Musings of a technophile

First, you need to install the nagios-nrpe-server. There is a nagios-nrpe-plugin but that’s not what you need because that is just the plugin and you need this daemon (Linux equivalent of a Windows Service for all you Windows guys).

sudo apt-get install nagios-nrpe-server

next, we should check and make sure that the service is actually running. We can do this two ways
sudo ps -Al | grep nrpe… Continue reading

For quite some time I have been wanting the ability to connect to my home computer through RDP from work as occasionally there is some information I can use from my home computer. The problem is that I use dd-wrt on my home router, which doesn’t allow for one-to-one (1:1) nat’s at this time. I basically wanted the following rules

1. Open only the RDP port open and