Devoxx - Day 1

Some of us ConSol Labs guys enter this year’s Devoxx, the largest
Java conference in Europe. You can expect some blogging about the
state of Java, the newest trends and cool stuff in general out there
for this week.

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Author:Roland Huß
Tags:conference, devoxx
Categories:devoxx, java, development
Jolokia

Let’s welcome the new kid on the labs.consol block: Jolokia.

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Author:Roland Huß
Tags:jmx, Jolokia, jsr-160
Categories:jolokia

A small Nagios plugin for monitoring search hit counts. Don’t take it too seriously.

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Author:Roland Huß
Tags:Nagios
Categories:nagios

Die Datenbank-Plugins check_oracle_health, check_mysql_health, check_mssql_health und check_db2_health unterstützen auf vielfachen Wunsch auch den Parameter --extra-opts. Damit ist es jetzt möglich, z.B. Login-Daten von den Kommandozeilenparametern in Konfigurationsdateien zu verlagern. Neben Environmentvariablen gibt es somit eine weitere Alternative, Passwörter aus der Prozessliste zu entfernen und dadurch vor neugierigen Blicken zu schützen.

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Author:Gerhard Laußer
Tags:check_mysql_health, extra-opts, Nagios, Plugins
Categories:nagios
Jmx4Perl 0.72

Jmx4Perl 0.72 has been released which is a pure bug-fix release.

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Author:Roland Huß
Tags:check_jmx4perl, jmx, Jmx4Perl
Categories:jmx4perl
Thruk 0.70

Thruk 0.70 has been released at (download). The three major changes from user perspective are

  • side menu is completly adjustable by config file
  • excel export for hosts and services
  • search includes comments and downtimes

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Author:Sven Nierlein
Tags:Nagios, Thruk
Categories:nagios

Since version 0.70, check_jmx4perl has support for configuration files. JMX Nagios checks are now considerably simpler to configure and multi checks add even more performance and flexibility.

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Author:Roland Huß
Tags:check_jmx4perl, jmx4perl, Nagios
Categories:jmx4perl, nagios

This post explains why a dedicated Tomcat Connector reserved for the jmx4perl agent is a useful thing.

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Author:Roland Huß
Tags:jmx4perl, tomcat
Categories:jmx4perl, nagios
Citrus and TestNG groups

TestNG groups add great flexibility to the Citrus test execution. We are able to divide all tests into several groups reaching a sophisticated seperation of concerns in our test setup. As an example I want to classify some of my functional Citrus tests as “long-running”. These tests may not apply to continuous execution every time I package my project. Instead of this I want to set up a scheduled integration build to execute those long-running tests in a time schedule.

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Author:Christoph Deppisch
Tags:Citrus, Maven, testng
Categories:citrus, maven
Citrus 1.1 released

Citrus 1.1 release is here (download)! The release comes with a bunch of new features and bugfixes. Here is a short list of major features and changes in this release:

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Author:Christoph Deppisch
Tags:Citrus
Categories:citrus, development