Voice Menus and IVR in AsteriskNOW
Four Rules of IVR
IVR systems can be hell to use; the main reason for this is that people designing IVR systems tend to complicate...
Network Configuration—IPv6 with FreeBSD
Several methods were introduced to reduce the usage of IP addresses in the internet including:
Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR): This introduced the death of classful...
Oracle VM Management
Before we get to manage the VMs in the Oracle VM Manager, let's take a quick look at the Oracle VM Manager by logging...
Optimizing Lighttpd
If our Lighttpd runs on a multi-processor machine, it can take advantage of that by spawning multiple versions of itself. Also, most Lighttpd installations...
Using Graphs to Manage Networks and Devices with Cacti 0.8
Creating graphs
If you are familiar with RRDTool, then you know Cacti is designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality....
Short and Long-Running Processes in SOA-part2
Fast Short-Running BPEL
Let's begin with a discussion on compiled BPEL.
Uses of Short-Running Processes
Having developed an approach to keep SOA processes running for an arbitrarily...
Short and Long-Running Processes in SOA-part1
Short and Long-Running Processes
As a process moves from activity to activity, it consumes time, and each activity adds to the overall duration. But different...
Extending Project Governance for Service Oriented Architecture-part2
Beginning Your SOA Journey
Many organizations start their journey towards SOA through some sort of grass roots effort. Unfortunately, these efforts normally result in what's...
Notifications and Events in Nagios 3.0-part1
There's lots what Nagios can do, and how it can make your life easier. Imagine that you set up Nagios to send a text...
Notifications and Events in Nagios 3.0- part2
External Commands
Nagios offers a very powerful mechanism for receiving events and commands from external applications—the external commands pipe. This is a pipe file created...