Creating a custom Nagios/Centreon passive alerter
Scenario: This is very probably a familiar problem that any sysadmin must solve: Using your monitoring setup to receive alerts from other servers. Note the highlighted "receive". This is different from...
View ArticleBash scripting: another use for “DD”
For most linux users, “dd” is mostly used when dealing with disk issues, such as copying one disk to another (byte for byte) creating an ISO from a CD/DVD, and so on. I personally didnt know what else...
View ArticleNugget Post : Beyond basic SED
Interesting problem to solve with sed. Given the following file: [firstCompany-1-restricted-internal] exten => _1XX,1,Goto,(from-internal,${EXTEN},1) exten =>...
View ArticleLinux script for automatic notification of failed download
Scenario: We need a CentOS machine to periodically automatically download a file from a remote server on the internet. If this download fails for any reason, the network admin should be emailed to...
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