Background I use MythTV quite frequently and noticed that it is instable when using sasc-ng as a decoder to decrypt encrypted DVB-T channels. So approximatly every third day the MythTVbackend server stops and need to be started again. I have wriiten an earlier article about howto monitor MythTV with Nagios or op5 Monitor so I […]
op5 develops plugins for op5 Monitor, based on Nagios. As a courtesy to the community the plugins developed are free and can be downloaded from: http://www.op5.org/community/projects/op5-plugins The plugins is also located in a Git repository and can be checked out from: http://git.op5.org/git/
A new place to find articles, plugins and other information abot nagios is http://exchange.nagios.org/.
It has been very interesting and two intensive days. The highlights IMHO: Tobias Oitiker gave a very good presentation about the linux kernel caching and described how it affected RRDtools. Markus Almroth, describes Sysnagios which did the opposite of most monitoring projects. Sysnagios decentralized the configuration of systems and network monitoring in a controlled way. […]
The conferance about Nagios in Stockholm has started. The event will be broadcasted on internet. If you have questions to the speakers you could enter them directly into the Nordic meet on Nagios homepage or to nmn@jabber.org using jabber protocol.
In my drawer I found a GPS reciever for my cellular, I have never used it because the GPS software in my phone is crap. But when I found it, I realized that it might work to connect it via bluetooth to my laptop so I could have a stratum 1 NTP server at home. […]
If you want to have influence in what direction Nagios is going, you have the chance now. Ethan Galstad, the founder of Nagios has done a great job to open up the project and listening to input from the community. Go to http://ideas.nagios.org/ and vote or add the functionality you want in Nagios so others […]
The Merlin project was initially started to create an easy way to set up distributed Nagios installations allowing Nagios processes to exchange information directly as an alternative to the standard nagios way using NSCA. When starting the Ninja project we realised that we could continue the work on Merlin and adopt the project to function […]
Happy with my sucess in my motion alarm project I wanted better resolution. In my stupidity I did not check if it was working with Linux. I bought a Philips SPC230NC at a fair price/performance for my needs. I connected it to my box where I have my other web camera attached and dmesg showed […]
I have just finnished reading the excellent book "Learning Nagios 3.0" by Wojciech Kocjan.
