July 2nd, 2009
It seems I have missed out on some drama related to Nagios recently. I went to take a look at the listing for the Nagios plugins I have put out there on nagiosexchange.org only to discover that they have now rebranded themselves as monitoringexchange.org and are run by a group that is now dedicated to a fork of Nagios called Icinga. How confusing… and now there is a new plugin site at exchange.nagios.org.
I have no clue about which of these two sites is going to end up being the de facto source for Nagios plugins, but I have claimed what is mine on the Nagios branded one and will probably maintain things in parallel for the time being. Here are the links there for my LSI MegaRAID SAS (Dell PERC5 & PERC6) plugin, check_megaraid_sas, and my Perforce license plugin, check_p4_license.
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June 30th, 2009
I think it is probably fair to say that I have a “thing” for pens and paper. Not fetish level… why don’t we just say “penchant”.
Anyways, I had to pop in to Bob Slate Stationer today. On my own. I probably shouldn’t do this too often. I think at least 50% of the time I end up in a shop with pens, unsupervised, I come home with something. This time I escaped relatively cheaply with a new pen, a Pelikan “Pelikano Junior”. Here are some pics:
The pen was $10.35 and came in a variety of colors, at least green, orange a blue ones were available (I picked up a blue as well, but sent it straight off as a gift to someone). The pen is all plastic (except for the nib of course) and translucent in color, but seems quite sturdy. The yellow grip is somewhat rubbery. The nib has an “A” on it, the meaning of which I do not understand (I should have checked if the blue one was similar), and I would say it is roughly a medium size. Slightly larger than the medium on my LAMYs.
I like the pen. It is a sturdy little guy that I think I will be able to just throw in my bad without too many concerns. Fun and chunky with a simple design.
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April 8th, 2009
I feel like whatever code I write, no matter how simple or seemingly insignificant, eventually ends up becoming useful to someone else at some point. So here is a quick Nagios plugin that I whipped up today, check_p4_license.
I have a server running Perforce at work and it seems that every other year I have managed to not realize the license needed renewing until someone said to me, “Hey, is there any reason Perforce isn’t working?”
This year my spider-senses started tickling earlier on and I caught it in time, but I told myself I needed to count on more than just an odd sense of doom and foreboding in April. So I wrote a quickly Perl script that calls the Perforce p4 CLI tool and looks at your server’s license info and gripes back to you if it is going to be expiring any time soon.
I have also placed this plugin up on NagiosExchange, because I have found that it is better for me to do so earlier on than to have someone else find my stuff and upload then abandon it.
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April 6th, 2009
This isn’t any major ground breaking discover, not even a minor hack. What it is, however, is a simple solution to a question that didn’t turn up any good results when I tried to Google it earlier on.
The Problem: I have a user with a Filemaker database that they want to quickly share via the Internet, which is generally easy to do using the Instant Web Publishing (IWP). I don’t, however, want to have the Filemaker server exposed through the firewall. I want to be able to use an Apache server I have sitting on the edge of the network to proxy for it instead.
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April 6th, 2009
It has been a long time since my last blog post, and I couldn’t say how long since the blog software was updated. I typically use the time of posting a new blog entry as a window to look at updating the blog software as well. This time I decided to not just update the software, but to switch platforms as well.
So I have decided to go over to WordPress from Movable Type. It is GPL and all other sorts of good stuff, plus a friend of mine who uses his own blog far more frequently described it as moving from “Outhouse to Flush Toilet”. That seems like qualifications enough to me.
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