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Friday, October 23. 2009

Hi all,

Andreas Andersson posted this on the openldap technical list last week about CN=Montior:

My name is Andreas and I want to inform you about a little project I've been working on called CN=Monitor.
It's about monitoring and verifying directory servers with focus on open source LDAP^[?] servers. From single installed servers to large scaled deployments.

Its a webbased application where you can:
- Verify availability, compare load and performance between servers
- Collect historical events for long term analysis (and get weekly reports by mail)
- Verify cluster and load balancing functionality
- Query several directories at the same time for data consistancy verification
... and a lot more.

Why the name CN=Monitor. Well.. a lot of the information collected and analyzed is gathered from the CN=Monitor base DN.

Looks very promising!!!

Will keep you posted,

Gavin.

Posted by Gavin Henry in Open Source, OpenLDAP at 17:04 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Defined tags for this entry: Active Directory

, LDAP

, LDAP Replication

, Linux

, Open Source

, OpenLDAP

, open source

, openldap

Aberdeen Techmeetup tomorrow

Tuesday, October 20. 2009

We founded the TechMeetup because there is an abundance of events for entrepreneurs to meet investors and lawyers, and next to nothing for techies and tech. Considering the wealth of tech talent around (yes you), why haven’t we made the effort before to get to know everyone – see what else everyone is working on – get help on our projects from others – and talk about some of the cool stuff we’re doing – web apps, software, mobile apps, hardware, games…

I'll be there at the Aberdeen Techmeetup 6.30pm tomorrow:

TIME: Wed, 21th Oct, 6.30pm

VENUE: North Side Meston Building, Aberdeen Uni (map)

SPEAKERS: Gavin MacLean, James Littlejohn

Posted by Gavin Henry in Asterisk, Open Source, OpenLDAP, OpenSIPS, Suretec, VoIP at 09:39 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Suretec now have a merchant account!

Friday, October 16. 2009

It's been a long process, almost 6 weeks, what with the new laws regarding PCI DSS compliance as of the 1st of October 2009, PCI DSS Scans, Business plans, website terms and connditions and many more things we have a merchant account at last!!!

This is mainly for our new Internet Telephony Service Provider called SureVoIP which is currently live with various customers but has no front facing sales and marketing site yet, only the admin and customer portal.

We'll keep you posted with a proper press release in due course.

Thanks,

Gavin.

Posted by Gavin Henry in Asterisk, Catalyst, Dojo, Jabber/XMPP, Linux, Open Source, OpenLDAP, OpenSIPS, Perl, PostgreSQL, SIP, Squid, Suretec, VoIP at 13:16 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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, Catalyst

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, Jabber/XMPP

, Linux

, Open Source

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, OpenSIPS

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, PostgreSQL

, SIP

, Squid

, Suretec

, VoIP

, freeswitch

, ldap

, openldap

, pikatechnologies

, pikawarp

, surevoip

OpenSIPS 1.6.0 - a newmajor release is out

Friday, October 16. 2009

After almost 7 months from the last major release (1.5.0), OpenSIPS evolves with a new major release, 1.6.0.

OpenSIPS 1.6.0 comes with several critical improvements (DB area, dialog support), but also with new functionalities
(like memchaced support, B2Bua implementation, virtual DB URLs, STUN server, JSON support, new AAA/RADIUS interface, etc).

A complete compilation with all the additions and improvements for *OpenSIPS 1.6.0 *release is available under:
http://www.opensips.org/Main/Ver160

Many thanks to all the people who got involved in this release (and in the overall OpenSIPS project) and contributed with code, with testing and debuging, with patches or reports, with support on the lists, help with packaging and documentation.
I will avoid listing names, not because they do not deserve it, but simply because it will impossible to list list everybody here and I do not what to be unfair with some of them (because I simply forgot a name or because of the limited space).

But nevertheless, I want to thanks you all for out great job and not in my behalf, but in the behalf of people who will find this piece of software a useful tool.

The full Changelog is available here:
http://opensips.org/pub/opensips/1.6.0/src/ChangeLog

To get the OpenSIPS 1.6.0 version, see :

website page: http://www.opensips.org/Resources/Downloads

SF project:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=232389&package_id=281827&release_id=670379

Note that for the moment only the source tarballs are available. The packages (debs,rpms, etc) will be generated starting now. If anybody can help in generating packages for different distros or architectures, please let me know and I will upload them on the website.

Best regards,
Bogdan

Posted by Gavin Henry in Asterisk, Open Source, OpenSIPS, Suretec, VoIP at 09:21 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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, Linux

, Open Source

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, Suretec

, VoIP

, opensips

, voip

Suretec Telecom finds WARP Enterprise 'rock solid'

Tuesday, October 13. 2009

From WARP Enterprise from PIKA Makes Deploying SMB IP-PBX Applications Even Easier:

Based in Aberdeen, Scotland, Suretec Systems has recently launched a new telecom business to meet the needs of small and medium-sized businesses looking for cost-effective and highly featured telephone systems.

“PIKA’s WARP Enterprise PBX platform is the perfect fit for Suretec’s new Telecom business,” said Suretec managing director Gavin Henry. “It is so flexible in how it can be deployed and configured, yet remains a rock solid platform for any enterprise.

“Our customers have all expressed interest in not only the huge cost savings that can be achieved with open source products, but the feature richness, stability and support,” Henry added. “WARP Enterprise meets the cost targets and also saves us recurring integration expenses over the long run, with stable components that don’t churn on a yearly basis.”

Posted by Suretec in Asterisk, Open Source, SIP, Suretec, VoIP at 22:51 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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, Linux

, Open Source

, SIP

, Suretec

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, asterisk

, pika

, pikawarp

, voip

Create an Asterisk hotline/autodial/PLAR without Asterisk!!!

Tuesday, October 13. 2009

Just a quick one to say that when you think you need Asterisk for a customer request, sometimes you don't!!

A question from a customer yesterday:

Do you know of an IP desk telephone that can be used on a
hotline/autodial/PLAR type basis? Ie pick up one phone and the other
rings, etc.

Tricky bit... no call manager of any sort in-between... just the
phones
direct on the network.

Aastra to the rescue!!! Any of the new 67XXi ranges have a feature either per line or globally like so:

Autodial Settings

Autodial Number
Autodial Timeout

Simply add an IP address in the Autodial Number field for line 1 and when you pick up the handset it dials the other phone on that IP directly. No need to put Asterisk in between or any other system, other than pure IP.

Nice!

P.S. I'm sure most of the business grade IP phones out there can do the same.

Posted by Suretec in Asterisk, Open Source, SIP, Suretec, VoIP at 12:07 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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, Open Source

, SIP

, Suretec

, VoIP

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, asterisk

, sip

, suretec telecom

, surevoip

, voip

Aberdeen-based Suretec launches Telecom division

Tuesday, October 13. 2009

Open source software the key to cost-effective business phone systems, says Gavin Henry, saving tens of thousands of pounds at the outset

Aberdeen-based Suretec Systems, the successful open source IT systems specialist, has launched a telecom business to meet the needs of small and medium-sized businesses looking for cost-effective and highly featured telephone systems. Oil and gas sector companies, along with professional services, travel and public sector organisations, are all taking an interest in the huge cost savings that can be achieved with open source products – and now for their telecoms systems, too.

Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce article - Aberdeen-based Suretec launches Telecom division

OilVoice article - Aberdeen-based Suretec launches Telecom division

Sourcewire press release - Aberdeen-based Suretec launches Telecom division

PublicTechnology.net - Aberdeen-based Suretec launches Telecom division

Continue reading "Aberdeen-based Suretec launches Telecom division"

Posted by Suretec in Asterisk, Open Source, SIP, Suretec, VoIP at 09:06 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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, Asterisk

, Linux

, Open Source

, SIP

, Suretec

, VoIP

Customer service contacts you at the weekend Wow!!

Monday, October 12. 2009

Some of you out there may be using RBL for checking incoming mail. We do via Exim and you may have noticed blackhole.us is now gone. Our hosting company GladServ Ltd. kindly called us up on a Sunday evening to let us know emails we bouncing.

Now that is customer service!

Gavin.

Posted by Gavin Henry in Open Source, Suretec at 10:19 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

OpenLDAP 2.4.19 Released

Tuesday, October 6. 2009

OpenLDAP 2.4.19 is now officially out. Download now and review the final changes list:

OpenLDAP 2.4.19 is now available for download as detailed on our
download page:
http://www.openldap.org/software/download/

and should soon be available on all official mirrors:
ftp://ftp.openldap.org/pub/OpenLDAP/MIRRORS

This is a maintenance release and is made available for general use.
Users of OpenLDAP Software are encouraged to upgrade.

Significant contributors to this release include:
Howard Chu (Symas Corp)
Hallvard Furuseth (University of Oslo)
Quanah Gibson-Mount (Yahoo! Inc)
Ralf Haferkamp (SUSE Linux)
Pierangelo Masarati (Politecnico di Milano)
Rein Tollevik (Basefarm AS)

OpenLDAP 2.4.19 Release (2009/10/06)
Fixed client tools with null timeouts (ITS#6282)
Fixed slapadd to warn about missing attrs for replicas (ITS#6281)
Fixed slapd acl cache (ITS#6287)
Fixed slapd tools to allow -n for conversion (ITS#6258)
Fixed slapd-ldap^[?] with null timeouts (ITS#6282)
Fixed slapd-ldap with strong binds with relay/translucent
(ITS#6296)
Fixed slapd-ldif buffer overflow (ITS#6303)
Fixed slapo-auditlog comments when modifying (ITS#6286)
Fixed slapo-dynlist lock leak (ITS#6308)
Fixed slapo-pcache cache corruption (ITS#6242)
Fixed slapo-sssvlv sort control dereferencing (ITS#6288)
Fixed contrib/autogroup segfaults (ITS#6279)
Fixed contrib/nssov getgroupbymembers (ITS#6291)
Fixed contrib/smbk5pwd rpath linking (ITS#6323)
Build Environment
Fixed --enable-deref support (ITS#6311)
Fixed contrib/autogroup default libtool path (ITS#6284)
Deleted nadf.schema (ITS#6140)

MD5 (openldap-2.4.19.tgz) = 4a6dab2711fcf141f19bb680bc335887
SHA1 (openldap-2.4.19.tgz) = 4a78acae0dd6d51d22ff50eef77912e59b31779a