Monitoring Blog

This is the blog section. It has two categories: News and Releases.

Files in these directories will be listed in reverse chronological order.

Posts in 2014
  • Neues Feature von check_logfiles: Teilausdrücke gruppieren

    Friday, January 31, 2014 in Insights

    Reguläre Ausdrücke in Perl erlauben die Bildung von Teilausdrücken. Mit runden Klammern kann man bestimmte Abschnitte eines Ausdrucks zusammenfassen, um sie an anderer Stelle oder nach dem Mustervergleich weiterzuverwenden. ```perl $line =~ /Fatal: …

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  • Have you heared about Naemon

    Friday, January 24, 2014 in Insights

    A few months ago, Andreas Ericsson, the main developer of Nagios 4, has been kicked from the Nagios Developer Team for personal reasons. So he decided to continue development in a new fork called Naemon. The result so far is quite impressive. Right …

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Posts in 2013
  • First ConSol FedEx Day

    Friday, December 20, 2013 in Insights

    For most employees at ConSol, today is the last day before their Christmas vacation. Eight of us took that opportunity and organized our first FedEx day: During the full day event, we formed small teams and worked on innovative projects we are …

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  • OMD 1.10 Release

    Tuesday, December 17, 2013 in Insights

    The developer team of OMD (Open Monitoring Distribution) released the version 1.10 today. This version contains lots of updated packages including Thruk 1.80, Mod-Gearman 1.4.14, NagVis 1.8, check_mk 1.2.2p3 and many more. Using the OMD Repository …

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  • Nagios belches Lava

    Monday, December 02, 2013 in Insights

    This is the story, how I increased Nagios’ WAF by hooking up a Lava Lamp for notifying when the wood-burning stove needs to be inflamed. The problem I’m trying to solve was quite simple. Since about 6 years I’m living in a so called …

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  • Devoxx 2013, Wrap up

    Monday, November 18, 2013 in Insights

    It’s time to wrap up our Devoxx 2013 visit (after 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 days geek heaven) Torsten This year Christoph, Jan and I arrived a little earlier to Antwerp to do some sightseeing before the conference… it was really worth it. The WiFi …

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  • Devoxx 2013, Day 4

    Friday, November 15, 2013 in Insights

    So that Devoxx is now nearly over, here are some reviews of talks of the last full conference day. Day 5 is typically a phase-out day with only a handful talks and everybody is an hurry, our Devoxx 2013 wrap out will be published on Monday. …

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  • Devoxx 2013, Day 3

    Thursday, November 14, 2013 in Insights

    On Wednesday Torsten, Christoph and Jan joined our team, and the conference kicked off with full blast: Full Keynote, full rooms, full toilettes, empty coffee and much fun. “Lambda: A Peek Under the Hood Conference” by Brian Goetz (mario) …

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  • Devoxx 2013, Day 2

    Wednesday, November 13, 2013 in Insights

    Yesterday was the last university day with in depth, 3 hour talks. Here we go. “Lambda programming lab Hands-on Labs” by Stuart Marks, Angela Caicedo, Simon Ritter (fabian) Day 2 of the Devoxx started off with a lot of Lambdas and …

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  • Devoxx 2013, Day 1

    Tuesday, November 12, 2013 in Insights

    We are back again. The ConSol posse enters Devoxx again and will posts some expressions from this largest independent Java conference. Roughly 3500 attendees transform Antwerp into Java’s epicenter for one week. And as always, this weeks starts …

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