Thanksgiving Gluttony
Yum, Nagios gluttony! I’m donating Nagios monitoring to a couple of nonprofits, and this brings up how Nagios configurations grow. In short, you learn over time what you need to keep an eye on. For example: On one nonprofit, someone forgot to renew the domain...Clearly, you’re doing it wrong.
So, I have this friend. (No, really, it’s my friend, it’s not me, I set up my own Nagios server.) She’s a DBA with no responsibility for anything outside of a bunch of SQL Servers. Nagios wakes her up in the middle of the night if the web server...Your Servers’ Baby Monitor
Do you know about Write or Die? It’s described as “putting the prod into productivity” and is for procrastinating writers to force themselves to write. (Writers procrastinate. It’s a thing. You can spend hours surfing the web for baby name...Confessions of a Monitoring Junkie
You may be asking yourself, “Self, why should I cough up cash for SQL Monitor or spend time (or pay someone to spend time) setting up Nagios?” The answer, of course, is: Do you want to know something is wrong now, or when a customer calls you and says...Patch Tuesday
If you’re like me, you have Patch Tuesday on your calendar. In fact, if you’re like me, you’re running something like this at home! with your linux desktop checking itself and your Windows desktop for available patches via Nagios! No? It’s...Nagios Plugin – SQL Job Status
I checked out Nagios Exchange, and didn’t see anything that checked the status of a job and used Windows/AD credentials/trusted connection. So I wrote this. It’s intended to run as an NRPE script, and doesn’t require anything that doesn’t come...Subscribe
