Need to check for open relay servers, here is the script I wrote in perl to auto check from a list of IPs or Hostnames. The hardest part was to grab the response from the server smtp->code() smtp-> message() STDOUT […]
SquidGuard 1.4 Howto
Howto setup SquidGuard 1.4 (check out my howto on SQUID) Requirements: * Bison * Flex * Berkeley DB V.2.7.7, V3.2.x or 4.x (original site: www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db/index.html). Annotation: Berkeley DB version 4.7 gives error messages during compilation. Up to version 4.6 the […]
opsview
I just heard about this yet anothe tool that works with nagios its called opsview. Opsview is the award winning Open Source application and infrastructure monitoring software from Opsera. It provides comprehensive system management capabilities used to monitor the health […]
ESX monitoring
So I got a hard mission, monitor a VMWare ESX 3 Server. I thought it would be easy but I was wrong. Of course I did with Nagios/Centreon, at first I tried SNMP without much success. So I found out […]
Google Latitude
Its quite amazing google latitude alows you to track down the location of your mobile or your friends. It works kind of like a GPS but it dosent require a GPS. It will send a msg with a link to […]
FullyAutomatedNagios
If you are new to the monitoring world and new to Linux, Nagios etc… Do not lose the chance to try out this product, its amazing easy to install. Just download the .iso boot a Virtual Machine poiting the CD […]
Learning RRD
“RRDtool is the OpenSource industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data. Use it to write your custom monitoring shell scripts or create whole applications using its Perl, Python, Ruby, TCL or PHP bindings” RRD […]