Wednesday, June 30, 2004

root-tail on nautilus/kde/xfdesktop

I hacked root-tail to work with Nautilus, KDE, and hopefully XFCE4's xfdesktop. I took the toon_root.c file from xpenguins and :r'd it into root-tail.c. A few modifications later and I had a working root-tail for nautilus.

Download the tarball: root-tail-xpenguins.tar.gz or just root-tail.c. Here it is in HTML: root-tail.c.html.

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I wrote a couple SNMP plugins for Nagios to check disk space and running processes. They are now in the contrib directory in the Nagios Plugins package.
They both should work on Windows 2000 (and up) and Novell. HP-UX, unfortunately, does not ship with the Host-Resource MIB by default, so I'm using the Net-SNMP daemon at work. It's a little flakey, but gets the job done. SNMP Research provides an extended SNMP daemon for HP-UX and other operating systems that includes the host resource MIB.

I'm also author and maintainer of the Nagios::Object and Nagios::Cmd modules on CPAN.