The upgrade process was pretty simple, and other than a few annoying items (having to deauthorize the computer in iTunes prior to the upgrade, and having to deinstall ATI drivers) it was mostly painless.  The upgrade did take several hours for me, as I do have a good amount of data (around 130GB).

I had to reinstall Roxio Easy Media Creator suite afterwards to get rid of an annoying messages about the Roxio Cine Player Media Decoder being missing.  Also, the screen seems odd.  The resolution setting is set the same as it was under Vista at 1440×900, but it looks like it has an odd aspect ratio.  I was hoping to install new ATI drivers, but it appears Gateway has NO drivers at all for Windows 7 yet (see screenshot below).

No Windows 7 Drivers

So far the upgrade has been fine other than the look of the screen.  New features are nice, I like the sticky and the fact that sleep mode works, peeking at the desktop, and the photo support for the desktop background and screensaver, but I like stability and reliability even better.  Time will tell if Windows 7 delivers, but so far so good.

The installation remains the same as the original version, and you can find the details here. Dioni’s version adds reporting of sound and video changes to the hardware script, and adds software change reporting (added or removed) via ocssoftware.php.

Don’t forget to change the email addresses in ocshardware.php and ocssoftware.php on lines 15,16 and 17.

Once you are done the related cron jobs are likely to look something like this:

10 * / 1 * * php * apache / usr / share / ocsinventory-reports / ocsreports / ocssoftware.php
10 * / 1 * * php * apache / usr / share / ocsinventory-reports / ocsreports / ocshardware.php

Update:  I got confirmation today (April 9th, 2009) that my endorsement and certification were approved.  So, I am now officially a CISSP!

Or click on this link to see the code within this post.

> check_cuda

#!/usr/bin/php -q
<?php
#
# check_cuda - nagios plugin
#
#
# Copyright (C) 2007 Mike Seigafuse
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.
#
# Report bugs to: mike@seigafuse.net
#
# This script will check counters of a Barracuda Spam Firewall using PHP SNMP functions
# and return them along with the status.
#
$numbparams = sizeof($argv);
# should be 5
if ($numbparams < 5 ) {
	echo "Usage: check_cuda <host ip> <community string> <queue> <warn> <crit>\\n";
	echo "     Queue can be either in, out or bounce\\n";
	echo "     Warning and Critical values should be positive integers\\n";
	exit;
}
$host = $argv[1];
$cstring = $argv[2];
$checkqueue = strtoupper($argv[3]);
$warn = $argv[4];
$crit = $argv[5];
 
$mailinqueue = "1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.8.1.101.1";
$mailoutqueue = "1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.8.1.101.2";
$mailbouncequeue = "1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.8.1.101.3";
 
function getsnmpvalue($host, $cstring, $oid) {
     $valuestring = snmpget($host, $cstring, $oid);
     $colpos = strpos($valuestring, ":");
     $subvalue = trim(substr($valuestring, $colpos+1));
     return $subvalue;
}
 
# Ready set go, time to do the real work
 
if ($checkqueue == "IN") {
	$queuelen = getsnmpvalue($host, $cstring, $mailinqueue);
} elseif ($checkqueue == "OUT") {
         $queuelen = getsnmpvalue($host, $cstring, $mailoutqueue);
} elseif ($checkqueue == "BOUNCE") {
         $queuelen = getsnmpvalue($host, $cstring, $mailbouncequeue);
}
if ($queuelen < $warn) {
	$format = '%s OK - %d messages queued |Mail%sQueue=%d;%d;%d';
	printf($format, $checkqueue, $queuelen, $checkqueue, $queuelen, $warn, $crit);
	exit(0);
}
if (($queuelen > $warn) && ($queuelen < $crit)) {
	$format = '%s Warning - %d messages queued |Mail%sQueue=%d;%d;%d';
	printf($format, $checkqueue, $queuelen, $checkqueue, $queuelen, $warn, $crit);
	exit(1);
}
if ($queuelen > $crit) {
	$format = '%s Critical - %d messages queued |Mail%sQueue=%d;%d;%d';
	printf($format, $checkqueue, $queuelen, $checkqueue, $queuelen, $warn, $crit);
	exit(2);
}
 
?>

Usage

Usage: check_cuda host-ip community-string queue warning-threshold critical-threshold

Queue can be either in, out or bounce
Warning and Critical values should be positive integers

Prerequisites

This plugin requires php_snmp support

Nagios Configuration

Commands

Define commands as shown below:

define command {
command_name Check Barracuda Inbound Mail Queue
command_line $USER1$/check_cuda $HOSTADDRESS$ public in 500 1000
}

define command {
command_name Check Barracuda Outbound Mail Queue
command_line $USER1$/check_cuda $HOSTADDRESS$ public out 500 1000
}

Obviously you will need to change the SNMP community string from public to match your community string. If you wish you could also add a check command to track the bounce queue. You may also want to use different warning and critical threshold than I did (500 and 1000 respectively). These numbers may not be right for your situation.

Contact Groups

Add a service group like the one below (customizing for your site of course):

# contactgroups Cuda Admins
define contactgroup {
contactgroup_name Cuda_Admins
alias Cuda_Admins
members joe,sally,fred
}

Service Templates

define service {
name Check Barracuda Mail Queue Template
use generic-service
contact_groups Cuda_Admins
register 0
}

Services

Add the service as needed to your hosts, sample shown below:

define service {
service_description Check Barracuda Inbound Mail Queue
use Check Barracuda Mail Queue Template
host_name yourcuda
check_command Check Barracuda Inbound Mail Queue
}

define service {
service_description Check Barracuda Outbound Mail Queue
use Check Barracuda Mail Queue Template
host_name yourcuda
check_command Check Barracuda Outbound Mail Queue
}

If you have any questions, comments or problems then just post a comment on this post and I’ll get back to you.

Update (January 2008)

There are now some additional plug-ins available to perform the same functions written in PERL and with hooks to graphing solutions. You can find them here.