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Posts in 2012
  • Jmx4Perl 1.05 and Jolokia 1.0.3

    Sunday, April 22, 2012 in Insights

    Jmx4Perl and her sister project Jolokia received some spring updates. Jolokia has now support for cross-origin resource sharing (CORS), which allows Javascript clients to access Jolokia agents from everywhere, avoiding the ‘same origin …

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  • Pentaho Kettle within a web application

    Monday, March 26, 2012 in Insights

    This post demonstrates how to include and deploy Pentaho Kettle as a regular Web application. There are some pitfalls you should be aware of. Introduction I recently had to integrate Pentaho Kettle into a Java web application. To be more specific a …

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  • Monitoring von VMWare ESX mit check_esx3: "command matrix"

    Friday, March 16, 2012 in Insights

    Virtualisierung spart Kosten und Ressourcen, stellt aber hohe Ansprüche an Verwaltung und Monitoring. Die schwedische Firma op5 entwickelte für ihr gleichnamiges Nagios-basierendes Produkt das Plugin check_esx3, welches ein umfassendes Monitoring von …

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  • Mod-Gearman 1.2.6 released

    Thursday, March 15, 2012 in Insights

    Version 1.2.6 of Mod-Gearman has just been released. You may now configure the worker queues by custom variables instead of host/servicegroups. queues from custom variables Sometimes you don’t want to create hostgroups to split up your checks …

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  • Wie bohrt man Datenbank-Plugins auf?

    Monday, February 27, 2012 in Insights

    check_oracle_health, check_mysql_health, check_mssql_health und check_db2_health bringen von Haus aus schon eine Menge Funktionalität mit. Allerdings wurden sie speziell für die Belange von Datenbankadministratoren entwickelt. Um auch den Betreibern …

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  • Mod-Gearman 1.2.2 released

    Tuesday, February 14, 2012 in Insights

    Version 1.2.2 of Mod-Gearman has just been released. It now comes with better orphaned check detection and easier installation for rpm based linux systems. Orphaned Check Detection Orphaned Checks occur whenever there are checks to do but no worker …

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  • Using the Shinken livestatus module with MongoDB

    Sunday, January 29, 2012 in Insights

    In my last post i was explaining why it became necessary to have an alternative to the sqlite-based storing of log data. One of the many new features of the upcoming release 1.0 “Heroic Hedgehog” of the Shinken monitoring software will be …

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  • Pimp my Livestatus

    Sunday, January 22, 2012 in Insights

    In the early days of the Shinken monitoring system you were quite limited in how many web user interfaces you could use. There was the old CGI-based Nagios-Webinterface or (thanks to the merlin-mysql broker module) the Ninja GUI from OP5. At the same …

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  • Mod-Gearman with Embedded Perl

    Sunday, January 01, 2012 in Insights

    The upcoming version 1.1.2 of Mod-Gearman will have embedded Perl support which greatly improves performance when you have lots of Perl checks. Mod-Gearman will get three new configuration options: enable_embedded_perl use_embedded_perl_implicitly …

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Posts in 2011
  • Happy new year !

    Friday, December 30, 2011 in Insights

    As 2011 is now nearly history, it’s time for a short look behind what happened to labs.consol.de and its projects this year. Our support forum has been started. It is in quite good use as it seems. mod_gearman started its life on the Nagios …

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