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How to install M/Monit – Monit

monit is a free, open source process supervision tool for Unix and Linux. With monit, system status can be viewed directly from the command line, or via the native HTTP(S) web server. M/Monit, a purchased software distributed by the creators of monit (Tildeslash LTD) expands upon the capabilities of monit, providing multi-host monitoring and analysis from within one web interface. What monit can do It can s ...

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Copying an image to the SD card in Mac OS X

Download the image Extract the image From the terminal run df -h Connect the SD card reader with the SD card inside Run df -h again and look for the new device that wasn't listed last time. Record the device name of the filesystem's partition, for example, /dev/disk1s1 Unmount the partition so that you will be allowed to overwrite the disk sudo diskutil unmount /dev/disk1s1 Using the device name of the part ...

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How to install MTR in mac

MTR is a useful command-line utility that combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool. Download source from ftp://ftp.bitwizard.nl/mtr/ Extract it:tar zxvf mtr-0.xx.tar.gz Now do the following cd /path/to/mtr-0.xx/ export LIBS='-lm -ltermcap -lresolv' ./configure make sudo make install Adding alias for the command mtr vim .profile alias mtr=/usr/loc ...

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Script to auto restart your Modem

If you want to restart your modem and need to automate this process like I needed to, here is a script that connect via telnet and reboot your modem. Modem type: THOMSON ST605 #!/usr/bin/expect -f set timeout 20 # router user name set name "Administrator" # router password set pass "PassWord" # router IP address set routerip "X.X.X.X" # Read command as arg to this script #set routercmd [lindex $argv 0] set ...

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Recommended IT tools

Here's a list of tools I recommend Wireshark Wireshark is a free and open-source packet analyzer. It is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol development, and education. Available here for Windows and OSX operating system. Public IP If you are under a GUI operating system you can use your favorite internet browser and go to : http://whatismyip.com/ to discover your ...

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