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Nagios's aim is to monitor a lot of different services on differents operating systems.

To allow to check a huge number of services, the monitoring server need a big computing capacity, or change your way to perform the checks, and ensure that your monitored hosts send the state of each service to the Nagios server. That's why I choose NSCA. Just install the server package on your Nagios host, then the nagios-plugins on the remote; and I perform the checks automaticaly with nsca-wrapper.

Read more Use NSCA easily with nsca-wrapper modified

It is a service available under GNU/Linux. Originally build for sharing files with windows using a smb-compatible protocol.

The version 4 implements a lot of new fetaures :

Read more Samba4 as Primary Domain Controller

There's a little tirck to get your ip by another way than "grep / sed" from a web page. ifconfig.me allows you to get your ip with one simple command :

curl ifconfig.me

or

curl ifconfig.me/ip

for the reverse dns of your ip :

curl ifconfig.me/host

more informations on the official website : http://ifconfig.me