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Posts in 2011
  • Devoxx 2011 - Day 1

    Tuesday, November 15, 2011 in Insights

    We are back again. The first day as always is some sort of warming up and getting into the flow. This year was special in so far as one os us (roland) gave his first talk at Devoxx. But let’s start with the first talk. Here are our personal …

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  • Devoxx - here we come !

    Sunday, November 13, 2011 in Insights

    The ConSol posse is on the road again for having a good and inspiring time at Devoxx. Devoxx is probably one of the best things what can happen to a Java developer. Marcel, Alvin, Jan and myself (Roland) will be at the show for the whole week, …

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  • Thruk Benchmarks

    Thursday, November 10, 2011 in Insights

    I often get asked if there are any benchmarks for Thruk so i finally decided to do some tests. Test Setup Since OMD made it so easy and fast to setup a test environment i would be a fool to not use it for tests too. In order to create test hosts and …

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  • High performance string concatenation in Python

    Monday, October 31, 2011 in Insights

    During evaluation of the migration of a customer’s Nagios installation to the Shinken monitoring system, i encountered a strange problem. Reading the configuration from a few files (hosts.cfg, services.cfg, etc) took a reasonable amount of …

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  • Halloween Update: Jmx4Perl 1.01 and Jolokia 1.0.1

    Monday, October 31, 2011 in Insights

    Small updates have arrived for Jmx4Perl and Jolokia. Beside bug fixes, the two versions bring the following new features: Jmx4Perl: jolokia fixed download problems for the JVM agent Boolean values are printed now correctly in j4psh Lowered version …

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  • Speicher löst sich nicht mehr in Luft auf dank check_hpasm

    Friday, October 14, 2011 in Insights

    Während des Bootens von Proliant-Servern wird eine umfangreiche Prüfung der verbauten Speichermodule durchgeführt. Entdeckt das Bios dabei Ungereimtheiten oder schadhafte DIMMs, so werden diese auskonfiguriert und der Bootvorgang fortgesetzt. Ob dies …

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  • Jolokia 1.0.0 and Jmx4Perl 1.00

    Tuesday, October 04, 2011 in Insights

    Time to celebrate: After two and half years working on Jmx4Perl and Jolokia it is time now to nail down the 1.0 release. The last month the focus was on hardening this first official release. This is backed up by 216 integration tests which has been …

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  • Maven Resource Bundle Check Plugin 0.5

    Friday, September 30, 2011 in Insights

    The new maven-rbc-plugin 0.5 release contains minor bugfixes. The most notable changes are: Report lists locales for summary and per bundle Report now shows number of issues in the summary See the changelog for details, and the usage instructions for …

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  • OMD 0.50 is available

    Friday, September 23, 2011 in Insights

    The developer team of OMD (Open Monitoring Distribution) released the version 0.50 today. This version contains bugfixes and lots of updated packages including Shinken, Thruk, PNP4Nagios, Mod-Gearman, check_oracle_health and check_mysql_health. Using …

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  • Jolokia and Jmx4Perl on tour

    Monday, August 29, 2011 in Insights

    Jolokia and Jmx4Perl will go on tour this autumn. Roland Huss will talk about both projects in November at Devoxx, Antwerp, which is the biggest independent Java community conference in the world and at the Open Source Monitoring Conference, …

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