Monitoring

Virtual machine watching

This entry was posted in Interesting Monitoring Virtualisation and tagged monitoring Virtualisation VMWARE ESX 3.5 on February 13, 2009 by HAL

With all the focus of my research for the last three months on familiarising myself with VMware ESX and the practical aspects of managing a simple ESX server configuration raises some areas that aren’t necessarily handled well by the supplied tools from Vmware. Firstly I wanted a simple monitoring application that allowed me to become […]

Go on – have something spicy !

This entry was posted in Interesting Monitoring Software and tagged Nagios Spiceworks on December 9, 2008 by HAL

Increasingly monitoring of the internal machines of clients and getting a handle on the day to day operations have become more important. As a longtime user of Spiceworks (the best kept secret for simple discovery and monitoring) I have been looking at the latest raft of changes and introductions that are planned. Specifically the “integration” […]

Whats new in Senturion firmware 1.09

This entry was posted in Gadgets Hardware Monitoring Web and tagged Sensatronics Senturion on July 27, 2008 by HAL

Some details of the latest firmware along with summary instructions of how to update ———- How to update your Senturion device ———- 1) Log into your Senturion monitor via the IP address or URL 2) Click the ‘Support’ tab 3) The yellow box in the top right shows the unit’s serial number and the most […]

Managing your support

This entry was posted in Monitoring Software Web on June 3, 2008 by HAL

If you have a large number of remote or local machines that you are using VNC or rdp to support – you really should take a good look at SmartCode’s VNC Manager here I’ve been using it for over a year and it was a shock when I realised I hadn’t mentioned here. I have […]

ORDB.org and Mercury Mail Server blacklisting

This entry was posted in Monitoring Software Tips Web on March 27, 2008 by HAL

A client called with a a problem relating to a Mercury mail server that had started to display errors relating to mail being blocked – specifically “Host Blocked by ORDB Rejecting Message” on the mercury console screen. Initially I thought the client had been blacklisted but then remembered that Mercury had the ORDB server as […]

Whats new in Senturion Firmware 1.07

This entry was posted in Hardware Monitoring Must Have Sentry on March 4, 2008 by HAL

The latest release of the firmware for Senturion contains some interesting items specifically for me the one following :- * Enhancement #8171: Integrated Camera I’ll be back with some further info on this feature in another article but meanwhile a refresher on the upgrade process (this of course assumes an internet connection!) and some further […]

Syslogging from Redhat to Windows – the setup

This entry was posted in Monitoring Tips Web on February 15, 2008 by HAL

The requirement here is to provide syslog information from a Redhat Linux Enterprise 4 server to a windows network where alerts can be recorded and additional actions such as email alerts generated. The first stage should be to identify the host that will receive the syslog messages and install the Kiwi Syslog application. Follow the […]

Tie my syslog down, Sport !! – Tie my syslog down …