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What is NAT (Network Address Translation)?

Network Address Translation (NAT) is an IETF standard that enables a local area network (LAN) to use one set of IP addresses for internal traffic and a second set of...

What is a loopback address?

This IP address corresponds to the software loopback interface of the network card, which does not have hardware associated with it, and does not require a physical connection to a...

Private Address Space

Private Address Space</p>    The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved the   following three blocks of the IP address space for private internets:      10.0.0.0       ...

Inbuild FTP tool in browser

There are many inbuild FTP tools in Firefox browser, the one common tool is FireFTP. If you need to use the same then follow the below steps :</p> a) Open...

The DVD/CD-ROM drive is not able to be seen in windows explorer

The DVD/CD-ROM drive is not able to be seen in windows explorer. In the device manager, the DVD/CD-ROM drives appear with exclamation mark.(Note : for back up Import all registry...

99 Commands the Windows XP Command prompt can run.

Here is a list of commands that you can run off from the Run Command prompt inXP:</p> Application = CommandAccessibility Controls = access.cplAdd Hardware Wizard = hdwwiz.cplAdd/Remove Programs = appwiz.cplAdministrative...

If the desktop is blank no task bar and icons ; the solution is here.

On the computer it's not showing the task bar and icons on the desktop, the wallpaper is there the desktop is blank.steps to recover it,</p> 1. Ctrl + Alt +...

Windows Tips

Start/Run/GPEDIT/User restrictions. These things can only be changed from Admin accounts and apply to all user profiles. GPEDIT.MSC is not available in the Home Edition of Windows XP. </p> 1....

Installig perl modules

There are several ways to get Perl modules from CPAN installed on your unix-based system.</p> Before embarking upon any installation, it's a good idea to download the module, unzip it...

Problem installing GD

perl -MCPAN -e 'install GD' fails with error </p> This issue is resolved and here's the summary of what I found in order to resolve the issue in hopes it...

PHP configuration review

often to check the PHP configuration setting it is said that review the file php.ino in browser.However you can check the configuration in command line using php -i option.</p> e.g....

tomcat vs. resin

A very good comparison for these two servers is available at </p> http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t138283-tomcat-vs-resin.html</div>

VBA Macro to send email with attachment as per the recepient list in excel sheet

1) Open New Excel sheet and mention user Name , Email ID & Score/Report in sequential cells in second row as first will cover their titles 2) copy and paste...

Nagios with Webinject

Install all Perl packages. Quote Install "XML::Simple"Install "Crypt::SSLeay"Install "Error" pacakge Install WebInject Quote wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/webinject/webinject-1.41.src.tar.gz ownership change the ownership of web-inject folder Quote sudo chown nagios:nagios webinject Setup test cases...

Finding Stocks the Warren Buffett Way by John Bajkowski

Like most successful stock pickers, Warren Buffett thinks that the efficient market theory is absolute rubbish. Buffett has backed up his beliefs with a successful track record through Berkshire Hathaway,...

PUPPET on EC2

PUPPET on Amazon EC2 (UBUNTU Machines)</p> Introduction:Puppet is a system for automating system administration tasks. In the Puppet world, you define a policy (called a manifest) that describes the end...

Monitoring Hosted website using local nagios instance

Hi, recently I am trying to monitor the status of my hosted web page using a local nagios instance.I used nagios check_http plugin for this.</p> 1) Create a new command...

Installing Nagios and Munin

Login to Nagios server (where you want to install Nagios Server)</p> *************************************Apache Instalation sudo apt-get install apache2 sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 sudo apt-get install build-essential sudo apt-get install libgd2-xpm-dev ****************************************...

Nagios-Installation

Nagios is an open source host, service and network monitoring program. It is designed to run under Linux, although it should work under most other *NIX variants. It can run...

The Munin graphs are not updating any more

You probably used --force-root with one of the munin programs. You really shouldn't have done that. Now fix the ownership of the .rrd files and of the .png and .html...

NRPE plug in resulting wrong output.

Hi I am facing a weird issue. </p> I have installed NAGIOS and using NRPE plugin for remote host monitoring. I have written a small script to check log files...