Tag: logging
Prevent IP Access by Routing to Null
The goal of a router is to send network traffic to its destination based on its routing table. Some times its necessary to prevent traffic form flowing through a router. This can typically be achieved with access control lists, but a cost. ACLs, particularly long and complicated ones, come with the cost of performance. When preventing access to an entire subnet it is possible to simply route traffic into a “black hole” where it will be discarded. This is achieved without using an ACL.
Tail Cat and Grep Your Log Files
I recently treated myself to a long overdue syslog server for our network devices. The system is on a Linux system (I would have it no other way) and has been instrumental to troubleshooting and auditing these past few weeks. You can read this article for some log parsing tricks ranging from basic to a […]
Mitel 5000 PHP SMDR Script
You may have read my short writeup about reading SMDR from the Mitel 5000 with a simple PERL script. If not you can see it HERE. This script is basically the same thing but in PHP. You will have to setup PHP to run from the CLI for this to work… I also set the […]
Mitel 5000 SMDR Script
The Mitel 5000 is a great system but the base licensed setup has a bit to be desired as far as reporting is concerned. I wanted to know who was making making and receiving calls and how long they were taking. I found some Mitel documentation on how to enable SMDR on the system and […]