Cloudkick which is part of RackSpace provides Agent based monitoring for external servers and cloud servers. Other than monitoring computer resources such as CPU, memory, HDD utilization. It is able to cater for customed check which is known as customed plugin. In other words, Cloudkick offers limitless way of administrator to monitor their IT assets as host level which is limited to the operating systems shell scripting support as well as limited to the creativity of the scripters.
Automating ossec installation in linux
One of the challenges that I have faced in linux environment were to automate installation.
Of course it is simple to script using bash in linux to run rpm or deb binary installation.
What if the installation comes with an interactive installation or installer which is coded as a bash script. Yes, I am looking at you OSSEC . Continue reading
it-idiot.einsamsoldat.net is now known as it-idiot.net
A brief announcement for my visitors. From this post onwards, I have change the domain to it-idiot.net for better accessibility.
Generating RSA key using Linux or Ubuntu
For linux or ubuntu user who is lazy to login to remote by typing password or plainly to improve security measure. You may generate a RSA key type to authenticate the login process. Generating the RSA key is the very first step.
rsync using ssh which is using customed port
Rsync is a common command that users and administrator alike uses it to synchronize files. The closest function that Microsoft uses is xcopy .