I recently posed a question on the here about monitoring MSSQL servers in a way similar to MySQL’s processlist commands. I needed a way to find out what users, databases and queries were being run to prevent server slow-down. It turns out that there isn’t an easy way of doing it, and instead requires that [...]
Have you ever wanted to add your favorite book’s thumbnail or description to webpage or blog? I did, but I couldn’t find a really good book knowledgebase/database where I could query for book information and thumbs. I found two really great options: Google Dynamic Links Open Library Both are identical implementations, but one is run [...]
I was surprised that nagios plugins didn’t come with a pre-packaged check_crond command! Anyway, here is a quick way to do it using NRPE. Add the command definition in command.cfg. define command{ command_name check_crond command_line $USER1$/check_nrpe -n -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -t 90 -c check_crond } Add the service definition to an existing host. define service{ use [...]
