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Nagios – Notify via Prowl

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

If your not familiar with Prowl, then check it out. It allows your growl notifications to be sent to your iPhone via push. I use this in several different ways on my home computer to notifications when I'm out at about. You can also access the prowl service directly with ...

Nagios – Notify via Growl

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

There are several different ways to get notified by nagios when there is a problem. The most common way is via email. This is usally just fine, except when the service that goes down is the mailserver. There are ways to mitigate this of course. One simple was is to get ...

Checking the snort process from nagios

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

I'm checking the snort basically like i'm checking most processes, if you've been following allong then you'll already have a check_procs setup. So I simply edit my localhost.cfg and add: define service{ use ...

My BASE (for Snort) Install Notes for OSX

Monday, January 4th, 2010

To get base up and going with snort already installed I did the following. 1. Downlaod ADOdb (database abstraction library for PHP) : http://sourceforge.net/projects/adodb/files/ The version I got was adodb510.tgz 2. Unzip and untar the file tar -xvzf adodb510.tgz 3. Move the folder I did: cp -R adodb5/ /Library/WebServer/Documents/adodb5/ 4. Download base: http://sourceforge.net/projects/secureideas/ The version ...

My Snort on OSX Install Notes

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

1 Download Snort2 Download pcre 3 Untar pcre 4 Cd to pcre 5 ./configure make make install (NOTE: Install prefix .................. : /usr/local) 6 Untar Snort 7 CD to snort 8 ./configure -enable-dynamicplugin --with-mysql --with-mysql-includes=/opt/local/include/mysql5/ --with-mysql-libraries=/opt/local/lib/mysql5/mysql/ 9 make 10 sudo make install /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 './snort.8' '/usr/local/man/man8/snort.8' test -z "/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig" || /bin/sh ./mkinstalldirs "/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig" /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'snort.pc' '/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/snort.pc' 11. Get the ...