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Monitoring Foreman, Katello and Red Hat Satellite 6

Apr 30, 2017 · 3 min read · grafana icinga icinga2 katello nagios red-hat-satellite-6 ·

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 …

Monitoring OMD sites with check_omd

Jun 7, 2016 · 2 min read · icinga nagios omd ·

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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 …

Monitor systemd units with Nagios/Icinga

Jun 6, 2016 · 1 min read · icinga nagios ·

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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 …

Short tip: Monitor Koukaam NETIO PDUs with Nagios / Icinga

Mar 8, 2015 · 1 min read · icinga nagios netio kurztipp ·

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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 …

Monitor washing machines with Nagios / Icinga: check_gpio_pir

Dec 27, 2014 · 4 min read · icinga nagios raspberry-pi ·

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Winter time is crafting time! I spent the last couple of days on the Raspberry Pi and PIR sensors (Passive Infrared). Using this sensors it is possible to recognize motions - in combination with GPIO APIs you can create useful applications. The first idea that came in my mind was to monitor my washing machine in the …

Short tip: Nagios/Icinga error "DISK CRITICAL - /var/lib/pgsql/data is not accessible: Permission denied"

Nov 18, 2013 · 2 min read · icinga nagios kurztipp ·

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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 …

Debian Wheezy's send_nsca and nsca 2.7.2

Dec 10, 2012 · 1 min read · debian icinga nagios ·

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For the first time, a dedicated package for the NSCA agent is added under Debian Wheezy (before there was only a package which combined agent and daemon). The package version is 2.9.1 - which leads to syslog error messages in combination with a NSCA server in version 2.7.2: 1# cat /var/log/messages 2... 3nsca[30772]: …