Monitoring ESXi Server health using Nagios/Opsview
As part of a project I am currently working on I have a requirement to check that my clients’ infrastructure is working to the best of its ability. Whilst we perform regular checks to ensure the sites...
View ArticleNagios/Opsview: Check Symantec AV Definitions
This morning whilst deploying a modified version of the Symantec Anti-Virus check from MonitoringExchange.org I noticed that on my 64-bit hosts that the check was not returning the correct data and...
View ArticlePublishing scripts to Monitoring Exchange
As I start to write/modify more checks and scripts for monitoring applications in Nagios/Opsview I have decided to share these as much as possible with the community so they can enjoy, and if...
View ArticleCheck E-Trust Antivirus Definitions
Following on from my Symantec AV check I have written a first version of a similar check for E-Trust virus definitions. The format and structure to the check is the same as this check but it should...
View ArticleOpsview: Host Attributes and Keywords
Having been an avid Nagios/Opsview user for a while I am always keen to see new features that make my life of defining and managing systems easier. I had been meaning to try out the host attributes...
View ArticleNSClient 0.3.9 released
NSClient 0.3.9 was released earlier this month and from the looks of the change log should be a good replacement for 0.3.8. (http://www.nsclient.org/nscp/blog/Blog-2011-07-05). As with previous...
View ArticleNagios Windows Updates check
Following on from my post last night about the Windows Updates check on MonitoringExchange a colleague reminded me that we acutally modified the script from there as we weren’t looking for the names of...
View Articlecheck_equallogic volumes bug
I have been playing arond with the check_equallogic Nagios plugin written by Claudio Kuenzler (http://www.claudiokuenzler.com) to monitor some performance and utilisation values for a client and I came...
View ArticleMonitoring HP ESXi Hosts using Insight Remote Support
This is just a direct link to the HP Blog article itself but worth a read if you are looking at monitoring any HP server running ESX or ESXi. The main bit that I have always found is that you need to...
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