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 2012
  • check_hpasm unterstützt jetzt Proliant Gen8

    Sunday, November 25, 2012 in Insights

    Die neuen Proliant Gen8 scheinen seit September Einzug in die Rechenzentren zu halten. Damals erhielt ich die erste Mail, in der mir von unrealistischen Ergebnissen berichtet wurde. Anscheinend waren bei mehreren Temperatursensoren im Server …

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  • Monitoring Core Benchmarks

    Tuesday, October 23, 2012 in Insights

    We often get asked about nagios server sizing, so we did some benchmarking. Here are the results. Test Setup To get proper results all tests were made on the same system: Debian 6 Squeeze Virtual Machine based on VMware 512MB Ram 2x2.5GHz Xeon 16gb …

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  • GOTO Conference Aarhus 2012 (part 2)

    Monday, October 15, 2012 in Insights

    I just returned from the GOTO Aarhus 2012 conference. Here’s some of my highlights: Up up and Out: Scaling software with Akka / Jonas Bonér Jonas Bonér was presenting a good introduction to Akka. Akka is inspired by the Actor model of Erlang, …

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  • GOTO Conference Aarhus 2012

    Monday, October 08, 2012 in Insights

    This year was the first time I went to a GOTO conference, i.e. GOTO Aarhus 2012. Traveling to Denmark took me remarkably long (12 hours), but this is probably due to my inability in effectively route planning (though it would be cool, if somebody …

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  • OMD 0.56 für Raspberry Pi ist fertig.

    Thursday, October 04, 2012 in Insights

    Während der letzten Wochen habe ich viel Geduld aufgebracht, um auf meinem neuen Raspberry Pi die Open Monitoring Distribution zu bauen und zuletzt ein Debian-Install-Paket zu erstellen. Geduld deshalb, weil ein “make” schon mal einen Tag …

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  • Webcast "Java Monitoring in der Praxis – Jmx4Perl / Jolokia"

    Tuesday, September 25, 2012 in Insights

    Am Donnerstag senden wir einen Webcast rund um das Thema Java Monitoring mit Nagios im Allgemeinen und dem Plugin hier beheimateten check_jmx4perl im Speziellen. Roland Huß als Referent und Author von jmx4perl und Gerhard Laußer als Moderator …

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  • Create a Pinned Thruk App Tab in Firefox

    Thursday, September 06, 2012 in Insights

    Since Version 1.46 of Thruk the number of problems can be dynamically viewed in Thruks favicon. This is quite handy for creating a pinned app tab in Firefox. Step1 Open your problems view and adjust the filter to hide useless problems or things you …

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  • Raspberry Pi mit Spiegel-Sticks

    Wednesday, August 29, 2012 in Insights

    In diesem Post wird gezeigt, wie man einen Raspberry Pi Miniatur-Computer mit einem Root-Filesystem ausstattet, das auf zwei gespiegelten USB-Sticks liegt. Der Raspberry Pi (Modell B) wird mit einem SD-Karten-Leser und zwei USB-Ports geliefert. Das …

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  • Start Thruk Automatically

    Monday, August 27, 2012 in Insights

    Thruk uses the mod_fcgid apache module which makes Thruk start on the first request. The user then gets a “waiting” page till the fastcgi server has started. When using Thruk all the time, there is no reason to wait till someone makes the …

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  • Thruk 1.36 Released

    Thursday, July 19, 2012 in Insights

    Version 1.36 of the Thruk monitoring gui has just been released. The changelog is quite huge this time. There is a new dashboard plugin called the ‘Panorama View’ Addon. There are a lot more reports included now. And finally there is a …

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