Insights
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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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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 …