Using IoT principles to monitor last mile networking

The architecture for the majority of network management systems (NMS) rely on a central polling system that is required to scale with the number of devices and services on those devices being monitored. This requires a sophisticated polling system and often these are proprietary and cost an arm and a leg. A number of these systems are listed in my Alpha to Zulu guide of monitoring. As there is no intelligence in the device being polled the polls themselves are numerous and not optimized. A large amount of raw metrics is extracted and then needs to be processed to generate a valid metric to be stored, analyzed and graphed.

Read the article over at LinkedIn here.

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easywall - Web interface for easy use of the IPTables firewall on Linux systems written in Python3.

Firewalls are becoming increasingly important in today’s world. Hackers and automated scripts are constantly trying to invade your system and use it for Bitcoin mining, botnets or other things. To prevent these attacks, you can use a firewall on your system. IPTables is the strongest firewall in Linux because it can filter packets in the kernel before they reach the application. Using IPTables is not very easy for Linux beginners. We have created easywall - the simple IPTables web interface . The focus of the software is on easy installation and use. Access this neat software over on github: easywall

No Scrubs: The Architecture That Made Unmetered Mitigation Possible

When building a DDoS mitigation service it’s incredibly tempting to think that the solution is scrubbing centers or scrubbing servers. I, too, thought that was a good idea in the beginning, but experience has shown that there are serious pitfalls to this approach. Read the post of at Cloudflare's blog: N o Scrubs: The Architecture That Made Unmetered Mitigation Possible

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