After waiting for several weeks, my new phone, a HTC Desire has finally arrived. I have been a heavy cellphone user since started working as a Tivoli consultant in -98. I bought my first cellphone -94 and have had several so called smart phones both from Nokia and Ericsson.
For the first time I felt that this is more than a phone, for the first time calender integration works, for the first time I can use the builtin GPS, for the first time accessing the web with a phone works, for the first time downloaded software really works.
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I have not updated my blog lately because of heavy traveling. In Tuesday, after visiting GoOpen 2010, I took this picture at Gardemoen, Oslo. I was very lucky because my flight was DY3774
It seams like I was in luck and used an ash hole to get home:-)
op5 will release op5 Monitor 5.0 April the 13:th including:
- Ninja, the new Nagios GUI
- Merlin, database backend and support for load balancing and redunduncy in Nagios
- NagVis, Nagios visualization including integration with Google maps
- Nacoma, a Nagios webconfigurator tool
- Reports, good looking SLA reports, new Availabilty reports, new Trend reports, filter notifications and more.
- and much more….
You are welcome to a release party together with op5, customers and partners.
Welcome!!
Background
I bought a Fonera 2.0g WLAN router and I wanted to extend the functionality to have the possibility to add packages from OpenWRT. I also wanted the possibility to manage my new router with ssh.
The way to achive this is by installing developer firmware.
When using a cool router software like OpenWRT it is a good idea to monitor the network usage. This article describe howto get SNMP on your OpenWRT based router.
Background
I got an unused La Fonera router by a collegue. They can be bought from http://www.fon.com for approximately 40 Euro including freight. The purpose of the Fon community is to build a community of hotspots around the world so every owner of a La Fonera could use any other La Fonera router in the world.
I am curios about the legal aspect if someone in the Fon community uses my internet connection to do something bad, like download copyrighted software, hack CIA or whatever.
The La Fonera router is real cool because:
- Looks good so it has a high wife acceptance factor
- Hackable, the firmware could be replaced with for example OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Jasager and others…
- Even more hackable, there are several guides and howtos to modify the La Fonera hardware.
- Cheap, in the good old days it was possible to get one for free. Read the rest of this entry »
Background
It is always a good idea to monitor the server hardware, in many cases the root cause of the probblem is hardware related like: a fan stops and the temperature gets to high, dust in the machine makes it to hot, disks that fails, memory corruption and so on. This article will describe howto enable hardware monitoring on a HP Proliant running CentOS Linux and then howto collect the data with Nagios or op5 Monitor. The procedure is the same with RedHat Enterprise Linux and similiar with Suse Enterprise server.
The HP manuals and information is bloated with irrelevant information and I had to struggle several hours, ask collegues to get it running. I hope this blog article will help others to get monitoring of HP Proliant using HP Insight Manager easier to setup.
The release of the next generation Open Source Network Monitoring Software is only weeks away with the release of op5 Monitor 5. Here you can download a Beta version of the sofware intended for testing och evaluation or try it at a live demo.
The op5 Monitor Beta use Ninja as GUI and Merlin as a databasebackend.
I have an old iPod G3 player that I haven’t used for several years. The main reason is that it is full of Apple vendor lock-in "features". The most annoying issues are:
- Hard to manage without iTunes
- iTunes is crap
- Cannot play ogg and flac
- I just want to attach it and it should popup like a USB disk, drop the files into it, detach and play the songs.
I got a hint from a friend that I should try RockBox, so I download it and used the very simple installer on linux and it works perfectly well. All the drawbacks mentioned above are solved and as a bonus the gui is much better.
Now I can:
- Play ogg
- Play flac
- Customize the GUI
- Change myriads of settings
- Throw away mysterious sync software like iTunes and others.
- Attach it as a USB disk, drop my media files into it, detach and play them
If you are lucky and owns a Rockbox supported media player, update it. You will not regret it.
I have read the book Asterisk now by Nir Simionovich, published in March 2008. The book was a big disappointment, the reason is that the book do not cover the software used in AsteriskNOW today. The book cover the Asterisk GUI but AsteriskNOW is using FreePBX instead which is totally different. One main reason to use AsteriskNow is to avoid the sometimes cumbersome task to install Linux or a similair operating system, download, compile and configure Asterisk using cryptic text files. So an accurate description of the GUI used is essential for a book like this and unfortunatly the book is to old. I do not intend to install an old version of AsteriskNOW just for a bookreview so I cannot tell how accurate the book is. So my recommendation is to wait for an updated version of AsteriskNow book.
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