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Upgraded to WP 2.5

Spent the last day or so upgrading to WordPress 2.3 then 2.3.1 then 2.3.2 and so on until I got to 2.5. It’d be nice if GoDaddy had an option to go all the way to the latest version of an app. But I do have to say it was relatively painless.

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Creating Monitoring Items in Zabbix for Nagios plugins – part 1 (Log data)

One of the things I wanted to check in looking at Zabbix was how hard it would be to use the Nagios plugins I wrote/modified for monitoring ESX 3i in Zabbix.

It turns out that they are usable pretty much as is though there is a minor modification that needs to be made on how they accept/expect parameters. There are however a couple of ways to approach setting them up. Zabbix supports maintaining a couple of different kinds of data for external checks (as well as in general). These include:

  • Float

  • Integer

  • Text

  • Log

  • Character

The Nagios plugins I ‘m concerned in looking at will probably work with either the Log type or Integer. The external check “Item” type is just that a check. In and of itself it doesn’t make anything happen in terms of alerting or notifications. For that we need to set up “Triggers.” I’ll cover setting up an Item using Log type data in this post.

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Zabbix and external scripts – Getting them to work (v1.4.1)

I’ve been working with one of my coworkers in looking at Zabbix for monitoring rather than Nagios for the Global Ops Virtualization rollout. I’ve already done work on some monitoring of ESX3i with Nagios by writing some plugins to monitor different hardware components. (For more info see this blog post)

Zabbix supports multiple methods [...]