I have just finished setting up some network management/monitoring systems for the Postshift office and thought I’d share some thoughts I had. Previously, I’ve used OpenNMS to monitor both network and server infrastructure, but it’s hard to ignore the fact that Nagios has become the de facto standard when looking at Open Source monitoring solutions. […]
Category: open source
New Cookbook: Watcher
I have finally managed to publish my first open source contribution: a Chef cookbook that installs and configures the Python Watcher daemon, written by Greggory Hernandez. The tool itself uses the Linux kernel inotify subsystem to catch file system events such file creation, deletion, etc. and perform an arbitrary action. The cookbook can be found […]