Nagios is a great monitoring tool. Basically you can take the raw product and have it up and running within the hour. You need to remember the scope of your viewers. Having a dashboard with number is not going to […]
Upgrade nagios 3.0.3 to 3.0.6
Upgrading From Previous Nagios 3.x Releases As newer alpha, beta, and stable releases of Nagios 3.x are released, you should strongly consider upgrading as soon as possible. Newer releases usually contain critical bug fixes, so its important to stay up […]
Reverse SSH script
This script allow us to connect to a remote server. It can be usefull when a client need remote support. We can mail the script and ask him to execute it. In our linux we create a user called “remote” […]
Nagios will not start
Nagios will not start Sometimes for strange reason nagios will not start. It happened to me more then once, sometimes I had to go back to the last modification. That is why I do a daily backup of all .cfg, […]
Howto backup ESX
HOW TO backup ESX 3.0.1 with vmbk.pl This nice perl script allows online backup of Virtual Machines to a remote FTP/SMB/NFS It was written by Massimiliano Daneri, and many other authors contributed it can be downloaded from here How to […]
Enable SSH in ESXi 3.5
By default this isn’t possible to SSH into VMWare ESXi 3.5 or any ESXi Server. By enabling this you will also be able to easly copy files into the server by using WINSCP, not as fast as FTP but it […]
Can't locate VMware/VmPerl.pm
Reinstall Perl in ESX Error: Can’t locate VMware/VmPerl.pm #vmare-cmd stop working along with all scripts that depend on VMware.pm module. For some reason my perl VMWare::Perl stoped working, so I reinstall perl 5.8.0 version from scratch first download it, then […]