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Another modern method for the mobile age to be up to date everywhere about your infrastructure. Everyone has a mobile device with internet access, you need only a ICQ client to receive information notifications.
Today I’m going to talk about how to bring this idea to live… Continue reading ‘Monitoring with ICQ’
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’
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’
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’
Nagios and Icinga have a lot of notification opportunities, receive status via Mail, SMS, Twitter or maybe XMPP? Sometimes is it not easy to decide what you really need and what is better for your quick reaction.
If you have more than one monitor it is easy to overlook an important mail, or your mobile phone is in silent mode and you don’t know that you get a critical notification.
If you are a webmaster and you are working a lot with your browser – there is a solution for Mozilla Firefox with terrible wake up sounds – called Nagios Checker for Mozilla Firefox:
Continue reading ‘Nagios/Icinga Traffic-Light’