So at work we have a couple of Ubuntu 14.04 computers that are setup in kiosk mode (setup process here) that are available for the public to use.  We have them locked down so they can only access a handful of sites.  On our web site you are able to watch live stream or archive…

1. Go to: https://library.nagios.com/library/products/nagiosxi/documentation/268-installing-the-xi-linux-agent 2. Download the latest linux nrpe agent. 3. Extract the agent using: tar xzvf linux-nrpe-agent.tar.gz 4. CD to linux-nrpe-agent 5. Type: ./fullinstall 6. Provide the IP address of your Nagios server. 7. Add the server to Nagios.

There have time that we want to test file transfer speeds across our network.  The problem is we need to use a known file size to make sure we can use the same size data in each test. On Linux and Mac systems you can use the following commands: 300MB file (random data):  dd if=/dev/urandom…

So at work we have a couple of computer setup in a public area that can be used to access our web site.  In the past we have used Windows XP and locked them down.  However, with support for XP coming to an end we needed to come up with another solution.  I wanted to…