Published on
April 6, 2010 in
General.
Everyone should have heard about a “green” computer room at this point. The key concept behind a green computer room is vitalization. Many organizations have implemented a Xen environment within a Linux environment. Nagios can be deployed on a Xen client as you would any other server. However, Xen provides the ability to migrate a Xen client to another Xen host either through command line or heartbeat2 (HA). This article will explain one method for keeping track of where your virtual servers are within the enterprise.
Continue reading ‘Checking virtual machines (VM) on SLES through the Xen host’
Ethan Galstad interviewed by Dj Walker Morgan at h-online.com
Topics include: The Nagios future and Nagios and the Community.
http://bit.ly/c9s7PY
Published on
September 23, 2009 in
General.
David Schmitt wrote this howto for configuring Nagios to monitor hosts and services using Puppet. Here is a link to his website:
http://github.com/DavidS/puppet-nagios
In this howto, Dathan Vance Pattishall talks about handling events, such as clearing up swap in linux.
http://mysqldba.blogspot.com/2009/09/nagios-event-handlers-love-them.html
Published on
September 11, 2009 in
General.
I read a post at Port25 about Sam Ramji – Open Source technical strategist at Microsoft – leaving to join the CodePlex Foundation. This new vacancy at Microsoft creates a unique opportunity for a visionary who could help steer the company towards open standards, open code, and increased community relations and credibility in the ITOM space.
It’ll be interesting to see who gets the position. If he weren’t already busy being chief architect of OSS strategy at BMC, I’d bet that whurley would be a great pick to take on the challenge.
What are your thoughts on this position at Microsoft? I’d love to hear what the Nagios community thinks about it, as Microsoft is certainly a dominant player in the ITOM space, and most admins have to work with MS products alongside their OSS toolbox.
