To make everybody on your office jealous buy a binary watch. It shows the time in a semi binary format. I think a true geek watch should show the number of seconds since epoch in binary, but a very few could translate that to time used in the normal world. Thinkgeek is the obvius place […]
If you think Nagios got everything you need except nice reports. op5 Monitor has the solution to this issue. op5 have customers that are using op5 Monitor just for the reporting part and using other tools for monitoring. op5 has put alot of resources into reporting because that is the feedback we got from our […]
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 […]
If you want to test that your Email system is working as supposed with op5 Monitor or Nagios, i.e. send and recieve emails. I recommend Email Delivery. Features: SMTP TLS SMTP IMAP IMAPS and much more… It simply creates an email and send it through an email system and check that the message is delivered. […]
Are you jealous at the cool scrolling signs that stockbrokers have at their offices. Of course, stock rates are boring, it is much more fun/cooler/geekier to have op5 Monitor or Nagios messages at your scrolling LED. I find one at Clas Ohlson for 37SEK approx 4 EUR, and after a late night with some perl […]
My collegue Mattias Ryrlén hinted me about a Nagios stat monitor. It works both with *nix and windows and with op5 Monitor. You can put it anywhere: If you hoover over it with your mouse it expands:
Do you want to integrate your perfectly working op5 Monitor or Nagios installation with Asterisk? I’ve configured op5 Monitor to call me when it detects a problem, to listen to an example click on link below: 11880larm1 The text below is op5 Monitor centric. op5 Monitor is based on Nagios so the principle is the […]
