Nagios NRPE on SME server

Scenario / Question: How do I install NRPE on a SME 7 server Solution / Answer: You install NRPE by using the rpm packages created by Michael Weinberger. Download rpm packages Use the following script to automatically download all the needed packages wget_nrpesme Download and Run: # mkdir -p [continue...]

Fedora 11 Flash Plugin x86_64

Scenario / Question: How do I get flash to work on Fedora 11 x86_64 64bit version Solution / Answer: Manually download install flash-plugin Installing flash-plugin x86_64 Download the flash player plugin from Adobe http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html Install libflashplayer.so to [continue...]

Nagios NRPE APC UPS monitor

Scenario / Question: How do I monitor APC UPS Battery via apcaccess on linux Solution / Answer: Use the check_apcupsd plugin and NRPE Download check_apcupsd Plugin on Remote Host Server The original check_apcupsd plugin can be found here. check_apcupsd I modified the check_apcupsd plugin to [continue...]

Beginner FLTK Tutorial

Who is this article for? This article is for C++ programmers who wish to start coding GUI (Graphical User Interface) applications using FLTK. The documentation of FLTK is very good. However, I found the tutorial examples went from very easy (Hello World) to a little too diffucult (editor.cxx). [continue...]

Nagios NRPE Software RAID Monitor

Scenario / Question: How do I monitor linux software raid array status on a remote linux server Solution / Answer: Use the check_raid plugin and NRPE Download check_raid Plugin on Remote Host Server Downlaod check_lsi_megaraid plugin to /usr/local/nagios/libexec/ from [continue...]

Nagios NRPE LSI Mega RAID

Scenario / Question: How do I monitor LSI MegaRAID controller and raid array status on a remote linux server Solution / Answer: Use the check_lsi_megaraid plugin and NRPE Download check_lsi_megaraid Plugin on Remote Host Server Downlaod check_lsi_megaraid plugin to /usr/local/nagios/libexec/ [continue...]

Nagios NRPE Monitor Yum Updates

Scenario / Question: How do I monitor Yum updates on a remote linux server Solution / Answer: Use the check_yum plugin and NRPE Download check_yum Plugin on Remote Host Server Downlaod check_yum plugin to /usr/local/nagios/libexec/ from www.monitorexchange.org check_yum 1. Download the plugin [continue...]

Nagios NRPE add Services to Monitor

Scenario / Question: I followed the Tutorial on installing and configuring NRPE, but now I want to monitor more services on the remote server. Solution / Answer: You can add services by configuring nrpe.cfg on the remote host and adding a new service definition on the Nagios monitoring [continue...]

Fedora 11 install Nvidia Driver Kmod-Nvidia

Scenario / Question: How do I install the nvidia drivers on Fedora 11 instead of using the nouveau driver Solution / Answer: Install the rpmfusion repo and the akmod-nvidia drivers Install rpmfusion repo Free rpmfusion Repo: # rpm -Uvh [continue...]

Nagios NRPE to Monitor Remote Linux Server

Scenario / Question: How do I monitor a remote linux system using Nagios Solution / Answer: Use th NRPE daemon to execute Nagios plugins on the remote server and report back to the monitoring host server. NRPE Remote Server Installation and Setup Create Nagios user account on remote server to [continue...]

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