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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …