Insights
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Jmx4Perl 0.65
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 in Insights
Jmx4Perl reaches is next evolution step, with a bunch of new features. The most important news are a new JDK 6 based JVM agent which allows monitoring of arbitrary Java applications (not only servlet containers) and the support for bulk read …
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Removing attachments with JavaMail
Monday, March 29, 2010 in Insights
If you have ever sent or received mail messages via Java, chances are high that you have used JavaMail for this task. Most of the time JavaMail does an excellent job and a lot of use cases are described in the JavaMail FAQ. But there are still some …
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Osgish
Tuesday, March 02, 2010 in Insights
This is the first announcement about my new toy osgish [os-gish], a shell for OSGi containers. osgish is based on a Perl shell on the client side which communicates via HTTP/JSON to a special agent bundled deployed on the target platform. Beside …