Foreman, Katello and Red Hat Satellite 6 users have multiple possibilities to monitor infrastructure health. Beside the Foreman host, also managed systems and defined software content are worth monitoring. Foreman dashboard Foreman/Katello and Red Hat Satellite offer a dashboard with some widgets that can be used for …

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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 …

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In my last article I focussed on Icinga 2 and the new configuration utility Icinga Director. I mentioned that Icinga Director can be used to link Icinga to pre-existing Configuration Management Database (CMDB) systems to simplify data import. In this article we will create a little "dummy CMDB" with MySQL and …

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Icinga2 is a very powerful monitoring system that can be used optionally with the new user interface Icinga Web 2. In comparison with Icinga 1.x, those tools have been developed completely from scratch - they have nothing in common with the legacy software stack. This year, a configuration utility named Icinga Director …

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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 …

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Recently I stumbled upon an interesting blog post about monitoring systemd units with Nagios or Icinga. But in my opinion the post's screenshot is misleading. I looks like the linked Python scripts automatically discovers and configures systemd units within Nagios/Icinga - which is not the case. The script named …

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When configuring and testing a Python Icinga plugin within an OMD site, I stumbled upon the following error recently: 1TypeError: 'frozenset' object is not callable After some tests on other systems, I found out, that the Python library hashlib shipped with OMD seems to be faulty. Copying the system-wide …

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Koukaam NETIO power outlets offer a network interface that can be used for controlling the particular ports comfortably. It would be even nicer to monitor them with Nagios or Icinga. 2012 I created a provisional bash script for monitoring the ports and time synchronization over NTP. This weekend I migrated the script …

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If you're running a PostgreSQL database on a CentOS/RHEL system and moved the data directory to a dedicated partition the following error might occur if you want to monitor the filling level using the Nagios/Icinga plugin check_disk: 1DISK CRITICAL - /var/lib/pgsql/data is not accessible: Permission denied The reason …

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If you use Open Monitoring Distribution (OMD) and don't want to setup a full-fledged Postfix or Sendmail service (e.g. because it is a test system) you might want to have a look at the alternative tool ssmtp for relaying mails to an external mail server. The tool is only recommend if you don't need any local mail …

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