Archive for 'HOWTOS'

How to: Setup Nagios Center : NagCen

In the world of open source, when it comes to monitoring, Nagios is the most preferred choice. But managing multiple Nagios screens can be a daunting task. while looking for a simple solution i came across NagCen.

NagiosCenter is a centralized viewer to show data of several (more than one) Nagios server spreaded in different networks. It uses therefore a parser in python and also an PHP Mysql Web-fronted.

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Password-Less SSH Login

SSH is the most trusted protocol used in today’s world for remote logins and secure file transfers from one machine to another. There are three different ways of authetication when trying to login with SSH protocol:

  1. Password Based Authentication
  2. Key Based Authentication
  3. Host Based Authentication

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TechTip: Unlock More Space in Linux

In Linux, when you format a drive, then you don’t get 100% space, instead of that 5% space is already reserved for privileged processes by default. The main reason why this is done, is that in case your filesystem gets full, still the system processes continue to work properly. So, it’s not always so good idea to mess up with this space.

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Tech Tip : Sending Email from Command line

Everyone is not as lucky as having a full fletched email client like thunderbird or kmail to send mails. There is one unlucky group known as system administrators who have to send the mails either through the command line or a script running on the remote server. Also, apart from sending the emails, sometimes one needs to test or debug the email server which can’t be done by traditional email clients. If you are one of those system administrators and are scared, then you shouldn’t be, because this is where netcat comes to rescue.

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Configure Tata Photon Whiz On Ubuntu Linux

Tata indicom is offering unlimited surfing plus download at very affordable prices with their Tata Photon Whiz. Although it’s at compromised speeds but still, it is unlimited.
Configuring this card at windows is pretty much easy, as it is always with all other softwares. Within few clicks, your card will be working and you will be ready to browse net within sometime. but as always, configuring it on Ubuntu linux is not so easy but at the same time not so difficult too if you follow right steps. Below I will be explaining them.

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