Chris Carey

Category: Networking

  • NagiosTV 0.2

    Watch one or more Nagios servers on a wall mounted TV (or your desktop)

    Here is a TV watching 5 Nagios servers at once:

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  • How to prevent multple “CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 10 seconds” alerts

    Nagios Monitor

    In server monitoring with Nagios, nobody likes to get paged any more than necessary. This article will show you how to prevent multiple “CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 10 seconds” alerts every time a host goes down.

    In this circumstance, I’m not trying to get NRPE working. I’m trying to shut it up when there is an outage.

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  • Netatalk with Debian or Ubuntu

    By default, it is compiled without SSL support. Mac clients will not be able to connect. Here is how you get Netatalk working on Debian or Ubuntu the clean way, with custom compiled packages.
    [bash]
    apt-get source netatalk
    apt-get install devscripts fakeroot libssl-dev cracklib2-dev
    apt-get build-dep netatalk
    cd netatalk-2.0.3
    DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=ssl debuild
    dpkg -i ../netatalk*.deb
    [/bash]

    If you get an error message about keysigning (when building), this command may help:

    [bash]
    DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=ssl dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
    [/bash]

    http://www.blackmac.de/archives/58-Make-Netatalk-talk-to-Leopard-Mac-OS-X-10.5.html

  • Got IPv6 up and running at home

    Finally took the plunge and got IPv6 working at home. Thanks to the folks at http://www.tunnelbroker.net/ for the free 6to4 tunnel!