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Posts in 2010
  • Devoxx - Day 1

    Tuesday, November 16, 2010 in Insights

    Some of us ConSol Labs guys enter this year’s Devoxx, the largest Java conference in Europe. You can expect some blogging about the state of Java, the newest trends and cool stuff in general out there for this week. The first two days of Devoxx …

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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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  • 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 …

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  • 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 …

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  • 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 …

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