[AusNOG] Megamon? Was Re: Who are these people nominating for APNIC EC?

[Colin Stubbs]

I looked at it a year or more ago and now again today.

Back then the demo didn't look or feel very good and it seemed like kind of
waste of time. But you know, local Brisbane company, friends of friends
etc....

So even though I wasn't terribly impressed I asked a few questions and gave
some feedback about needing common north/south interfaces; then left it at
that.

I looked at it again today as my interest was spiked again for a number of
reasons.

The web interface has had a revamp, so it's faster and looks more
attractive now, but I'm still not impressed and after doing some due
diligence on the OVA I can strongly say I neither need or want it on any
network I'm involved in.

Behind the scenes:
 - CentOS 6.6
 - rsyslogd/ntpd/xinetd/net-snmp/etc
 - Apache/FastCGId/mod_php
 - MySQL
 - cacti/spine
 - smokeping
 - bearerbox/kannel WAP/SMS gateway
 - A slew of php and javascript from open source projects implementing with
webUI, including some commercial stuff like ionCube to obfusticate a lot of
the php code

No obvious attempt to harden anything to a basic level. Closer to the
opposite.

Selinux disabled.

No iptables firewalling.

Silly things instantly accessible, and poor passwords in use for default
mysql accounts etc.

That all said, look under the hood of most Cisco virtual appliances
(ACS/WCS/ISE etc), and even in their ASA appliances; you'll find a system
that's not really all that dissimilar to the above. Quite often it's CentOS
4, maybe 5 if you're lucky ;-)

-Colin


On 18 February 2015 at 15:39, Damien Gardner Jnr <rendrag at rendrag.net>
wrote:

> Changing the topic slightly, has anyone used the system that Sarah-Jane is
> pushing, Megamon?  It looks the goods, but I'd be curious to know what it's
> really like.. :)
>
> On 17 February 2015 at 20:43, Skeeve Stevens <skeeve+ausnog at theispguy.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Every year there are elections for the APNIC Executive Council.... and
>> every year random people who most have never heard of in the community, put
>> their names up for nomination for EC. We're used to them, and they pretty
>> much get ignored... the community isn't going to elect people who have no
>> skin in the game.
>>
>> https://2015.apricot.net/elections#nominations
>>
>> But, there are two other Australians who have nominated... who I've
>> barely heard of in Australia, much less the International Governance
>> community.
>>
>> From what I can see *Sarah-Jane Peterschlingmann* from Brisbane has
>> never been to a meeting - even the last meeting in Brisbane.  Never posted
>> to Ausnog, and well... who?
>>
>> Jonathan Gleeson from Melbourne IT is the same, although he went to the
>> last meeting in Brisbane - but no others that I can see.
>>
>> I am not judging these people as people... they might be fantastic
>> people... but what I am struggling to understand is that people who are not
>> actively involved in the operator community (not a single post to Ausnog or
>> APNIC mailing list - ever, from either of them) hope to achieve across a
>> region of 55 economies with billions of people - when they haven't even
>> been involved in representing Australia in the regional community - or even
>> locally.
>>
>> Again, they might be awesome people... but it frustrates me when people
>> nominate for such a high office in the global community without doing their
>> time, being involved in regional governance... maybe a little policy or at
>> least debating it, maybe presenting sometimes...
>>
>> Yes... a bit of a rant... but I'd like to see our community vote for
>> those who have made the effort of being involved, and have shown they are
>> worthy of our support.
>>
>> So.. reminder... if you haven't voted... online voting closes in a about
>> 15 hours.  You can vote at MyAPNIC <https://myapnic.net/auth/login.html>
>> ... check out https://2015.apricot.net/elections#voting for more
>> information.
>>
>> Of course.. I encourage voting in the following order:
>>
>> *- James Spenceley*
>>
>> *- Gaurab Raj Upadhaya*- Dr Kenny Huang
>> - Jessica Shen
>>
>> All of which have experience and and are involved in the community in a
>> significant way.
>>
>> ...Skeeve
>>
>>
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>>
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>>
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