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. [Read more…]
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? [Read more…]
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: [Read more…]
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) [Read more…]
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:
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