Louwrentius

I've created a tool called procurve-watch. It creates a backup of the running switch configuration through secure shell (using scp).

It also diffs backed up configurations against older versions, in order to keep track of changes. If you run the script from cron every hour or so, you will be notified by email of any (running) configuration changes.

The tool can backup hundreds of switches in seconds as it is running the configuration copy in parallel.

A tool like Rancid may actually be the best choice for this task, but it didn't work. The latest version of Rancid doesn't support HP Procurve switches (yet) and older versions created backups containing garbled characters.

I've released it on github, check it out and let me know if it works for you and you have suggestions to improve it further.

I've created and released Eztables on Github. Anyone who ever has a need to setup a firewall on Linux may be interested in this project.

It doesn't matter if you need to protect a laptop, server or want to setup a network firewall. Eztables supports it all.

If you're not afraid to touch the command line and edit a text file, you may be quite pleased with Eztables.

Go check it out!

My server has 5 network interfaces and I wanted a quick overview of some properties. There may be an existing linux command for this but I couldn't find it so I quickly wrote my own script (download).

This is the output:

The only requirement for this script is that you have 'ethtool' installed.

Update 2013-08-17

I recreated the script in python (download) so I can just dynamically format the table and not use ugly hacks I used in the bash script.