The last couple of days I have been working on a new project I want to introduce: IcingaBusylightAgent.

It all began with a new telephony system in our office. Instead of using physical phones, my colleagues are now using softphones. In addition to this, a gadget called Busylight representing the instant messenger …

Rcently I packaged the software scponly for Enterprise Linux using rpmbuild and stumbled upon an error message:

 1$ cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS
 2$ rpmbuild -ba scponly.spec
 3checking for libgiertz...
 4...
 5/usr/bin/install -c -o 0 -g 0 scponly /home/cstan/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/scponly-4.8-1.el7.centos.x86_64/usr/bin/scponly …

Using OMD it is possible to setup a working monitoring for checking infrastructure setups just within minutes.

But - what monitored OMD-relevant processes? Usually, a OMD site consists of multiple pre-configured services such as:

• Icinga or Nagios
• Apache web server
• Cron service
• rrdcached (for RRD graphs)
• npcd ( …