Archive for the 'Monitoring' Category

ip aIcinga/Nagios: Check Windows Updates

Another really helpful check for your Icinga or Nagios instance.

If your have any windows machines you can check the Windows Update-State. How many Updates you need to install and if you need to reboot your servers after updating them. Continue reading ‘ip aIcinga/Nagios: Check Windows Updates’

Icinga/Nagios: Windows monitoring

Another alternative way to monitor Windows machines with NSC-Client, you need only one time access to the Windows-Box and install the client and configure it.

All other monitoring steps can be performed from the monitoring instances like Icinga or Nagios.

Q: What can be monitored? Continue reading ‘Icinga/Nagios: Windows monitoring’

Icinga: change notifications sender


All my Icinga notifications arrived with a sender “nagios@monitoring.zeldor.biz” but Iam running icinga and not nagios this is a little bit stupid.

By fixing the “commands.cfg” you can change this behavior as described below: Continue reading ‘Icinga: change notifications sender’

WordPress Munin Plugin

The original Plugin was written by Chris Bair, after some tunings it worked fine for me.

I made some useful modifications to this Plugin:
- Visualization of the number of Drafts
- Set table prefix (I hate hardcodet things)



And now how to use it, first you need to create a configuration file for the plugin(replace the needed credentials) Continue reading ‘WordPress Munin Plugin’

Icinga/Nagios server room temperature

After I wrote the posts about your own digital temperature sensor and Nagios/Icinga Traffic-Light its time to combine the two ideas and bring some lights to switch.

We have two working independent components, with a plugin is it possible to get the sensor status. If your temperature is higher then normal you should get a signal (Warning or Critical).

Define the new check command, with name and a plugin with some arguments:
Continue reading ‘Icinga/Nagios server room temperature’