Creating a dashboard with NagiosTV and Livesocket on Ubuntu 20.04

Hey all. I was tasked with setting up a new NagiosXI instance and we needed a dashboard for the office. I found one, NagiosTV, which is super clean and easy to use. The only problem I ran into was creating a dashboard that was able to be accessed without credentials. I ended up using MK Livestatus to fetch the data to display on our big screen.

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A Simple Citrix Problem

Spent some time yesterday working on a Citrix issue that I wasn’t sure I could fix. It turns out it was a lot more simple than I thought. I just got a bit flustered when working on it and needed to sleep on it. I’m going to outline what I did this morning to get it fixed up.

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Just start a blog

So. Here I am, starting a blog. I think I’m going to use this as a personal journal in a way, but to also keep up with tasks and projects that I’m working on. First off, I’m unsure how the text wrapping will be. I’m also unsure of how formatting works. As time goes on I think I’ll hone this skill. I’ve not worked on a platform like Ruby and Jekyll before, so it was a hell of an experience getting the site up initially. I did learn three big things, though:

  1. How to use github
  2. How to use and install Ruby
  3. How to use Jekyll
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