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

My company is getting rid of Symantec Anti-virus. The final kick in the shins was the new software they brought out called “Symantec Endpoint Protection”. I’m not exactly sure what Symantec was thinking when they brought out this product, but the old Symantec Corporate Server was much easier to administer. The new product just seems to go out of your way to make itself difficult – from installing to reviewing… Continue reading

One of the greatest things in security of your web application is the encryption of the connection strings to the database. If the database connection strings are compromised, then an attacker could gain access to your database and cause unforeseen damage. In order to avoid this, Microsoft has created best practices and instruments for encrypting your connection strings in ASP.NET 2.0. This documentation may be found here. I wrote… Continue reading

The company I work for has many windows shares on the network, each one being used for a different department. They take up a lot of room as they have accumulated much stuff over the years, and also one of the shares is for housing users home directories. In order to better handle the space needs, we bought a new drive array that starts at 1 terabyte and can be… Continue reading