Monitoring custom attributes via SNMP

There comes a time in every network admin’s career when management/developers/dbas need to monitor some obscure attribute on a particular server. Invariably, there is no pre-existing plugin in nagios to monitor this attribute. The solution of course is to write your own plugin to monitor this attribute. There are at least a couple of ways … Continue reading Monitoring custom attributes via SNMP

Dansguardian : lessons learned

To dis-allow users from connecting to a site via IP rather than URL name (so bypassing filtering unless you use the time consuming forward / reverse lookup feature), uncomment the following line in the bannedsitelist: *ip To enable syslog, the default dansguardian.conf uses: # Syslog logging # # Use syslog for access logging instead of … Continue reading Dansguardian : lessons learned