Gone are the days of tedious console only configuration of Nagios. While it’s an excellent system monitoring tool, it can be a little daunting to configure and setup. Not to mention editing 5 or 6 configuration files when adding one host. In April 2008, Nagios Administrator was released, which promises to deliver an easy to [...]
You may have some difficulty with Ubuntu Server and VMWare Tools. Here’s how we got it working in the end: start vm # sudo mount /cdrom # cd /cdrom # cp *.tgz /tmp # cd /tmp # apt-get install build-essentials # apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` # tar xzvf vmtools<yourversion.tgz> # cd vmtools<yourver> # perl vmware-install.pl [...]
If you’re running debian or ubuntu, your ssh keys are vulnerable. Follow these steps to regenerate them and secure your box back up. apt-get update apt-get upgrade cd /etc/ssh/ rm ssh_host_dsa_key rm ssh_host_dsa_key.pub rm ssh_host_rsa_key rm ssh_host_rsa_key.pub ssh-keygen -t dsa (filename as /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key) ssh-keygen -t rsa (filename as /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key) /etc/init.d/ssh restart
