Monthly Archive for February, 2012

Icinga/Nagios: Check Windows Updates

Another really helpful check for your Icinga or Nagios instance.

If your have any windows machines you can check the Windows Update-State. How many Updates you need to install and if you need to reboot your servers after updating them. Continue reading ‘Icinga/Nagios: Check Windows Updates’

Icinga/Nagios: Windows monitoring

Another alternative way to monitor Windows machines with NSC-Client, you need only one time access to the Windows-Box and install the client and configure it.

All other monitoring steps can be performed from the monitoring instances like Icinga or Nagios.

Q: What can be monitored? Continue reading ‘Icinga/Nagios: Windows monitoring’

Mutt: bouncing messages


Situation: you need to bounce some messages from one user to another or to a mailing list.
Criteria: the sender should be real and without changes on the message

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aptitude install mutt

…if not installed.

Open your Maildir with mutt:

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mutt -f /home/info/Maildir/

Tag messages with: t

Bounce tagged messages with: ;b
Now enter a address of recipient and accept the bounce process with yes