Month: September 2019

Receiving phone calls with Centreon notifications

Well, Well… Curves are coming… if you have a Centreon monitoring system, or based on Nagios or similar, You may be interested in this post. What we are going to see is how to generate the traditional alerts of our monitoring, but this time we will not use alerts by email or Telegram, but it will make a phone call using an IP PBX that we have in the organization, with it it will call us at the phone number we indicate and in perfect Spanish it will indicate the problem that exists.

Put the Home Assistant DB in MariaDB

Call me meticulous, but I usually put the Home Assistant database on an external server with MariaDB or MySQL, since I usually make remote queries to the DB with some system, or for the issue of backup, robustness, etc… It is not something usual to do, But I'll leave you the steps in case you need it!

Enabling two-factor authentication with SMS2 (free) and NetScaler Gateway

In this post we are going to see something fabulous, let's see how to enable 2FA or two-factor authentication in NetScaler Gateway, forcing users to use an additional Token for corporate access to the organization. We will use SMS2 which is a free tool, which through RADIUS will validate the user tokens, we'll use software tokens using the Google Authenticator app on mobile, A blast!

Installing Hassio – Home Assistant

We started a series of super interesting posts, where in this first one we will see the installation of Hassio or Home Assistant on a Debian machine as a container will be quick and easy, From there, it will be time to grow and centralize all our devices so that we can manage them from here. Home Assistant is going to become the brain of our home automation system, From here we will know the status of each device and carry out the corresponding actions that interest us.

Monitoring Citrix Licenses with Centreon

If we want to have centralized control of the licenses of our Citrix environments, we can easily do it with Centreon, as usual, we will base ourselves on a script that will run on the license server and pass its output to Centreon, this way we will know when we are going to run out of licenses and above all, we will have them under control and they will serve to justify new acquisitions.