You may wonder why the old good nagios-plugins [https://packages.qa.debian.org/nagios-plugins] are not up to date in Debian [https://www.debian.org/intro/about] unstable [https://www.debian.org/releases/unstable/] and testing [https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/]. Since the people behind and maintaining the plugins…
It seems to be a great time for monitoring solutions. Some of you may have noticed that Icinga [http://icinga.org] has released [https://www.icinga.org/2014/06/16/icinga-2-0-has-arrived/] it's first stable version of the completely redeveloped Icinga 2 [https://www.icinga.org/icinga2/] . After several…
As Jan has previously announced [https://debianstuff.dittberner.info/posts/going-to-chemnitzer-linux-tage-2014.html] , the Debian [https://www.debian.org/about/] project is maintaining a booth at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2014 [http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2014/], which is also organized by him. This year we will have merchandising at the booth, which is…
Last night it seems the so called 'Nagios Plugins' project [http://www.nagios-plugins.org/] was cut off. The story started a decade ago when development of the plugins compatible with Nagios [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios] was taken over by an independent group of developers [https://www.…
Yesterday I asked [https://log.cyconet.org/2013/11/24/running-icinga-with-lighttpd-on-a-raspberry/] myself, how to setup a crossbuild environment on a Debian [http://www.debian.org] wheezy [http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/]/amd64 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64] to build binary packages compatible [http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianFAQ#Can_…
At first we need to install Icinga [https://www.icinga.org/] and lighttpd [http://www.lighttpd.net/]: # aptitude install icinga lighttpd We need to enable the lighttpd cgi and authentication module: # lighttpd-enable-mod cgi && ighttpd-enable-mod auth Let's create a config for Icinga (in a subdir of the…
After running a QNAP TS-459 Pro+ for the last 3 or 4 years at home, my monitoring was alerting me about memory warnings cause I upgraded my SqueezeBox Server [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logitech_Media_Server] to the latest nightly version. So I looked into how to upgrade the…
As some of you might have noticed, the Site PHP.net [http://php.net] was infected [http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2013/10/phpnet-site-infected-with-malware.html] yesterday with Malware [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware]. If you are running a shared hosting environment, you are also be faced with similar Malware problems.…