Case Study – Network Upgrade and Tidy

We recently completed a network upgrade and tidy for a training company in South London.

The problem points:

Poor performance of the internet router – often crashed
Poor wireless signal
No VPN access, or unstable VPN access
Messy network cabinet, making diagnosis of faults difficult.   Click here for more details..

Contact Details:
Jaytag Computer Limited
Maddison House, 226 High Street
Croydon, Surrey, CR9 1DF
Phone: 08007879258
Web: https://www.jaytag.co.uk/

Monitoring Asterisk With Observium

On the Asterisk server, ensure xinetd is installed

yum -y install xinetd
service xinetd start

Create an Observium agent for xinetd

nano /etc/xinetd.d/observium_agent   Click here for more details..

Contact Details:
Jaytag Computer Limited
Maddison House, 226 High Street
Croydon, Surrey, CR9 1DF
Phone: 08007879258
Web: https://www.jaytag.co.uk/

FreePBX – convert WAV call recordings to MP3 v2

An updated version of our script to bulk convert wav call recordings to mp3 as mentioned here.

This version may be redistributed freely, as long as the copyright message remains.

#!/bin/bash
# A Script to Convert FreePBX call recordings from WAV to MP3
# Also updates the CDR database, for correct downloads through the web UI
# Version 2 – 2016/04/15
# Changelog
# v2 – Skip broken files (but show an error message)
# v1 – Initial version Click here for more details...

Contact Details:
Jaytag Computer Limited
Maddison House, 226 High Street
Croydon, Surrey, CR9 1DF
Phone: 08007879258
Web: https://www.jaytag.co.uk/

Script to add swap file to CentOS

A quick copy/paste to enable a 4GB swap file on Centos 6/7:

sudo fallocate -l 4G /swapfile
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile
echo “/swapfile swap swap sw 0 0” >> /etc/fstab Click here for more details..

Contact Details:
Jaytag Computer Limited
Maddison House, 226 High Street
Croydon, Surrey, CR9 1DF
Phone: 08007879258
Web: https://www.jaytag.co.uk/

Automatically Delete Call Recordings in FreePBX

A simple script to delete call recordings. Note that this has been designed to work hand-in-hand with our other script, that coverts the recordings to MP3 to save space: FreePBX – convert WAV call recordings to MP3

You can easily modify the script to delete call recordings that are in WAV format, or for different periods of time, by altering the “*.mp3” to “*.wav” and by modifying the +365 to +30 +60 +90 etc. Click here for more details..

Contact Details:
Jaytag Computer Limited
Maddison House, 226 High Street
Croydon, Surrey, CR9 1DF
Phone: 08007879258
Web: https://www.jaytag.co.uk/

No DAHDI modules on the system. Not starting

You need to retrieve the correct kernel-devel for the kernel of linux you are running, and remake DAHDI from source

SSH onto the machine and run:
uname -r

Note the kernel version.

then, google for kernel-devel (kernel version)
find a suitable download source (i.e. from rpm.pbone.net)

then on the machine
rpm -ivh ftp://ftp.is.co.za/mirror/centos/6.5/updates/x86_64/Packages/kernel-devel-2.6.32-431.1.2.0.1.el6.x86_64.rpm  Click here for more details..

Contact Details:
Jaytag Computer Limited
Maddison House, 226 High Street
Croydon, Surrey, CR9 1DF
Phone: 08007879258
Web: https://www.jaytag.co.uk/

Case Study – Router Upgrade – from 8Mbps to 200Mbps

We were approached by a client in central London to help with their internet connection. Although they had upgraded to Virgin Media’s 200MB/s DOCSIS3 service from a standard ADSL connection, they were still getting poor broadband speeds.

Old Hardware

As soon as we visited the site, the problem became apparent. They were using a Netgear FVS318v3 – this is a very out of date unit, that has a maximum throughput of 11.5Mbps. See the technical specifications here for a blast from the past: fvs318v3. Click here for more details..

Contact Details:
Jaytag Computer Limited
Maddison House, 226 High Street
Croydon, Surrey, CR9 1DF
Phone: 08007879258
Web: https://www.jaytag.co.uk/

Adding phpShield to Linux Hosting

SSH into the server

Run:
​​/usr/local/bin/php-config --extension-dir

The result shows the PHP extension directory
/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20100525
​
​Upload the latest version of ixed.5.4.lin to this directory using WinSCP or similar file transfer tool

Find the location of php.ini​
php -i | grep php.ini

The result showns the php.ini location
​Configuration File (php.ini) Path => /usr/local/lib
​
Edit the php.ini file
nano /usr/local/lib/php.ini

add the line:
​extension="ixed.5.4.lin"  Click here for more details...

Contact Details:
Jaytag Computer Limited
Maddison House, 226 High Street
Croydon, Surrey, CR9 1DF
Phone: 08007879258
Web: https://www.jaytag.co.uk/

Windows 10 – Change PPTP ipv4 Settings

In my RTM copy of Windows 10 Pro, when I try to edit the IPv4 settings of a VPN connection, nothing happened when I clicked ‘Properties’.

Thankfully, there is a solution to the issue – you can edit the file rasphone.pbk in a text editor like notepad.exe and make the necessary changes in this file.

The exact setting I wanted to change was to disable the default gateway – also known as split tunneling. This way I can connect to the VPN, and only tunnel traffic for that specific remote site over the VPN – i.e. use my normal non-vpn connection for internet traffic.

This is called “IpPrioritizeRemote”. I set this to 0 instead of 1 and saved the PBK file. When I re-established the VPN connection in the usual way, the ‘default gateway’ setting worked as intended.
Click here for more details..

Contact Details..
Jaytag Computer Limited
Maddison House, 226 High Street
Croydon, Surrey, CR9 1DF
Phone: 08007879258
Web: https://www.jaytag.co.uk/

Get an A+ rating with Vesta on SSL Labs

We’ve recently been testing sites with the Qualsys SSL Server Test here: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/index.html
By default, the SSL settings on Vesta are good – but it’s not possible to get an A+ rating without making some changes to the nginx configuration files.
Although SSL Labs do give an indication as to where the SSL rating is low, it’s not very easy to see exactly what needs to be changed with nginx to get the A+ rating. The key things to improve:
Limit the SSL ciphers that can be used
Add HTTP Strict Transport Security with long duration
Enable SSL stapling
Click here for more details..

Contact Details..
Jaytag Computer Limited
Maddison House, 226 High Street
Croydon, Surrey, CR9 1DF
Phone: 08007879258
Web: https://www.jaytag.co.uk/

Desktop IT Support London - Hardware Support London - Jaytag, London

We support all widely used desktop operating systems including Microsoft Windows 98SE, ME, XP, Vista, 7 and 8. Apple OS9, OSX and Linux are also supported where necessary. Support is provided for all major software packages including Microsoft Office, iWork, Autodesk AutoCAD, Adobe CS, Sage Line 50 etc. Click here for more details...

Contact Details:
Jaytag Computer Limited
Maddison House, 226 High Street
Croydon, Surrey, CR9 1DF
Phone: 0800 7879 258
Web: http://www.jaytag.co.uk/