Check Point to Aquire Nokia’s Security Appliance Business..

This was a surprise but not completely.  In the past Nokia was the dominant hardware source for Check Point security software.  With the move by Check Point into its own hardware line, it was a question of how long Nokia would stay in the field.  What will be the outcome of other hardware makers such as Crossbeam etc..  Only time will tell.

I guess the question will be if CP will migrate this into their Secure Platform (SPLAT) or run both lines in parallel.  Its going to be interesting to see how this is going to shake out.  Especially from a CP partner point of view.

TheLV

Howto check RAM on Linux

Sometimes  you want to know how much memory you have on a Linux box.  There are several ways to do this but I have found the best and easiest way is to us the top process.

At the command line enter type top or vmstat.

Example:

[root@ftp ~]#top

top – 15:49:46 up 53 days, 11:54,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks:  71 total,   1 running,  70 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.3%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 99.7%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1034796k total,   985256k used,    49540k free,   144156k buffers
Swap:  2031608k total,        0k used,  2031608k free,   778420k cached

PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
1 root      15   0  2060  620  532 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.61 init
2 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0
3 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
4 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0
5 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 events/0
6 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper
7 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthread
10 root      20  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.22 kblockd/0
11 root      20  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid
73 root      20  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 cqueue/0
76 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khubd
78 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kseriod
138 root      25   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 pdflush
139 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.69 pdflush
140 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.05 kswapd0
141 root      20  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/0
299 root      11  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kpsmoused