An It-slave in the digital saltmine

Do you want to write your own plugin to Nagios or op5 Monitor.

op5 have created a development howto for plugins a.k.a. check commands.

Take a peak at op5 support pages.

I have a Ericsson P1I and sometimes I use it to connect to internet.

I found an excellent how to get it running at:

http://bayanijuan.blogspot.com/2007/09/howto-connect-to-internet-using-se.html

It will work with several phones and many Linux flavors.

I use alot of downloaded tools from internet, very often they are written in Perl. In most cases the perl programs are dependent of some CPAN module.

The easiest way to install a perl module (in my opinion) is to run:

perl -MCPAN -e ‘install <perl module name>'

i.e.

perl -MCPAN -e ‘install Jcode' 

to install Jcode CPAN module

Do you want Nagios or op5 Monitor notifications to be sent by MSN? Follow the steps below to implement it.

This is a hint from my colleague Martin Kamijo, kudos to him 😛

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This guide is a step by step guide howto integrate op5 Monitor with op5 Logserver.

Background

I would like to have an alert if root has logged into my firewall. I think this is very important to know fast and where ever I am so I want a SMS sent to my cellphone. I have op5 Monitor with a GSM modem.

Theory

When root login a message will show up in the syslog i.e. /var/log/authlog

Nov 19 15:55:58 pedro sshd[12180]: Accepted password for root from 192.168.0.153 port 35896 ssh2

So I want op5 Monitor to detect this message in syslog and send a SMS if it occours.

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I found a nerd test http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_nq.php

I did the test and I got a rather good score:

2% scored higher (more nerdy),
1% scored the same, and
97% scored lower (less nerdy).

And a nice picture to put on my homepage:

Cut-n-paste from http://www.op5.org/about

We want to give something back to the community

We have built a successful business around several opensource components, such as Nagios, RRDTool, Cacti, syslog-ng, NSClient++, Linux and several hundred GNU programs and libraries.
A big thanks to all the hundreds of programmers for their efforts.
Now that we have addons around and on top of those projects, we feel it is only proper that we donate them back to the people whose very shoulders we stand on.

The code base for op5 Monitor reports and reports gui are free to download. Go to http://www.op5.org and follow the instructions.

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op5 has developed a Nagios or op5 Monitor plugin to monitor your Vmware ESX infrastructure. A new How-To at op5 Support page describe how to use it, it can be found here.

The guide is op5 Monitor centric but op5 Monitor is based on Nagios so if you are used to Nagios it will probably be no problem to get it running.

This plugin is used in an earlier article "Create Cacti or op5 Statistics graphs with op5 VmWare ESX3 plugin" and the plugin can be found here.

Do you have a traffic lights that just lay around?

I do or more accurate, I did.

After some soldering, here is the result: