Zipper Network Configuration Audit

Introduction
As you know ziptie is a good configuration management and Nipper is a good configuration audit. What about if both of them is integrated? Well, Ziptie Community has provided a good plugin called Zipper. So, right after we backup our network configuration, we can audit it internally from ziptie.
But there are some limitations right now:

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SmokePing Open Source Network Latency Grapher

Introduction
If we talk about network quality, as i know, there are three things we should monitor:

Latency
It is the time needed for the sender to send a packet and get reply. Other term is Round Trip. Propagation, Transmission, Router are affecting the Latency.
Packet Loss
When the sender send packet but got no reply we can say it [...]

Ziptie with MySQL or PostgreSQL

Introduction
It is possible to replace derby database, ziptie’s original database, with MySQL or PostgreSQL. For me derby is enough to handle ziptie. Small resource, based on java and sql standard, easy backup (just copy the directory) and of course integrated with ziptie from beginning.But if you already have MySQL or PostgreSQL, it is good idea [...]