We know Solarwinds well and have been working with it for a long time. Many are also familiar with their products for network (and not only) monitoring. However, it is not as widely known that they offer around forty free utilities on their website that can help control network devices, manage infrastructure, databases, and even handle incidents. In fact, this software consists of separate […]
The release of the Bedrock Linux 0.7.3 meta-distribution is available, allowing the use of packages and components from various Linux distributions, mixing distributions within a single environment. The system environment is formed from stable Debian and CentOS repositories, and you can also install newer versions of programs from Arch Linux/AUR, as well as compile Gentoo ports. Compatibility at the library level is ensured for installing third-party proprietary packages […]
More good news from 3CX! Last week, two important updates were released: a new VoIP application 3CX for Android and a new version of the 3CX Call Flow Designer (CFD) development environment for 3CX v16. The new 3CX VoIP application for Android includes various improvements in stability and usability, particularly a new […]
In previous articles, we explored what IdM is, how to determine whether your organization needs such a system, what tasks it addresses, and how to justify the implementation budget to management. Today, we will discuss the important steps that the organization must take to achieve the required level of maturity before implementing the IdM system. After all, IdM is designed to automate processes, and automating […]
Hello everyone! I work as a DevOps engineer in the hotel booking service Ostrovok.ru. In this article, I want to share our experience testing ansible roles. At Ostrovok.ru, we use ansible as our configuration manager. Recently, we felt the need to test roles, but, as it turned out, there are not many tools for this — perhaps the most popular is the Molecule framework, so […]
Sberbank has announced the implementation of several new features in its mobile application that will help customers save time on visits to branches and finding ATMs. One of the innovations concerns the mobile phone number associated with the bank card: it can now be changed directly through the app — without a visit to the bank. Additionally, it is now possible to set up notifications about transactions. […]
The developers of the decentralized messaging system Matrix announced that they are shutting down the servers Matrix.org and Riot.im due to a breach of their infrastructure. It turned out that the servers were compromised twice, and the hackers posted complete information about the server configuration on the project's main page. They also clarified that they copied the database with password hashes of almost five and a half million Matrix users. As proof […]
"A Day in the Life of a Squirrel" or From Modeling Processes to Designing the Automated Inventory System "Belka-1.0" (Part 1) An illustration from A.S. Pushkin's "The Tale of Tsar Saltan", published by "Children's Literature", Moscow, 1949, Leningrad, illustrations by K. Kuznetsov. What does 'squirrel' have to do with it? Let me explain right away what the 'squirrel' is about. Coming across amusing projects on the Internet for studying UML with […]
The implementation of any IT solution in an enterprise begins with design. At this stage, the IT manager needs to calculate the number of servers and their specifications, ensuring that there are enough to meet user demand while optimizing the cost-quality ratio of these servers, and that the expenses for creating the computing infrastructure for a new information system do not incur serious […]
Hello everyone! I really want to dive straight into the topic, but it'll be more appropriate to share a little about my background: Introduction I am a programmer with experience in developing frontend single-page applications, as well as Scala/Java and Node.js on the server side. For quite a while (definitely a couple — three years), I held the opinion that Docker is a godsend and an amazing tool that absolutely everyone […]
Good day to all! This time I decided to describe a situation that doesn't seem to be particularly well documented on the Internet, although there are some hints about it. Most of the information came from long, methodical digging through the code and the Mikrotik wiki. The task is to implement SMS management of multiple devices, for instance, turning ports on and off. There is: A secondary router […]
A significant new release of the AWK programming language implementation from the GNU project has been introduced — Gawk 5.0.0. AWK was developed in the 1970s and has not undergone significant changes since the mid-1980s, which defined the core structure of the language, allowing it to maintain its original stability and simplicity over the decades. Despite its age, […]