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Gone are the days of tedious console only configuration of Nagios. While it’s an excellent system monitoring tool, it can be a little daunting to configure and setup. Not to mention editing 5 or 6 configuration files when adding one host. In April 2008, Nagios Administrator was released, which promises to deliver an easy to use administration interface for configuring your Nagios installation with ease. The interface allows for adding contacts, contact groups, services, operating systems, and other settings....

You may have some difficulty with Ubuntu Server and VMWare Tools. Here’s how we got it working in the end: start vm # sudo mount /cdrom # cd /cdrom # cp *.tgz /tmp # cd /tmp # apt-get install build-essentials # apt-get install linux-headers-\`uname -r\` # tar xzvf vmtools<yourversion.tgz> # cd vmtools<yourversion> # perl vmware-install.pl That’s it. You might want to modify your console settings so you can get 1024×768 from VMWare Workstation, but it’s not really required if you’re just SSH’ing to it....

We’ve used this program quite a bit over the past few weeks off and on when we had time for proper testing. Please see our previous articles for more information on this program, and while you’re at it, don’t forget to upload your personal Asterisk Dialplan diagrams to our awesome sister site Rate My Dialplan.com, where you can rate and share your Asterisk Dialplans. Here’s a screenshot of the program, and links to our previous three articles....

Earlier, we spoke about the basic features of APSTel Visual Dialplan Professional, and some Advanced Features in part ii of our series. This article will deal with deploying your dialplan to a remote server. Remember, once you’ve created some dialplans to post them on our other site, Rate My Dialplan.com. If you’d like to download APSTel Visual Dialplan Professional or Standard edition to give it a try yourself, please use these links....

In our Previous Article, , We spoke about the basics of the program. Here we’ll briefly touch on some of the advanced features that we were able to edit using the APSTel Visual Dialplan professional program. Remember, you can use these diagrams on our sister site, Rate My Dialplan.com. If you’d like to download APSTel Visual Dialplan Professional or Standard edition to give it a try yourself, please use these links....