These days I’m working with a small script written in Perl to send log files to a remote syslog server. The motivation to develop this script was principally to learning more about Perl and the needed to send log files
Monitoring system log files with Swatch
Swatch is a software to monitor our log files, and do an action for some events. It’s an efficient way to monitor our system events like attempts to connect to our server, when systems crash or for example when a
syslog centralized logging
Syslog is a standard in computer networks for the register of messages provided by different technologies. It is used for the debugging messages generated by applications, security auditing or other relevant information that we need to know about our systems
Monitoring DNS queries with bindgraph
Bindgraph is a tool that allow us see the number of DNS queries of a graphical way, taking the result of the queries resolved by our DNS server registered in a log file. For this, We’ve to configure logging for
Configuring Nagios (Part II)
Nagvis is an Addon for nagios that allow create our own maps with the nagios information services. The classical method to collect services data from Nagios is reading the file status.dat, this file is updated every 10 seconds by default
Configuring Nagios (Part I)
Nagios is a popular system monitor that offers monitoring and alerting servers, applications, services, network devices… It’s very modular and multiplatform, because the core of nagios is the processor of the output of the plugins that can be developed in
Install and configure cacti
Is very important have a good tool to monitor our devices in a networking. Cacti do this and very well. Cacti offers graphs using rrdtool to monitor the load average, ping latency, disk space and other relevant information over SNMP