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How to set up Zabbix to send push notifications to your iPhone

December 8th, 2010 | iPhone, Linux, Tech | Max Sanna

If you already use Zabbix, you probably love the way it handles management, monitoring and charting like no other solution out there. Since I started using it I got rid of so many old tools, such as Nagios, Cacti, Munin, etc. and I do everything from my Zabbix interface.

A cool thing you can do to get important notifications the “2010 way”, though, is to get rid of expensive SMS services and use your iPhone to get nifty push notifications sent to it in case of problems. And here’s how to do it.
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How to use Winbind to authenticate against AD on RHEL/CentOS 5.x (Automated scripts)

July 28th, 2010 | Linux | Max Sanna

CAN HAS EASIR AD LOGIN PLZ?

In this short blog post we’ll provide an easy and quick way to automate the binding to Active Directory of a RHEL/CentOS box, while restricting the login only to certain Active Directory groups.

If you ever had to do this before you’ll know it involves quite a large number of steps and it’s very prone to configuration errors that may even lock you out from the server.

The process is divided in two parts, the first script installs the necessary components, sets up NTP, and a few hosts entries, then it will give you instructions on how to use the GUI authconfig-tui.


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