Monitoring

Monitor VMware vSphere from FreeBSD using the Perl SDK

       450 words, 3 minutes

VMware provides a CLI and a Perl SDK that allows managing and monitoring vSphere and ESXi environment from Windows and Linux. The Perl SDK is also available in the FreeBSD ports tree. Here’s how to install and, basically, use the VMware Perl SDK on FreeBSD.

Continue reading...


Xymon with thttpd on Debian Linux

       244 words, 2 minutes

Here’s a bunch of quick notes about installing Xymon on a Debian server using the tiny/turbo/throttling HTTP server. It is not that complicated but there are a few things to tweak to have it running.

Continue reading...


Improving Nexenta SNMP daemon

       436 words, 3 minutes

Nexenta has SNMP capability. Configured from the Web interface, you can set the various communities for SNMP version. But there is more. You can improve it a lot using the Nexenta Management Console (NMC).

Continue reading...


Monitor the Airport Extreme with Munin

       1055 words, 5 minutes

I already configured Munin to monitor my Synology DS409slim . Today, I’m going to configure Munin to monitor my Apple Airport Extreme, using SNMP.

Continue reading...


Monitor a Synology NAS with Munin

       424 words, 2 minutes

My Synology DiskStation DS409slim is, via the DSM software, SNMP aware. This means I can poll it to get some information using a SNMP capable monitoring system. This is how I configured Munin to grab some metrics from the NAS.

Continue reading...


4 / 6