Fast Track System Monitoring

Setup Zoneminder on an Ubuntu Netbook

Danny W Sheehan — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 09:38:17 +0000

I have an old netbook that I no longer use, so I decided to turn it into a web security camera. My netbook already has a built in camera. Zoneminder seemed like the perfect solution to turn it into something useful. Here are the steps I followed to install and setup Zoneminder on Ubuntu 11.10 [...]

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STEP5 | Install NagiosGrapher On Ubuntu | NETWAYS Nagios Grapher

Danny W Sheehan — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:42:21 +0000

Another great feature about Nagios is you can collect the data returned from your monitors and see trends over time. In this blog post we show how to install and configure NagiosGrapher, also known as NETWAYS Nagios Grapher. Currently there are three options available for graphing data returned by the Nagios monitor plugins. These are. [...]

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STEP 4: Getting NAGIOS Alerts On Your iPhone

Danny W Sheehan — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:02:28 +0000

I found a great iPhone application that allows you to be alerted with popups on your phone. The great thing about this service is that you now have a way of separating systems monitoring alerts from your day-to-day SMS and email alerts. SMS has always been the preferred method for notifying system administrators of issues [...]

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Nagios Disk Space Monitor Service Check Timed Out

Danny W Sheehan — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 11:23:42 +0000

I got a disk space alert from my Nagios server saying that Disk Space was CRITICAL. On investigation it looks like the disk space monitor could not return any results – “Service Check Timed Out”. This was confirmed by looking at the Nagios log root@ubuntu:/var/log/nagios3# tail -f nagios.log [1330934483] SERVICE ALERT: localhost;Disk Space;CRITICAL;SOFT;1;(Service Check Timed [...]

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STEP 3 | Nagios Notification Setup And Testing

Danny W Sheehan — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:41:17 +0000

Today we setup Nagios Notifications and then look at how to test our Nagios notification. As with the previous tutorials, I want to keep this as simple as possible with the least amount of configuration and effort on our part. So don’t expect to go in depth into the intimacies of Nagios configuration files. [...]

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