I know I promised to continue the article about top CPU consumers. But I was cleaning out some papers and found some printed code from when I was a bit younger then I am now. So I decided to post pone that for another day (hopefully tomorrow or day after).

Anyways it is interesting how the world has changed, yet everything seems  stay the same.

An often requested feature is to include the top-5 consumers of high CPU load in the result from check_cpu (or checkCpu). I have often discarded this as a non-core feature since it is not something I think should be part of NSClient++ instead I think it should be a script. Since no-one has created such a script I figured it would make a nice blog post so here I describe in a step by step guide how to create such a script for NSClient++.

Packt sent me an e-copy of “Developing Web Applications with Oracle ADF Essentials” by Sten E. Vesterli asking me to review it. The book is a pretty good and probably rather unique book which covers the Open Source version of the **Oracle**   **ADF library**. This does not mean the book is only for “open source” ADF since everything you can do in this book you can also do with regular ADF instead it means it covers using Adf with non-standard technology such as GlassFish, Mysql and so on and so forth.

This is a YouTube video from my presentation at OSMC this year. The good folks over at Netways kindly allowed me to post the video here on my blog.

As always I really enjoyed the conference as much as the social aspect of it. It truly is one of the best conferences in the field. This was my sixth year which as I noted earlier started out a bit weird. I will not cover the limousine story here again instead this is purely about the conference.

The conference started off with the usual introduction by bernd who did it in English this year which I think was nice but quite frankly the usual “food is in the food area” and “conference is in the conference are” I can pretty much understand even in German. As I only speak English I will, as usual, only cover the English track here.

Well, this is an odd post. I find it difficult to start to be honest. How do I write about my adventures without it sounding strange or bizarre? But perhaps it needs to sounds bizarre for that was how it felt to me. I know this is all a gag but it is interesting how well my mind failed to understand that at the time.

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.

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 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.