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Posts Tagged ‘monitoring’

Nebri Automation for Weather Feed to Twitter

The season was intermittently rainy or dry as I began to take interest in weather. After getting stuck with “If-this-than-that” (IFTTT) for multiple location feeds of weather, I found out that I wasn’t alone, a geek hit the same wall, yet bringing another automation forgery: Nebri OS, an event-driven development platform based-on writing rules in [...]

Get Commuter Train Trouble Alert Delivered to Watch by IFTTT

Imagine getting alerts of Commuter Line train service disruption right on your wrist! Well, the watch thing isn’t a must as any SMS-enabled phone will do. But without the watch, I won’t be introduced to “If-this-than-that” (IFTTT), a simple logic line that glues popular apps into trigger and action branded as recipes. Anyone can code [...]

SNMP: Mistake of Using Tabular OID in Practice

Recently, I retrieve rectifier-related SNMP data from Eltek’s Smartpack Controller. This one has the following rear type where we can connect to the ethernet plug (see the purple area). It is presumably in its default configuration and I can snmpwalk through its corporate specific OIDs (under 12148 tree) to find i.e. output voltage, current, battery [...]

Install Nagios 3 and Plugins

Quickstart I decided to install in RedHat 5.2. Maybe it is easier in Ubuntu (Nagios 3 already listed in the repository, but I haven’t tried it). As pointed out by the quickstart (it is meant for Fedora by the way), requirements are: php, httpd gcc, glibc, glibc-common gd, gd-devel After getting those, the configure-make-install procedure [...]