Nagios Comeback

Might be time to brush off the Nagios skills.

https://www.nagios.org/

Gartner chart on SolarWinds alternatives

Here's a nice chart from Gartner on alternatives to SolarWinds.

https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/it-infrastructure-monitoring-tools/vendor/solarwinds/alternatives

SolarWinds again...

Looks like yet another chunk of malware lodged in SolarWinds products.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/third-malware-strain-discovered-in-solarwinds-supply-chain-attack/

Nartac IISCrypto

Nartac has a nice utility for working with TLS issues on IIS. You can get it here.

https://www.nartac.com/Products/IISCrypto

Zabbix Demo

Need to watch the Zabbix demo again.

https://www.zabbix.com/demo

SolarWinds downfall

What a shame for an industry leader. It just goes to show how greed can bring down even the best intentions in a company. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/15/solarwinds-russia-breach-stock-trades/

Paessler monitoring solution

Paessler is another monitoring solution.

 https://www.paessler.com/

Datadog Monitoring and Security

Datadog is on the list of Monitoring solutions to be checked out.

https://www.datadoghq.com/

Datadog video link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmJcbAI_OCg

Network Monitoring Solutions

With the sudden and inevitable demise of the Orion/SolarWinds empire, I thought people might be looking for an alternative to their Network monitoring solution. Here is a link to a nice list.

https://phoenixnap.com/blog/best-server-monitoring-tools-software

Raspberry Pi Imager

The incredible people over at the Raspberrypi.org have created an awesome tool for writing Pi images to SD cards.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/

There are currently versions for MacOS, Windows, and Ubuntu. This is an incredibly simple tool that replaces the need for third party tools like Etcher or Rufus.

It took me all of 10 minutes to get my backup PiHole back online after decommissioning it for a short while to do other things.

Make sure to mount the newly created SD card and 'touch ssh' to enable ssh access before moving it to the Pi and starting it up.