Scenario / Question: How do I monitor Windows Services and Processes using check_nt and Nagios NSClient++ Solution / Answer: Use the check_nt command with the SERVICESTATE and PROCSTATE variables. Install and Configure Nagios NSClient++ as per the following tutorial: “Nagios NSClient++ to [continue...]

Scenario / Question: How do I monitor a remote Windows system using Nagios Solution / Answer: Use the NSClient++ addon to execute Nagios plugins on the remote server and report back to the monitoring host server. NSClient++ Remote Server Installation and Setup Make a [continue...]

Scenario / Question: How do I setup freeNX on a remote server system running Fedora x86_64 4bit OS. Solution / Answer: Installing the freeNX server software on the remote server machine and using the NoMachine freenx client to connect to it from you local machine. Installing freeNX Server: On [continue...]

Scenario / Question: How do I get VirtualBox USB support to work in Fedora ? Solution / Answer: Configure usbfs to allow vboxusers access to USB devices and add usbfs mount to /etc/fstab Configure VirtualBox USB Obtain the GID of the vboxusers group (your GID may different then 501): # cat [continue...]

Scenario / Question: How do I install NRPE on a SME 7 server Solution / Answer: You install NRPE by using the rpm packages hosted 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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]