Archive for March, 2006
Nagios is a monitoring solution for hosts and network services although it will monitor almost anything you can think of. It is extensible in as much as it uses plugins (of which many are already available) to determine whether a host or a service is up or not. When invoked, the Nagios plugin returns a [...]
This nice girl (or a grumpy old colleague of hers) will be flying our CD-ROMS out to Hong-Kong this afternoon. I hope she handles her the wares gently.
Because our clients are so unhappy about the bad IMAP connections, we've created mini mail servers which will be placed directly in the LANs on site, therewith effectively hiding any bandwidth and latency issues from the client (I say hide because the MUA will be connecting to a local server in the local network; that [...]
Ever since I first layed hands on OpenLDAP, I've been accustomed to synchronizing the master server with a number of slaves utilizing slurpd. This has always worked very well for us and, being a _push_ replication, it has the advantage that it can easily be monitored for errors in the replication. The _reject_ files created [...]
It is cold in the house. When I finally noticed at about 8:00 PM I called our friendly plumber who immediately drove out to see us (it helps a great deal when you pay your bills on time; people tend to be more willing to help).
After take the cowling off the heating and checking all [...]
I was checking up on results of Google Blogsearch, and I couldn't find my second to last posting. I then found it:
How did that happen? Did Ping-O-Matic set that date for me?