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Installing Nagios Part 1

For the next series we will be discussing installing and configuring Nagios for monitoring. The series will include installing Nagios, plugins, agents and various custom monitors. Also, adding other features including graphing and performance charting. Nagios is a powerful monitoring tools used by many IT departments and has the support of the Open Source community. So let’s get started! Our choice for OS... read more

Installing Capistrano on Fedora 16

Recently there has been a need to deploy a package with customization to several hundred systems and we looked to use Capistrano to make the deployments. According to the site Capistrano is a developer tool for deploying web applications. It is typically installed on a workstation, and used to deploy code from your source code management (SCM) to one, or more servers. It can also be used for delivering... read more

Install BlueGriffon Web Editor on Fedora 16 x64

Just recently had the need to try out a new wysiwyg web editor and remember from years ago using NVU which is a simple graphical editor based on Netscape / Gecko engine. Development stop and was taken up by Kompozer which was stopped as well, but now has new life under BlueGriffon. BlueGriffon is a new WYSIWYG content editor for the World Wide Web. Powered by Gecko, the rendering engine of Firefox 4,... read more

Installing BackupPC

This post is how I was able to install BackupPC on my Ubuntu 10.04 server and backup Windows/Linux/Mac clients using rsync and ssh. Client Setup (Windows 7/Vista/XP) These instructions are written for Windows 7, Vista, or XP clients. For the SSH portion we will be using CopSSH which is a customized packaged version of the Cygwin openssh code. Rsyncd will be used as the communication for BackupPC to do... read more

Disable Guest Logins for Alfresco 3.4 Community Edition

Recently after installing Alfresco Community Edition 3.4.d found that guests could login by default to the site. Since the site was put up for documentation with restricted access, this was an issue, but only for a short time. Edit the <installation_directory>/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties file and add the line alfresco.authentication.allowGuestLogin=false and save the file.... read more

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