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And after the FCNSA version 3, finally somw weeks ago I’ve scheduled the PearsonVue test for Fortinet Certifications.

I’ve scheduled both in the same morning, and I’ve finished it in less than 2 hours.

Now I have the updated version (current) for Fortinet Certified Network Secutiry Administrator FCNSA

and

Fortinet Certified Network Security Professional FCNSP

As usual, I had found more difficulties on the first level exam FCNSA (the simplier one) than on the second FCNSP.

Right now I’m planning to start study some Cisco manuals to start Cisco certification path.

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After upgrading my work notebook to Fedora 16 x86_64 I need to install Skype to keep contact with a lot of peoples.

But after download the latest Skype beta for Linux from the skype website I’ve notice that something doesn’t work.

This is pretty similar situation as this post and this post.

So the following is two simple steps to install a working version of Skype.

• Download the latest beta from the Skype Website from here (http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-fc10)
• Install dependencies by running:

  yum install -y qt-x11.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 libXv.i686

• Install Skype by running:

  yum install --nogpgcheck -y skype-2.2.0.25-fedora.i586.rpm

Enjoy it

Hope this help

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Riccardo

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I always have sort of love and hate relation with IBM DS series management suite, especially for the continuous change on the graphical interface and for the lack of some basic feauture, like for example extend a volume.

Today we have Storage Manager release 10 to manage the array (both old DS3400 and newer DS3500 family).

Probably the IBM developers think that hide the more they can from the gui lead to think that the storage management will be simple.

So here's the fact. Some years ago I had to extend a volume on a DS3400 managed by storage manager 10, and I discovered that it's not possible to extend the volume from the gui anymore.

After some Googling I found that SM10 is nothing more than a limited GUI for the storage-handicap IT persons, it does not completely cancel the storage device’s abilities.
The DS3400 and DS3500 can expand LUNs, so SM10 can allow it, secretly.

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The following is a simple (and very row) init script for HaProxy.

If your distribution don’t include it, you can download it from here, extract it and make it, then copy the compiled executable wherever you want (in the following example I’ve copied it into /usr/bin).

I had to use it on a CentOS to balance some session directed to application servers, and there wasn’t the init script, so I wrote it because I really hate to execute script not registered with chkconfig on a production systems.

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And after the VCP3, and VCP4, finally today I’ve scheduled the PearsonVue test for VCP5 Certification.

I’ve passed it with 361 points (the minimum was 300).

I’m so much more relaxed right now.

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Riccardo

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The new Fedora Linux is coming.
Many thanks to all the community for this beautiful project.

Fedora 16 “Verne” is coming, are you ready ?

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Riccardo

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In this post I am going to talk about a very particular piece of hardware, pretty unique on the market at this moment and that should be very useful for virtualization or clustering purpose, with a very low budget, so it will be very interesting especially for SMB.

The product is called Intel Modular Server.

Intel Modular Server is a modular server (not a Blade) and have some very interesting feature :

- Fully redundant hot swap power supply.
- Fully redundant hot swap Gigabit ethernet switches with failover.
- Fully redundant hot swap storage controller, with multipathing and failover support.
- Up to six (6) compute module double socket (for Intel Xeon 5400 or 5500 CPU family).
- Up to 96GB of RAM each compute module.
- Up to 14 HDD SAS.
- Up to two redundant external SAS connection to storage expansion or SAS device connection (i.e. Tape Unit or Storage Devices).

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Yesterday evening I’ve made the online test to gain the Snom Certified Technician certification.

The test is quite simple if you have knowledge and experience on VOIP devices and SIP protocols, it also include TCP/IP Knowledge and SNOM devices.

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Riccardo

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I really enjoy my Android devices, both phone and tablet, and I would like to be able to use it to connect to some networks protected by Fortinet’s UTM using VPN tunnels.
Unfortunately Fortinet haven’t yet released an Android client to connect to his devices, so digging on some reference guide and with a lot of test and debug, I’ve finally got it works.

The following will be the steps you (and I, for future reference) had to follow for a working connection with the following :

- L2TP over IPSEC connection
- User Account authentication on the internal domain controller.

The following configuration will be entirely command line based because it’s easiest to port on other devices and because some steps works only on CLI.

Note: the following configuration is for a Fortigate device running v4.0 of the OS at a patch level of MR2.

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Yesterday and today I’ve found some time to dedicate to the new course on Vmware Partner University and in a couple of hours I’ve got the newest release for Vmware Techical Sales Professional.

Vmware Techical Sales Professional on vSphere 5 (VTSP5)

Thank you to Vmware to share such a great materials.

…. and  now let’s start to journey to earn the VCP5 as soon as possible.

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Riccardo

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