How to add a timeout to a Zabbix alert trigger

I’ve replaced Cacti and Nagios with Zabbix to monitor the company infrastructure. Nagios is nice but there are some things you can only monitor using agents as Linux’s SNMP support is just too fragile. It’s also nice having monitoring and charting built into one easy to configure web application as opposed to drowning in config [...]

Posted at 3pm on 5/31/10 | no comments; | Filed Under: Internet, Linux, Software, Technology | read on

It looks like my data snuck up into the cloud without telling me…

I bought a new laptop recently. This isn’t my first PC upgrade. I think I’m on my 9th laptop at this stage. It’s always been a dreadful chore, exporting, packaging, burning, installing, copying, saving, importing and then configuring everything. it used to take a solid weekend before I was 100% comfortable. This time around was [...]

Posted at 12am on 2/1/10 | no comments; | Filed Under: Google, Groupware, Internet, Linux, Software, Storage, Technology, Windows | Tagged: , , , | read on

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