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Posts in 2011
  • Jolokia goes Javascript

    Tuesday, January 18, 2011 in Insights

    Starting with release 0.82, Jolokia contains now a brand new Javascript client library. This blog post highlights the main features and gives some usage examples. It supports the full Jolokia protocol stack, including bulk requests and HTTP POST and …

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Posts in 2010
  • Verkürzen der Ausgabe von check_oracle_health und Konsorten

    Monday, December 20, 2010 in Insights

    Überwacht man mit check_oracle_health den Füllgrad von Tablespaces einer Oracle-Datenbank, so werden in der Ausgabe des Plugins grundsätzlich alle Tablespaces aufgeführt. Dabei spielt es keine Rolle, ob ein Tablespace genügend freien Speicherplatz …

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  • Integrate your own SoapAttachment Validator into your Citrus project

    Tuesday, December 14, 2010 in Insights

    Citrus includes a lot of convenient features which are only waiting for you to discover and use them. The other day I needed to validate a SoapAttachment. As you probably already know, a SoapAttachment is referenced by a href property in an Include …

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  • OMD 0.44 is out in the wild

    Saturday, November 27, 2010 in Insights

    OMD, the new star on the open monitoring scene, has been released in version 0.44 two weeks ago with a lot of enhancements and new addons. For those, who don’t know yet the Open Monitoring Distribution, it is a Linux based distribution …

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  • Jolokia

    Sunday, October 17, 2010 in Insights

    Let’s welcome the new kid on the labs.consol block: Jolokia. Jolokia is a fresh way for accessing JMX MBeans remotely. For those who know jmx4perl, Jolokia is currently not much more than jmx4perl’s Java agent in disguise. Future versions …

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  • Nagios Gimmick: Boost your ego.

    Friday, October 08, 2010 in Insights

    A small Nagios plugin for monitoring search hit counts. Don’t take it too seriously. Seeing the ‘Twittermeter’ the first time while listening to The social seismograph during this year’s OSMC, I realized that there is a quite …

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  • Extra-opts für die check_*_health-Plugins

    Friday, October 01, 2010 in Insights

    Die Datenbank-Plugins check_oracle_health, check_mysql_health, check_mssql_health und check_db2_health unterstützen auf vielfachen Wunsch auch den Parameter --extra-opts. Damit ist es jetzt möglich, z.B. Login-Daten von den Kommandozeilenparametern …

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  • Jmx4Perl 0.72

    Friday, September 24, 2010 in Insights

    Jmx4Perl 0.72 has been released which is a pure bug-fix release. Not very exiting, but Jmx4Perl has been polished further. The latest 0.71 and 0.72 releases contain no new features but the following bug-fixes: 0.72 (2010-9-24) - Fixed problem with …

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  • Thruk 0.70

    Monday, September 06, 2010 in Insights

    Thruk 0.70 has been released at (download). The three major changes from user perspective are side menu is completly adjustable by config file excel export for hosts and services search includes comments and downtimes Side Menu The complete menu …

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  • check_jmx4perl: New Nagios configuration style

    Monday, August 23, 2010 in Insights

    Since version 0.70, check_jmx4perl has support for configuration files. JMX Nagios checks are now considerably simpler to configure and multi checks add even more performance and flexibility. Gerhard presented in a previous article a well crafted …

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