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Performance testing with Citrus
Friday, December 18, 2009 in Insights
Once you have written Citrus integration tests it would be nice to also use these test scenarios for performance testing. In a recent project we accomplished basic performance tests just using some out-of-the-box features in TestNG. In this post I …
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A very first look at monitoring in Glassfish v3
Friday, December 11, 2009 in Insights
Glassfish Enterprise Server v3 has been released yesterday and it brings some exciting news related to monitoring. Here are some links to the new monitoring features of v3. Glassfish v3 has quite a bunch of extensions related to JMX and monitoring. I …
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Jmx4perl Mule Agent
Thursday, December 10, 2009 in Insights
In its standalone mode, Mule provides a simple to use interface for custom agents to plug in. This blog post is about the new jmx4perl mule agent which can be used with jmx4perl and the Nagios check check_jmx4perl. Mule is one of the leading ESBs …
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check_hpasm 4.1 schaut HP BladeCenter unter die Haube
Monday, December 07, 2009 in Insights
Das neueste Release von check_hpasm ermittelt jetzt nicht mehr nur den globalen Status der cpqRack-MIB eines BladeCenters, sondern liest die wichtigsten Tabellen detailliert aus. Aufgerufen mit -v liefert check_hpasm eine Übersicht der verbauten …
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Jmx4perl Configuration Files
Monday, December 07, 2009 in Insights
When you have already used jmx4perl you probably have remarked that the argument list can be quite lengthy, often due to the verbose JMX URLs. This gets even worse with jmx4perl’s forthcoming proxy mode. Luckily, since version 0.36 it knows …
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Configuring remote JMX access for Weblogic Server
Wednesday, December 02, 2009 in Insights
In our series of articles about configuring remote JMX access for the jmx4perl proxy mode, this article tackles how to enable JMX remoting for Weblogic Server 9 and 10. It is not specific to jmx4perl and explains several different setups and possible …
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Endlich...check_hpasm Release 4.0 ist fertig
Tuesday, December 01, 2009 in Insights
Statt zwei Wochen hat das Redesign von check_hpasm nun doch zwei Monate gedauert, aber dafür ist das Plugin für künftige Erweiterungen bestens gerüstet. Hinzugekommen ist die Unterstützung der neuen G6-Proliants und die Fähigkeit, auch HP BladeCenter …
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check_nagios_external_commands
Monday, November 30, 2009 in Insights
{% if site.lang == “de” %}Nagios-Installationen, die über die Command Pipe Checkergebnisse von externen Kommandos entgegennehmen, sollten überprüfen, ob diese auch tatsächlich eintreffen und verarbeitet werden. Dieses Plugin schickt ein …
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Access restrictions for jmx4perl
Saturday, November 28, 2009 in Insights
jmx4perl knows since some time how to restrict access to the agent (and soon proxy) servlet based on various criteria. However, this feature is unfortunately not yet well documented and a little bit hidden. This blog describes the nifty details and …
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Setting up JBoss for remote JMX
Monday, November 23, 2009 in Insights
As described in the last post jmx4perl can be operated in a so called agentless mode. For this to work, the target java server must be prepared for accepting remote JMX connections as described in JSR-160. Unfortunately, this setup is not really …