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How to monitor the presence of nearby WiFi devices using Icinga2

Introduction I recently published a Python based plugin for Icinga and Nagios monitoring platforms that monitors the presence of wireless devices in the vicinity. I really like the stability and reliability Icinga provides when it comes to monitoring the state of hosts or services. There are so many software applications that let you do this, […]

Connect to 3G networks in Uganda using the Linux command line

If you are a Linux user living in Uganda and use 3G internet, you may want to try out my tools to connect to the Internet. These are a couple of scripts I created a while back, however, I’ve now updated them to allow for the following: You can now connect to Airtel, Orange/Africell, MTN, […]

Getting started with Docker on Linux

Docker containers are all the rage these days. However, if you’ve used Linux for a while you’ve come across LXC. For FreeBSDĀ users, docker containers will remind you of jails. Docker is essentially the same, but with a better tool chain that makes it easy to build system images and move them around different environments. Docker […]

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