Sunday, March 29, 2015

How To install the SNMP service in wndows

What Is SNMP?
 From technet, the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a popular protocol for network management. It is used for collecting information from, and configuring, network devices, such as servers, printers, hubs, switches, and routers on an Internet Protocol (IP) network. Microsoft Windows Server 2003 provides SNMP agent software that works with third-party SNMP management software to monitor the status of managed devices and applications.
Automating Network Management
Large networks with hundreds or thousands of nodes are difficult to manage without a large staff to monitor every computer. SNMP, which is widely used in local area networks (LANs), lets you monitor network nodes from a management host. You can monitor network devices such as servers, workstations, printers, routers, bridges, and hubs, as well as services such as Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) or Windows Internet Name Service (WINS).
Use SNMP management software to monitor any network device on which you install SNMP agent software. The SNMP agent, which is an optional component of Windows Server 2003, interacts with third-party SNMP management software to enable the sharing of network status information between monitored devices and applications and the SNMP management system that monitors them. The following figure shows this process.
Computer Running SNMP Manager Requests Status Information from Devices Running SNMP Agent.

  Installing the SNMP service:
1.
Open Windows Components wizard
2.
In Components, click Management and Monitoring Tools (but do not select or clear its check box), and then click Details.
3.
Select the Simple Network Management Protocol check box, and click OK.
4.
Click Next.
Note
To open the Windows Components Wizard, click Start, click Control Panel, click Add or Remove Programs, and then click Add/Remove Windows Components
Certain Windows components require configuration before they can be used. If you installed one or more of these components but did not configure them, when you click Add/Remove Windows Components, a list of components that need to be configured is displayed. To start the Windows Components Wizard, click Components
You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group in order to complete this procedure. If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings may also prevent you from completing this procedure. 
SNMP starts automatically after installation. Credit: Microsoft



Saturday, March 21, 2015

HOW TO USE KCB M-PESA ACCOUNT WITH YOUR PHONE



KCB M-PESA Account
KCB M-PESA is a savings account that enables you to access instant loans up to Kshs.1M upon dialing *844# in Kenya.
“The KCB M-PESA Account features include:

  • Minimum saving of Kshs.1 and maximum saving of Kshs.1M
  • Personal accident insurance benefit based on savings
  • Interest on savings of 2% p.a.
You may load your savings easily and conveniently via M-PESA, KCB Mobi, Mtaani agent and/or branch and withdraw your KCB M-PESA account savings only via M-PESA.
How you can Access Loans?
You can borrow instantly without saving with disbursement being to KCB M-PESA Account Loan Limits (Kshs.100 to Kshs.500,000 with a top up option)
You can choose flexible repayment periods of 1 month, 3 months and 6 months via M-PESA, KCB M-PESA Account and Mobi/Branch/Mtaani with an option of Partial payments.
The interest on the loan include:
  • 30 day loan at 4% per month (4%)
  • 90 day loan at 3% per month (9%)
  • 180 day loan at 2% per month (12%)
The KCB M-PESA Account Fixed Deposit accounts
There are two types of fixed deposit accounts available to you as a KCB M-PESA Account holder. They include
  • Fixed Savings Account
  • Target Savings Account
Fixed Savings Account
This Account allows you to lock a specific amount of cash for a certain period of time.
How does it work?
  • You will not be able to top-up to the amount saved.
  • Locked periods include 1, 3, 6, and 12 months with minimum amount of Kshs.500.
  • Upon early or premature redemption, you will forfeit all interest accrued.
  • You get cash back immediately to KCB M-PESA account on prompting cash back
  • You also get Life insurance benefit based on fixed deposit savings.
Target Savings Account
This account allows you to set a target and make deposits towards achieving that target.
How does it work?
  • You will top up continuously until you achieve your target.
  • The account is accessible with standing orders from M-PESA or KCB M-PESA Account
  • You can choose from target periods of 1, 3, 6 and 12 months with minimum contribution of Kshs.50.
  • You will also earn interest on cumulative interest
  • You are allowed up to 4 withdrawals within target lock period to maintain interest.
  • You will get cash back immediately to your KCB M-PESA account on prompting cash back
  • You benefit from exciting Interest rates of 1 month (3%), 3 months (4%), 6 months (5%) and 12 months (6%)”
Source: Safaricom Kenya.
 For further information, you can read KCB M-PESA Account Terms and Conditions on Safaricom website.

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

WHAT KENYA HAS DONE IN THE HONOUR OF WANGARI MATHAI

Who is Professor Wangari Mathai?

Wangari Maathai was the founder of the Green Belt Movement and the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. She authored four books: The Green Belt Movement; Unbowed: A Memoir; The Challenge for Africa; and Replenishing the Earth. As well as having been featured in a number of books, she and the Green Belt Movement were the subject of a documentary film, Taking Root: the Vision of Wangari Maathai (Marlboro Productions, 2008).

Wangari Muta Maathai was born in Nyeri, a rural area of Kenya (Africa), in 1940. She obtained a degree in Biological Sciences from Mount St. Scholastica College in Atchison, Kansas (1964), a Master of Science degree from the University of Pittsburgh (1966), and pursued doctoral studies in Germany and the University of Nairobi, before obtaining a Ph.D. (1971) from the University of Nairobi, where she also taught veterinary anatomy. The first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree, Professor Maathai became chair of the Department of Veterinary Anatomy and an associate professor in 1976 and 1977 respectively. In both cases, she was the first woman to attain those positions in the region.

Professor Maathai was active in the National Council of Women of Kenya (1976–1987) and was its chairman (1981–1987). In 1976, while she was serving in the National Council of Women, Professor Maathai introduced the idea of community-based tree planting. She continued to develop this idea into a broad-based grassroots organisation, the Green Belt Movement (GBM), whose main focus is poverty reduction and environmental conservation through tree planting.

Professor Maathai was internationally acknowledged for her struggle for democracy, human rights, and environmental conservation, and served on the board of many organisations. She addressed the UN on a number of occasions and spoke on behalf of women at special sessions of the General Assembly during the five-year review of the Earth Summit. She served on the Commission for Global Governance and the Commission on the Future.

Professor Maathai represented the Tetu constituency in Kenya’s parliament (2002–2007), and served as Assistant Minister for Environment and Natural Resources in Kenya’s ninth parliament (2003–2007). In 2005, she was appointed Goodwill Ambassador to the Congo Basin Forest Ecosystem by the eleven Heads of State in the Congo region. The following year, 2006, she founded the Nobel Women’s Initiative with her sister laureates Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Betty Williams, and Mairead Corrigan. In 2007, Professor Maathai was invited to be co-chair of the Congo Basin Fund, an initiative by the British and the Norwegian governments to help protect the Congo forests.

In recognition of her deep commitment to the environment, the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General named Professor Maathai a UN Messenger of Peace in December 2009, with a focus on the environment and climate change. In 2010 she was appointed to the Millennium Development Goals Advocacy Group: a panel of political leaders, business people and activists established with the aim to galvanize worldwide support for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Also in 2010, Professor Maathai became a trustee of the Karura Forest Environmental Education Trust, established to safeguard the public land for whose protection she had fought for almost twenty years. That same year, in partnership with the University of Nairobi, she founded the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies (WMI). The WMI will bring together academic research—e.g. in land use, forestry, agriculture, resource-based conflicts, and peace studies—with the Green Belt Movement approach and members of the organization.

Professor Maathai died on 25 September 2011 at the age of 71 after a battle with ovarian cancer. Memorial ceremonies were held in Kenya, New York, San Francisco, and London.

Website: www.greenbeltmovement.org

What has the goverment of Kenya done during her day?

Always remember to live the world a better place than you found it
African Environment Da y. Conserve the environment -WangariMaathai.
</br> Wangari Maathai (1940-2011) was the founder of the Green Belt
Movement and the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. She authored four
books: The Green Belt Movement; Unbowed: A Memoir; The Challenge for
Africa; and Replenishing the Earth. As well as having been featured in
a number of books, she and the Green Belt Movement were the subject of
a documentary film, Taking Root: the Vision of Wangari Maathai
(Marlboro Productions, 2008).
Wangari Muta Maathai was born in Nyeri, a rural area of Kenya
(Africa), in 1940. She obtained a degree in Biological Sciences from
Mount St. Scholastica College in Atchison, Kansas (1964), a Master of
Science degree from the University of Pittsburgh (1966), and pursued
doctoral studies in Germany and the University of Nairobi, before
obtaining a Ph.D. (1971) from the University of Nairobi, where she
also taught veterinary anatomy. The first woman in East and Central
Africa to earn a doctorate degree, Professor Maathai became chair of
the Department of Veterinary Anatomy and an associate professor in
1976 and 1977 respectively. In both cases, she was the first woman to
attain those positions in the region.
Kenya burnt 15 tonnes of ivory on Tuesday and promised to destroy all
of its stockpile this year, the latest step in its campaign against
elephant poaching.
The ceremony was to mark the African Union-designated Wangari Maathai
Day, in honor of the late environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize
Laureate, and the World Wildlife Day.
Kenya has imposed stiffer penalties -- longer jail terms and bigger
fines -- for wildlife poaching or trafficking, saying poaching is
harming tourism, a major earner of foreign exchange.
</br> Global Eco-Warrior Wangari Maathai Celebrated indeed.

10 INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FROM WANGARI MATHAI

Phenomenal woman she is. We can refer her to as WOMAN OF STEEL or
WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE.
From the 7 women who changed the world, we get to learn from a Political activist Dr. Wangari Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in the 1970s.

"When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and hope," said 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winning environmentalist Wangari Maathai.

The Kenyan political activist founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977 in an effort to empower rural women who had started reporting their streams were drying up, their food supply was less secure, and they had to walk further than ever before for firewood.

The movement has since spread across the world, campaigning on climate change and teaming up with the United Nations Environment Programme.

Africa celebrates Africa Environment Day and life of #WangariMaathai.
Below are some of her best quotes In celebration of
‪#InternationalWomensDay ‬on March 8:
1. "There are opportunities even in the most difficult moments,"

2. Your voice matters
3. "It's the little things citizens do. My little thing is planting trees."
4. Its the little things that we do that make the difference
5. I'm doing the best I can." That I can't & will never forget
6. Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you
water it and make it survive, you haven't
done a thing. You are just talking.~
7. "We are called to assist the Earth, to heal her wounds and in the
process heal our own — indeed to embrace the whole of creation in all
its diversity, beauty, and wonder."
8. "When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and hope."
9. All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites
all life, everything that is on this planet.
10. "Finally I was able to see that if I had a contribution I wanted
to make, I must do it, despite what others said. That I was okay the
way I was. That it was all right to be strong."

THE 1ST AFRICAN WOMAN TO WIN A NOBEL PRIZE
Wangari Maathai from the Republic of Kenya was the first African
woman, and the first environmentalist, to win a Nobel Peace Prize.She
had been nicknamed 'Mother of Tree.
Kenya burnt a stockpile of 15 tonnes of elephant tusks in honour of ‪WorldWildlifeDay‬ and ‪#‎WangariMaathaiDay2015‬. President Uhuru Kenyatta, First Lady Margaret Kenyatta visited the Green Belt Movement display to mark this special day.
Truly a great woman. Your work
lives on!