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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Nagios Gimmick: Boost your ego.
Friday, October 08, 2010 in Insights
A small Nagios plugin for monitoring search hit counts. Don’t take it too seriously. Seeing the ‘Twittermeter’ the first time while listening to The social seismograph during this year’s OSMC, I realized that there is a quite …
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Extra-opts für die check_*_health-Plugins
Friday, October 01, 2010 in Insights
Die Datenbank-Plugins check_oracle_health, check_mysql_health, check_mssql_health und check_db2_health unterstützen auf vielfachen Wunsch auch den Parameter --extra-opts. Damit ist es jetzt möglich, z.B. Login-Daten von den Kommandozeilenparametern …
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Jmx4Perl 0.72
Friday, September 24, 2010 in Insights
Jmx4Perl 0.72 has been released which is a pure bug-fix release. Not very exiting, but Jmx4Perl has been polished further. The latest 0.71 and 0.72 releases contain no new features but the following bug-fixes: 0.72 (2010-9-24) - Fixed problem with …
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Thruk 0.70
Monday, September 06, 2010 in Insights
Thruk 0.70 has been released at (download). The three major changes from user perspective are side menu is completly adjustable by config file excel export for hosts and services search includes comments and downtimes Side Menu The complete menu …
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check_jmx4perl: New Nagios configuration style
Monday, August 23, 2010 in Insights
Since version 0.70, check_jmx4perl has support for configuration files. JMX Nagios checks are now considerably simpler to configure and multi checks add even more performance and flexibility. Gerhard presented in a previous article a well crafted …
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Putting jmx4perl on the fast lane for Tomcat
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 in Insights
This post explains why a dedicated Tomcat Connector reserved for the jmx4perl agent is a useful thing. If you are using [jmx4perl][1] for monitoring [Tomcat][2], installing the agent is usually only a copy into $CATALINA_HOME/webapps. This will …
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Citrus and TestNG groups
Friday, August 13, 2010 in Insights
TestNG groups add great flexibility to the Citrus test execution. We are able to divide all tests into several groups reaching a sophisticated seperation of concerns in our test setup. As an example I want to classify some of my functional Citrus …
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Citrus 1.1 released
Thursday, August 12, 2010 in Insights
Citrus 1.1 release is here (download)! The release comes with a bunch of new features and bugfixes. Here is a short list of major features and changes in this release: Apache License 2.0: We decided to switch from GPLv3 to Apache License Version 2.0 …
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Wie man das Setzen der Schwellwerte an den DBA delegiert
Thursday, August 12, 2010 in Insights
Die Plugins check_oracle_health und check_mssql_health haben mit den Versionen 1.6.6 bzw. 1.5.6 ein neues Feature bekommen. Critical- und Warning-Schwellwerte können jetzt auch direkt in der Datenbank hinterlegt werden. Bei Änderungswünschen muss der …
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Service dependencies with NRPE
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 in Insights
If you have defined services using the nrpe mechanism, you might know the following scenario: The NRPE daemon fails and all services using it go critical. One first step to avoid these false alarms is to create an additional service which monitors …