Limit Bacula Network Usage with trickle

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:30:16 +0000

bacula is a great backupsoftware, but sometimes the backup mustn’t use all the available bandwith. bacula itself has no speed limitations built in, but it is easy, to use trickle to accomplish this. I use trickle only on the clients.

Mini-Howto: SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:33:06 +0000

This Howto covers some SNMP Basics and examples how you can read some values

Introduction

The “Simple Network Management Protocol” is a powerful possibility to query network-devices for information, or even to manage them. It’s often also a security risk. As SNMP is a bit difficult to use at the beginning some administrators just skip over it. This can lead to security holes, when SNMP is activated by default on devices. For example on some HP-Switches I configured the default setting for SNMP was set to “read + write” for “public”. SNMP was limited to the local network, but still this enables all connected servers to shutdown ports and have other fun as they wanted. Often the configuration is like that to enable some configuration tools to control the switches.

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Limit Bacula Network Usage with trickle

Mini-Howto: SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)

Introduction