Category Archives: General

Remind Me: Adding SNMP mibs for querying

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Jeff Forman

I was having issues trying to get Nagios to more easily query my APC UPS with the APC-provided MIB. It took me a while to figure out the right bits both on the file system and in my query to … Continue reading →

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Howto: Git, hooks, Nagios, oh my.

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Jeff Forman

At work we have a monitoring configuration workflow where our Nagios config files are parsed and generated before they are allowed to be ‘svn commit’ed. I know this verification has saved me many times when trying to add new hosts … Continue reading →

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Network printing at home, over-engineered.

Posted on September 26, 2010 by Jeff Forman

Compared to most other home networks, mine is a bit more complicated. I admit networking has always been an interest of mine, so I run my own OpenBSD firewall/router/vpn-endpoint, which itself runs the ISC Dhcpd v3 and BIND. With these … Continue reading →

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Testing wp->twitter oath

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Jeff Forman

Is this new oAuth thing the apocalypse we all predicted?

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New and Shiny – Comcast IPv6

Posted on July 25, 2010 by Jeff Forman

A few months ago Comcast began publicizing their IPv6 trials for their customers. For those who don’t have a lot of spare time, IPv6 is the next addressing system for the Internet. Currently IPv4 is the predominant addressing system, akin … Continue reading →

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