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Posts in 2017
  • OMD 2.40 Labs Edition Released

    Wednesday, May 17, 2017 in Insights

    OMD Labs Edition 2.40 has been released today. The OMD Labs Edition is based on the standard OMD but adds some more useful addons like Grafana and Influxdb or additional cores like Icinga 2 and Naemon. This releases focus is on security and …

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  • Angular, we have to talk!

    Tuesday, March 28, 2017 in Insights

    About three or four years ago I had the first contact with AngularJs (obviously V1.x) and what should I say? I loved it! It perfectly added the missing piece that JQuery wasnt able to solve: Bind data to the Dom in an easy way. Since this days there …

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  • Protecting Passwords in Java Properties Files on Windows

    Monday, March 27, 2017 in Insights

    Typical Java backend applications need to integrate with existing 3rd party services. In most cases, calls to these 3rd party services are authenticated. Frequently, Java applications are required to use login credentials for authenticated calls: A …

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  • Protecting Passwords in Java Properties Files on Windows

    Monday, March 27, 2017 in Insights

    ![safe](./safe.png) Typical Java backend applications need to integrate with existing 3rd party services. In most cases, calls to these 3rd party services are authenticated. Frequently, Java applications are required to use login credentials for …

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  • Ansible limit pitfalls

    Wednesday, March 15, 2017 in Insights

    Mit steigender Zahl der im Ansible-Inventory gepflegten Hosts verlängert sich die Laufzeit eines Playbooks. Ansible erkennt zwar, welche Tasks nicht ausgeführt müssen (z.B. weil bestimmte Pakete bereits installiert sind), jedoch kostet auch diese …

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  • Getting Started With Java 9's New HTTP Client

    Tuesday, March 14, 2017 in Insights

    If you ever needed to request HTTP resources with Java, you probably came across several solutions put together from a surprising number of lines. And you probably ended up with using a third party library to achieve your goal in a reasonable …

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  • Ansible meets DokuWiki

    Monday, March 13, 2017 in Insights

    Ansible meets DokuWiki Dokumentation belegt in der Rangliste der beliebtesten Arbeiten eines Administrators sicher einen der hinteren Plätze. Neben der Beliebtheit der Aufgabe ist es auch mit zunehmender Anzahl der vorhandenen Systeme immer …

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  • Testing Logstash Configuration with Citrus and Docker

    Wednesday, March 08, 2017 in Insights

    The ELK-Stack is a good option to aggregate and visualize distributed logging-data. It basically based on Logstash for extracting and distributing the data Kibana as visualization frontend. The core of the most ELK applications is the Logstash …

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  • Prometheus und die Fritzbox

    Wednesday, March 08, 2017 in Insights

    Prometheus ist ein quelloffenes Monitoring- und Alarmierungs-Werkzeug. Seine Basis bildet eine Zeitreihen-Datenbank, auf deren Daten mit einer eingebauten, sehr mächtigen Abfragesprache zugegriffen werden kann. Prometheus verfolgt den Ansatze des …

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  • Portchannel-Monitoring mit check_nwc_health

    Sunday, February 26, 2017 in Insights

    Version 6.0 von check_nwc_health ist erschienen und hat neben Aufräumarbeiten unter der Haube ein paar neue Features zu bieten: interface-etherstats F5 Wide IPs Juniper VSD Memberstatus interface-stack-status Interface-Monitoring auf Ethernet-Ebene …

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