monitoring

Bookmarks for 17 mag 2012 through 18 mag 2012

These are my links for 17 mag 2012 through 18 mag 2012:

  • vikjon’s Linux and Media Center Howto: NSClient++ external vbs script to check MSSQL jobs – This script for NSClient++ checks if there is any failed jobs in MS SQL server. The database connection data is stored in a UDL file.
  • Mobile-OTP: Strong Two-Factor Authentication with Mobile Phones – Mobile One Time Passwords (Mobile-OTP)
    strong, two-factor authentication with mobile phones

    Using static passwords for authentication, as it is commonly done, has quite a few security drawbacks: passwords can be guessed, forgotten, written down and stolen, eavesdropped or deliberately being told to other people.
    A better, more secure way of authentication is the so called "two-factor" or "strong authentication" based on one time passwords. Instead of authenticating with a simple password, each user carries a device ("token") to generate passwords that are valid only one time.

    client for: Standard phone and BlackBerry (J2ME) iPhone Google Android Windows Phone 7 PalmOS webOS Maemo Openmoko Universal Web App Windows Linux MacOS

    Server-Side:
    Mobile-OTP Authentication Server (MOTP-AS)
    Full blown RADIUS server specifically for Mobile-OTP. include:
    – authenticating users by RADIUS (and optionally PAM or Apache)
    – SQL database for user/device configuration
    – Administration Web Interface

  • Open Monitoring Distribution – Wiki – OMD – Welcome to OMD – the Open Monitoring Distribution. OMD implements a completely new concept of how to install, maintain and update a monitoring system built on Nagios.

    OMD avoids the tedious work of manually compiling and integrating Nagios addons while at the same time avoiding the problems of pre-packaged installations coming with your Linux distribution, which are most times outdated and provide no regular updates.

    OMD bundles Nagios together with many important addons and can easily be installed on every major Linux distribution. We provide prebuilt packages for all enterprise Linux distributions and also for some other, such as Ubuntu 11.04.

Bookmarks for 10 mag 2012 through 11 mag 2012

These are my links for 10 mag 2012 through 11 mag 2012:

  • Linux Malware Detect | R-fx Networks – Linux Malware Detect (LMD) is a malware scanner for Linux released under the GNU GPLv2 license, that is designed around the threats faced in shared hosted environments. It uses threat data from network edge intrusion detection systems to extract malware that is actively being used in attacks and generates signatures for detection. In addition, threat data is also derived from user submissions with the LMD checkout feature and from malware community resources. The signatures that LMD uses are MD5 file hashes and HEX pattern matches, they are also easily exported to any number of detection tools such as ClamAV.
  • Shinken | The next Industry Standard in IT Monitoring – Shinken is an open source Nagios® like tool, redesigned and rewritten from scratch. Its main goal is to meet today’s system monitoring requirements while still allowing compatibility to Nagios®
  • Index of /downloads/binaries/latest – These binaries are statically linked using http://landley.net/aboriginal

Bookmarks for 30 apr 2012 through 9 mag 2012

These are my links for 30 apr 2012 through 9 mag 2012:

  • | FusionInventory – FusionInventory is used to inventory your IT assets (get all possible data) to simply manage it, like with GLPI.

    FusionInventory is able to make a complete inventory of computers: hardware and software.

    FusionInventory can scan and discover all devices connected to the network. it use the protocols:

    FusionInventory can inventory devices with SNMP protocol:

    FusionInventory is able to connect to the machine using
    VMware SOAP API to get: Hardware inventory VirtualMachine list

  • jkells/nagios-plugin-ntbackup · GitHub – Nagios Plugin for NTBackup on Windows Server 2003 written in ruby
  • Portable Ruby | YELLOSOFT – Now you can run Ruby from a USB drive!

    AllInOneRuby is a wonderful automated way to generate Ruby binaries. We just made one ourselves for those out there that don't have access to a full Ruby installation. We ran allinoneruby.rb to generate the binaries: version 1.8.6-26 for Windows and 1.8.6.111 for Linux.

    To make it easier to run Ruby scripts, we included some run files. Double click them to begin running Ruby programs. Edit them to point to your scripts.

    Mac users, don't feel left out! Mac OS X 10.4 and later come with Ruby built-in! So copy your Ruby scripts along with this Portable Ruby package onto a USB drive. If you designed your programs correctly, they'll now be runnable on Windows and Linux too!

Bookmarks for 16 feb 2012 through 21 feb 2012

These are my links for 16 feb 2012 through 21 feb 2012:

  • QuickPHP Lightweight Standalone Bloat-free Portable (USB stick CD drive Windows Embedded Kiosks) PHP Web Server – Weighing in at just over 500KB in size and using around 9MB of memory with PHP DLL running, QuickPHP is one of the most lightweight fully functional standalone PHP web server in the world today!
  • virtuallyGhetto: Ruby vSphere Console (RVC) 1.6 Released – Rich Lane the creator of Ruby vSphere Console just recently released RVC 1.6 which includes some new features and bug fixes. If you are a current RVC user, you can update to the latest version by using the "gem" utility. For those of you who are not familiar with RVC, it is console UI for vCenter Server and ESX(i) host and it provides a way to interact with your vSphere infrastructure like the vSphere Client but using a console shell. RVC can be installed on a Windows, Linux or Mac OSX system and it's built on RbVmomi which is an open source Ruby library/bindings to the vSphere API.
  • NSClient Error – Could not get data for | Web Paths – I started receiving an error in Nagios that stated:  NSClient – Error: Could not get data for 10 perhaps we don’t collect data this far back?  I started researching the issue, and the obvious solutions weren’t working.

Bookmarks for 6 dic 2011 through 7 dic 2011

These are my links for 6 dic 2011 through 7 dic 2011:

  • Monitor Your Website in Real-Time with Apachetop – How-To Geek – As a webmaster, I’ve often wanted to be able to see real-time hits as they arrive. Sure, Google Analytics is a wonderful package for looking at trends over time, but there’s a delay of a few hours there, and you really can’t see data like requests per second or total bytes.

    This is where the apachetop utility comes in. It’s a very simple command line utility that you can use to monitor traffic real-time. It accomplishes this by parsing the apache logfiles and displaying meaningful output to the screen.

  • Ashwin Jayaprakash’s Blog: The little gem that is BusyBox (for Windows) – As a Windows user (no shame) I have, for years searched for a simple GNU-like toolkit – grep, awk, tail and other such goodies enjoyed by Linux users. Yes, there's Cygwin but it's a beast – too big and a pain to install. Sometimes, I've even resorted to starting a Linux VMWare image just to run a simple awk script to munge some log files.
  • pclouds/busybox-w32 – GitHub – Win32 native port for Busybox (latest build can bw found in the below link)

Bookmarks for 7 nov 2011 through 8 nov 2011

These are my links for 7 nov 2011 through 8 nov 2011:

  • Testing puppet with Jenkins before deploying | mig5.net – […] However, I had overlooked one element: I tend to make a lot of typos […]

    funny and very instructive

  • VMware Monitoring Appliance with Nagios, NagVis, PNP4Nagios, Smokeping, Cacti and OpenNMS – Monitoring in just a few minutes! This VMware appliance based on Ubuntu Server Edition 10.10 64-bit contains the most important monitoring software packages, installed and ready-to-run:

    Nagios 3.2.3
    NagVis 1.5.5
    PNP4Nagios 0.6.7
    MK Livestatus 1.1.8
    Cacti/Spine 0.8.7g
    Smokeping 2.3.6
    OpenNMS 1.8.5

    You can start immediately. It is especially suitable for comparing these different monitoring solutions. Note that OpenNMS is written in Java and produces a high load on the system. Starting and Stopping OpenNMS takes a long time (several minutes!).

  • Squid Block – DNSBL Redirector for the Squid Proxy – dnsbl_redir is a shamelessly derived redirector based on the asqredir redirector written by Thomas Zippo < thomas at zippo dot ch >. Thanks!
    Its been rewritten to use a DNSBL list (RHS type) to check for and block sites listed in the DNSBL. It will redirect your users to the page/site listed in the top of the dnsbl_redir.h file.

    dnsbl_redir is written in C. It consists of one small source file and a small(er) .h file. It has been tested and runs on the current Squid versions. It performs very well on Linux (RedHat/Fedora), BSD and technically should compile and run on any gnu/linux.

Bookmarks for 12 ott 2011 through 15 ott 2011

These are my links for 12 ott 2011 through 15 ott 2011:

  • [Rename Master] – JoeJoe’s freeware utilities – Rename Master is a FREE utility designed to rename multiple files with a just few clicks. Anyone that has worked with websites, file archives, or collections of music, videos, or pictures has probably spent way too much time renaming hundreds of files.

    This utility will add, remove, or replace parts of the filename with ease and also supports renaming via file properties, MP3 tags, JPEG JFIF and EXIF tags, and text files. Batch renaming that's simple to use, yet still very powerful.

  • Sending and Receiving SMS from your Linux Computer LG #164 –
  • collectl – Collectl is a light-weight performance monitoring tool capable of reporting interactively as well as logging to disk. It reports statistics on cpu, disk, infiniband, lustre, memory, network, nfs, process, quadrics, slabs and more in easy to read format.

Bookmarks for 28 apr 2011 through 2 mag 2011

These are my links for 28 apr 2011 through 2 mag 2011:

  • Building a mail server on Debian 6.0 – The goal of this manual is to provide you with enough knowledge to feel confident in installing and maintaing your own mail server. Of course manuals like this already exist but during my search for knowledge I always felt like they were either not updated in a while or they just skip over some of the most interesting parts assuming you know what they are talking about[…]<br />
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    [ via zarrelli.org ]
  • Free Website Uptime Monitoring – Uptime Robot – Monitors your websites every 5 minutes, totally free.<br />
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    Add up to 50 websites. Get alerts by e-mail, SMS, Twitter or RSS.
  • My Low End VPS Server – This document describes how to setup a Debian Linux VPS to replace your standard shared hosting account.  This document started out as a bunch of scribbles on scrap paper as I built a Virtual Private Server (VPS) into a fully functioning internet server.  It was notes on how I configured the server for the various pieces of the stack.  The need for the server was identified when I wanted to migrate my cPanel Shared Hosting account at Hostgator to a low end VPS for more control and freedom to run whatever software I wanted.  It was also a good opportunity to get back into Linux system configurations and serving web content.  As a collateral benefit, but not as the main drive, I was able to save a few dollars a month in web hosting costs.

Bookmarks for 26 apr 2011 from 02:00 to 14:52

These are my links for 26 apr 2011 from 02:00 to 14:52:

  • Putty, Active Directory and Kerberos – […] This is a short and simple tutorial about setting up Kerberos authentication with putty and Active Directory. […]
  • Checkpoint HA Nagios monitoring – […] For a number of reasons I need to be able to know which firewall is the active on in a Checkpoint cluster. I’d like to be notified when the active node switches to the secondary box […]
  • Michele’s blog " Active Directory and Apache Kerberos … – […] In this article I’ll explore how to set up an Apache web server on a Linux Debian box (squeeze testing as of 05/2009) with kerberos authentication integrated with Active Directory on Windows 2003R2 […]
  • Integrating Active Directory and Squid3 – […] Here’s my third and probably last post on a topic about AD integration and linux. This time around the goal is to have Kerberos authentication integrated with Squid, so that users do not have to be prompted for additional authentication when surfing the web[…]
  • 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error

Bookmarks for 23 feb 2011 through 28 feb 2011

These are my links for 23 feb 2011 through 28 feb 2011:

  • Openfiler 2.3 Active/Passive Cluster (heartbeat,DRBD) With … – […] Openfiler is a Linux based NAS/SAN application which can deliver storage over nfs/smb/iscsi and ftp. It has a web interface over that you can control these services. The howto is based on the Howto from Kyle Gililland. A lot of thanks to him for this.<br />
    The cluster we build will consist of two nodes replicating each other and taking over services and storage in case of emergency. Furthermore we have an Offsite Replication Server, which ideally stands in a physically different position and replicates the configurations/storage from which ever node is active. In case of emergency this Offsite Replication Server can be used to restore the cluster and to deliver the services […]
  • Using m4 with Nagios: Advanced Ideas – Nagios configuration has been traditionally cumbersome and extensive; there are a lot of things to configure. The addition of templating some time ago helped, but not entirely. A configuration element such as a server or a switch can take up a huge amount of configuration and be quite repetitive, too.Using m4 can alleviate all of these problems. When combined with GNU Make and Nagios configuration directories, changing the configuration can be done quite simply and easily.
  • Random.org – RANDOM.ORG offers true random numbers to anyone on the Internet. The randomness comes from atmospheric noise, which for many purposes is better than the pseudo-random number algorithms typically used in computer programs. People use RANDOM.ORG for holding drawings, lotteries and sweepstakes, to drive games and gambling sites, for scientific applications and for art and music. The service has existed since 1998 and was built and is being operated by Mads Haahr of the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College, Dublin in Ireland.<br />
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    [ via http://schiseta.com ]