| Linux – TCP listener daemon with tcpserver |
To configure passive checks in Nagios/icinga I use a tcp listener daemon that launches a script (See Nagios – Using passive checks without agent)
Tried to use inetd superserver daemon, but in the last versions, i have not been able to make it work correctly (See last update in my post: Linux – cannot found / missing inetd.conf)… Read more
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| Linux – cannot found / missing inetd.conf |
Trying to configure a new inetd service needed for my Icinga (see Linux – Create custom inetd service), but i have not been able to find the inetd.conf file.
It seems inetd is not installed by default in the last Debian versions (mine is 9 – stretch).
Luckily, it is packetized in the inetutils-inetd
# apt-get install inetutils-inetd|
| Linux – Create multiboot CD combining multiple ISO images |
This post shows the steps to create a multiboot cd with multiple Linux distributions or tools.
For example, I created a recovery / disaster case cd with the following tools:
– Clonezilla (to clone/recover disks and partitions)
– Gparted (partition editior with GUI)
– Trinity Rescue Kit (linux distribution for recovery and repair operations on Windows machines)
| Rasbperry – NO-IP configuration to be ran at boot time |
If you need to update automatically a DNS entry with your public IP address (for example, to allow remote access to your home Raspberry or Linux), you can use the no-ip provider and its Linux or Raspberry client.
This posts shows the way to install the client and how to configure it to be started at boot time.
| Security – Convert PFX to PEM using Windows or Linux |
For certain application, a job partner asked me to send him certain certificate with private key in PEM format. Normally I’m using PFX format, but with a little help of the openssl toolkit converting PFX to PEM is quite easy.
openssl for windows can be downloaded here: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/openssl.htm
After extracting the contents, inside the bin subfolder the openssl … Read more
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| Linux – Running top command remotely (SSH) |
Maybe you have tried to execute the top command to monitor processes on a remote host.
If so, the following error can be returned:
$ ssh user@remotehost top -n1
TERM environment variable not set.
top does not work remotely in the default “interactive” mode. Use the “-b” parameter to run it in … Read more
| Icinga – Installation / Setup on Debian Linux (2) |
The second of my post series to show the installation and setup of the Icinga monitoring tool. This one covers the installation of the Icinga 2 Web frontend.
Please, if havent done before, visit the first post Icinga – Installation / Setup on Debian Linux (1) which covers the installation of the Icinga core engine.
These are the steps i … Read more
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| Icinga – Installation / Setup on Debian Linux (1) |
As you can see in previous posts…, Im in love with Nagios to monitor my systems… after creating some powerful, customized plugins for my Checkpoint firewalls, Exchange servers… cannot live with it… but maybe, it's "a bit" old fashioned and I have decided to try the Icinga monitoring tool. If it fits my environment, I'll have to replace my old … Read more
| Ironport – Automate commands / scripts from Linux |
In a previous post (Linux: SSH connection without password (RSA public-key) I showed the way to configure a non-interactive SSH connection from-to a Linux system.
If the target system is a Ironport ESA device, the configuration is almost the same (generation of the key pair and configuration of the private one). But to install the new public key on … Read more
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| Linux – Create custom inetd service |
The inetd (also known as superserver) is a daemon that provides (commonly on Linux and Unix systems) internet services. The configuration file inetd.conf contains the list of the offered services by the daemon. The clients connect to certain port and inetd launches the corresponding program to process the connection.
This example shows how to setup a service that executes remote … Read more
