Monitoring

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Powershell script prompting for credentials when it shouldn’t?

This entry was posted in Monitoring powershell and tagged Powershell Windows Backup on September 12, 2016 by admin

I was working on a simple script to send the status of the built in Windows backup on two 2012r2 servers and one 2008r2 server. I found a script that fitted the bill here  – and on the first two servers it worked fine with the correct details added. However when I tried it on […]

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Cannot find check file msexch_isclienttype in Check_MK after adding an Exchange Host?

This entry was posted in Monitoring Tips and tagged Check_MK Exchange Nagios OMD on September 7, 2016 by HAL

This issue appeared when an Exchange 2013  server was added as a host in Check_MK RAW 1.2.8p9. It appears once you have added the host and are trying to activate the changes made. The error appears like this and prevents the updates from being saved / completed. The solution is to find a related check […]

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Get yourself a Pal

This entry was posted in Monitoring Must Have Software and tagged Performance Analysis Of Logs on March 27, 2014 by HAL

During a recent training course on optimising a particular applications performance in a fairly complex multi server configuration I was introduced to this tool which takes a lot off the heavy lifting out of getting performance logs and analysing them to see what bottlenecks or other issues may be occurring. This tool takes standard windows […]

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Be A lert – Your country needs Lerts

This entry was posted in Development Monitoring on January 13, 2013 by HAL

In enhancing a Helpdesk application I wanted to expand the notification capabilities to include SMS from the application on the generation of new calls. More about the specifics of that in another post but one thing I wanted was to be able to differentiate when calls from a specific mobile came in on the iphone […]

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A better mousetrap – Check_mk keeps getting better

This entry was posted in Monitoring and tagged Check_MK Nagios on November 5, 2012 by HAL

The Nagios “addon” – check_mk makes the use of Nagios as a monitoring solution even more appealing. The windows monitoring agent allows tailored custom checks to ensure that the operating system and application subsystems are running correctly. In fact its flexibility is pretty much limited only by what you can think to check. The current […]

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Zenoss core 4 now available

This entry was posted in Monitoring Software Tips Virtualisation and tagged Nagios VMWare Zenoss on August 15, 2012 by HAL

The open source monitoring solution Zenoss gets a new release with 4.2 New features include An Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) message bus New jobs system for asynchronous tasks New high performance event management system (100M + events per day) WMI support ExtJS 4 JavaScript Framework support Advanced monitoring for legacy and cloud platforms with continued support for OpenStack and […]

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Can you guess what it is yet ?

This entry was posted in Development Monitoring Raspberry Pi Web and tagged Raspberry PI on June 13, 2012 by HAL

Its a box about 3 inches by two inches. It came in a white jiffy bag with letters R and S in red on it. There is a power supply and various other accessory leads with it including a 4GB SD card. Any takers ? Okay the final clue – its got a picture of […]

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OMD distributed monitoring

This entry was posted in Interesting Monitoring Software and tagged Nagios OMD OMDISTRO on April 9, 2012 by HAL

Been working on an enhancement to a current Nagios monitoring system by adding Check_MK to the mix. Its quite interesting to see how easy it is to add multiple remote monitoring hosts to a central control host using the OMD’s built in distributed monitoring. In fact its really a case of – installing the OMD package […]

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