An It-slave in the digital saltmine

Demo of how the Nagios based network monitoring tool op5 Monitor works and how easy it is to use. This part contains demo of the reports module and how to make SLA reports.

Background This article describes how to monitor an IPSEC tunnel running on OpenBSD. I could not find any plugin already done so I created my own. The pre req. for this article are: A working Nagios or op5 Monitor setup A IPsec VPN tunnel running on OpenBSD A working NRPE agent at the OpenBSD box

A demo of the benefits with op5 Monitor and what you can monitor with this Nagios based network monitoring tool. This first part gives a short introduction and overview of the tool.

Background This article describe howto use a USB camera (also known as webcam) to detect motions and send an alarm to Nagios or op5 Monitor. It can be used in datacenters to send an alert if someone or something is moving or at home to detect if someone is in your house. I will place […]

Nagios is the number one open source software and one of the most widely recognized and used open source monitoring tools available today. Host for Nordic Meet on Nagios 2009 is op5, a company that supplies software based on open source for control of IT systems and networks, and utilizes Nagios as a key project […]

When using a database that are business critical it can be a good idea to monitor the internals. This article describe how-to monitor MySql with Nagios or op5 Monitor. In these case it runs a MythTV system but it could be almost anything. Pre requirements The pre requriements for this article is a working Nagios […]

op5 is proud to arrange Nordic Meet on Nagios 2009 June 3-4th in Stockholm. —cut’n paste— Welcome to Nordic Meet on Nagios 2009 (NMN2009) June 3-4th, the largest Nagios Meet in Scandinavia. The 2008 Meet was a great success! The event was filled to the last seat and a great atmosphere in great summer weather […]

There are several ways of monitor a wordpress blog by using Nagios or op5 Monitor. WordPress uses the following parts to work: Webserver frontend PHP scripts MySQL database backend At least one system to run it on I found one article describing howto monitor the Webserver and the MySQL database and even that a certain […]

op5 has started the work on a gui that has the aim to be the preferred opensource alternative gui to Nagios!! This is something op5 wanted to do for years now and by judging of the amount of requests we get from our customers about improvements to the current gui we are not alone 🙂 […]

This article describe howto get a 1-wire humidity probe to work with Nagios or op5 Monitor. In an earlier article I have described a 1-wire temperature plugin. Pre requriments To get it working you need: 1-wire humidity probe i.e. this, it is based on DS2438 & HIH-4000 A working owfs installation, instructions can be found […]