How to install JavaScript tools for Nagios
Node Install Node on the Nagios machine (My Nagios XI VM running CentOS… for other platforms see nodejs.org) wget http://nodejs.tchol.org/repocfg/el/nodejs-stable-release.noarch.rpm sudo yum localinstall –nogpgcheck nodejs-stable-release.noarch.rpm sudo yum install nodejs-compat-symlinks npm rm nodejs-stable-release.noarch.rpm Install the “commander” package by TJ Holowaychuk for…
Integrating Nagios with Test Driven Development
A while back I realized something important: Monitoring tools are to the sysadmin what testing tools are to the developer. Recently I realized that there need to be more ways to bring both toolsets together. Here’s one, tying the Nagios…
Symfony log management with `logrotate` on Linux
It sucks when server disks fill up. I have Nagios set up to notify me well before it’s a problem, but it happens annoyingly frequently, and it’s always the same cause: log files. Symfony’s production environments don’t create logs, but…