In some cases the "Normal" way of running checks does not work, passive checks might do the job. I have a script the runs every night that backup my MySQL database. If this script fails I would like op5 Monitor or Nagios to send a notification. An active check will not work in this case […]
Now when my blog is growing a need for backup is growing. After a short google search I found exactly what I want, automysqlbackup. It is a shell script that has very modest requirements list: mysqldump, included in mysql client gzip or bzip2 if you want it compressed. mail if you want the status of […]
When I updated my CentOS system and could not mount XFS file system and my op5 Monitor did not react. I even run check_disk on these mount points but op5 Monitor did not tell me that anything was wrong. So when I managed to get the system to boot and my monitoring system tell me […]
