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I recently got an Intel(r) Express 530T switch from eBay. It’s a “Manageable” switch, this means that you can connect to the switch through a null modem cable, telnet or a web interface to modify the switch configuration (Change MAC address filtering, create/delete VLANs, change ports speeds an priority, …).

But when I tried to connect to the switch, I discovered that the switch hadn’t been reseted, and that the seller didn’t gave me the username and password needed to manage the switch.
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Here is a little script that permits to report one or more nagios servers status in the ion3 status bar:

statusd_nginfo.lua (Download)
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