Zenoss Plugins now support OpenBSD
Zenoss is a great open source system monitoring tool. I usually configure it to get data using SNMP. However, I have a few remote OpenBSD boxes that I want to keep an eye on, and I am not going to expose SNMP to the universe. Zenoss has a cool thing called Zenoss Plugins which let your collector SSH into a machine and get basic statistics. The current version of Zenoss Plugins (2.0.4) does not have support for OpenBSD.
Here’s how you add it:
Installing Bespin on Kubuntu 8.10
I have I have had Kubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) on one of my machines for a month or so. I really miss baghira, which makes linux look at much like OSX as linux can look. Alas, there will be no baghira for QT4. I thought I’d try out cloudcity (or bespin, I can’t figure out what the real name is), written by the same guy who wrote baghira. It’s not an OSX clone (boo), it’s still early code, and you’ll have to compile your own, but it’s not hard. Here’s what I did: