When monitoring websites many times we will need more then just check if the site is up. We may need to see if the internals of the website is working, a good example is making a user login check. Using […]
Nagios script to load host
. . . When you have to load 400 IPs into Nagios/Centreon configuration, how do you do it? By hand? Well, I wrote a script that pulls all hosts from a CVS file with the fields (HOSTNAME,INFO,IP) and generates de […]
Secure SSH with Fail2Ban
Remote managing a server is important but I believe securing it is just as important. Would you like to type “last” and just relize someone has just login into your server from a far country? Well the solution is here! […]
Install BackTrack USB
BackTrack is one of the best Live Linux out there, it is complete with many network secuirty tools. Yes you can also just burn the CD version, but the USB is more complete its RW and smaller to carry around. […]
Debian Nagios Oreon Howto
*********************************************************** HOW TO INSTALL Debian 4.04 NAGIOS 3.03 CENTREON 2 *********************************************************** Author: Felipe Ferreira / fferreira(a+)osiatis.es / www.xoroz.com Date: 25/08/2008 Nagios and Centreon are the perfect Network System Monitoring Solution. Oreon has became a reference as a Nagios Frontend. The […]
Install Java in Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 8.10
So you need to browse JVM cable websites using Firefox, here is how to do it: # apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts The following NEW packages will be installed: gsfonts-x11 java-common odbcinst1debian1 sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre unixodbc xutils-dev 103MB # find / […]
Ubuntu Applications List
My favorite Ubuntu aplications are: Amarok – an amazing media player that leaves winamp, windows media player far far bellow Firefox – simply the best browser out there, Add-ons (foxmarks, download statusbar, dictonary) Thunderbird – best email client, also many […]