At a remote location, I have a number of machines to monitor but only one IP (dynamic on a residential connection). Most of my remote monitoring with Nagios uses check_by_ssh. Previously, I’d used one host for Nagios to SSH to, and then chained together another check_by_ssh to reach the …

So, here’s the “official” scoop on the new project that I’m planning/starting to work on. I’m calling it PHPsa for now, and it’s going to (hopefully) be an integrated dashboard/portal for SysAdmins. While there are a number of tools that fit into this general …

So it’s been a very busy day. I was up until 5 AM or so working on implementing Puppet at home. I’m building two new boxes - a storage (centralized home directory)/syslog (to MySQL) server and a second web server (possibly also to handle Nagios) - and I decided …

I know I’ve been quite for a while. I’ve been quite busy. Unfortunately, due to changing priorities, there are a lot of projects I’ve been working on, but few of them have gotten finished. A sampling, in no specific order:

• Migrating my network/service monitoring to Nagios …

I’ve been working on the design of a town council campaign site for a friend - www.mikennick08.com. It’s hosted by an additional Apache vhost on my personal server (and running off of port 10015 - ugh). I setup Webalizer for him, so I figured I’d give my …