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 […]
NRPE_NT Plugins
There are quite a few nice nagios nrpe_nt plugins (vbs scripts) released by GroundWork, since 2006 they have been working and improving these set of plugins. Those scripts are very well written and they can be enhanced for your own […]
Exchange mailbox login plugin
This plugins uses a script called check_counter_rawcount.vbs developed by Dr. Dave Blunt at GroundWork Open Source Inc. I used it to grab WMI performance counter information but the script itself allows many more “performance counters” to be used. The script […]