[afnog] afnog Digest, Vol 147, Issue 10

Tue Jun 14 14:24:09 UTC 2016

	Hi Kossi,

	You may first want to look at why the hosts are in pending status.

	- can you ping the hosts from the Nagios server ?
	- is nagios running ?
	- check the Nagios logs to see if checks are being scheduled.

	Cheers,
	Phil


Kossi Amessinou (amessinoukossi) writes:
> Dear all
> I need to back to you and say thank you for the NMF training! I just
> implement smokeping and cacti in my network. It is work well. But for
> the nagios, the hosts are in spending statuts since the configuration!
> I will like to get a phone of anyone to call!
> Thank you.
> 
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> >    1. Re:  Hackathon (Kofi ANSA AKUFO)
> >    2. Re:  Hackathon (abel ELITCHA)
> >    3.  Fwd: [FRnOG] [ALERT] IP en Afrique du Sud / tentative
> >       spam/DoS (Willy MANGA)
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> >
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 12:52:10 +0400
> > From: Kofi ANSA AKUFO <kofi.ansa at gmail.com>
> > To: Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden at gmail.com>
> > Cc: afnog <afnog at afnog.org>
> > Subject: Re: [afnog] Hackathon
> > Message-ID:
> > 	<CAOR+LwBJikV813Mn7yHH1K+Y-jK1F0uzk5bH=hYCmquz1CehMw at mail.gmail.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> >
> > Sounds interesting Logan,
> >
> > Perhaps the theme should focus on leveraging current hot technologies that
> > will enable us to be at par with our colleagues on other continents.
> >
> > See a few suggestions below to consider ...
> >
> > Many organisations have managed to migrate and or deploy some form of cloud
> > infrastructure in our region but are just realizing 13% - 18% of the full
> > benefits of their infrastructure.
> >   ==>. Now we should focus on assisting the community to tune their systems
> > to reap the remaining 82% "*Increasing agility ? reducing server and
> > application provisioning from 1 - 2 days to 3 minutes as well as reducing
> > operational costs by say 85%*" .
> >
> > So lets focus on digesting projects like openstack and its components -
> > which are gradually taking center stage as well as leverage configuration
> > management and automation tools like puppet and containers.
> >
> > ... And whilst we are at this it will be great to see the R&D and Training
> > departments of our NOGs as well as AfriNIC to collect data on such
> > deployments and revise their training to be integral to that respect.
> >
> > The continent is relatively more connected now compared to 3-4 years ago.
> > We should fully exploit these gains:
> > - Building container lab frameworks where our community members can hold
> > online network design training and competitions. [Your hackathon could be
> > delivered on this platform :)  and become a more regular activity rather
> > than a one time event]
> > - Collaborate more with NREN to develop online course contents and seed
> > research in our universities.
> > - deliver some of our trainings like IPv6 through how they fit into new
> > paradigms like application staging and provisioning through containers.
> >
> > The cloud paradigm and its associated driving technologies is *a reality
> > now* NOT VIRTUAL :) and we should exploit it to the fullest.
> >
> > CHALLENGE: It will be interesting to see an integrated RPK, IPv4 and IPv6
> >  configuration training delivered as part of an online labs platform.
> > Participants should be able to spin up and create their own setups - throw
> > network orchestrations (SDN and NFV) into the configs, simulate on premises
> > cloud, demo best practices, guides and propositions by operators of
> > required feature development assistance ....  most important use it to
> > teach the very same technologies powering the labs.
> >
> > The impact of such online collab lab (sponsored of course by benevolent
> > members of NOGs in our region) on RICH training content creation and
> > achievement  of set awareness targets in relatively short time span.
> >
> > Times are changing and such labs and services should be available as
> > critical platforms for ICT development in our region.
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > K.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 13 June 2016 at 11:44, Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> After AIS in Botswana, I was wondering if there might be some interest
> >> to organize a Hackathon for the next meeting in Mauritius.
> >>
> >> In order for it to work, we would need
> >>
> >> 1) A room with Internet and stable electricity (3 days, non-stop, 10
> >> hours of intense coding)
> >> 2) Low noise level, and restricted room access so that participants can
> >> focus.
> >> 3) People familiar with coding in languages such as Python/Perl and C,
> >> and who are willing to spare some time ahead of the hackathon to brush
> >> up their skills, so that they can hit the hackathon with some kind of
> >> code. In my experience organizing various hackathons in Mauritius,
> >> it's better to have an idea ahead of time, and already having some
> >> code written before coming so that you can quickly iron out the bugs,
> >> and improve code steadily.
> >>
> >> TOPIC: DNS, DNSSEC, BGP, SMTPS, TLS, <insert your idea here>
> >>
> >> We would need at least 3 hackers as a start.
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
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> > Message: 2
> > Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 09:36:07 +0000
> > From: abel ELITCHA <kmw.elitcha at gmail.com>
> > To: Kofi ANSA AKUFO <kofi.ansa at gmail.com>
> > Cc: afnog <afnog at afnog.org>
> > Subject: Re: [afnog] Hackathon
> > Message-ID:
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> >
> > +1 AKUFO,
> > I can't agree more with you and I fully support the idea.
> >
> > --Komi
> >
> > 2016-06-14 8:52 GMT+00:00 Kofi ANSA AKUFO <kofi.ansa at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> Sounds interesting Logan,
> >>
> >> Perhaps the theme should focus on leveraging current hot technologies
> >> that
> >> will enable us to be at par with our colleagues on other continents.
> >>
> >> See a few suggestions below to consider ...
> >>
> >> Many organisations have managed to migrate and or deploy some form of
> >> cloud infrastructure in our region but are just realizing 13% - 18% of
> >> the
> >> full benefits of their infrastructure.
> >>   ==>. Now we should focus on assisting the community to tune their
> >> systems to reap the remaining 82% "*Increasing agility ? reducing server
> >> and application provisioning from 1 - 2 days to 3 minutes as well as
> >> reducing operational costs by say 85%*" .
> >>
> >> So lets focus on digesting projects like openstack and its components -
> >> which are gradually taking center stage as well as leverage configuration
> >> management and automation tools like puppet and containers.
> >>
> >> ... And whilst we are at this it will be great to see the R&D and
> >> Training
> >> departments of our NOGs as well as AfriNIC to collect data on such
> >> deployments and revise their training to be integral to that respect.
> >>
> >> The continent is relatively more connected now compared to 3-4 years ago.
> >> We should fully exploit these gains:
> >> - Building container lab frameworks where our community members can hold
> >> online network design training and competitions. [Your hackathon could be
> >> delivered on this platform :)  and become a more regular activity rather
> >> than a one time event]
> >> - Collaborate more with NREN to develop online course contents and seed
> >> research in our universities.
> >> - deliver some of our trainings like IPv6 through how they fit into new
> >> paradigms like application staging and provisioning through containers.
> >>
> >> The cloud paradigm and its associated driving technologies is *a reality
> >> now* NOT VIRTUAL :) and we should exploit it to the fullest.
> >>
> >> CHALLENGE: It will be interesting to see an integrated RPK, IPv4 and IPv6
> >>  configuration training delivered as part of an online labs platform.
> >> Participants should be able to spin up and create their own setups -
> >> throw
> >> network orchestrations (SDN and NFV) into the configs, simulate on
> >> premises
> >> cloud, demo best practices, guides and propositions by operators of
> >> required feature development assistance ....  most important use it to
> >> teach the very same technologies powering the labs.
> >>
> >> The impact of such online collab lab (sponsored of course by benevolent
> >> members of NOGs in our region) on RICH training content creation and
> >> achievement  of set awareness targets in relatively short time span.
> >>
> >> Times are changing and such labs and services should be available as
> >> critical platforms for ICT development in our region.
> >>
> >> cheers
> >>
> >> K.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 13 June 2016 at 11:44, Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> After AIS in Botswana, I was wondering if there might be some interest
> >>> to organize a Hackathon for the next meeting in Mauritius.
> >>>
> >>> In order for it to work, we would need
> >>>
> >>> 1) A room with Internet and stable electricity (3 days, non-stop, 10
> >>> hours of intense coding)
> >>> 2) Low noise level, and restricted room access so that participants can
> >>> focus.
> >>> 3) People familiar with coding in languages such as Python/Perl and C,
> >>> and who are willing to spare some time ahead of the hackathon to brush
> >>> up their skills, so that they can hit the hackathon with some kind of
> >>> code. In my experience organizing various hackathons in Mauritius,
> >>> it's better to have an idea ahead of time, and already having some
> >>> code written before coming so that you can quickly iron out the bugs,
> >>> and improve code steadily.
> >>>
> >>> TOPIC: DNS, DNSSEC, BGP, SMTPS, TLS, <insert your idea here>
> >>>
> >>> We would need at least 3 hackers as a start.
> >>>
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> afnog mailing list
> >>> https://www.afnog.org/mailman/listinfo/afnog
> >>>
> >>
> >>
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> > Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 11:58:55 +0100
> > From: Willy MANGA <mangawilly at gmail.com>
> > To: afnog at afnog.org
> > Subject: [afnog] Fwd: [FRnOG] [ALERT] IP en Afrique du Sud / tentative
> > 	spam/DoS
> > Message-ID: <575FE36F.6010808 at gmail.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> >
> > Seen on a french list .
> >
> > It looks like 41.161.9.170 creates many issues
> >
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> > Sujet : [FRnOG] [ALERT] IP en Afrique du Sud / tentative spam/DoS
> > Date : Tue, 14 Jun 2016 10:22:51 +0200
> > De : David Ponzone <david.ponzone at gmail.com>
> > Pour : frnog-alert at frnog.org
> >
> > Je recommande de bloquer l?IP 41.161.9.170 qui tente d??tablir vers de
> > multiples IP chez moi de nombreuses connexions par minute vers le port 25.
> >
> > David
> >
> >
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