Nerhood Weblog

So you’ve got a cable modem, and you’re having problems (or you just like to track everything). You’ve already been to the management page of your cable modem (in most cases it is reachable at http://192.168.100.1/), but now you want more, or at least to be able to track changes over time. What can you [...]

Tonight was a busy night. The first big adventure was converting Sarah’s crib into a toddler bed. If we had our way, I’m sure we would have waited, but Sarah forced our hand. Last night I woke up to some terrible screaming. It seems that Sarah had tried to climb out of her crib, but [...]

With the installation of our new Network Appliance (NetApp) filers, I needed to be able to monitor them. Yes I know that they have an autosupport feature where they email you as well as NetApp whenever anything happens, but I still like to do my own monitoring.
The first thing that I did was check at [...]

Today is the start of our NetApp installation, so I’d thought I’d document the process. The started to arrive a little over a week ago and I must admit that I’m currently not that impressed. I don’t know where the problems started (with NetApp directly or with our reseller), but we’ve had one issue after [...]

For the past week I’ve submersed myself in the world of Cacti, and have been have a lot of fun making cool graphs. As my staff will attest, I’m really big into monitoring anything and everything on our network. I find it’s very helpful to be able to track usage, capacity, growth, and a bunch [...]