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.
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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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Business Prozesse mit Nagios und Thruk
Sunday, November 03, 2013 in Insights
Business Prozesse in Nagios zu modellieren gehört zu den beinahe täglich anstehenden Aufgaben beim Thema Monitoring. Die neueste Thruk Version (v1.78) bringt nun ein Business Prozess Addon mit dem sich Prozesse einfach per Gui modellieren lassen. Und …
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Infinispan Talk: Slides are online
Tuesday, October 22, 2013 in Insights
Tomorrow, I’ll be speaking on Infinispan at the JBoss One Day Talk 2013. Slides can be found here: http://rawgithub.com/ConSol/reveal.js/2013-jbossOneDayTalk/index.html. See you tomorrow!
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OMD-1.00 für Raspberry Pi ist fertig
Friday, September 20, 2013 in Insights
Lange hat’s gedauert, aber seit heute kann man sich das Debian-Paket für OMD-1.00 vom ConSol-Labs-Repository herunterladen. root@raspberrypi:~# apt-get install omd-1.00 Die Maschinen unserer Kunden, auf denen wir uns tagtäglich bewegen und …
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Offline-Modus für check_nwc_health
Tuesday, September 10, 2013 in Insights
Offline-Betrieb von check_nwc_health Der eine oder andere check_nwc_health-Anwender dürfte --mode walk schon kennen. Damit kann man sich eine Liste von snmpwalk-Anweisungen ausgeben lassen, deren Resultat mir beim Debugging hilft. check_nwc_health …
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Infinispan JPA 2nd Level Caching on JBoss AS 7 - Minimal Working Example
Monday, September 09, 2013 in Insights
Infinispan is included in the JBoss AS 7 distribution as the default second level cache for Hibernate. For my presentation on the JBoss One Day Talk 2013, I was looking for the most simple example to be used in a demo. This post shows how to get …
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Debian/Ubuntu dist-upgrade keeping OMD
Wednesday, August 21, 2013 in Insights
Changing major releases on linux is always a risk, but Debian / Ubuntu dist-upgrades really worked fine the last years. If you are using OMD (Open Monitoring Distribution) for Nagios/Icinga/Shinken, then the release-update would disabled 3rd party …
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Distributed Caches Shootout
Tuesday, July 02, 2013 in Insights
Distributed caches have evolved into an independent branch of Big Data solutions: When it comes to fast read and write access, distributed caches are the solution of choice. Dr. Fabian Stäber gave a talk a JayDay 2013 where he introduced and compared …