Monthly Archives: April 2011

Extended monitoring via snmp

Mon­i­tor­ing sys­tems uti­lize agents run­ning on the mon­i­tored sys­tem in order to pro­vide a con­sis­tent access mech­a­nism to get at host and appli­ca­tion data. Hypric has an agent, Zab­bix has an agent, Nagios has NRPE as an agent option, col­lectd has an agent. Maybe its just my flawed per­cep­tion but when I think of agent …

April 28, 2011 – 9:57 pm | By Nick Anderson | Posted in Posts | Comments (0)

My April Fools

April 1st. I had a fairly event­ful day, first I found that the phone sys­tem at $work has been mis-configured since it was installed. Sec­ond I got a call from some­one I had worked with a few years back about a sys­tem that did not have back­ups that had a raid hic­cup tank­ing the sys­tem …

April 5, 2011 – 12:17 pm | By Nick Anderson | Posted in Posts | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)