Devoxx 2011 – Day 1
Posted on November 15th, 2011 by roland
We are back again. The first day as always is some sort of warming up and getting into the flow. This year was special in so far as one os us (roland) gave his first talk at Devoxx. But let’s start with the first talk. Here are our personal reviews for some of the talks we’ve attended with the author of each review is mentioned after the title in parentheses. These reviews covers JEE6 Enterprise applications, Arquillian, Continous Delivery, Spring Data JPA, Jolokia (of course ;-), Scala and Glassfish rolling updates.
Devoxx – here we come !
Posted on November 13th, 2011 by roland
The ConSol posse is on the road again for having a good and inspiring time at Devoxx. Devoxx is probably one of the best things what can happen to a Java developer. Marcel, Alvin, Jan and myself (Roland) will be at the show for the whole week, Christoph, Torsten and Christian will join us on wednesday.
Thruk Benchmarks
Posted on November 10th, 2011 by sven
I often get asked if there are any benchmarks for Thruk so i finally decided to do some tests.
High performance string concatenation in Python
Posted on November 1st, 2011 by lausser
During evaluation of the migration of a customer’s Nagios installation to the Shinken monitoring system, i encountered a strange problem. Reading the configuration from a few files (hosts.cfg, services.cfg, etc) took a reasonable amount of time. But as soon as i divided the configuration into lots of smaller files (one directory for each host with several services files within), it took nearly an hour. What happened?
Halloween Update: Jmx4Perl 1.01 and Jolokia 1.0.1
Posted on October 31st, 2011 by roland
Speicher löst sich nicht mehr in Luft auf dank check_hpasm
Posted on October 14th, 2011 by lausser
Während des Bootens von Proliant-Servern wird eine umfangreiche Prüfung der verbauten Speichermodule durchgeführt. Entdeckt das Bios dabei Ungereimtheiten oder schadhafte DIMMs, so werden diese auskonfiguriert und der Bootvorgang fortgesetzt. Ob dies bei einem Server vorgekommen ist, zeigt ein Blick ins Integrated Management Log. Dort erscheint dann folgende Meldung:
Event: 26 Added: 03/08/2011 21:01 CAUTION: POST Messages - POST Error: 207-Memory initialization error on Processor 1 DIMM 6. The operating system may not have access to all of the memory installed in the system..
Jolokia 1.0.0 and Jmx4Perl 1.00
Posted on October 4th, 2011 by roland
Time to celebrate: After two and half years working on Jmx4Perl and Jolokia it is time now to nail down the 1.0 release. The last month the focus was on hardening this first official release.
Maven Resource Bundle Check Plugin 0.5
Posted on September 30th, 2011 by mm
The new maven-rbc-plugin 0.5 release contains minor bugfixes.
OMD 0.50 is available
Posted on September 23rd, 2011 by sven
The developer team of OMD (Open Monitoring Distribution) released the version 0.50 today. This version contains bugfixes and lots of updated packages including Shinken, Thruk, PNP4Nagios, Mod-Gearman, check_oracle_health and check_mysql_health.
Jolokia and Jmx4Perl on tour
Posted on August 29th, 2011 by roland
Jolokia and Jmx4Perl will go on tour this autumn. Roland Huss will talk about both projects in November at Devoxx, Antwerp, which is the biggest independent Java community conference in the world and at the Open Source Monitoring Conference, Nuremberg.