A lot of people coming to NSClient++ has a background in NRPE since it is a common transport mechanism for check results on Linux.
And while NSClient++ is fully NRPE compatible it allows for more control and has more features which can make it seem difficult to get started with. This is a guide for getting started with NSClient++ from a NRPE perspective.
Just thought I’d drop a short note mentioning my presentation for NWCNA 2013 has been accepted and I will be presenting there.
The talk is (surprise surprise) about the new features of NSClient++ with a heavy focus on the up-coming 0.4.2 version which will take real-time monitoring to a whole new level.
Hopefully 0.4.2 will be out (at least in beta) by then.
It was my birthday earlier this week (Monday the 27:th to be exact) and since my daughter Sofia had her first birthday the 21:th we had a joint celebration over the weekend. Mainly the gifts were targeted at my daughter since I am a bit to old really to get birthday gifts.
But I did get some things and among them one thing really stood out it was a poem written by what is loosely I guess a cousin to our children.
I have included it here translated to English (by me). Now the poem is I think hauntingly beautiful (even translated) but the interesting thing is that it was written by a teenager who moved to Sweden little over a year ago. This means his command of the Swedish language is less then perfect.
The poem was written in Swedish (I simply translated it to English since I tend to blog in English) which makes me wonder: How can one who write such beautiful poetry in Swedish without first excelling at the Swedish language?
This got me thinking a bit: Is poetry language agnostic?
I attended the conference for the third time and as always the weather in Bolzano in conjunction with a nice conference made for a great time. I have already mentioned my experiences with the hotel in a previous post so here I will focus mainly on the conference itself and my trip.
Now Four Points by Sheraton is what it was actually called and the aim of the hotel chain is to be a bit more stylish than regular four star hotels. Another way to call it is I guess a budget version of Sheraton. This means I know I cannot expect a Sheraton class hotel but I still think I can expect more than what I got from Four Points by Sheraton in Bolzano. Something I would have expect staying at a cheep three star hotel in terms of overall quality and customer service.
Might sounds like a strange title since Vietnam is by no means a part of China but we decided to take a vacation from our vacation and head over to Ha Long Bay in Vietnam. The first part of this trip has already been chronicled in the first trip report: Trip to China: Dong Xing, Part 1 and later parts will be published in a bit.
This will be a rather lengthy post about my travels in China. I was planning to blog regularly whilst in China but the internet situation made that difficult (also I was on vacation and being lazy). This first edition is about the first week or so we spent in DongXing before heading down into Vietnam and onward to Shenzhen which will come in the later editions.
The biggest reason for Nagios success is the ability to extend it with custom scripts which makes it one of the most powerful monitoring systems. Now Nagios is not the only place where you can extend your monitoring! NSClient++ provides many ways to extend it with scripts and since I have gotten many questions about how to use scripts with NSClient++ lately I have decided to write this tutorial to help sort out the concepts.
The best PACKT book ever?Now don’t get excited!
This is not saying much; most PACKT books are so bad I want to gauge my eyes out with a fork!
And indeed this book is no exception it has many flaws and I honestly think is a bad book which suffers from lack of editing and peer review.
But is is a very very smart book and the author has managed to pull something rather difficult off in very nice way. I think with some editing this would have made a truly amazing book.
NSClient++ despite its name is most often used in server mode responding to remote calls via either NRPE or check_nt. The closest thing to a client we get in normal mode of operation is NSCA where we submit data back. But NSClient++ can act as a client as well which is not just something I use for unit testing but something which can actually be useful in your monitoring environment.
A good example of a really useful feature is creating a proxy or use NSClient++ as proxies to add intelligence (see my post earlier on writing stateful scripts Enhance your monitoring with stateful scripts).