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Thruk Benchmarks
Thursday, November 10, 2011 in Insights
I often get asked if there are any benchmarks for Thruk so i finally decided to do some tests. Test Setup Since OMD made it so easy and fast to setup a test environment i would be a fool to not use it for tests too. In order to create test hosts and …
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High performance string concatenation in Python
Monday, October 31, 2011 in Insights
During evaluation of the migration of a customer’s Nagios installation to the Shinken monitoring system, i encountered a strange problem. Reading the configuration from a few files (hosts.cfg, services.cfg, etc) took a reasonable amount of …
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Halloween Update: Jmx4Perl 1.01 and Jolokia 1.0.1
Monday, October 31, 2011 in Insights
Small updates have arrived for Jmx4Perl and Jolokia. Beside bug fixes, the two versions bring the following new features: Jmx4Perl: jolokia fixed download problems for the JVM agent Boolean values are printed now correctly in j4psh Lowered version …
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Speicher löst sich nicht mehr in Luft auf dank check_hpasm
Friday, October 14, 2011 in Insights
Während des Bootens von Proliant-Servern wird eine umfangreiche Prüfung der verbauten Speichermodule durchgeführt. Entdeckt das Bios dabei Ungereimtheiten oder schadhafte DIMMs, so werden diese auskonfiguriert und der Bootvorgang fortgesetzt. Ob dies …
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Maven Resource Bundle Check Plugin 0.5
Friday, September 30, 2011 in Insights
The new maven-rbc-plugin 0.5 release contains minor bugfixes. The most notable changes are: Report lists locales for summary and per bundle Report now shows number of issues in the summary See the changelog for details, and the usage instructions for …
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OMD 0.50 is available
Friday, September 23, 2011 in Insights
The developer team of OMD (Open Monitoring Distribution) released the version 0.50 today. This version contains bugfixes and lots of updated packages including Shinken, Thruk, PNP4Nagios, Mod-Gearman, check_oracle_health and check_mysql_health. Using …
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Jolokia and Jmx4Perl on tour
Monday, August 29, 2011 in Insights
Jolokia and Jmx4Perl will go on tour this autumn. Roland Huss will talk about both projects in November at Devoxx, Antwerp, which is the biggest independent Java community conference in the world and at the Open Source Monitoring Conference, …
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Jolokia 0.95 is here
Sunday, August 21, 2011 in Insights
The summer break is over and Jolokia is one step closer to 1.0. Germans might reasonably argue, ’ehm, what summer do you talk about ?’ but at least 0.95 is now a fact and introduces two new features. Very cool features, IMO. The Jolokia …
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Thruk Release 1.0.9
Monday, August 15, 2011 in Insights
Thruk 1.0.9 has just been released and contains a couple of cool new features. This version will also be in the next OMD release. Besides the release itself, new documentation about plugins and themes has been published. Changes in detail: New Mine …
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check_oracle_health kann EZCONNECT
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 in Insights
Üblicherweise ruft man check_oracle_health mit den Kommandozeilenparametern ```bash check_oracle_health --username --password --connect ``` auf. Voraussetzung dafür ist natürlich, dass die SID in einem Verzeichnisdienst oder in einer Datei …