Virtual Box – bridging to a wireless NIC

Posted on by David Vassallo

Virtual Box is my virtualization system of choice at home. In previous versions (pre 3.1.4) I was able to bridge the virtual guest NIC to the hosts wireless NIC without problems. Once I installed v 3.1.4, I could still bridge but I noticed some wierd behavior. While I could ping internal hosts without problems, after … Continue reading Virtual Box – bridging to a wireless NIC

Adding LDAP support to Nagios

Posted on by David Vassallo

Quick note: I wanted to enable the check_ldap plugin in Nagios. You need to install the following package and recompile before you can use it: apt-get install libldap2-dev Quick example on how to use it: In the commands.cfg: define command{ command_name    check_ldap command_line    $USER1$/check_ldap -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -b dc=david,dc=org -3 -4 -D cn=nagios,cn=Users,dc=david,dc=org -P … Continue reading Adding LDAP support to Nagios