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post that have to do about my work, which means Networks and Communications

Ansible playbooks for Nagios Installation on Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS / 20.04 LTS

Posted on May 17, 2020May 21, 2020

Hello all, this is @mythryll , I hope everyone is staying safe! This is going to be a long one, so strap in and enjoy the ride (hopefully)! A little back story A few years back I had started a conversation with the great Michael Friedrich who was at the time working at Icinga (I…

Monitor VPN Users on Check Point Firewall with the help of Netmiko and Python, InfluxDB and Grafana

Posted on April 21, 2020April 26, 2020

Preface This post describes how I got to create Python scripts in order to graph the VPN user count on Check Point GAIA Gateways to Grafana, using InfluxDB as Time Series Database to store the data. The process had several byproducts, such as Python scripts for reading and writing data to CSV files, creating and…

Migrating from MRTG/RRD/CGI to Grafana/InfluxDB/Telegraf on Docker containers for Enterprise Network Performance Monitoring with SNMP – Part 2

Posted on January 19, 2020January 19, 2020

In the previous episode… In the previous part of this series of posts, I described how it came to be that our SNMP monitoring infrastructure based on MRTG/RRD/CGI had reached the end of its days and how I decided to use Grafana with InfluxDB and Telegraf to replace it. The last post stopped right before…

Migrating from MRTG/RRD/CGI to Grafana/InfluxDB/Telegraf on Docker containers for Enterprise Network Performance Monitoring with SNMP – Part 1

Posted on December 11, 2019January 19, 2020

(if you are looking for part2, it’s here) Introduction I like reading guides, not writing them (it takes too long for me). So this isn’t a guide, it’s more like an adventure tale, it’s a “I got out one day for a stroll and look what happened!”. I had no knowledge of Grafana, InfluxDB, Telegraf…

Using netmiko with NTC-Templates to gather data into for DC migration – Produce cisco configuration commands from Excel file

Posted on April 22, 2019April 22, 2019

One month ago, we were migrating our DC core from older Cisco Catalyst models to Nexus models in 2 different DCs, connected over WDM, a longtime plan to provide a better foundation for networking services in our environment (+OTV, MacSec, etc). One of the plan’s main ideas was to separate user and DC networks and…

Blog maintenance

Posted on August 27, 2018December 26, 2020

I was forced to update my blog and delete a few old posts as I am preparing to post some work related (IT) material in twitter pointing here.Most deleted posts concern old work interests and World of Warcraft links.The material to be posted will be about Nagios, Ansible, Python, and Automation in general.

Copy & Paste with vim

Posted on December 1, 2012December 1, 2012

These are the sources: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4620672/copy-and-paste-content-from-one-file-to-another-file-in-viĀ  http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Cut/copy_and_paste_using_visual_selection http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/219/copy-and-paste-text-with-vi-or-vim/ Since you already know how to cut/yank text, here are a few ideas for pasting it back into another file: Edit the first file, yanking the text you want. Then open your second file from within vi (:e /path/to/other/file) and paste it Open both files together in a…

vim search and replace commands

Posted on December 1, 2012

If you want to match something at the end of the line you need to use the $ character at the end of the string pattern. The following are taken from : http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/8255-vim-tips-the-basics-of-search-and-replaceĀ  Let’s start by looking at searches and doing search and replace operations within Vim. You can do a search in normal mode…

nagios sms

Posted on February 13, 2012February 13, 2012

I am trying to find a way to send sms messages whenever an alert is generated in a nagios monitoring system. The links below contain material that can lead to a solution. Implementation links: http://www.lecentre.net/blog/archives/985 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZIB8OAVBtY http://www.sms-integration.com/p_110-nagios-sms.html http://matt.bottrell.com.au/archives/205-Nagios-2-way-alerting-via-SMS-Part-2.html SMS Gateways links for Greece: http://www.clickatell.com/products/sms_gateway.php?cid=31683 http://www.smsn.gr/index.php?mm=home http://www.smsgateway.gr/ The first one seems promising as it can provide…

SSH Tutorial for Linux

Posted on May 4, 2011May 4, 2011

http://support.suso.com/supki/SSH_Tutorial_for_Linux This is a comprehensive tutorial for SSH. I found that link over here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/suse-novell-60/how-to-enable-ssh-service-on-suse-10-a-417735/ The second one contains some mistakes since it is an old post. Have fun with SSH!

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