I have registred me to attend the open Splunk event in Stockholm. Within 24 hours I got an email telling that they do not want competitors at the event and would like to discuss the purpose of me attending.
I called the Splunk representative and told him that op5 thinks Splunk is a competitor in some cases and in [...]
With my new and fancy HTC Desire I wanted to look at my Nagios or op5 Monitor status. I have found two apps Nagroid and NagMonDroid.
After waiting for several weeks, my new phone, a HTC Desire has finally arrived. I have been a heavy cellphone user since started working as a Tivoli consultant in -98. I bought my first cellphone -94 and have had several so called smart phones both from Nokia and Ericsson.
For the first time I felt that [...]
Background
It is always a good idea to monitor the server hardware, in many cases the root cause of the probblem is hardware related like: a fan stops and the temperature gets to high, dust in the machine makes it to hot, disks that fails, memory corruption and so on. This article will describe howto enable [...]
The release of the next generation Open Source Network Monitoring Software is only weeks away with the release of op5 Monitor 5. Here you can download a Beta version of the sofware intended for testing och evaluation or try it at a live demo.
op5 Monitor Beta, virtual image in ovf format
Try op5 Monitor Beta
The op5 [...]
An email sent to op5-users from op5s CTO, Peter Östlin.
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Hi All,
The op5 devel team has been kind of quiet on the list lately. The
reason for this is that we have been working very hard to complete the
next release of Merlin and Ninja. The result of this will be the
release of op5 Monitor 5.0 scheduled for [...]
Background
At op5 we often run into BizTalk at customer sites as a business critical application. We have done an investigation and come up with a plugin to monitor BizTalk.
To fully understand this document BizTalk knowledge is necessary.
Background
I was reading the Swedish computer magazine, Tech World. There was an article about an appliance solution that could give a report about unused switch ports. The box PortIQ from Infoblox costs approximatly 10.000 Euro.
op5 has developed this feature at a customer site and is included with op5 Monitor, op5 has published the code as opensource.
This [...]
Background
This article will describe how easy it is to integrate other tools to Nagios or op5 Monitor. I will use an example with a webshop where a business view of how the webshop is doing is implemented by using a GPL’d rule engine, NodeBrain. I have in an earlier article described the ruleset for this implementation [...]
https://bugs.op5.com/ is now also open for external users to sign up. By signing up you can post bug and feature requests, post bug-notes etc.
Before doing so, please check out the "How to Submit Bug/Feature" documentation available from within the bug tracker.
Note: op5 opensource projects Merlin, Ninja and Nacoma are for now available as categories on [...]
op5 AB is a world leading OSM – Open Source Management – company that delivers software based on open source for control of IT systems and networks. The award winning op5 Monitor is now released with important enhancements that will enable customers and other vendors to further improve usability and integration for optimized IT monitoring. [...]
Next week, op5 will release the new Nagios GUI called Ninja. The license is GPL and several people has reported the GUI work perfectly well on vanilla Nagios. Ninja uses a database backend. Merlin, another op5 developed software feeds the Nagios information into the database.
Links:
op5 -OpenSource based management software company
Ninja- Nagios Is Now Just Awesome
Merlin [...]
I noticed that my blog become slower and slower by using op5 Monitor and webinject, see previous article. From installation 2.5 seconds to over 7.5 seconds to run my testcases. The most annoying was that the it was a very linear increase see graphs below. My first try was to tune MySQL
By installing wp-cache the [...]
Op5 has written an excellent article howto monitor Esx3.x, ESXi, vSphere 4 and vCenter Server with op5 Monitor. This article is op5 Monitor centric but op5 Monitor is based on Nagios so this article can be used to implement Nagios vmware monitoring.
The plugin used to gather the information is GPLd and developed by op5.
Links
The article [...]
An interesting article describing howto use Skype to send SMS notification for Nagios or op5 Monitor can be find here:
http://wiki.nagios.org/index.php/SkypeSmsNotification
My recommendation is to use an GSM modem to send SMS, because if the network is down no SMS can be sent with this solution and SMS is normally used as an alternative alarm route.
Another aspect [...]
Background
I use MythTV quite frequently and noticed that it is instable when using sasc-ng as a decoder to decrypt encrypted DVB-T channels. So approximatly every third day the MythTVbackend server stops and need to be started again. I have wriiten an earlier article about howto monitor MythTV with Nagios or op5 Monitor so I get [...]
op5 develops plugins for op5 Monitor, based on Nagios. As a courtesy to the community the plugins developed are free and can be downloaded from:
http://www.op5.org/community/projects/op5-plugins
The plugins is also located in a Git repository and can be checked out from:
http://git.op5.org/git/
The Merlin project was initially started to create an easy way to set up distributed Nagios installations allowing Nagios processes to exchange information directly as an alternative to the standard nagios way using NSCA. When starting the Ninja project we realised that we could continue the work on Merlin and adopt the project to function [...]
Demo of how the Nagios based network monitoring tool op5 Monitor works and how easy it is to use. This part contains demo of the reports module and how to make SLA reports.
Background
This article describes how to monitor an IPSEC tunnel running on OpenBSD. I could not find any plugin already done so I created my own.
The pre req. for this article are:
A working Nagios or op5 Monitor setup
A IPsec VPN tunnel running on OpenBSD
A working NRPE agent at the OpenBSD box
A demo of the benefits with op5 Monitor and what you can monitor with this Nagios based network monitoring tool. This first part gives a short introduction and overview of the tool.
I will be running a demo of op5 products at thursday April 23:th 16:00 CET.
The demo is hosted by Collax a op5 partner in Germany.
If you want to attend, register at:
http://www.collax.com/de/ueber-collax/events-collax-live/webcast-collax-monitoring-solution.html
Background
This article describe howto use a USB camera (also known as webcam) to detect motions and send an alarm to Nagios or op5 Monitor. It can be used in datacenters to send an alert if someone or something is moving or at home to detect if someone is in your house. I will place the [...]
When using a database that are business critical it can be a good idea to monitor the internals. This article describe how-to monitor MySql with Nagios or op5 Monitor. In these case it runs a MythTV system but it could be almost anything.
Pre requirements
The pre requriements for this article is a working Nagios or op5 [...]
There are several ways of monitor a wordpress blog by using Nagios or op5 Monitor.
Wordpress uses the following parts to work:
Webserver frontend
PHP scripts
MySQL database backend
At least one system to run it on
I found one article describing howto monitor the Webserver and the MySQL database and even that a certain webpage contain a certain phrase. But [...]
