Archive for the ‘Cacti’ Category
CactiEZ v0.7 – Update
As the completion of the latest version of CactiEZ nears, I figured I would give you all a sneak peak into what is coming.
May 6, 2011
· 
Jimmy · 
5 Comments
Posted in: Cacti, CactiEZ
CactiEZ – Centos 5
This past weekend I was feeling a bit under the weather, so I took some time off and rebuild my CactiEZ CD using CentOS 5. Here a few bullet points
December 7, 2009
· Jimmy · 12 Comments
Posted in: CactiEZ
ESXi 4.0 – Lessons Learned
I’m not sure how many people were paying attention on a Friday night / Saturday morning, but I decided to do the long put off upgrade to ESXi 4.0 (from an old CentOS 4 install running VMWare Server v1.0, yuck). While it wasn’t an extremely painful experience, I can say that I wish a few [...]
October 10, 2009
· Jimmy · 9 Comments
Posted in: Cacti
Webseer
So the new website monitoring plugin has a name, Webseer. Granted this certainly isn’t set in stone, and may change on a whim once it is done (Google shows me that Webseer is currently the same name as a image search engine). I just thought it was catchy and had a nice ring to it. [...]
March 23, 2009
· Jimmy · 6 Comments
Posted in: Plugins
Website Monitoring
One of the things I currently do is monitor my websites to ensure they are up. Using a simple script and template, I pull down the page and regex it for a specific string. If I find a match, I assume the page is working. No match, site must be down or returning an error. [...]
February 25, 2009
· Jimmy · One Comment
Posted in: Plugins