Archive for October, 2008



Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!

Happy Turkey Day!!

Nagios Administrator Change Language Default to English instead of German

For any of you using Nagios Administrator, and you’re native English speakers, the fact that it always defaults to German may irk you. Here’s how to do it. Thanks to h-w on the Nagios Portal Forums. # cd /var/www/nagiosadmin # cd apps/backend/config/ # nano i18n.yml and change the default_culture: de to default_culture: en # cd [...]

Small Outage – Sorry about that!

Hello, Sorry to all our readers, we experienced a catastrophic failure over the weekend on one of our servers. It happened to be hosting this site We are back (thank goodness for anal backups eh?) and everything is running. Please let us know if you encounter any weirdness. Thanks for your understanding, and we are [...]

How to add a “Go To Nagios” button to nagios administrator

It’s easy, once you have nagiosadministrator installed, you’ll probably notice there’s no easy way to actually reach nagios. To add a quick button to the toolbar to do this, follow these steps:   1. SSH to server running nagios/nagiosadministrator 2. Go to your nagios administrator directory, ours is /var/www/nagiosadmin 3. Now, edit the menu file [...]