Live network map, has anyone seen one?

[sdc]

can I have one too please.

 

Indeed! You have a PM.

[dany2010]

Just read that you can use The Dude as a screensaver.

 

Looks like you just copy the files to system32 and rename dude.exe to .scr

 

Ive tested as far as renaming to .scr and opening it up but havnt tried setting as a scrren saver and trying it that way.

[Netman]

Another request for The Dude set up doc please @sdc - not sure I'll ever get time to do it, but can try!

[sdc]

PM on its way!

[sdc]

Just read that you can use The Dude as a screensaver.

 

Looks like you just copy the files to system32 and rename dude.exe to .scr

 

Ive tested as far as renaming to .scr and opening it up but havnt tried setting as a scrren saver and trying it that way.

 

Could you point me in the direction of where you read this, please? Sounds interesting...!

[dany2010]

Hi.

 

http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=15184

 

That's the only thing about it I could find so don't think its a official feature.

 

I'm guessing you would need a dude.exe for editing and dude,scr for the screensaver.

[sdc]

Hmm, interesting; thanks. Will have a play.

[dany2010]

Will be good if it works.

 

Ive setup my first 2012 server today and virtual win8 machines to try out incase we are ever asked.

 

As we are running out of space I wanted to use it with the dude but didn't want anyone else logging in and playing with my system so setting as a screensaver gets round this.

[Elison]

I think this looks rather impressive

At the program does all that you was talking about: shows on the map and notyfies when hosts are down and many other options.

[Roberto]

We actually use ops manager, as it was mentioned and screenshotted earlier. To be honest, the live map for us turned out to be one of those things that sounds good but turns out to have little practical use.

 

It might not be as sexy, but we have tended towards using a graph to represent service issue alerts on our live screen - this, for us, turned out to be far more informative - do you want a picture of an exchange server with a red cross next to it or do you need to know which exchange component has fallen over and why (e.g. see alerts for "information store dismounted" and "drive that contains the exchange DB logs is full").

[dezt]

@sdc could you pm me the setup doc for the dude as well please

[Dos_Box]

Moving to Network and Classroom Management forum.

[Duke5A]

I setup The Dude last week in a VM and added all six of our sites along with a WAN Map using a snapshot from Google Maps as a background. The auto-discover seems a bit wonkey, but other than that it is pretty cool. I even setup email notification via our Exchange server.

[dany2010]

Looks like the screensaver thing doesn't work in server 2012. Could be a security option somewhere not allowing you to run it but havnt looked.

 

Worked ok in win 7.

 

Just adding in the eight server now.

 

One really usefull this I like is the links that show data between our main deployment server and the other servers. They use dfsr so will be goof to show when the copying has finished.

[localzuk]

I'd suggest using Nagios. You can have a 2D map showing if you want, or a 3D one.

 

Kinda pointless though IMO. The real power is the individual service tracking etc... So it emails you if something dies. Or if you have it up on a screen you can have the summary page up showing the state quickly.

 

Or you could have one of these - Nabaztag hacks

[dany2010]

Still need to give nagios a go. Don't like it being on Linux though.

 

It wastes a machine and screen somewhere. At least with the dude you can install it onto your workstation.

 

Have noticed that when dfsr replicates from the main server account a 10mb connection, the main server kickss data out at 200 odd Mbps. The switches must do the flow control.

[localzuk]

Still need to give nagios a go. Don't like it being on Linux though.

 

It wastes a machine and screen somewhere. At least with the dude you can install it onto your workstation.

 

Have noticed that when dfsr replicates from the main server account a 10mb connection, the main server kickss data out at 200 odd Mbps. The switches must do the flow control.

 

Virtualise it. It doesn't need a screen at all, its web based, so you just access it on whatever machine you're using.

[dany2010]

Virtualise it. It doesn't need a screen at all, its web based, so you just access it on whatever machine you're using.

 

Or do that

 

Will give it a go, Not too keen on Linux. Believe they make stuff to difficult.

[localzuk]

The beauty of linux is its simplicity - everything is stored in text based config files, all the logs are in a standard location, the file system is structured in a sensible manner etc...

 

Debugging something on Linux is a case of looking through the logs, and editing config files.

 

Compared to Windows, where tracking down an issue can be circuitous and obscure, depending on what software, what version of the OS, sunspots, and what stage the moon is in...

 

Setting up Nagios isn't difficult. I'd also recommend pairing it with Nagios NConf if you want a simple web based interface to configure it with.

[dany2010]

Yeah it has it's plus point. But I use the Thinking, could my nan do this.

 

If not, its too hard and will never make it into homes. Try explaining the text conf files to her. If you ever follow a guide most of he time I find they never work as software has changed ornis no longer supported and there isn't a updates guide.

 

Take Nagios. The latest guide on their site about he core goes back to Ubuntu 6.10 so I'm expecting this not to work.

 

Different topic though. Windows vs Linux, have had a argument at work about this and Windows won hand down with me on its side.

 

Will give it ago though

[localzuk]

To install on Ubuntu 12.10:

 

apt-get install -y nagios3 nagios-nrpe-plugin
usermod -a -G nagios www-data
chmod -R g+x /var/lib/nagios3/
sed -i 's/check_external_commands=0/check_external_commands=1/g' /etc/nagios3/nagios.cfg
htpasswd -c /etc/nagios3/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin
service nagios3 restart && service apache2 restart

 

Then work with the normal nagios documentation to configure it.

[dany2010]

Goto make the plugins whatever this means and get loads of errors.

 

Starts with error 'gets' undeclared here half way thought running make.

 

See what I mean about Linux. Had 0 problems with windows.

[Theldron]

A bit late, but can I request a PM for the dude setup please @sdc Tried Nagios, Shinken can't get my head around them.

 

Thanks

[howartp]

Could I also have the PM please? :-)

 

Cheers.

[Markopolo]

I too would love some documentation on the dude! Cheers.