This guide is made using code from sources (valid also using tarball with latest code, like 2.0). It was made using Ubuntu 8.04 server.
Official PandoraFMS website is: http://www.pandorafms.com
Install your subversion client:
sudo apt-get install subversion
Checkout Pandora FMS repository
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For some time I have been using the American Power Conversion (APC) uninterruptible power supply (UPS) daemon Apcupsd to interface my desktop computer with my APC Back-UPS ES 550. Available for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and Solaris 10, Apcupsd reliably warns me when the power goes out and gives me time to get my [...]
phpLogCon provides a user-friendly Web interface to your system logs. It can handle logs from both Linux and Windows systems, so an administrator can log in to a single phpLogCon site to see what is happening on all the machines on a network.
phpLogCon is not available in the Ubuntu, openSUSE 11, or Fedora 9 repositories. [...]
The Nessus vulnerability scanner, is the world-leader in active scanners, featuring high speed discovery, configuration auditing, asset profiling, sensitive data discovery and vulnerability analysis of your security posture. Nessus scanners can be distributed throughout an entire enterprise, inside DMZs, and across physically separate networks. Nessus can also be used for ad-hoc scanning, daily scans, and [...]
If you use Nagios to monitor your system and run openSUSE on a remote server the bash script presented here will check for online updates and is designed to be run by Nagios so that the result will appear on the Nagios service-detail page.
The script is pretty unsophisticated as it just parses the output from [...]
A good way to see how your Web applications and server will behave under high load is by testing them with a simulated load. We tested several free software tools that do such testing to see which work best for what kinds of sites.
If you leave out the load-testing packages that are no longer maintained, [...]
This tutorial explains how you can configure monit
to send alert messages per SMS to your mobile phone when a service
fails. Because monit can send only emails but not SMS, we will use an
email-to-sms gateway where monit will send its emails to, and the
email-to-sms gateway will convert the emails to SMS messages.
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Opsview is enterprise network and application monitoring software designed for scalability, flexibility and ease of use. Opsview has been in development since 2003 and is released under the GNU GPL license. Current version is 2.12.
Opsview is a fully integrated monitoring tool that incorporates popular Open Source software including Nagios, Net-SNMP and RRDtool. The Catalyst web [...]
Once upon a time, back in the very olden days, when something went wrong with one of your possessions and you couldn’t fix it yourself, you had two options: have a repair person come to your house, or take the item into a repair shop. This was a good system that worked smoothly for many [...]
In our first two installments on intrusion detection (see Resources), we got as far as setting up a Snort sensor on our network. Now it’s time to set it up to automatically collect new rulesets, and set up BASE (Basic Analysis and Security Engine) to present all that data in a nice digestible way with [...]
When it comes to monitoring your Linux system, few tools can rival Conky. This lightweight system monitoring utility can help you to keep an eye on virtually any aspect of your system, and it offers a huge list of options to choose from. But this flexibility comes at a price: all Conky’s settings are stored [...]
This is a 3 part posting that covers how you can setup 2-way Nagios alerting via SMS.
The series is broken down as such:
1. Part 1: Background and Requirements (this article)
2. Part 2: Sending SMS messages from Nagios
3. Part 3: Acknowledging SMS messages
For those that wish to [...]
In this article I will describe how to install munin (http://munin.projects.linpro.no/) on 2 computers, but you can add more if you want to, this will allow us to remotely monitor system performance and activity.
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Network UPS Tools is a collection of programs which provide a
common interface for monitoring and administering UPS hardware. The primary goal of the Network UPS Tools (NUT) project is to
provide reliable monitoring of UPS hardware and ensure safe
shutdowns of the systems which are connected. This document describes how to configure one machine connected to the [...]
Nagios is (in my opinion) one of the finest availability and monitoring solutions available. The stability, extendability and cost effectiveness (it is free under the GPL), are second to none (again, my opinion). That being said, it is far from being the easiest monitoring solution to implement. The build process itself, while not being overly [...]