Monit and NetReg at CPLUG
Tonight’s CPLUG meeting topics were Monit and NetReg.
I did the Monit talk and, as far as I could tell, it went pretty well. People seemed to be fairly interested and there were some really good questions/discussion afterward. If you are interested, my presentation slides for my talk are online.
Jason Long covered NetReg which is basically a set of Perl scripts that coordinate your DHCP server with Apache to create a captive portal. Really interesting stuff.
Overall, it was a good meeting.
Update: One of this issues brought up was how to monitor Monit (i.e quis custodiet ipsos custodes?). Jason suggested running Monit from inittab/inetd, which seemed like a decent idea… and one that I was pretty sure I had seen mentioned before. As it turns out, that issue is covered in the Monit FAQ under Question 7.
March 14th, 2007 at 11:59 am
Monitoring monit…TOO FAR!
March 14th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
There was some discussion of running multiple Monit instances on multiple boxes all set to monitor each other via their frontend HTTP interfaces. Crazy! :)
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:06 am
[...] At the last CPLUG meeting, Patrick mentioned that he was hoping to plan a capture the flag (CTF) event sometime in the near future. Although this time there will be no DoS attacks allowed and there will only be one target box, so you shouldn’t have to worry about player vs. player attacks… hopefully. :) [...]