Monitoring

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Monitoring your Nagios install

This entry was posted in Monitoring Software and tagged Nagios on June 16, 2010 by HAL

I have been using a sidebar tool for  monitoring Nagios This one caught my eye Nagstamon is a Nagios status monitor for the desktop. It connects to multiple Nagios, Opsview and Centreon monitoring servers and resides in systray or as a floating statusbar at the desktop showing a brief summary of critical, warning, unknown, unreachable […]

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Jumping the Wireshark

This entry was posted in Monitoring Software Tips and tagged Packet Sniffing Wireshark on March 29, 2010 by HAL

A blacklisting issue for a client led to dusting of my Ethereal experience and employing the new flavour of the veritable packet sniffing tool to narrow  down smtp traffic from a specific machine. The product installation from www.wireshark.org was quick and clear in its instruction. Installing on a laptop connected to the external facing internet […]

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Grrrr – let me know …..

This entry was posted in Interesting Internet Monitoring Software Web on November 13, 2009 by HAL

This was a package I came across while researching notification methods and options for Nagios to improve ease of information filtering for colleagues (more about that in later posts) but the name of the psoftware is Growl. Based on an OS/X package Growl has been ported for windows and comes with a range of plugins […]

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Connecting a serial modem to a virtual machine running on ESXi

This entry was posted in Gadgets Hardware Interesting Monitoring Web and tagged VMware Serial Modem on October 24, 2009 by HAL

Recently during a vmware migration project I had a requirement to present a fax modem to a quite elderly installation of Tobit Faxware running on Windows 2003. I had planned to investigate replacing the serial modem with a usb model and testing a USB Anywhere product from Digi. Then I remembered some work I had […]

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And finally ….. INM 4 is released

This entry was posted in Gadgets Monitoring Must Have Review Software on August 16, 2009 by HAL

For those who require agentless monitoring or servers and services – the Intellipool Network monitor has been been one of the nicest I’ve used. After almost a year of development I noted that the final release code was posted on Friday. Major new features: User configurable dashboard with 12 different widgets Network maps Network weather […]

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I got the power ……

This entry was posted in Gadgets Monitoring Review on August 14, 2009 by HAL

Sick of having to go on site to reboot a troublesome device that requires being powered off – or rebooted – or trying to talk a user through getting the correct machine selected through a maze of power cables ? Well then – its time to use remote power switching !!! The IP-9258 shown above […]

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Senturion firmware update

This entry was posted in Gadgets Interesting Monitoring Web on August 10, 2009 by HAL

Highlights of the latest Sensatronic Senturion climate monitor firmware updates. Sensatronics continue to add new functionality and enhance the usability of the unit. From the release notes Version 2.34 – Dialer Support Support for external automated phone dialer – Receive pre-recorded voice alerts NTP Support – Configurable NTP Server, time zone, and daylight savings time […]

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Senturion Firmware Updated to Version 2.20

This entry was posted in Monitoring Tips and tagged Senturion on April 9, 2009 by HAL

Its been a while since I mentioned the latest updates for the Senturion Climate monitor but the last batch added some interesting items 03/12/09: Version 2.20 – Import/Export Ability to save and load configuration settings You can now export the log to .csv file Probe history can be exported to .csv file Test Email button […]

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