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Nagios Event Handlers on Windows

Nagios event handlers are WHERE IT’S AT, BABY, YEAH!  There are some services that I can just automagically restart without any problems.  (WSUS, SQL Agent, etc.) This way, instead of notifying me, Nagios can just fix the problem for me and We Need Never Know....

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...

True Confessions

I run Nagios at home.  It texts me when my machines need patches. I told this to a charming gentleman who was my dinner companion for the evening and he gave me a look that implied that I was not all there.  (He’s a Nagios admin, too, but not willingly.)  I...

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...

Tracking total file usage, DBs only.

Yes, I’ve been bad about updating.  I was traumatized by a bunch of friends getting laid off from a former employer, and then I had two very busy weeks. This system of tracking total file usage, DBs only, came up talking to someone recently (Eric, are you...

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