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For Management look at Meraki's free MDM

Search the Forum for PHP server monitor - another open source software but requires more setting up is Zabbix.

Exactly my experience - I don't know if they do now but they never used to support Powerpoint and i was always having to convert presentations so that they could be displayed.

Agreed Xibo - free and Highly Scaleable. I used to have some Navaho media cat's and hated them with a passion.

I don't have access to the Cisco - its supplied by the ISP - from what the engineer says there is no Packet errors or duplex miss matches. I am getting the cables swapped out tomorrow although they have been replaced already. I'm not sure if it is the config they have on there cisco's but I have just checked one of the others and it does exactly the same. Ping to router directly TTL=246 ping to firewall behind it TTL=54! Bizarre - the traces don't show anything out of the ordinary (not even any time outs).

I thought that but would it explain the TTL count increase? Toby

yeah its not my Cisco but i'm trying to make sure i don't look a fool to my client!

Me being a geek :-) Basicly i need a simple way of remotely sending a signal via the network to the gpio board i guess to activate a solinoid? Or activate something which i am yet to decide!

A trace is fine which is what is strange, but occasionally you get a TTL expired in transit. In my head I think the Cisco is doing something strange with its routes but I'm not a Cisco expert!

Depends if we are talking about TTL for DNS caching or TTL on IP Packets in my case i'm talking about the latter as it says its there to stop a packet floating round the internet space for ever if it cannot be routed to its destination.

Hello People, I would like to sanity check my and everybody in my offices thought process on this one. We have a client who intermittently see's the internet connection drop, We are always able to see the router on its internal and external addresses (both public). What we are not able to see is the Watchguard firewall on the other side of the router. (see attached image - IPS are not correct but just examples). During a period of outage the connection between the Cisco and the Watchguard goes down - a duplex mismatch maybe... no both set to 100 Full (already tried that). EDIT: The Watchguard is set to 100 Full, the Cisco auto as when set to 100 full too we got TTL expired in transit But what I have noticed is that if from my office I ping the cisco on both its external and internal public IP I get a TTL of 246 (which is correct as 9 router hops to the Cisco), from my office to the Watchguard the TTL is 54! So between the Cisco and the Watchguard which is a direct connection they are losing 192 hops somewhere. The other strange thing is to bring the line back up you can either reset the Watchguard OR the rad unit. Both of these devices bring the line up. Now in my head I am pointing at the Cisco being at fault for some bizarre reason. The ISP have gone away to look as to what could be causing the issue, but the guy i've been speaking with thinks it could be the firmware on the Rad unit. For anybody not familiar with the Rad unit its this EFM DSL Network Termination Unit LA-210 essentially a termination unit for the EFM line which basicly provides the facility to bond the (in this case) 4 pairs. Any body any ideas what else it could be? Am I right in thinking this is an issue with the cisco router? (model unknown). EDIT: could a mod change the title to Sanity check my thought process - Internet Connection Cisco Issue

The main area to consider with Cloud Backup is how easily you can get your data back and the SLA for doing so. For example you have companies such as Databarracks who will charge anything between 500 and 1000 per TB per month but will get your data back to you within 24 hours (on USB drive with an engineer) and also start a restore (anywhere in the UK). You also have companies such as Mozy pro who will quite happily take you data for a fraction of the cost say £300 (its $380 for a TB). But for that to get your data back in the event of DR its a case of getting it over the wire or waiting longer to have it shipped on a USB drive. These are both companies I work with. And the datto product I also mention above, is Hybrid cloud, do you have a 500gb, 1TB, 2TB, 5TB, 10TB or 25Tb unit on site, these units run a custom version of Ubuntu 10.04 and use a product called Shadow Protect to backup within each machine (whether its physical or virtual it doesn't matter). It backs these up to VMDK format which is actually bootable from 3 clicks of a button on a Datto appliance (there is a version which doesn't support the on-site virtulisation). These are then replicated out to the cloud at a frequency which is set by you (once a day, once every half day etc). And in the event of DR you can physically boot your servers off the Datto Cloud and run them from there - so in essence you can redirect dns records to the datto DC and run your infrastructure temporarily in the Datto cloud, once a new site etc is in place you can do the reverse and backup back to the new site and start them again.

I can recommend Datto's backup appliances - they are actually Hybrid cloud, so you backup locally and then it replicates itself out into the cloud nightly.

I'm aiming to use what I have!!

Connect to interweb so that it can be activated from a mobile app on my phone so its ready as I walk in the door

I'm thinking this could be a use with my Raspberry pi - I will see what I can come up with for this, and draw out and plans! @SimpleSi I might need some help with the Raspberry pi setup - do you know anybody who would be interested?

Its not that DNS that it is moaning about, its basicly saying it can't add itself as a DNS server on the current DNS servers. I presume you have run all the relevant schema and forest updates etc? Toby

Launch MMC, Add Certificates Snap In (choose Computer account), Locate required Snap in and then right click export.

I would more expect it to be this And this Reading this page and taking those key words you could be looking at a forum which is telling you how to bypass filtering.

have ordered some will see how we get on!

Works fine on my S3 And nexus 7 too

Hmm possibly I can't remember - I will take a look and order a couple of sets and test them out!! Any others? would like to get a couple of makes to test which ones are better!

Yup I was with O2 at my old house but moved and they wanted to charge a fortune for the new one as it is a different exchange which they don't supply.

Random question - I saw an advert for these last week and cannot find them. Basicly decent sticky pads which can be used to hang pictures etc but come off easily. I live in a flat and cannot put stuff on the walls (easily!) So trying to find something! Any ideas people?

Sky have also just purchased BE/O2 broadband too. Sky uses the Easynet network to provide its services. My New zen line with be around 14mb down, due to it being off network will be BT for the last mile and then back to ZEN's nearest POP.