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Posts in 2012
  • 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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  • Devoxx 2011 - Wrap up

    Tuesday, November 22, 2011 in Insights

    Now that Devoxx has finished and we had a weekend in between, it is time to wrap things up. In this last #Devoxx blog for this year, everyone from the ConSol posse draws his very own personal conclusion. Jan This was my first visit to Devoxx, and I …

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  • Devoxx 2011 - Day 4 (cnt.)

    Monday, November 21, 2011 in Insights

    Here are two talks reviews from Jan which didn’t made it into our last blog. (But this was not the only hangover this week ;-). Tomorrow we will wrap up things with some personal statements about the whole show. Sorry, for day 5 we didn’t …

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  • Devoxx 2011 - Day 4

    Friday, November 18, 2011 in Insights

    The last full day was again packed with high-end tech stuff before we enter the 10th anniversary party of Devoxx. So I guess, the fifth day gets a bit less blog coverage than the previous blogs. The ConSol posse has some reviews about Akka, JavaFX, …

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  • Devoxx 2011 - Day 3

    Thursday, November 17, 2011 in Insights

    Day 3 and Devoxx is running at full blast now. Rooms are crowded, WiFi breaks down periodically, lanes in front of the toilets and lunch lanes, but nothing will stop the FUN we are having here ;-). There we go with our reviews about the diabolical …

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