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…
LDAP powered by MySQL on RHEL5
Background We need a quick-and-dirty LDAP server with basically a list of usernames and passwords to point Cisco ACS gear at, in order to provide people with limited-time authentication tokens to a wireless network. I need to populate that with…
Synchronizing Hiveminder with Outlook
Whee. I finally did it, though it’s been on my list for a couple years. I wanted to use the sweet todo-ticketing goodness of Hiveminder.com, but my mesozoic Palm T|X handheld was holding me back, and I’ve got several reasons…
Compiling DBD::Oracle for Red Hat Linux with the Oracle Instant Client
From my work intrablog, Tuesday, April 29th, 2008. I tested today and the same patch is necessary. It’s annoying how much harder this is than the MySQL driver… Download these RPMs from Oracle’s Instant Client for Linux page:Instant Client Package…