Recently, I picked up an MK802 for about $100 including shipping. It’s a pretty cool little unit, and the guys over at Miniand seem to be very helpful with breaking the unit open and hacking it to do as much as possible - which is really cool to see. My...

While working on monitoring critical services at $company, I have recently had a requirement to monitor an OpenVPN instance to ensure that it is available when required. In order to do so, I have compiled a “quick and dirty” plugin for OpsView / Nagios. This script was compiled in a...