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Posts in 2012
  • OMD 0.56 für Raspberry Pi ist fertig.

    Thursday, October 04, 2012 in Insights

    Während der letzten Wochen habe ich viel Geduld aufgebracht, um auf meinem neuen Raspberry Pi die Open Monitoring Distribution zu bauen und zuletzt ein Debian-Install-Paket zu erstellen. Geduld deshalb, weil ein “make” schon mal einen Tag …

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  • Webcast "Java Monitoring in der Praxis – Jmx4Perl / Jolokia"

    Tuesday, September 25, 2012 in Insights

    Am Donnerstag senden wir einen Webcast rund um das Thema Java Monitoring mit Nagios im Allgemeinen und dem Plugin hier beheimateten check_jmx4perl im Speziellen. Roland Huß als Referent unt Author von jmx4perl und Gerhard Laußer als Moderator …

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  • Create a Pinned Thruk App Tab in Firefox

    Thursday, September 06, 2012 in Insights

    Since Version 1.46 of Thruk the number of problems can be dynamically viewed in Thruks favicon. This is quite handy for creating a pinned app tab in Firefox. Step1 Open your problems view and adjust the filter to hide useless problems or things you …

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  • Raspberry Pi mit Spiegel-Sticks

    Wednesday, August 29, 2012 in Insights

    In diesem Post wird gezeigt, wie man einen Raspberry Pi Miniatur-Computer mit einem Root-Filesystem ausstattet, das auf zwei gespiegelten USB-Sticks liegt. Der Raspberry Pi (Modell B) wird mit einem SD-Karten-Leser und zwei USB-Ports geliefert. Das …

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  • Start Thruk Automatically

    Monday, August 27, 2012 in Insights

    Thruk uses the mod_fcgid apache module which makes Thruk start on the first request. The user then gets a “waiting” page till the fastcgi server has started. When using Thruk all the time, there is no reason to wait till someone makes the …

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  • Intensivkurs Jmx4Perl

    Sunday, August 12, 2012 in Insights

    Jmx4Perl und Jolokia haben sich mittlerweile zum de-Facto-Standard beim Nagios-Monitoring von Java entwickelt. Das belegen etliche Blog-Postings, die Downloadzahlen und zahlreiche Kundenprojekte, die ConSol durchgeführt hat. Aus der Erfahrung von …

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  • Thruk 1.36 Released

    Thursday, July 19, 2012 in Insights

    Version 1.36 of the Thruk monitoring gui has just been released. The changelog is quite huge this time. There is a new dashboard plugin called the ‘Panorama View’ Addon. There are a lot more reports included now. And finally there is a …

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  • Citrus 1.2 Final

    Tuesday, July 10, 2012 in Insights

    It has been a while since our last final release for Citrus. Now I am proud to announce the final 1.2 release. The package ships with a huge list of new features and improvements that I would like to highlight in a few lines for you. Spring version …

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  • Show Git Branch in Bash Prompt

    Tuesday, June 19, 2012 in Insights

    When working a lot with git knowing which branch you are in is an important information. Putting the branch information in your bash prompt makes this information always visible and also shows immediatly if you are in a folder managed by git. This is …

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  • Running check_by_ssh over a persistent ssh-connection

    Tuesday, June 12, 2012 in Insights

    Monitoring Unix clients is very easy with the check_by_ssh plugin. The only prerequisite is public-key-based access and installation of some plugins on the remote side. Then, running a check is as easy as: check_by_ssh --host 10.177.3.39 --logname …

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