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 […]
ubuntu mounts read only +USB
ubuntu mounts read only +USB Someitimes when automounting external media, like USB memory or SD cards. Ubuntu will allow read only. The reason could be that somehow the kernel goes to panic when try to mount write permissions, confirm it […]
Tor Proxy Ubuntu Hardy
How to install Tor / Proxy / Anonymous browsing. The objective is to browse websites with a different IP other then your ISP one, Tor has a network of proxy servers where it allows you to jump from on to […]
sudoers howto
How to Sudoers Syntax: usernames/group servername = (usernames command can be run as) command There are some general guidelines when editing this file: Groups are the same as user groups and are differentiated from regular users by a % at […]
Install VMWare Server 2 in Ubuntu 8.10 (Hardy)
VMware once again release a new version of its Virtualization software, it is free of use. And its all web based, which I dont really like but its where they are heading to. Sometimes I need to use Visio and […]
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 […]
Perl Nagios Plugin
Thanks to Ton Voon now it has become even easier to develop nagios plugins using Perl. A family of perl modules to streamline writing Nagios Just Released 6 Jan 2009. HOW TO SETUP Pre-Requisites Perl Modules # cpan # install […]