Sending nagios / centreon notifications via IRC

Posted on by David Vassallo

Lately we needed to find a convenient method of notifying service desk operators of centreon notifications. Email was not a good option since operatives tended to simply delete the messages. Besides, we wantede something a bit more realtime. In the end, I decided on using IRC. I went with IRC rather than jabber due to … Continue reading Sending nagios / centreon notifications via IRC

Monitoring custom attributes via SNMP

Posted on by David Vassallo

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