Here’s my first try working with Amazon Web Services. Covered tasks are the following:
- getting familiar with AWS, specially EC2 and S3.
- working with EC2 instance using CentOS image – search, start/stop, and do some customization of an instance
- create AMIs (private) and start instance from it.
- S3 buckets – upload files.
I based my [...]
My First Amazon EC2 Setup (CentOS AMI)
June 29th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Centos · HowTo · Storage · cloud computing
Running ASDM client from your Linux desktop
March 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments
For those of us who use Linux as a desktop replacement for Windows would find it nice to be able to run the ASDM client natively. If you haven’t upgraded your ASA/PIX to the latest ASDM you should do so. The steps are described here.
Upgrade to Java SE 6 update 12 on Fedora 10
February 9th, 2009 · No Comments
After our ASA units were updated to the latest version of ASDM my Java client would no longer connect to ASDM. An upgrade to the latest version of Java was in order. Since fedora yum repository does not yet offer the latest version of Java I downloaded the latest rpm variant of JDK from http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
The [...]
Tags: Installation · desktop
Monitoring a Java application from Nagios
January 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments
This is a slight departure from our regular programming. Instead of just concentrating on the sys admin side of things I want to show how to add a Nagios check to an existing application. In this case we have a Java application for which we want to monitor whether it is running or not. Later [...]
Tags: Nagios · monitoring
Implementing AES encryption in the front-end
June 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment
This post describes a way to implement data encryption in the front-end of an application and how to make it compatible between a PHP front-end and a Java front-end.
First off we need to decide what type of encryption to use. AES is an encryption standard that has been endorsed by the NSA and is generally [...]
Tags: Installation
