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For those of you who may not be BASIS masters, here’s a nifty trick I figured out today.
To extract multiple CAR or SAR files, simply type the following using sapcar.exe.

sapcar.exe -xvf “ka*.car”

If you do not use quotes sapcar will not be able to process the files
Here’s hoping this makes some of your lives easier.

Hey everyone, time for your weekly update on the segments we feature on Hak5.

This week I took a look at FWBuilder. An absolutely great tool for managing firewall policies in a slew of different devices.
Here’s a little blurb from the official website.

“Firewall Builder is a GUI firewall configuration and management tool that supports iptables (netfilter), ipfilter, pf, ipfw, Cisco PIX (FWSM, ASA) and Cisco routers extended access lists. Firewall Builder uses object-oriented approach, it helps administrator maintain a database of network objects and allows policy editing using simple drag-and-drop operations.”

To be honest with you, FW builder is quite a bit more powerful than some of the other firewall management system’s I’ve used in the past, and will be following the progress of this system and have already made a request to include Juniper firewall policy support.

Find more info about FW Builder at http://fwbuilder.org

Here’s a quick blurb on the Spiceworks segment which was in Hak5 episode 402.

Existing features include:

• Help desk system
• Run and edit your own reports on a huge variety of asset data
• Ping, Traceroute, and run Remote Control against a computer
• Compare workstation configurations with each other
• Index and monitor Event Log entries and other stats
• Fully integrated help & user-community based forums
• Automatic discovery of Windows, Linux, Mac and SNMP based devices
• Manual asset addition (not limited to network devices)
• Inventory software license keys of many popular applications
• Attach documents and custom notes/attributes to any asset
• Determine your complete network inventory at a glance; view distribution of hardware vendors, servers, software installations and more

Some new features to whet your appetite:

• Microsoft Exchange monitoring – keep track of your heavy mailbox hitters and Exchange services
• LDAP integration – Allow your users to login with their Active Directory credentials while submitting a help desk ticket
• Asset groups – organize your assets into logical containers

• Service providers – Add important dates, phone numbers and other contact information pertaining to your service providers (contractors, ISPs, web-hosting, etc.)
• Revamped user navigation interface
• Share reports with other Spiceworks community members

Remember that Spiceworks works best on a corporate computer installation where you either have a Windows domain, or a master user / password installed on your boxes.

You can find more info at http://www.spiceworks.com

Well, I’ve finally decided that the day has come in which I should finally take the plunge and attempt some sort of personal branding, even if it is really only on a superficial level.

So, I’ve gone ahead and taken up shop here at http://www.mattlestock.com.

Now that we’ve taken Hak5 to a new level, and there will be alot more exposure on each of us involved, it’s important to have a reliable place for people to go in the event they want to learn about you.

I’ll be posting more and more as I get the chance, but until then, stay tuned and go download Castle Crashers for XBLA! You’ll be glad you did, trust me!