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Posts in 2013
  • Neue Features für check_mssql_health

    Wednesday, January 02, 2013 in Insights

    Einer unserer Kunden, der check_mssql_health bereits intensiv nutzt, hat mich beauftragt, neue Anforderungen seiner DBAs umzusetzen. Hier ist das Ergebnis: Zunächst war eine Überwachung von Datenbank-Jobs gefordert. check_mssql_health --mode …

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Posts in 2012
  • check_hpasm unterstützt jetzt Proliant Gen8

    Sunday, November 25, 2012 in Insights

    Die neuen Proliant Gen8 scheinen seit September Einzug in die Rechenzentren zu halten. Damals erhielt ich die erste Mail, in der mir von unrealistischen Ergebnissen berichtet wurde. Anscheinend waren bei mehreren Temperatursensoren im Server …

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  • Devoxx 2012 - Day 5

    Sunday, November 18, 2012 in Insights

    Last day of Devoxx conference in Antwerp Belgium is scheduled. We have had many awesome talks in the past 4 days and the conference closes with more talks to fit in this category. So before we ship home to our beloved ones let’s have a look at …

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  • Devoxx 2012 - Day 4

    Friday, November 16, 2012 in Insights

    Let’s go directly into todays talks and sessions. JBoss Announcements Day four at Devoxx 2012 was to start with a keynote from Google, but not before Ray Ploski and Mark Little from JBoss invited the developer community to vote on the name of …

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  • Devoxx 2012 - Day 3

    Thursday, November 15, 2012 in Insights

    Conference part of the Devoxx 2012 starts today. This means three keynotes in the morning and 60 minute talks for the rest of the day. Finally all 3400 developers have arrived in Belgium to share the 3 day Devoxx conference. Also the rest of the …

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  • Devoxx 2012 - Day 2

    Wednesday, November 14, 2012 in Insights

    The second day of Devoxx is history, here are our impressions. To ATDD And Beyond by John Ferguson Smart (roland) John introduces Aceptance Test Driven Development by giving an oveverview of the various levels of agile requirements engineering: …

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  • Devoxx 2012 - Day 1

    Tuesday, November 13, 2012 in Insights

    It’s time again: The ConSol gang is coming back to Antwerp. And again, we are presenting you our Devoxx impressions fresh from the movie theaters. As last year, two of use (Georgi and Roland) went ahead wereas the rest of us (Olaf, Kathrin, …

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  • Monitoring Core Benchmarks

    Tuesday, October 23, 2012 in Insights

    We often get asked about nagios server sizing, so we did some benchmarking. Here are the results. Test Setup To get proper results all tests were made on the same system: Debian 6 Squeeze Virtual Machine based on VMware 512MB Ram 2x2.5GHz Xeon 16gb …

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  • GOTO Conference Aarhus 2012 (part 2)

    Monday, October 15, 2012 in Insights

    I just returned from the GOTO Aarhus 2012 conference. Here’s some of my highlights: Up up and Out: Scaling software with Akka / Jonas Bonér Jonas Bonér was presenting a good introduction to Akka. Akka is inspired by the Actor model of Erlang, …

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  • GOTO Conference Aarhus 2012

    Monday, October 08, 2012 in Insights

    This year was the first time I went to a GOTO conference, i.e. GOTO Aarhus 2012. Traveling to Denmark took me remarkably long (12 hours), but this is probably due to my inability in effectively route planning (though it would be cool, if somebody …

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