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Parsing Nagios4 status.dat to JSON
Background I have a django app that shows host links to internal employees, wanted to grab status from Nagios without having to go to a bunch of trouble screen scraping. Found this quick script from Alex Wright, and modified it to work where I can call it from a Django function, then I just loop through my models and match the json object to the model.
Steps to deploy Upload file: status2json.
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Cisco IOS to Azure Tunnel within a VRF
Or how I pretty much memorized IPSec tunneling
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Email move was simple
Moving email off of a private server to fastmail was pretty easy.
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Email, Privacy, and You
Thinking about moving email off to a private server.
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iSCSI Target Server Choices
Building a custom iSCSI target server based on Debian Linux. Will it work?
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Servers: No country for old men
It’s amazing how long Linux server can run if you don’t patch them.
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Wow!! Ten Years of Blogging!
By Michael Palmer
| Aug 5, 2013
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#blogging
| 1 min read
Okay .. So I know I’m the worst blogger ever…. But it’s been up 10 years! March 2013 was 10 years of blogging! Holy crap. Maybe I should write more, it seems like six months between posts!
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LeatherCraft 1539 18 Multi-Compartment Tool Carrier
Struggling with the right tools for the job.
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Kamailio - Changing the From URI for Level3
URI weirdness with Level3
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The Microsoft/Android war: Which patents are at stake?
Good article over at Network World about Patents Microsoft has claimed to hold. I’ve blogged about the silliness of patents like this in the past. People at the patent offices must be not tech savvy. I would NEVER have let such vague patents be allowed through.
Check some of them out: The Microsoft/Android war: Which patents are at stake?