As announced recently [https://log.cyconet.org/2020/12/13/monitoring-plugins-2-3-released/] I prepared a monitoring-plugins 2.3 package for experimental. If there is enough positive feedback until 12th January 2021, I intend [https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-nagios-devel/2020-December/011005.html] to upload this into unstable targeted for Debian Bullseye.…
While our last release has matured for quite a little time, there raised demands within our community [https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/issues/1640] for a new release. The development has settled this fall and @sni [https://twitter.com/sven_nierlein] was already using master for a while in production,…
In case you ever wanted to look at Icinga2 [http://www.icinga.org/icinga/icinga-2/], even into distributed [https://www.icinga.org/icinga/icinga-2/distributed-monitoring/] features, without messing with installing whole server setups, this might interesting for you. At first, you need to have a running Docker on your system.…
Three months ago version 2.0 of Monitoring Plugins [https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/] was released. Since then many changes [https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/compare/v2.0...master] were integrated. You can find a quick overview in the upstream NEWS [https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/blob/master/NEWS]. Now it&…
You may wonder why the old good nagios-plugins [https://packages.qa.debian.org/nagios-plugins] are not up to date in Debian [https://www.debian.org/intro/about] unstable [https://www.debian.org/releases/unstable/] and testing [https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/]. Since the people behind and maintaining the plugins…
It seems to be a great time for monitoring solutions. Some of you may have noticed that Icinga [http://icinga.org] has released [https://www.icinga.org/2014/06/16/icinga-2-0-has-arrived/] it's first stable version of the completely redeveloped Icinga 2 [https://www.icinga.org/icinga2/] . After several…
Last night it seems the so called 'Nagios Plugins' project [http://www.nagios-plugins.org/] was cut off. The story started a decade ago when development of the plugins compatible with Nagios [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios] was taken over by an independent group of developers [https://www.…
At first we need to install Icinga [https://www.icinga.org/] and lighttpd [http://www.lighttpd.net/]: # aptitude install icinga lighttpd We need to enable the lighttpd cgi and authentication module: # lighttpd-enable-mod cgi && ighttpd-enable-mod auth Let's create a config for Icinga (in a subdir of the…