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ZENworks 7 Desktop Management training

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

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?

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

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

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.

ntp client

Urg. For some reason my blog server date was wrong. Even though it’s running an ntp client that sync every four hours.

Most of the posts from the last few days have been a day early (if that makes any sense) – it looks like I’ve been posting a day in the future 🙂

All fixed now.