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Putting jmx4perl on the fast lane for Tomcat
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 in Insights
This post explains why a dedicated Tomcat Connector reserved for the jmx4perl agent is a useful thing. If you are using [jmx4perl][1] for monitoring [Tomcat][2], installing the agent is usually only a copy into $CATALINA_HOME/webapps. This will …
Citrus and TestNG groups
Friday, August 13, 2010 in Insights
TestNG groups add great flexibility to the Citrus test execution. We are able to divide all tests into several groups reaching a sophisticated seperation of concerns in our test setup. As an example I want to classify some of my functional Citrus …
Citrus 1.1 released
Thursday, August 12, 2010 in Insights
Citrus 1.1 release is here (download)! The release comes with a bunch of new features and bugfixes. Here is a short list of major features and changes in this release: Apache License 2.0: We decided to switch from GPLv3 to Apache License Version 2.0 …
Wie man das Setzen der Schwellwerte an den DBA delegiert
Thursday, August 12, 2010 in Insights
Die Plugins check_oracle_health und check_mssql_health haben mit den Versionen 1.6.6 bzw. 1.5.6 ein neues Feature bekommen. Critical- und Warning-Schwellwerte können jetzt auch direkt in der Datenbank hinterlegt werden. Bei Änderungswünschen muss der …
Service dependencies with NRPE
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 in Insights
If you have defined services using the nrpe mechanism, you might know the following scenario: The NRPE daemon fails and all services using it go critical. One first step to avoid these false alarms is to create an additional service which monitors …
Jmx4Perl 0.70
Saturday, July 10, 2010 in Insights
I’m happy to announce the new jmx4perl release 0.70 with a lot of new features. The most exciting new stuff are configuration files and multi-checks for check_jmx4perl, a new Java client library and the start of a readline based JMX shell j4psh …
Citrus with SOAP-ENV:mustUnderstand headers
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 in Insights
By setting the SOAP mustUnderstand header attribute to “1”, you indicate that the service provider must process the SOAP header entry. In case the service provider is not able to handle this special header a SOAP fault server error is …
Überwachen von Eventlogs mit check_logfiles und einem Domain-Benutzer
Monday, April 12, 2010 in Insights
Seit der Version 3.2 von check_logfiles ist es einfach geworden, Eventlogs von Windows-Servern auszulesen, ohne auf diesen das Plugin installieren zu müssen. Es wird jetzt nur noch ein "Gatewayserver" sowie ein Domainbenutzer nagios …
Fileupload with perl, decorated with a progressbar
Tuesday, April 06, 2010 in Insights
With LWP you can easily upload a file from within a perl script. To add some sugar this small example shows how to show a progressbar during the upload. This is especially useful for giving feedback while uploading large files. This technique is …
Neues Release 4.2 von check_hpasm
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 in Insights
Es gibt mal wieder ein Update für check_hpasm, diesmal mit dem Schwerpunkt auf HP Bladesystems. Neu hinzugekommen ist die Überwachung von Sicherungen (Fuses) und Enclosure Managern. Ausserdem werden jetzt bei fehlerhaften Komponenten auch gleich die …