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Find your agents with Jolokia 1.2.0
Monday, February 24, 2014 in Insights
New year, new release. Jolokia 1.2.0 is in the house. Ok, it’s not the BIG 2.0 which was already somewhat promised. Anyways, another big feature jumped on the 1.x train in the last minute. It is now possible to find agents in your network by …
Erstes Naemon Release
Monday, February 17, 2014 in Insights
Der als Nagios 4 Nachfolger angetretene Fork “Naemon” veröffentlichte heute sein erstes Stable Release mit der Nummer 0.8.0. Aber was macht Naemon nun besser als Nagios? Was ist neu? Performanceoptimiert durch Worker Modell CGIs durch …
Review "Icinga Network Monitoring" von Viranch Mehta
Sunday, February 02, 2014 in Insights
Der Verlag Packt Publishing ist an mich herangetreten und hat mich gebeten, eine Rezension zum soeben erschienenen Buch Icinga Network Monitoring von Viranch Mehta zu schreiben. Eigentlich hatte ich keine Zeit, aber wenn mir jemand mit …
Neues Feature von check_logfiles: Teilausdrücke gruppieren
Friday, January 31, 2014 in Insights
Reguläre Ausdrücke in Perl erlauben die Bildung von Teilausdrücken. Mit runden Klammern kann man bestimmte Abschnitte eines Ausdrucks zusammenfassen, um sie an anderer Stelle oder nach dem Mustervergleich weiterzuverwenden. ```perl $line =~ /Fatal: …
Have you heared about Naemon
Friday, January 24, 2014 in Insights
A few months ago, Andreas Ericsson, the main developer of Nagios 4, has been kicked from the Nagios Developer Team for personal reasons. So he decided to continue development in a new fork called Naemon. The result so far is quite impressive. Right …
First ConSol FedEx Day
Friday, December 20, 2013 in Insights
For most employees at ConSol, today is the last day before their Christmas vacation. Eight of us took that opportunity and organized our first FedEx day: During the full day event, we formed small teams and worked on innovative projects we are …
OMD 1.10 Release
Tuesday, December 17, 2013 in Insights
The developer team of OMD (Open Monitoring Distribution) released the version 1.10 today. This version contains lots of updated packages including Thruk 1.80, Mod-Gearman 1.4.14, NagVis 1.8, check_mk 1.2.2p3 and many more. Using the OMD Repository …
Nagios belches Lava
Monday, December 02, 2013 in Insights
This is the story, how I increased Nagios’ WAF by hooking up a Lava Lamp for notifying when the wood-burning stove needs to be inflamed. The problem I’m trying to solve was quite simple. Since about 6 years I’m living in a so called …
Business Prozesse mit Nagios und Thruk
Sunday, November 03, 2013 in Insights
Business Prozesse in Nagios zu modellieren gehört zu den beinahe täglich anstehenden Aufgaben beim Thema Monitoring. Die neueste Thruk Version (v1.78) bringt nun ein Business Prozess Addon mit dem sich Prozesse einfach per Gui modellieren lassen. Und …
Infinispan Talk: Slides are online
Tuesday, October 22, 2013 in Insights
Tomorrow, I’ll be speaking on Infinispan at the JBoss One Day Talk 2013. Slides can be found here: http://rawgithub.com/ConSol/reveal.js/2013-jbossOneDayTalk/index.html. See you tomorrow!