News in op5 Monitor 5.3
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Avail and SLA reports including performance graphs
op5 Monitor 5.3 introduce the possibility to include performance graphs in avail reports. This mean you can, for example, create a response time report and not only get the availability but a graphical representation of the actual response times. This will, for instance, help the user in capacity planing since the graphs may present trends that show when disks are full, response times exceed threshold etc. Read the rest of this entry »
And so it has come. The day when Merlin outgrows its infancy is at hand.
The rite of passage into adulthood was smoother than expected, but not
without minor bumps. As with people, those bumps made the code stronger.
Testing would be most welcome.
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As everybody knows, the answer is 42.
Today is the date 101010, translate that binary number to decimal, you get 42.
Background
When I was preparing a presentation about what op5 is doing and our contribution to the community, I went to ideas.nagios.org. When I browsed the list of the biggest issues with Nagios I found out that op5 has packaged and solved them all in op5 Monitor. I encourage everyone to take a peak at the list and judge for them self what platform you want to use for your enterprise monitoring solution.
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When there is summer and Scandinavia closes down it is hard to be a geek. Everybody, including me, moves out to small cottages in the forrest where 3G coverage is bad which gives low bandwidth a new meaning.
I have found one way of still doing geeky things combined with vacation. That is update OpenStreetmap. Take a peak at my updates at:
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Background
Finally it has arrived, Android 2.2 Froyo to HTC Desire. When I installed it I run into several problems and this is my guide how I solved it. It was a rather frustration experience and took a long while to solve. I ended up with a phone where almost everything was gone and I have to reinstall all my apps and configurations again.
I have not rooted my phone or changed anything that HTC or Google allow, so no rooted phone. I’m probably a poweruser but there is no obvious reason why I ended up with all these problems.
During this process I tried to find any information at HTC support site but I could not find anything that helped me. The best source of information is to use different user forums. My opinion is that HTC support web is crap.
This guide shows how I solved the problems I run into, I guess there is better way of doing it because this was a cumbersome and painfull process. I do not take any responsiblity if you end up with a bricked phone or loss of data.
Happy reading!
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Background
I wanted to use a 3G dongle with a twin SIM card as my Internet connection when I’m traveling. I have earlier decribed howto share the Internet connection and make it more flexible by using an OpenWRT router with USB interface as a bridge between Wlan and 3G/GPRS provided internet.
Unfortunatly Tele2s support personel cannot keep track of the unlogical rules among their different subscriptions so they fouled my to buy a twincard to my regular subscription and use that for data. After a couple of more calls to Tele2, including that they listened to a recording of when I ordered the twincard I have to give up that track because it was not possible. The twincard only works for phone calls, not data connections and especially not when I had a flatrate subscription on my master SIM card.
After some investigation I came to the conclusion that I have to use my Regular phone, a HTC Desire with Android as my connection to internet.
Unfortunatly the work done with getting the USB 3G dongle was a waste of time.
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Background
After waiting for the Hummingbird release for the LaFonera 2.0G a long time and discussed with the Fon support team when 3G dongles will work, I gave up and installed OpenWRT on my LaFonera 2.0G router.
I’m sorry FON, you have a cool idea and nice routers but your unlogical approach to the users and communtity, finally got me to install plain OpenWRT instead.
Installation
After alot of googling and testing and downloading, reading and so on, I finally run into a guide that worked for me.
Most of the descriptions and howto assumes that the RedBoot will accept to download a new firmware via TFTP, this is true with the early releases of 2.0G , but the one sold now do not have this feature.
The trick is to install a firmware that allows changing the RedBoot partition of the memory, change the RedBoot parttion and install OpenWRT via TFTP.
The guide is unfortunatly in French, but google translate helped me to translate it to English.
The pitfalls I run into is to reboot the device several timesafter installing the hacked version of FON firmware: FON2202_2.2.5.0_Flipper_RedBootC_VoteGOP.image
The only difference is that I used a later version of OpenWRT. I used Backfire 10.03 instead of Kamikaze 8.9.1
