Thanks to Ray who pointed out a problem with the script under PHP5, the download of the plugin now includes a version that functions under PHP5, it can be found on this site here.
In our environment we use Barracuda Spam Firewalls to handle in and outbound mail delivery. Wanting to keep an eye on the in and outbound queues to make sure we are not seeing any delays with delivery I went looking for ways to monitor the queues and alert when they are above certain thresholds. Barracuda [...]
We have looked for how to monitor user sessions on our Contivity Switches for some time and couldn’t find an easy way to do so. Ultimately I wrote a small script to collect the information and return it for graphing in Cacti. To get this setup, use the script below along with the instructions on [...]
Nagios (http://www.nagios.org) is a great network monitoring tool. Cacti (http://www.cacti.net) is a great network graphing tool. Perfparse (http://perfparse.sourceforge.net/ is a great add-on to Nagios that collects host performance data as part of the Nagios check command. Perfparse is great at collecting performance data when you are running Nagios client software, but short of doing a [...]