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New version of ssl-cert-check
I received a nifty patch from Ken Gallo to allow ssl-cert-check to report when certificates stored in a PKCS#12 database will expire. This is super useful, especially if you are managing iPlanet/SunONE/Netscape products. If you haven't used ssl-cert-check before, it's a bourne shell script that can be used to alert you prior to a certificate expiring. The script is available on prefetch.net, and is documented in the article proactively handling SSL certificate expiration…
$ read more →Opensource rocks!
I received two more awesome patches for ssl-cert-check. Ken Gallo sent me a patch to allow ssl-cert-check to process certificates stored in PKCS#12 databases, and I am hoping to integrate his changes this upcoming weekend. Quanah Gibson-Mount sent me a patch that adds nagios support to ssl-cert-check, and also adjusts the default binary locations to work on more systems out of the box. Since numerous people are contributing patches to make opensource solutions better, I truly do think opensource is the way to go (I think closed source solutions have value as well)…
$ read more →New version of ssl-cert-check
I got a couple of patches for ssl-cert-check, and released version 3.4 to my website. The patches address a couple of annoying bugs, and I changed the global binary paths to to work by default on Solaris, BSD and Solaris systems. If you haven't used ssl-cert-check before, you can check out my article Proactively handling SSL certificate expiration with ssl-cert-check to see what it does.
$ read more →Verifying web server content with checksums
While setting up monit to monitor several services I support, I decided to look for an in-depth HTTP monitoring solution to compliment the monitoring capabilities provided by monit. To be more exact, I wanted to find a monitoring solution that would validate the authenticity of the content returned by a web server. Several monitoring solutions (including monit) will issue a GET request to a web server, and check that the server replied with a 200 OK status code. This works for most situations, but it doesn't detect content deployment snafus, or server misconfigurations (the ones that don't generate 500 status codes)…
$ read more →New version of ldap-stats.pl released
Peter Schober E-mailed me a set of strict mode patches for ldap-stats.pl, and I applied them and updated the script on my website. If you are using OpenLDAP and wish to get detailed server utilization reports, you might be interested in lda p-stats.pl. Thanks Peter for the rockin' patches.
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