort out kit configuration out well in advance, really glad we did as we spent far longer getting the mast and microwave kit aligned that we thought. Switches, servers were all configured before arriving so we just unloaded and connected things up according to the plan. Avoid NAT’ing anything, speak to a friendly ISP and borrow some address space. We split DNS resolvers, DHCP, monitoring VMs across 3 separate VM hosts just in case one had a hardware failure, don't rely on a single server box. Do it properly and attendees will be happy: https://twitter.com/Ash_Force/status/242067006537474048 https://twitter.com/markphelan/status/241896897290309633 https://twitter.com/je4d/status/242386884276396032 Our slides are here (warning 50mb)… http://www.natmorris.co.uk/camp_network.pdf Get a team on board to help out, ours rocked! -- Nat http://natmorris.co.uk http://twitter.com/natmorris
Re: You thought you had... wiring issues!!!
On 31 July 2012 22:07, Lyle Giese l...@lcrcomputer.net wrote: good one! One question, what are those big cables with the big boot on them? Its the back of an outside broadcast truck, the cables are triax - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triaxial_cable Boots are just used to protect the triax connector from damp when either hooked up to the back of a camera or an outside patch bay - http://www.steadicam-facilities.co.uk/images/equipment-triaxcameracable-163.jpeg -- Nat http://natmorris.co.uk http://twitter.com/natmorris
