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Installing Nagios on Ubuntu 9.04

| Postat in Networking de admin July 13th, 2009 | 6 Comments | Posted in Networking by admin

Nagios is a good open-source tool for monitoring network components and services. Can be configured to send alerts by e-mail.

Since the new version (3) is geseste in repositories, installation is much easier now, using apt-get:

sudo apt-get install nagios3

Checking the installation:

nagios3 sudo-v nagios.cfg

Should look like this test:

Nagios 3.0.6
Copyright (c) 1999-2008 Ethan Galstad (http://www.nagios.org) More »

Installing and configuring Samba

| Postat in Linux de admin July 11th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Linux by admin

Samba is an open source software that allows UNIX-based operating systems to "see" the network with Windows PCs. Samba is actually the implementation of several protocols in one software able to communicate simultaneously with these protocols: SMB, TCP / IP, NetBIOS (protocol implemented in the Network Neighborhood in Windows), WINS and Active Directory (this should be set for Kerberos ).

First, to successfully set Samba to be the car that runs on Linux to have static IP. Otherwise, it will not be able to use WINS ...

Install Samba: