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Inventarisatie van uw Netwerk.
Het is een crime, met name voor kleinere bedrijven om bij te houden wat er allemaal draait op welk systeem, server, laptops en desktops. Een bekend Amerikaans bedrijf heeft nu een lite versie van haar software vrijgegeven voor gratis download. Een bijzonder interessant idee voor kleine(-re) bedrijven, die het overzicht al geheel of bijna kwijt zijn. Link naar de free download site:
http://www.ecora.com/ecora/products/documentor.asp
Hieronder het gehele artikel uit NetWorkWorld:
Ecora giving away system audit tool
Configuration-management company scales down its software to provide customers a lightweight version - for free.
By Denise Dubie, Network World, 09/29/06
Like many network managers, David James has a lot of IT projects on his plate.
Yet with one initiative in particular the network administrator for Piedmont Plastics in Charlotte, N.C., says he didn't know where to start. James says he was asked to document the operating systems, patches, updates and applications running on more than 200 Windows servers.
New! Watch this Network World Webcast on Network Management.
"You walk into an environment you have been running for years and think, 'I have to document this!'" James says. With tight staff and tighter budgets, he says he knew he'd have to "come across a miracle" to avoid investing a lot of cash and labor to get the server documentation project under way. "It was something I knew would take forever and a day."
That is until his Web searches for open source and freeware tools turned up a commercial software product - available free for download. Like some 5,000 others, James downloaded the free application to automate the manual process of server documentation.
"I can't imagine doing manually what this product automates," James says.
Configuration-management vendor Ecora this summer quietly made a scaled-down version of its enterprise Auditor Professional software, called Auditor Lite, available at no cost from its Web site (free download here). The company next week plans to announce it has extended the availability of the free version through year-end.
Auditor Lite, the brainchild of new Ecora CEO Joe Fiorentino, "carves off" some of the company's enterprise-level technology and makes it available as a downloadable software application.
"It provides a snapshot, inventory or baselines of server information, which can be used in many cases for disaster recovery," Fiorentino explains.
The software can sit on multiple server platforms and collects configuration, operating system, application, patch and more data residing on servers it has been directed to audit. Unlike products from competitors BindView and Configuresoft, Ecora's technology doesn't rely on agent software for data collection, Fiorentino says, and it doesn't require extensive configuration to get it up and running.
"I downloaded it, ran the install, and two clicks later I could see what was running on the server," says James, who wanted to be able to get a "bird's-eye view" of systems at any given time and has no plans to upgrade at this point.
Auditor Lite can collect data from a variety of systems, but can only report on one system at a time, Fiorentino explains. Customers looking to correlate data collected from multiple machines could consider upgrading to the professional version. "If they want more sophisticated reporting, they may want to consider an upgrade," he says.
Because of customer demand, Ecora is extending the free download of Auditor Lite to Dec. 31, 2006, and potentially longer, Fiorentino says. The company offers a video tutorial on how to set up and use Auditor Lite on its Web site and is working on offering a self-service Web page to offload some simpler support calls from the customer support staff.
Auditor Professional costs about $1,000 to start for a standard server-based license.
Belangrijke additionele links:
Introduction Flash: http://www.ecora.com/ecora/demo/documentor.asp
Step by step Guide: http://www.ecora.com/ecora/demo/documentor_guide.swf
FAQ files: http://www.ecora.com/ecora/faq/questions.asp?tid=313&pid=3
BankFraude met oude diskdrives.
Zie verhaal hierover op pagina: Waarschuwingen uit de praktijk
Open source manages the Internet
We've known for years
that upwards of 70% of web sites use Apache to power their sites. We
also know that much of MySQL's thriving business comes from "Web 2.0"
companies - the web runs MySQL (and a heck of a lot of Linux). What has
been less clear is how much of the web that we see is managed by open
source web content management systems.
Dries Buytaert, lead on
the Drupal Project (a leading web content management system), sent me
the results of an interesting, 5000-web developer survey that sheds
light on the question. The survey was conducted from June 2006 to July
2006, and released by as the "2006 State of Web Development" report by
SitePoint Pty Ltd. and Ektron, Inc. This is must-read material for
anyone in the WCM space, but also interesting for those tracking the
rise of open source.
The results? A huge swath of the web is
managed by open source, with the vast majority of the remainder
well-positioned to be consumed by open source. {mosimage}
Also in the report: LAMP
and Microsoft own the web. They account for the vast majority of server
platforms that web developers use. This is one reason that Alfresco has
a web scripting language interface to a Java backbone - we can be coded
quite easily in Ruby, Python, PHP, or Perl, which is a requirement if
you want to help power the web. The "P" (and now Ruby) is clearly A
Very Big Deal. It's why Zend has such a bright future, for example.
{mosimage}
Also of note in the report is how pervasive
collaboration-type functionality is becoming. Ajax is being planned by
~47% of web developers, with blogs (38%), podcasts (25%), wikis (20%),
syndication (36%), and other features increasingly incorporated into
websites.
Much of this functionality will be driven by open
source (and/or open standards) -based software. Given how much of our
lives is moving to the web, it's just one more indication that open
source, not proprietary software, will dominate the next millenium.
Sorry, proprietary guys! At least you had a fun ride while it lasted.
Bron : InfoWorld
Linux en Open Software.
Open software kost niets! Er is tegenwoordig meer
dan voldoende support te krijgen voor dit soort systemen. Het heeft
alles wat Microsoft ook heeft en meer! Bovendien heeft de Europesche
commissie een oekaze de deur uitgedaan, dat alle (semi-) overheidsinstellingen
uit oogpunt van kosten Open Software serieus in overweging moeten
nemen.
Linux kost niets of een beetje
(afhankelijk van welke versie/fabrikant) en komt met een volledig
office pakket compatible met MS Office! Bij voorbeeld de Fedora
versie van Red Hat. Vergeet
ook niet dat meer dan 70% van alle web servers in de wereld draaien
op open software van Apache
(zowel op Windows, als Linux) De lijst met open software is gigantisch.
Voor meer inzicht en informatie: http://sourceforge.net/. Joomla Wilt u een professionele website met veel mogelijkheden? Kijk dan ook eens naar de Open Source software van Joomla, de opvolger van Mambo (toen Mambo commerciëel ging). Een Content Management systeem (CMS), dat vrijwel alles kan, wat u zou willen hebben. Ook dit pakket komt onder een GPL (General Public License). Het is dus vrij te downloaden en te gebruiken. Bovendien is er veel kennis in de markt m.b.t. dit systeem.
Andere Open Source Software: Asterisk.
Kijk eens naar Asterisk / Asterisk@Home of FreePBX. Deze linux gebaseerde systemen worden op een aantal plekken al ingezet voor de volledige afhandeling van de telecommunicatie, w.o. de Sam Houston State University in Texas. Zij brengen vele duizenden gebruikers over naar Asterisk gebaseerde systemen.. Wij zelf zijn ook met de definitie-studie en de requirements analysis bezig. Bij ons gaat straks zowel de reguliere landlijnen (analoog,ISDN), als het VoIP verkeer via zo'n server. Softwarekosten: niks, nada, nakkes joh.
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