Originally published 2016-11-21 on the UoB Unix blog Several times, senior management have asked Team Wireless to provide an uptime figure for eduroam. While we do have an awful lot of monitoring of systems and services, it has never been possible to give a single uptime figure because it needs some detailed knowledge to make sense ofContinue reading “Service availability monitoring with Nagios and BPI”
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Nagios plugin for TEMPer USB thermometer
As I said in a previous post, I finally got my TEMPer USB thermometer to work on Fedora, thanks to a patch by Tollef Fog Heen that has now been incorporated into the Fedora kernel. I’m not familiar with C so I only made minor tweaks to Tollef Fog Heen’s code, which returns a temperatureContinue reading “Nagios plugin for TEMPer USB thermometer”
Setting up NRPE remote Linux monitoring with Nagios
This a short and simple guide, explaining how to set up remote monitoring of Linux hosts using NRPE in Nagios. The procedure is simple, but having searched for information on this earlier today I didn’t find a straightforward all-inclusive guide, so I’ve written my own. These instructions were written with Nagios 3.0.6, and they assumeContinue reading “Setting up NRPE remote Linux monitoring with Nagios”
Web statistics with AWstats
A few months ago I set up a website, Memories of Korea, to showcase some slides I inherited. Naturally I was keen to find out how many visitors I’d had, so I set about finding something that could draw pretty graphs. Based on my experiences setting up website statistics with AWstats, I’ve now prepared aContinue reading “Web statistics with AWstats”
SMS alerts with Nagios
In a previous post I mentioned how easy it is to increase functionality in Nagios. Today I was asked to set up SMS alerts in Nagios, as well as the existing email alerts. I am by no means the first person to write about this, but this post is intended to be a start-to-finish guide,Continue reading “SMS alerts with Nagios”
On Nagios
The things I’m about to say will almost certainly be common knowledge to anyone who has used Nagios before, but I’ll say them anyway. In short, Nagios is a network/server monitoring tool. It’s web based and can monitor almost any network device. It comes with dozens of modules included, to monitor things with something asContinue reading “On Nagios”
Jonathan Gazeley 