robinshroom

Hi, I’m looking to improve our current curriculum network in school. Our rough topology is fairly standard: Main servers->Core switches->Edge switches->Client computers / Cameras / Phones Etc. Has anybody got any experience with; or could suggest a hardware/software solution to look at, that could give me real-time feedback on switch to switch communication speeds / inform me of bottle-necks / loop backs and also map the network along with alerts to changes in the network such as a PC being un-plugged. (And make me coffee too... ) Thanks, Shroom!

Smoothwall or something along those lines are kind of what I'm suspecting. No go on IE (proxy settings) as it is a stand-alone unit that plugs directly into a network - small box with an ethernet port on it, with a simple web interface.

Getting the software updated isn't an option (their tech support hasn't been to good) however I have contacted my LEA to see if it might be possible to get some kind of direct connection to the net without having to go through the proxy/firewall. thanks! robin.

Hi, Short time lurker – first time poster! I’m looking for some suggestions as to the best way to proceed with setting up a Davis weather station IP logger, however the actual problem is not necessarily confined to setting up a weather station. I work in a school, and we connect via a proxy server. The software on board the weather station IP logger ‘automatically’ connects to a website and uploads various data. The problem lies with the fact that there is no way to specify a proxy server (just a static IP address only) I’m looking, I guess, for a bit of software that would transparently translate the IP logger traffic up to the proxy server (as I can’t set it on the actual IP logger itself) Thanks, Robin.

Hi Guys & Girls, I’ve been asked to rectify a script related problem and was wondering if anyone else had experienced similar. The usual story; the script has been running without problem for months. Some upgrade work has been done on the (school) network and now it has stopped working. No changes have been made to the script. All servers/paths/printers/shares referenced by the script are available. Script now throws random errors and does not execute ie: Line: 9 Char: 1 Error: 0x80041001 Source: (null) Or: Line: 10 Char: 5 Error: 0x80041002 Source: SWbemObjectEx (same script both times) A Sample of the script is below. In essence the first part strips out all network printers, and the second part adds network printers. This is done as a user moves from room to room and different printers become available. Any ideas why the script does not run, syntax seems fine, but maybe it’s not? - and the knowledge that is has been running (apparently) fine for months just confuses matters further! Thanks ! Robin. -------------------------- strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colInstalledPrinters = objWMIService.ExecQuery _ ("Select * From Win32_Printer Where Network = True") For Each objPrinter in colInstalledPrinters objPrinter.Delete_ Next Dim oNetwork, sPrintPath, sShort Set oNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network") sShort = Left (oNetwork.ComputerName, 4) Select Case sShort Case "204A" sPrintPath = "\\support\LaserJet -204A-" Case "204B" sPrintPath = "\\support\Laserjet -204B-" Case "204C" sPrintPath = "\\support\LaserJet -204C-" Case "64_A" sPrintPath = "\\support\Laserjet -64A-" Case Else WScript.Quit End Select oNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection sPrintPath oNetwork.SetDefaultPrinter sPrintPath -----------------------