The thought occurs to me that there is a lot of concern about the health of SSDs by admins who don’t have a lot of experience with them. I don’t have a lot of experience with them either, but I’ve spent a decent amount of time learning how they work, why they fail, and reading [...]

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Last year, I presented a Nagios presentation at the Professional IT Community Conference, and I promised to get the contents of the USB key online Real Soon Now(tm). Well, guess what? It’s finally done! That’s right, you can download the contents of the key right here. The zipfile should unpack into a directory called “Keeping [...]

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Although this is a HOWTO, ironically, it doesn’t cover the actual configuration of Nagios. It covers the part of the configuration that might actually be harder than creating hosts, groups, and services. It covers how to organize your configuration directory in a way that makes it easiest to add new hosts, groups, services and commands [...]

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Jack Hughes over at The Tech Teapot posted today that Nagios has been forked. Apparently the lead developer (and sole person with commit access) has been very busy and not committing updates. This caused some self-described protagonists to launch “Icinga“. It’s going to be very interesting to see where this goes. I personally hope that [...]

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I was unaware of this project, but thanks to stephenpc on twitter, I read an excellent (if a bit dated) article on RootDev which brought OpenNMS to my attention as a possible replacement for nagios. I was mildly surprised, mostly because I haven’t been shopping for a Nagios replacement since I installed and configured Nagios [...]

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The LinkedIn Nagios Users Group posted a link to a survey to gauge interest in Nagios conference in Baltimore, MD timed to coincide with LISA, the misnamed Large Installation Systems Administration conference. If you’re considering going to LISA (and you should at least consider it) and you’d like to attend a Nagios Conference at the [...]

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