Last week I added some of my Nagios check scripts to my nagios-scripts GitHub repository. Perhaps they’ll be of some use to some other people…

• check_1wire_temps.php
  • quick and dirty, built for one specific application, but a good starting place for checking Dallas 1-wire temperatures via OWFS.
• check_802dot11.php …

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 …

In the theme of upgrades, I also purchased two APC SmartUPS1000 units from refurbUPS.com. Now, I know that a lot of people are perfectly happy with serial connectivity. And it has its positives. But I’m running 2-3 servers per UPS, older servers, wanted to be able to monitor …