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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 2011
  • Jolokia 0.95 is here

    Sunday, August 21, 2011 in Insights

    The summer break is over and Jolokia is one step closer to 1.0. Germans might reasonably argue, ’ehm, what summer do you talk about ?’ but at least 0.95 is now a fact and introduces two new features. Very cool features, IMO. The Jolokia …

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  • Thruk Release 1.0.9

    Monday, August 15, 2011 in Insights

    Thruk 1.0.9 has just been released and contains a couple of cool new features. This version will also be in the next OMD release. Besides the release itself, new documentation about plugins and themes has been published. Changes in detail: New Mine …

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  • check_oracle_health kann EZCONNECT

    Wednesday, August 10, 2011 in Insights

    Üblicherweise ruft man check_oracle_health mit den Kommandozeilenparametern ```bash check_oracle_health --username --password --connect ``` auf. Voraussetzung dafür ist natürlich, dass die SID in einem Verzeichnisdienst oder in einer Datei …

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  • OMD Repository

    Friday, July 29, 2011 in Insights

    There is a now an ‘unofficial’ OMD Repository OMD Repository. This makes new installations and upgrading your OMD sites even more easier. We created a package repository for every Linux distribution supported by OMD (omdistro.org). And …

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  • Mod-Gearman 1.0.8 Released

    Saturday, July 23, 2011 in Insights

    Mod-Gearman 1.0.8 has been released (download). This release mostly contains bugfixes only and a minor change to use the identifier more often. Identifier used in error messages Mod-Gearman adds the workers hostname to some common errors. For example …

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  • Validate Excel files in Citrus

    Wednesday, June 22, 2011 in Insights

    Lately I had to deal with Excel files as REST Http service response. I came up with a pretty clever validation mechanism in Citrus that I would like to share with you. You can apply the Excel validator to your Citrus project, too. It is not very …

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  • Use TestNG data provider with Citrus

    Friday, June 17, 2011 in Insights

    TestNG provides brilliant support for test parameters and data providers. With some annotation magic you are able to pass parameter values to your test method and finally to your Citrus test logic. Actually the TestNG parameters are injected to the …

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  • Die Feature-Liste von check_oracle_health wächst weiter...

    Thursday, June 16, 2011 in Insights

    Seit heute gibt es die Version 1.6.9 von check_oracle_health. Hauptzweck ist die Beseitigung eines Problems, das auftaucht, wenn man das Plugin unter OMD einsetzt. Daneben ist aber auch die Liste der Modi erweitert worden, um noch mehr …

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  • Citrus 1.2.M2

    Monday, May 23, 2011 in Insights

    The next Citrus milestone release for version 1.2 has landed. This version introduces new REST Http support on client and server side. In particular we are now able to handle the Http request methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, …) as well as Http …

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  • Thruk Release 0.94

    Thursday, April 28, 2011 in Insights

    Straight on the road to the Thruk 1.0 this will probably the last feature release so far. The main focus was on usability and accessibility. This version will also be in the next OMD release. A lot of things have been done: New Cool Theme There is a …

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