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Setup Nagios User to View Specific Host and Services

May 14th, 2009 · No Comments

This guide will help you setup Nagios user to have limited access to host and service checks. It is helpful when you want to allow your customers or clients to view and receive alerts on their servers and services, like for dedicated servers.
Procedure:
Contacts: Create new contact definitions for your client.
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Tags: HowTo · Nagios · Tips and Tricks · monitoring

umask ‘ing apache under cPanel

May 14th, 2009 · No Comments

Ran into an issue today where a php created file was unreadable by other users or services that run under a different user. Since this is a software originated issue the sysadmin would love for the developer to change the code to include the chmod() php function to set permission to 644 after [...]

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Tags: Security · cpanel · hosting · sysadmin

us-to-invade-asia-over-google-traffic-snafoo

May 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Google slowdown causes blogger hysteria
Official Google Blog: This is your pilot speaking. Now, about that holding pattern…
Ok, so I checked out my RSS feeds and went over to google blog to see what the hoopla was about today after slowdown. Yes, I had pings from folks asking me if google was down for [...]

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Tags: Down Time