monitoring

Bookmarks for 14 dic 2010 through 18 dic 2010

These are my links for 14 dic 2010 through 18 dic 2010:

  • FreeNATS: Free Network Automatic Testing System – FreeNATS is a PHP and MySQL based automatic network status testing, alerting and repoting package from PurplePixie Systems and released under the GNU General Public Licence for free use. <br />
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    Current Test Types: Ping (ICMP), HTTP/HTTPs (Web), IMAP/IMAPs, POP3/POP3s, MySQL Connection, MySQL Queries, TCP Port, 2Various Node-based Monitors<br />
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    [ via http://www.delicious.com/farmando ]
  • PacketFence – What is PacketFence ?<br />
    PacketFence is a fully supported, trusted, Free and Open Source network access control (NAC) system. Boasting an impressive feature set including a captive-portal for registration and remediation, centralized wired and wireless management, 802.1X support, layer-2 isolation of problematic devices, integration with the Snort IDS and the Nessus vulnerability scanner; PacketFence can be used to effectively secure networks – from small to very large heterogeneous networks. <br />
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    [ via http://www.delicious.com/farmando ]
  • Open Web Analytics – Easy, Open, Web Analytics.Open Web Analytics (OWA) is open source web analytics software that you can use to track and analyze how people use your web sites and applications. OWA is licensed under GPL and provides web site owners and developers with easy ways to add web analytics to their sites using simple Javascript, PHP, or REST based APIs. OWA also comes with built-in support for tracking web sites made with popular content management frameworks such as WordPress and MediaWiki.
  • 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
  • SQL for Tivoli Storage Manager – This page has a collection of useful SQL statements for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM). Here you can find out a lot of selects that will help you to get information from TSM and to construct your own SQL statements.

Bookmarks for 20 ott 2010 through 2 nov 2010

These are my links for 20 ott 2010 through 2 nov 2010:

  • Software :: SendEmail – Send email with this free command line email client – SendEmail is a lightweight, command line SMTP email client. If you have the need to send email from a command line, this free program is perfect: simple to use and feature rich. It was designed to be used in bash scripts, batch files, Perl programs and web sites, but is quite adaptable and will likely meet your requirements. SendEmail is written in Perl and is unique in that it requires NO MODULES. It has an intuitive and flexible set of command-line options, making it very easy to learn and use.<br />
    SendEmail is licensed under the GNU GPL, either version 2 of the License or (at your option) any later version.<br />
    [Supported Platforms: Linux, BSD, OS X, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, & Windows XP]
  • 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
  • openQRM | openQRM keeps your data center up and running – […] openQRM is the next generation, open-source Data-center management platform. Its fully pluggable architecture focuses on automatic, rapid- and appliance-based deployment, monitoring, high-availability, cloud computing and especially on supporting and conforming multiple virtualization technologies. openQRM is a single-management console for the complete IT-infra structure and provides a well defined API which can be used to integrate third-party tools as additional plugins. […]

Bookmarks for 21 lug 2010 through 22 lug 2010

These are my links for 21 lug 2010 through 22 lug 2010:

  • TestKing Pass4Sure 70-290 MCSE 70-620 CCNA 640-802 70-270 70-291 70-647 … – Welcome to ExamCollection.com!<br />
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    Have you ever prepared for a certification exam using PDFs or braindumps? If yes, then I think you will agree with me that using practice test software is more comfortable and efficient way to prepare.<br />
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    The purpose of this site is to help you use TestKing, Pass4sure, CertifyMe, ActualTest, Braindumps and other PDFs as practice exams, not the multipage text documents as most of us have used it.<br />
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    Here you can download free practice tests for such certifications as MCSE, MCDBA, MCSD, A+, Network+, Security+, CCNA, CCNP, and so on. All tests on this site have been created with Visual CertExam Suite. Visual CertExam Suite is an exam simulator developed for certification exam preparation. You can also use it as a Trandumper replacement. Files with VCE extension can be opened with this program.
  • Sagan from Softwink, Inc [800-538-9357] – Sagan is a multi-threaded, real time system and event log monitoring system, but with a twist. Sagan uses a "Snort" like rule set for detecting bad things happening on your network and/or computer systems. If Sagan detects a "bad thing" happening, that event can be stored to a Snort database (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and Sagan will attempt to correlate the event with your Snort Intrusion Detection/Intrusion Prevention (IDS/IPS) system.
  • Carta – Forbice – Sasso – La strategia per vincere 🙂
  • How to improve creativity – A two part ( series on using psychological techniques to improve your creativity <br />
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    [via http://delicious.com/pecus ]

Bookmarks for 9 lug 2010 through 15 lug 2010

These are my links for 9 lug 2010 through 15 lug 2010:

  • Free online OCR –
  • A Tcpdump Tutorial and Primer | danielmiessler.com – Tcpdump is the premier network analysis tool for information security professionals. Having a solid grasp of this über-powerful application is mandatory for anyone desiring a thorough understanding of TCP/IP. Many prefer to use higher level analysis tools such as (Ethereal) Wireshark, but I believe this to usually be a mistake.[…]
  • Gioco di Squadra & Intelligenza Collettiva – Il MIT Media Lab ha creato Mars Escape, gioco on line per due persone il cui obiettivo è contribuire all’educazione di Nexi.<br />
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    Obiettivo del gioco è quello di permettere al robot di assolvere a determinati compiti con l’ausilio dell’essere umano. Le strategie e le interazioni sviluppate dai partecipanti servono a fornire le informazioni necessarie al raggiungimento di questo obiettivo.<br />
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    In Mars Escape il giocatore può mantenere le sembianze umane personificando un astronauta o, al contrario, convertirsi in un robot; lo scenario, come suggerisce il nome, è una stazione spaziale su Marte.<br />
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    [via http://delicious.com/pecus ]

Bookmarks for 26 gen 2010 through 30 gen 2010

These are my links for 26 gen 2010 through 30 gen 2010:

  • Network monitoring with Nagios and OpenBSD – Una guida in italiano all'installazione configurazione di nagios sotto BSD
  • UNIX Performance Management – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the performance analyst to some of the free tools available to monitor and manage performance on UNIX systems, and to provide a guideline on how to diagnose and fix performance problems in that environment. The paper is based on the author’s experiences with AIX and will cover many of the tools available on that and other UNIX platforms. It will also provide some Rules of Thumb for analyzing the performance of UNIX systems. The paper has been updated to include some of the things that can be done in order to make sure that the web server will perform well.
  • UNIX BASH scripting: Replace values in XML using sed and awk – […]Even though sed or awk is not suggested to work with XMLs (generally a programing language like Perl or Python is more preferred), there can be simple cases where we can make use of sed or awk to perform certain search and replace in simple XML s. Here is an simple example[…]

    che fico 🙂

Bookmarks for 29 dic 2009 through 2 gen 2010

These are my links for 29 dic 2009 through 2 gen 2010:

  • Soup To Nuts – Repository of Open Source Articles and Example Code – This site is a collection of scripts, hints, articles, and programs.
    Performance Monitoring on Linux, Postfix 2nd Instance for Sender-based Routing: Multiple Gmail and Comcast Accounts, Linux Quota Tutorial , SQLite Tutorial, over 200 Linux tips and tricks, Virtual Filesystem: Building a Linux Filesystem from an Ordinary File, MySQL Tips and Tricks , MSSQL 2005 Tips
  • Dunigan’s Network Peformance Links – list of tools for network measurement and monitoring, tcp performance, etc
  • AIX A-Z: Learning AIX’s spooler back-end programs – Summary:  While most IBM® AIX® administrators know how to set up print queues and manage printing through the System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) or the general print commands, there's more to printing on the UNIX® system. If you want to learn more than just how to set up or manage virtual printers on AIX, this article is for you. Most successful AIX and UNIX administrators thrive on learning more about the system they administer. Printing is only one facet of their system, but it's an important one to know.

Bookmarks for 28 dic 2009 from 00:30 to 23:21

These are my links for 28 dic 2009 from 00:30 to 23:21:

  • The Beginner’s Guide to The Geek Stuff – A Guided Tour – We’ve published quite a few high quality articles on UNIX/Linux and open source since this blog was started on May 2008. This post is a quick reference guide to all the popular posts in this blog.

    You might want to go through all these posts in detail by trying out the commands and software mentioned in these posts yourself. However, it is going to a take a while to read all these posts. Make sure to bookmark this article for future reference.

  • AIX – monitoring – IBM developerWorks: Wikis – Below is my reference card notes on the most useful monitoring tools available on AIX and the most useful parameters.
    If you see mistakes please correct them.
    If you have other favourites please add them.
    The Tips and techniques page is the place for discussions on tuning approach and ideas.
  • Flexamail – We make mail do more! – Flexamail allows you to control the web while never leaving the comfort of your inbox. You can post images, share files even surf the web! If you know how to use email, you already know how to use Flexamail. Easy to learn, easy to use, yet powerful.

    With Flexamail, you can:
    Access popular sites like Twitter and Facebook all from your email without needing a proxy
    Avoid pesky firewalls getting in your way, access websites and services regardless to your office or country's firewall settings
    Post, share and track any type of files and images online
    Password protect those files you don't want made public
    Securely backup your files online
    Save money on your cellphone plan with an email only data plan
    Publish a photo from your iPhone or Blackberry without needing to open an app
    Stay organized with sortable, sharable, drag and drop lists
    Best of all, it's free!

Bookmarks for 23 nov 2009 through 9 dic 2009

These are my links for 23 nov 2009 through 9 dic 2009:

  • Secure Password Generator – Primo Interactive Website Design and … – Secure Password Generator (Bulk Generate Secure Passwords)
  • How to Tell the Difference Between Nerds and Geeks – wikiHow – The terms 'nerd' and 'geek' are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same…
  • NConf – Enterprise Nagios configurator [NConf – Enterprise Nagios configurator] – NConf is a PHP based web-tool for configuring the Nagios monitoring software. It differs from similar tools by offering enterprise-class features like templates, dependencies and the ability to configure a large-scale, distributed Nagios server topology.

    via Giorgio Zarrelli

  • IBM Redbooks | NFS Mount Problem Determination – This technote shows some common NFS mount problems on AIX and gives you some ideas on how to solve them. These connectivity issues can occur when you are trying to mount an exported IBM TotalStorage NAS Gateway 500 NFS share from any NFS client (UNIX/AIX/Linux).
    [ma porkapaletta… error -1 = l'host non risolve l'ip :P]
  • Desktop Wiki [Share Knowledge] – Desktop Wiki is a wiki that runs in desktop environment(only in MS Windows currently), based on dokuwiki, PHP and nginx. The features of Desktop Wiki include:

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    Portable wiki that can run anywhere, even in your USB stick.
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    Full features of the excellent dokuwiki(Powerful wiki with flatfile, stable, multilanguages, etc).
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    Low system resource cost thanks to nginx.
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    And more for you to discover:).

Corso su Nagios a puntate

Il mio amichino Giorgio che è un maestro nell’installazione e configurazione di Nagios, ha raccolto le mie suppliche e siScreenshot Nagios appresta a scrivere un corso completo in una serie di post sul suo blog.  Oggi ha messo giù  la scaletta del “corso su Nagios” e chiede a tutti quelli che sono interessati di dargli suggerimenti scrivendo nei commenti.
Se sei un amministratore di sistema non puoi fare a meno di un sistema di monitoring come nagios, accorri numeroso a seguire e a contribuire con i tuoi consigli!