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Subject:    [IPCop-user] More being added to firewalls, Shinken just the first
From:       john s wolter <johnswolter () wolterworks ! com>
Date:       2010-06-07 0:52:24
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It appears a complete python rewrite of Nagios known as Shinken has taken
place.  I got track of this in LINUX Pro this month explains the Nagios
developers had slowed their updates.  This had frustrated some involved and
they took the route of doing a new open source product.  See...

http://www.shinken-monitoring.org/

Shinken monitors systems in a network locally or remotely and is
multi-platform.

These days routers and firewalls are taking on more tasks.  Just look at the
many IPCop add-ons.  Firewalls are now being converged with other needed
office services in a single box.  This is not a new idea as I suggested this
in this form last year; or was it the year before?

eBox <http://www.ebox-technologies.com/>, a good example, is not only a
firewall but has a Ubuntu distribution as a base.  It was just reviewed with
others in the June Linux Format.  eBox says it is a "...Network Gateway,
Unified Threat Manager, Office Server, Infrastructure Manager, Unified
Communications Server...".  Quite a list.

How about an extreme idea.  Virtualization could isolate a firewall VM from
an office services VM inside a single box.  The office part could do phones,
backups, controlled network access, proxy access to cloud applications just
to name three.

Something to consider.

Cheers.
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