Exactly 3 years after I moved [https://devlog.cyconet.org/2013/01/04/new-blogging-engine/] on from Wordpress [http://wordpress.org] to Octopress [http://octopress.org] I thought it's time for something new. Some of you might have noticed that I've not much blogged in…
Three months ago version 2.0 of Monitoring Plugins [https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/] was released. Since then many changes [https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/compare/v2.0...master] were integrated. You can find a quick overview in the upstream NEWS [https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/…
For an actual project we decided to use Redis [http://redis.io/] for some reasons. As there is availability a critical part, we discovered that Redis Sentinel [http://redis.io/topics/sentinel] can monitor Redis and handle an automatic master failover to a available slave. Setting up the Redis replication…
You may wonder why the old good nagios-plugins [https://packages.qa.debian.org/nagios-plugins] are not up to date in Debian [https://www.debian.org/intro/about] unstable [https://www.debian.org/releases/unstable/] and testing [https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/]. Since the people behind and maintaining…
It seems to be a great time for monitoring solutions. Some of you may have noticed that Icinga [http://icinga.org] has released [https://www.icinga.org/2014/06/16/icinga-2-0-has-arrived/] it's first stable version of the completely redeveloped Icinga 2 [https://www.icinga.…
As Jan has previously announced [https://debianstuff.dittberner.info/posts/going-to-chemnitzer-linux-tage-2014.html] , the Debian [https://www.debian.org/about/] project is maintaining a booth at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2014 [http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2014/], which is also organized by him. This year we will…
Last night it seems the so called 'Nagios Plugins' project [http://www.nagios-plugins.org/] was cut off. The story started a decade ago when development of the plugins compatible with Nagios [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios] was taken over by an independent group of developers [https:…
Yesterday I asked [https://devlog.cyconet.org/2013/11/24/running-icinga-with-lighttpd-on-a-raspberry/] myself, how to setup a crossbuild environment on a Debian [http://www.debian.org] wheezy [http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/]/amd64 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64] to build binary packages…