You can easily test a a website availability from the Linux command line and get the status codes from the web-server using commands like TELNET or CURL. Check a website availability with CURL Execute the following command to check whether a web site is up, and what status message the web server is showing: $ […]
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Installing the OCS Inventory Agent 1.x on CentOS/RHEL
Open Computer and Software Inventory (OCS-Inventory) – is a free software that enables users to inventory their IT assets. OCS collects information about the hardware and software of networked machines running the OCS client program (“OCS Inventory Agent”). This guide describes how to install OCS-Inventory Client (ocsinventory-agent) Series 1.x on CentOS/RHEL. Adding EPEL Repository There […]
Installing the Check_MK Agent on CentOS/RHEL — Manual Install
Step 1: Download and uncompress the latest version of check_mk agent. The check_mk agent for Linux consists of only two files: a shell script called ‘check_mk_agent.linux’ and a configuration file for ‘xinetd.conf’. They both can be found in the downloaded archive. Example: # cd /tmp # wget http://mathias-kettner.de/download/check_mk-1.1.12p7.tar.gz # tar -xvzf check_mk-1.1.12p7.tar.gz Step 2: Installing […]