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1-click installs for Nagios Addons & plugins in openSUSE 11.0

Posted by admin on 10th August 2009

I’ve compiled here a list of 1-click installs for various Nagios plugins and adddons. These are quite useful and some especially server monitoring applications like OpenQRM and sensors.

If you find anything that can be added to the list then please post a comment and I’ll add it to the list.

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iftop to monitor traffic/bandwidth in SUSE/openSUSE

Posted by admin on 5th August 2009

iftop is yet another free opensource tool to measure bandwidth utilization on the network interfaces on your systems or servers. As the name predicts, iftop is what “top” utility is for CPU usage measurement.

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openSUSE 11.2 Milestone is released for testing

Posted by admin on 27th July 2009

openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 4 is out for download and testing today. With significant changes from Milestone 3, this is not still production or stable usage standrad but testers and openSUSE enthusiasts should be able to have a go at this new kid on the block.

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Posted in openSUSE 11.2 | 3 Comments »

abby GUI & addons utilities for Clive/CClive

Posted by admin on 23rd June 2009

Clive is a command line utility for extracting videos from Youtube and other video sharing Web sites. Click here to see how to install and configure in openSUSE.

There is also a cutdown version of Clive, CClive which has a smaller footprint and fewer dependencies. The feature stripped off Clive to create CClive are paste, background, emit-xml, progress type and Cache.

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Posted in Internet & Browser, multimedia | 1 Comment »

NagStamon – Nagios status monitor for KDE GNOME

Posted by admin on 22nd June 2009

Nagstamon is a Nagios status monitor sits in the systray or on desktop as floating statusbar to inform you in realtime about the status of your Nagios monitored network. It works best with GNOME but also with KDE and in Windows.

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