Comments on: Did you remember to set your clocks back? http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2009/11/did-you-remember-to-set-your-clocks-back/ A blog for IT Admins who do everything by an IT Admin who does everything Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:10:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ryan http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2009/11/did-you-remember-to-set-your-clocks-back/comment-page-1/#comment-3522 Ryan Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:17:12 +0000 http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2009/11/did-you-remember-to-set-your-clocks-back/#comment-3522 "A single nagios alert is enough to make me wake up and read the message. 80 nagios alerts in the span of 30 seconds is enough to make me jump out off bed, run into the living room, and be awake enough to think “how can anything be this badly broken yet still able to send messages???”" I had one of these moments a couple days ago at about 4:00 am, not a good thing on a computational cluster :-P “A single nagios alert is enough to make me wake up and read the message. 80 nagios alerts in the span of 30 seconds is enough to make me jump out off bed, run into the living room, and be awake enough to think “how can anything be this badly broken yet still able to send messages???””

I had one of these moments a couple days ago at about 4:00 am, not a good thing on a computational cluster :-P

]]> By: jimb http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2009/11/did-you-remember-to-set-your-clocks-back/comment-page-1/#comment-3512 jimb Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:10:36 +0000 http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2009/11/did-you-remember-to-set-your-clocks-back/#comment-3512 check_ntp_time <code> [root@sql1 ~]# cat /etc/nrpe.d/mycorp.cfg allowed_hosts=10.10.24.66 command[check_disk_root]=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_disk -w 20% -c 10% -p /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 command[check_disk_san]=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_disk -w 20% -c 10% -p /dev/mapper/mpath1 command[check_ntp_time]=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_ntp_time -H -w 0.1 -c 0.2 </code> Did you really think this basic a wheel needed to be re-invented? check_ntp_time


[root@sql1 ~]# cat /etc/nrpe.d/mycorp.cfg
allowed_hosts=10.10.24.66
command[check_disk_root]=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_disk -w 20% -c 10% -p /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
command[check_disk_san]=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_disk -w 20% -c 10% -p /dev/mapper/mpath1
command[check_ntp_time]=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_ntp_time -H -w 0.1 -c 0.2

Did you really think this basic a wheel needed to be re-invented?

]]> By: Preston de Guise http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2009/11/did-you-remember-to-set-your-clocks-back/comment-page-1/#comment-3511 Preston de Guise Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:42:42 +0000 http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2009/11/did-you-remember-to-set-your-clocks-back/#comment-3511 You can be thankful you weren't driving - search for "Ukraine" on this Risks Digest article to see what I mean: <a HREF="http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/20.16.html" rel="nofollow">Risks 20.16</A>. You can be thankful you weren’t driving – search for “Ukraine” on this Risks Digest article to see what I mean: Risks 20.16.

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