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 2010
  • Jmx4Perl 0.70

    Saturday, July 10, 2010 in Insights

    I’m happy to announce the new jmx4perl release 0.70 with a lot of new features. The most exciting new stuff are configuration files and multi-checks for check_jmx4perl, a new Java client library and the start of a readline based JMX shell j4psh …

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  • Citrus with SOAP-ENV:mustUnderstand headers

    Wednesday, May 19, 2010 in Insights

    By setting the SOAP mustUnderstand header attribute to “1”, you indicate that the service provider must process the SOAP header entry. In case the service provider is not able to handle this special header a SOAP fault server error is …

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  • Überwachen von Eventlogs mit check_logfiles und einem Domain-Benutzer

    Monday, April 12, 2010 in Insights

    Seit der Version 3.2 von check_logfiles ist es einfach geworden, Eventlogs von Windows-Servern auszulesen, ohne auf diesen das Plugin installieren zu müssen. Es wird jetzt nur noch ein "Gatewayserver" sowie ein Domainbenutzer nagios …

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  • Fileupload with perl, decorated with a progressbar

    Tuesday, April 06, 2010 in Insights

    With LWP you can easily upload a file from within a perl script. To add some sugar this small example shows how to show a progressbar during the upload. This is especially useful for giving feedback while uploading large files. This technique is …

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  • Neues Release 4.2 von check_hpasm

    Tuesday, March 30, 2010 in Insights

    Es gibt mal wieder ein Update für check_hpasm, diesmal mit dem Schwerpunkt auf HP Bladesystems. Neu hinzugekommen ist die Überwachung von Sicherungen (Fuses) und Enclosure Managern. Ausserdem werden jetzt bei fehlerhaften Komponenten auch gleich die …

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  • Jmx4Perl 0.65

    Tuesday, March 30, 2010 in Insights

    Jmx4Perl reaches is next evolution step, with a bunch of new features. The most important news are a new JDK 6 based JVM agent which allows monitoring of arbitrary Java applications (not only servlet containers) and the support for bulk read …

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  • Removing attachments with JavaMail

    Monday, March 29, 2010 in Insights

    If you have ever sent or received mail messages via Java, chances are high that you have used JavaMail for this task. Most of the time JavaMail does an excellent job and a lot of use cases are described in the JavaMail FAQ. But there are still some …

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  • Osgish

    Tuesday, March 02, 2010 in Insights

    This is the first announcement about my new toy osgish [os-gish], a shell for OSGi containers. osgish is based on a Perl shell on the client side which communicates via HTTP/JSON to a special agent bundled deployed on the target platform. Beside …

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  • Jmx4Perl 0.60 released

    Sunday, February 28, 2010 in Insights

    Jmx4Perl’s next release 0.60 is out in the wild. This release contains Refined error handling. Added support for overloaded JMX operations for ’list’ and ’exec' commands. ‘read’ operation can now be used without an …

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  • Damit dem Windows-Team nichts mehr entgeht - Allesfresser check_logfiles

    Friday, February 26, 2010 in Insights

    Folgende Anfrage wurde von einem Kunden an mich gerichtet: Jetzt kam von den Admin die Anfrage ob es nicht möglich ist alle Meldungen (winwarncrit) erstmal als Warning an Nagios zu melden, um dann bestimmte Meldungen nach und nach als Critical …

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