Posts in 2025
  • SNClient 0.32 was released

    Thursday, March 13, 2025 in Releases

    A new version of SNClient was released. Breaking Changes none Features add alpine support add new slike operator which is case sensitive add support for str() operator add ‘snclient config check’ command Changed change like operator to be …

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  • Forwarding Windows Eventlogs to Loki with Alloy

    Thursday, February 27, 2025 in Insights

    Forwarding Windows Eventlogs to a central log console In system monitoring, logs are a valuable source for detecting upcoming or existing issues. Especially for Windows, collecting all logs in one place has not been easy. Forwarding Windows event …

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  • SNClient 0.31 was released

    Wednesday, February 12, 2025 in Releases

    A new version of SNClient was released. Breaking Changes none Features Changed update windows exporter to 0.30.2 chore: update dependencies change minimum golang requirement to 1.23 Bugfixes fix check_files thresholds on total_size Download …

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  • Duplicate users in the Grafana database

    Monday, February 10, 2025 in Insights

    This issue occurred on an OMD 5.40 system running Grafana 10.4.2. A customer reported that embedded Grafana panels in the Service Detail View of Thruk were not working. Instead of a graph, they were presented with the Grafana login page. In the …

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  • Replacing NSClient++: A Comparison of Current Alternatives

    Monday, January 13, 2025 in Insights

    Many of you have probably wondered how to best replace NSClient++ with a modern tool. René Gau from ASFINAG has written a bachelor’s thesis on this very topic, providing a detailed analysis of the pros and cons of the most relevant alternatives. …

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  • missing perl module Digest::SHA1 under Rocky 9

    Friday, January 10, 2025 in Insights

    Some of you might have followed the instructions at https://labs.consol.de/repo/testing/#_9 to install the labs.consol.de repository. If you’re using a minimal setup of Rocky Linux 9, you might encounter this error message: # yum install …

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Posts in 2024
  • OMD 5.50 was released

    Thursday, December 19, 2024 in Releases

    A new version of OMD was released. Changelog omd: add -y/–yes option to accept some dialogs automatically add build support for ubuntu 24.04 fix bash completion for services fix dropping root privileges on omd disable command omd cleanup: add …

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  • SNClient v0.29 was released

    Sunday, November 17, 2024 in Releases

    A new version of SNClient was released. Breaking Changes none Features Changed show error if shared ports use different ssl configuration Bugfixes fix vbs wrapper in default config (#170) fix empty performance data when using perf-config units fix …

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  • SNClient 0.28 was released

    Monday, October 21, 2024 in Releases

    A new version of SNClient was released. Breaking Changes none Features add check_ping plugin add exporter to inventory list add /api/v1/inventory/{module} rest endpoint to get specific inventory add /api/v1/admin/updates/install endpoint to trigger …

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  • SNClient 0.27 was released

    Monday, September 02, 2024 in Releases

    A new version of SNClient was released. Breaking Changes none Features none Changed do not use empty-state if warn/crit conditions contain check on ‘count’ check_memory: distinguish between committed and swap memory check_memory: change …

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