SBR600

SBR600: Nagios IRC BOT/Contributions

2010-12-17T19:43:00.000-08:00

This Nagios IRC Bot, uses a config file, chkconfig and services...

http://mathon.sitesled.com/SBR600/nagircbot-0.0.31-3.fc13.x86_64.rpm

Feel free to download this rpm and try it out on your system assuming you have nagios installed...

If there are any problems, please feel free to post on this blog or find me on IRC...

Contributions
I didn't assist with any projects in the SBR600 class
- Tested/reported bugs in Corsix-TH

Mathon

SBR600:Reflections On SBR600

2010-12-17T19:23:00.000-08:00

Wow it been 4 months already.... seems like yesterday i was walking to my first class...

Its been a fun and challenging semester, but onto SBR600...

This course, can make you feel like your the king of the world (when you figure something new that no one has done before) or really crappy after you spend a few hours on a task with no success. But there is light at the end of the tunnel and that light is all the people out there on IRC who help you.

One suggestion i do have, is that we start the projects earlier giving us more time to work on them OR more frequent checks are done. Twice a change had to be made which caused us to redo a portion of the project. If we had more warning or a guideline of what methods to do/not to do, we may of not had that problem, but obstacles will always come up in life...

Overall though i really enjoyed this class, my only regret is that i didn't take this course earlier.

SBR600: Nagios Querrying The Bot

2010-11-26T16:10:00.000-08:00

One thing i forgot to mention is that the bot can be Queried... Below are the commands and there discriptions

help - gets help
resend - resend the last known problems
statistics - returns the number of criticals/warnings/etc.
reload - completely forced reload the nagios status
check - check if nagios is still running

Until Next time!

Matt

SBR600: Nagios IRC Bot Success

2010-11-26T14:35:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone!

After many tears of pain and many hours of smashing my head against a wall, I have finally gotten an IRC bot running on a channel on Freenode. How you ask?

I did the following, please keep in mind this was done on Fedora 13 with Nagios 3.2.3 and NagIRCBot 0.0.30.

Some packages you will need openssl-devel, gcc. The rest were already installed for me, so you might need others.

After unpacking the tarball, in the make file you must change the following line

LDFLAGS+=$(DEBUG) -lssl -lstdc++

LDFLAGS+=$(DEBUG) -lssl -lstdc++ -lcrypto

After that continue with make/make install

Once its installed you can start up nagircbot...

nagircbot -f /var/log/nagios/status.dat -s irc.freenode.net:6667 -c \#mathon -C -n test22283833 -u ident -U realname -I 900

Lets examine the above command which will be the main command for starting nagircbot...

/var/log/nagios/status.dat -> points to the log file it will read
irc.freenode.net:6667 -> is the irc server
mathon -> is the channel name...
The "-C" flag -> allows it to send colored messages
test22283833 -> is the ircnickname
ident/realname -> the ident and real name string for the bot
-I 900 -> tells the bot how often to send a message to the channel in this case its 15min (900 seconds)

Many thanks to flok for being a great help in getting the bot up and running!

Until Next time!

SBR600: Difculty Setting Up Nagios IRC bot

2010-11-26T09:44:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone,

After much research and hours on IRC with others trying to get a bot working i am still unsuccessful. The two problem are, there is nothing that i have found that A) Tested with Nagios 3.2.3 so there are some compatibility issues, B) Written to work with fedora, there are some bots written for ubuntu and freeBSD and converting them over to fedora doesn't seem to be going that well. Lastly there not supported anymore, so finding someone to help me set one up is difficult.

Hopefully someone will be able to help me out. If not then writing a bot from scratch might be the only way.

Until next time!

Matthew

SBR600: Nagios Documentation

2010-11-14T07:18:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone,

Just thought I would let everyone know they can view some of our documentation as we progress through this project by visiting:

http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/How_to_Setup_and_configure_Nagios

Until next time!

Matt

SBR600: GIT

2010-11-12T19:55:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone!

Today I will be talking about GIT...

Git is a free and open source version control system similar to SVN.

Although I have played with SVN in the past, GIT seems to be quite easy to use as well...

For practice i tried a simple remote repository exercise.

First I cloned the repository, then I added my own branch, pushed my branch back to the server and verified it was there. Once i knew it was there i pulled someones branch to look at.

That's all the fun I have to report on GIT for now.

Until Next Time!

Matt

SBR600:Nagios Clinet Setup

2010-11-05T05:36:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone,

Just a quick update on whats happening with Nagios, my colleague has setup a client.

More information can be viewed at his blog post below.

http://akkimblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/nagios-implementation-on-client-part-1.html

Until Next time,

Matt

SBR600: Update on Nagios

2010-10-29T18:48:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone,

As mentioned earlier, i have started work on the Nagios project.

Today, we setup the server and Nagios is currently monitoring the local computer...
The next phase will be to get it monitoring additional machines.

Until next time!

Matt

SBR600: Repositories/Distributing

2010-10-21T09:45:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone!

Creating a repositories and distributing the packages was quite fun to do.

First off you must create a key for your repository using the command:

gpg --gen-key

After that you must sign your package, and move it over to your distribution directory.

Then to create the metadata run the command:

createrepo /name/of/directory

Once you have done that your all good to go.  Happy Distributing!

Until next time,

Matt

SBR600: Project

2010-10-14T10:22:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone!

I will be helping set up Nagios on seneca's arm machines...

More information can be found here:
http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Set_up_Nagios_monitoring_of_the_ARM_farm

SBR600: Mock Build/Koji

2010-10-11T18:06:00.000-07:00

My mock build of nled went without any problems,

I had some troubles with koji, i kept getting this error message:

sslv3 alert certificate revoked

After a few hours i was able to get it to work... The issue
was that my certificates were not valid. So i had to manualy
delete the certificates and re-downland them. After that koji
worked flawlessly.

Next up: Signing RPM packages.

Until Next time...

Matt

SBR600:Switch to build a new SPEC file

2010-10-11T15:05:00.000-07:00

After many days of trouble and problems, I have decided to try to build a different program...

Welcome to the world of NLED...

After the pain i had with hotwire, nled seemed like a breeze... although i will still try to figure out how to build hotwire as it will keep bugging me if i don't...

SPEC file: SBR600.NLED

SBR600: Our two vistiors from Mozilla

2010-09-30T08:00:00.000-07:00

First off i want to thank Mozilla for letting Armin and John out of there holes to come present to us.

I learned quite a lot about the process and the tough life that builders have. There task is to always improve the process, making it faster for the developers. They have taken a typical build process from what was typically done in weeks to days. Currently they can spit out a new build in under 24 hours. Now that is fast for fixing bugs/security issues. There key to success is automation and splitting tests up. As an example they used they had a test that used to run for a few hours but they split that up into 5 tests, some which may run for 15min, allowing another build to start that test while its running a different test.

Until next time!

Matt

SBR600: Building An RPM

2010-09-30T07:42:00.000-07:00

Hi, everyone today im going to talk about building an RPM on a fedora system, alright lets get started...

Building an RPM

The first step to building an rpm package, is to download the source file of the program you want to build. This is done by using the command

yumdownloader --source PACKAGENAME

After that we must run the command

rpm -i PACKAGENAME

Once we have done that we can go to

~/rpmbuild/SPECS

To look at the SPEC file and find out some more information on this package, after weve done that the last step is to build it which can bed one using the command

build -ba PACKAGENAME.spec

Thats it! weve just buit our first RPM package... not that hard, next up working on a building it from a SPEC file

SBR600 Lab 2 - Playing with the -J option

2010-09-17T06:41:00.000-07:00

Today, i found that the rpmmacros file controls how many jobs make will start. So i did some playing around below are my results.

I was a little surprised that 4 was the fastest time as i am running a duel core system. I did not automate this process, but if i did im sure the process would of been a bit faster. I tried to run these tests with my system doing as little as possible to make it a fair test, but without running the test hundreds of times and with different builds its hard to say if 4 is the best result for everything. What seems to affect the results are what the build is waiting for CPU , or disk as well.

SBR600 Lab 1 - First Complile

2010-09-10T08:23:00.001-07:00

Install of nled

I have downloaded nled from here.

Then i tried to make it but i needed to install "ncurses-devel"

Below is a picture of nled

I then decided to compile another program, this time from SourceForge called cracklib.

This program helps to crack passwords against a library of words.

To install this program i had all the dependency's it needed.

SBR600 - My First Post!

2010-09-10T05:14:00.000-07:00

Hi,

My name is Matthew. I am in my 6th semester at Seneca, and plan to go to University after. Below is a picture of my IRC converstaion
My IRC name is: Mathon

Below is a link to my user page on Seneca Wiki
http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/User:Mathon
Below is a link to my user page on Fedora Wiki
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mathon