Netdisco 1.0 has been released, probably the best network management tool of all your routers/switches in the enterprise 
This brings many new features including improved Vlan searching, graphical network mapping, and device type discovery including IP phones and wireless clients.
Full VMware image, and Source files availble from http://sourceforge.net/projects/netdisco/files/
More info http://www.netdisco.org/
I have added a downloads section to the website…for any software which is worth downloading!
So far I have added the Netdisco VMWare applicance (Thanks to http://wokka.org/netdisco/) and CactiEZ latest ISO Image (http://cactiez.cactiusers.org)
Both files are mirrorred locally on the server so speeds should be fast for users located in Australia. (Instead of relying on overseas links)
Well I just stumbled accross that Netdisco 1.0 will come out soon!! Nice! It will be a long due upgrade since 0.95 came out back in 2006.
So far here are a few of the updates mentioned in the new release as taken from the website…
SNMP::Info 2.01 Released in anticipation of Netdisco 1.0
This release, in anticipation of the upcoming 1.0 release of Netdisco, fixes a number of bugs and adds support for a number of new device classes and MIBs
netdisco-mibs 0.7 Released
This release of netdisco-mibs is in anticipation of the upcoming Netdisco 1.0 release. The RFC, Cisco, Net-SNMP and HP trees have been updated to the newest mibs available on June 5, 2009.
More news to come as 1.0 rolls in..
Want a easy Cacti setup with all the additional plugins? Look no further than CactiEZ…
CactiEZ is the fastest possible way to get up and running with Cacti. CactiEZ is an auto-installing CD based on CentOS 4.X?. The disk is a completely remastered CD (from the 4 CD version, not the Server CD) and stripped down to the bare essentials (no GUI). The CD weighs in at roughly 355 Megs, and installed is roughly 855 Megs. At only 305 packages, it still includes a preconfigured firewall (only allowing http, https, ssh, netflow, webmin, and remote Syslog).
Everything is preconfigured and completely working after the initial install. This all requires ZERO input from the user except inserting the CD. This should make it very easy for anyone to test out Cacti, or to even deploy Cacti in their enviroment without the hassles that come with configuring Cacti and the services that it requires.
Website: http://cactiez.cactiusers.org/
So you got your cisco device, but what if you want to quickly find the right IOS, and other software releases for features you want to run on your network. There are many different versions of the cisco IOS for each device. I came accross this handy cisco website which you can use to research software releases by searching by image name, platform, product code etc. Once you select what you want, it will give you more information about the particular IOS for your device, and what it can run.
So checkout:
http://tools.cisco.com/ITDIT/CFN/jsp/index.jsp
I believe it will come in quite handy!
Can you believe that Cisco do not make a 64bit version of their VPN client??! Ive had to install Windows XP in a Vmware session to use VPN, how insane is that! Cmon Cisco get moving with the times…
If anyone has a way around to getting the Cisco VPN Client working on Vista Ultimate 64bit please let me know!
A Russian firm is using the power of NVIDIA GPUs to accelerate WiFi ‘password recovery’ times up to 10,000 percent, with some people saying this means encrypted WiFi is no longer secure. David Hobson, managing director of GSS, claimed that companies can no longer view standards-based WiFi transmission as sufficiently secure against eavesdropping to be used with impunity.
Hmm looks like really we have to start implementing new measures to protect our wireless networks. I currently use WPA2 with a 63 character key, but it seems they want to even go to more depths in securing with VPN/Radius servers as extra measures of security.
Read more at: SC Magazine UK
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