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ZENworks 7 Desktop Management training

by | Nov 16, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized, ZENworks

A quick turnaround from Novell Education – the ZENworks 7 Desktop Management training is live:

ZENworks 7 Desktop Management Administration
Novell is pleased to announce the availability of ZENworks 7 Desktop Management Administration
(Course 3062 v1.0) to all customers worldwide.

Product Description
ZENworks 7 Desktop Management Administration (Course 3062 v1.0) explores many key management features in Novell ZENworks 7 Desktop Management. Ideal for NetWare administrators—even those without prior ZENworks experience—this course focuses on basic administrative tasks, including the installation and configuration of ZENworks 7 Desktop Management services on Novell Open Enterprise Server—Linux.
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Google Analytics

by | Nov 16, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

Google Analytics is live – that’s been blogged elsewhere.

I’m used to trawling my Apache logs and building my own reports on visitors; this takes away the pain and delivers some seriously heavyweight features.

Best of all – the service is free (as in beer). I am impressed with how Google have used the technology from their acquisition of urchin.

ssh DDoS?

by | Nov 16, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Linux, Uncategorized

My servers have been subjected to extra ssh traffic in the last few days:

Nov 16 13:25:14 gc-blog sshd[6625]: Illegal user admin from ::ffff:[IPaddress]
Nov 16 13:25:16 gc-blog sshd[6628]: Illegal user test from ::ffff:[IPaddress]
Nov 16 13:25:19 gc-blog sshd[6631]: Illegal user guest from ::ffff:[IPaddress]
Nov 16 13:25:26 gc-blog sshd[6637]: Illegal user webmaster from ::ffff:[IPaddress]
Nov 16 13:25:36 gc-blog sshd[6645]: Illegal user oracle from ::ffff:[IPaddress]
Nov 16 13:25:38 gc-blog sshd[6647]: Illegal user library from ::ffff:[IPaddress]
Nov 16 13:25:41 gc-blog sshd[6650]: Illegal user info from ::ffff:[IPaddress]
Nov 16 13:25:43 gc-blog sshd[6653]: Illegal user shell from ::ffff:[IPaddress]
Nov 16 13:25:50 gc-blog sshd[6658]: Illegal user linux from ::ffff:[IPaddress]
Nov 16 13:25:53 gc-blog sshd[6661]: Illegal user unix from ::ffff:[IPaddress]
Nov 16 13:25:55 gc-blog sshd[6664]: Illegal user webadmin from ::ffff:[IPaddress]
Nov 16 13:26:05 gc-blog sshd[6672]: Illegal user test from ::ffff:[IPaddress]
Nov 16 13:26:09 gc-blog sshd[6678]: Illegal user admin from ::ffff:[IPaddress]

SANS also had a post – http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=846

I’m keeping an eye on behaviour – I think my sshd are configured reasonably well.

MSIwisdom

by | Nov 16, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized, ZENworks

I was sent a link to a great new blog – MSIwisdom.

There are some great resources, hints and tips on this site – obviously focused on Windows application deployment using MSI packages.

Very useful for ZENworks Desktop Management.

Novell public wiki

by | Nov 13, 2005 | evilzenscientist, that book, Uncategorized

I am working with my colleague, long-time friend and collaborator Ted Haeger (Reverend Ted) to get some of my content hosted and posted on a Novell community wiki.

Specifically I’ve got two pet projects:
– ZENworks 7 Linux Management how to/lab guide
– ZENworks 7 Desktop Management how to/lab guide

This will be cool to open up to the wider community. Watch this space.