Archive for April, 2009

 

 

Apr 27 2009

Initiate VPN connection on PIX

Published by dave under Cisco

Having set up VPN parameters on two Cisco PIX, you need to generate a traffic flow from a network to another to bring the connection up. This can be annoying if want to make sure the tunnel is active before you connect the network.
 
Let’s take 2 sub-networks 192.168.2.0/24 and 192.168.3.0/24.
Once VPN connections are configured on [...]

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Apr 10 2009

Monitor AS400 Resources with MRTG

Published by dave under AS400, Monitoring

It is recommended to monitor AS400 CPU load with OID .1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.4.5.1.0 that returns a value based on 10,000. It needs then to be divided by 100 to get a percentage.
The 2nd disadvantage is that the result is slightly wrong, the integer part only being returned.
OID HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrProcessorLoad.2 from an IBM i5 520 gives the correct value [...]

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