Now we all know when it comes to clustering its basically one up and the other down. So monitoring, say Exchange or SQL on the live or active one is just fine with all the disk checked and all the services are UP (while set … “Checking Windows Clusters / Cluster Resources Using Existing Check Plugins for Nagios”

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We made a small script that we use in our customer’s site to basically pull out the PNP generated graphs through the Nagios Action Items icon. This script will basically download the current report output into PDF and emails them out based on the configuration … “Nagios + PNP graphs PDF reports generator and emailer”

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We like and use the PortSIP SDK for our softphone development (yes Astiostech’s coming up with one real soon). I downloaded and tried their softphone for Windows, softphone for Windows Mobile version 5 and 6 and i found it absolutely touch (like HTC touchscreens) and … “free SIP phone for Windows mobile”

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Just wanted to quickly write this tip. When accessing FreePBX recordings or in any case, playing a QuickTime embedded video via a browser, the indication bar shows all black making it impossible to see the progress bar and what not. This is somehow a bug … “Black progress bar when playing recordings from FreePBX website(s)”

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Some of you may purchase a SIP service thus having a SIP extension given to you by your SIP provider. This is not the same as a SIP trunk where an “agreement” is made between two SIP servers. This is a typical SIP client which … “trunking as a SIP client on asterisk via freepbx”

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In this guide, we will setup a mirrored pair of a SATA disk straight from the Debian installer process. Go through all up to the stage of selecting Partition Disks. Select manual and follow the rest of this guide. 1) Create the initial partition by … “Debian software RAID made easy”

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Ever used soft phones that limit you to many many functions until you “unlock” them by purchasing a full version? Well, we all did and we too frown at those. Softphones such as Zoiper and X-Lite are amongst the famous ones but the lack functionalities … “choice: best SIP softphone for Windows”

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SNMPTT (SNMP Trap Translator) interacts with snmptrapd to receive traps and process them into Nagios by matching the IP of the trapping host to a host in Nagios and changing a passive check in Nagios to alert someone. In the below guide: [APC-UPS] –>send traps … “Nagios Receive SNMP Traps (with SNMPTT)”

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We hope this small guide can help you quickly setup your SNMP traps out to a remote management host. First thing do ensure that your Nagios box has the snmptrap binary and perhaps all other associated SNMP binaries installed. If you haven’t a good start … “Nagios Send SNMP Traps”

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If you get a mail from just about anyone requesting you to update certificates on your computer. D.O.N.T. The mail you get may look like this: On October 16, 2009 server upgrade will take place. Due to this the system may be offline for approximately … “Did someone ask you to update certificates? Well Don’t!”

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