Linux, programming and more
After I wrote the posts about your own digital temperature sensor and Nagios/Icinga Traffic-Light its time to combine the two ideas and bring some lights to switch.
We have two working independent components, with a plugin is it possible to get the sensor status. If your temperature is higher then normal you should get a signal (Warning or Critical).
Define the new check command, with name and a plugin with some arguments:
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Nagios and Icinga have a lot of notification opportunities, receive status via Mail, SMS, Twitter or maybe XMPP? Sometimes is it not easy to decide what you really need and what is better for your quick reaction.
If you have more than one monitor it is easy to overlook an important mail, or your mobile phone is in silent mode and you don’t know that you get a critical notification.
If you are a webmaster and you are working a lot with your browser – there is a solution for Mozilla Firefox with terrible wake up sounds – called Nagios Checker for Mozilla Firefox:
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Create a own weather station or temperature monitoring using a tiny digital temperature sensor.
I use this setup to monitor a server room, and outdoor temperature and as a weather station.
This project consists of interface between RS-232F and the Dallas one Wire system.
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Example, you want to debug a connection from a client(192.168.110.20) to the internet (google – 8.8.8.8).
From your client you start a continuous ping to 8.8.8.8, now you are able to debug the traffic on your juniper device.
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GNU Midnight Commander is a visual file manager, licensed under GNU General Public License and therefore qualifies as Free Software. It’s a feature rich full-screen text mode application that allows you to copy, move and delete files and whole directory trees, search for files and run commands in the sub-shell. Internal viewer and editor are included.
No cp and mv more.
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