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Posts in 2016
  • Caching with JCache

    Saturday, March 12, 2016 in Insights

    Introduction A couple of years have passed since we last looked into in-memory caches here at ConSol. In that time a bunch of things have happened: Probably the most significant thing that happened was that the oldest Java Service Request JSR 107, …

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  • Nagios Scheduling Insights

    Wednesday, March 02, 2016 in Insights

    The host- and servicecheck scheduling of Nagios has always been some kind of black box. Checks pile up when using timeperiods which often leads to performance issues while the Nagios host idles again just a minute later. Latest Thruk release (2.06) …

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  • Sakuli v0.9.2 Released

    Friday, February 12, 2016 in Insights

    Sakuli todays release is a great milestone because it introduces a brand new graphical installer and a bunch of other features! Download and check it out sakuli-v0.9.2-installer.jar! Whats new? Here is the changelog: Executable JAR installer …

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Posts in 2015
  • OMD 2.10 Labs Edition Released

    Friday, November 13, 2015 in Insights

    OMD Labs Edition 2.10 in 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. Todays release is a great milestone because …

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  • Devoxx Talks about HTTP2 and Citrus Framework

    Friday, November 13, 2015 in Insights

    Fabian and Christoph have been invited to speak at Devoxx Conference 2016 in Antwerp, Belgium. Watch their talks to learn more about HTTP2 and Citrus Framework. Dr. Fabian Stäber: unRESTful Web Services with HTTP/2 HTTP/2, the new version of the HTTP …

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  • Upload Travis Artifacts to Dropbox

    Wednesday, November 04, 2015 in Insights

    Travis CI is a free platform for continues integration tests which fits perfectly in our opensource products workflow with Github. Unfortunately it only supports uploading artifacts to amazon aws. Usually not a major problem, because most tests …

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  • Aktivieren der Grafana-Graphen in der OMD Labs Edition

    Wednesday, October 21, 2015 in Insights

    In der OMD Labs Edition gibt es seit kurzem die Möglichkeit, die Performance-Daten in einer InfluxDB zu speichern. Die Daten werden dabei von der Komponente Nagflux in die InfluxDB geschrieben, Histou übernimmt das Erzeugen der Graphen auf Basis von …

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  • Lidl sucht Mitarbeiter

    Monday, October 19, 2015 in Insights

    Unser Kunde Lidl setzt beim Monitoring seiner europaweiten IT-Landschaft in großem Umfang Tools und Plugins von ConSol-Labs ein. Neu- und Weiterentwicklungen der check_*_health-Plugins oder Thruk entstehen häufig im Auftrag von Lidl, wobei die …

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  • Interface-Rundumschlag mit check_nwc_health

    Saturday, October 03, 2015 in Insights

    Beim Monitoring von Netzwerkinterfaces ist es üblich, daß man vier Services konfiguriert. Jeweils einen für Status (up/down), Bandbreite, Errors und Discards. Gelegentlich gab es auch die Anforderung, das alles in einen einzigen Service zu packen, in …

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  • WAN-Monitoring mit check_nwc_health

    Tuesday, August 25, 2015 in Insights

    Das Plugin check_nwc_health erfreut sich größter Beliebtheit beim Monitoring von Komponenten in den Core-, Access- und Distribution-Layern, oder kurz: den Netzwerkkomponenten innerhalb von Gebäuden und Standorten. Das WAN-Monitoring geht aber weit …

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