TComm decide apoyar la candidatura de la Comunidad Internacional del Software Libre a los Premios Príncipe de Asturas de 2011. Esta propuesta viene de la mando de la Fundación CENATIC.

Desde la Fundación Príncipe de Asturias se ha invitado al Centro Nacional de Referencia de Aplicación de las TIC basadas en fuentes abiertas, es decir, al CENATIC, a presentar una propuesta de candidatura a los Premios Príncipe de Asturias 2011. A raíz de esta petición desde el CENATIC se ha decidido que la mejor propuesta posible, que representase al sector del software libre en España, es la de presentar como candidato a la Comunidad Internacional del Software Libre a los Premios Príncipe de Asturias 2011, en su modalidad de Cooperación Internacional.

Desde TComm hemos decidido que tenemos la obligación de apoyar esta candidatura porque formamos parte de ella. De modo que nos hemos adherido a la propuesta que realizará el CENATIC en reconocimiento al esfuerzo que conlleva el aporte de Software Libre a la comunidad Internacional. Es un desarrollo que hacemos entre todos para intentar mejorar el espacio tecnológico actual. El software libre permite generar y compartir conocimiento con millones de personas de todo el mundo. Esto, a su vez, permite que toda esa gran comunidad internacional pruebe y mejore el software desarrollado, rompiendo barreras económicas, sociales, culturales, idiomáticas y geográficas y creando la mayor red humana y tecnológica de colaboración existente.

Nagios plugin for checking Powerware (Eaton) UPS working mode

New unofficial Nagios client for Android devices.

Últimamente el día a día no nos deja demasiado tiempo para liberar contenidos, pero tratando de ser fieles a nuesta cita semanal con la comunidad, aportamos un nuevo plugin para Nagios.

check_upsv4_mode nos permite chequear el modo de funcionamiento y nivel de autonomía (en tiempo y porcentaje de batería) en SAIs con capacidad SNMP y soporte al MIB UPSv4, propiedad de Delta Electronics. Todos los modelos de esta marca y algunos modelos de Chloride soportan este MIB.

check_upsv4_mode completa la serie de plugins dirigida a monitorizar el modos de funcionamiento en SAIs junto con el chequeo para dispositivos con soporte al MIB UPS o RFC 1628 (check_ups_mode) y dispositivos con soporte al MIB xUPS de Powerware/Eaton (check_xups_mode).

Una semana más esperamos que esta aportación os sea de gran utilidad. Esperamos vuestras sugerencias y comentarios.

Thanks so much to the needs of our customers and the great acceptance by the community of our plugins, and their continued feedback, we publish the  version 0.4b of our plugin to check memory consumptions en UNIXlike systems, check_unix_mem_usage.

We have extended the features of the plugin to make it more versatility and flexibility. These two new features offer the following qualities:

• Allows to choose whether you want to return in the performance data a metric with maximum system RAM.
• Allows to check the memory based on percentages but get the output in the desired units.

Thanks to these improvements we can make more interesting and comfortable our checks. On the one hand we can obtain performance data that allow us to draw graphs in which we will always have a clear reference to the top of RAM in the system. And on the other hand, we can plan checks on our systems without having to be aware of the existing RAM in each. On the above, for example, we would create a check that returning the memory values ​​in a given unit and establish warning or criticality states based on whether it exceeds the memory usage by 80% or 90%, respectively, allowing expand or reduce the memory available on the system without have to worry about adjusting the thresholds for the check.

The plugin is programmed in Perl and is compatible with Nagios 3.x (Embedded Perl). It comes with a README file in which is described in more detail the operation of this and its requirements. As always, the plugin can be downloaded from our website and more information is available through Nagios Exchange.

Novedades para integrar Nagios e Icinga con Apple iPhone y Android.

This week a new plugin is being released to the Nagios community. Following our current tendence, it can be used for monitoring CPD energy related issues.

This new plugin, formerly named check_pwnet_rpdu_load, allows checking the load level in each bank of a Powernet MIB compliant device (usually APC devices). A README file containing PDU background information is attached to the plugin.

The right usage of this plugin, Nagios 3.x (ePN) compatible, should report valuable data useful for taking decisions related to upgrading obsolete hardware, and thus, eficientless from a energy-saving point of view. As usually, we hope this plugin was as useful as possible to the Nagios community.

We release new plugin, growing family of plug-ins for UNIX systems. This time we focus on disk space checks on UNIXlike systems, check_unix_disk_usage.

Like the state of memory consumption made ​​on our system, it is equally important to conduct a thorough checkup of the disk space we are using in the file systems. So we developed this first version of the plugin to improvements on all the available plugins currently on the Nagios Exchange community.

• Excludes check the types of filesystems for which it makes no sense to check your space usage. The filesystem types excluded by default are: debugfs, devpts, nfs, nfsv4, proc, romfs and smbfs.
• Allows you to exclude filesystem types in addition to those excluded by default.
• For each of the filesystems checked:
  
  • Returns the space used in the unit that best fits, and the percentage of use. If the state is not OK adds information of not OK state reached and exceeded threshold.
  • Returns the performance data, in Bytes: the value of the check, the warning and critical levels, and minimum and maximum values ​​of the allocated space.

The plugin is programmed in Perl and is compatible with Nagios 3.x (Embedded Perl). It comes with a README file in which is described in more detail the operation of this and its requirements. As always, the plugin can be downloaded from our website and more information is available through Nagios Exchange.

A week we offer around the world a new plugin, in this case the plugin check_cisco_fru_fan, which allows to check fans status on a CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL-MIB complaint device (Cisco MDS 9000 series, ...).

With this plugin, we go into monitoring Cisco network devices, using the MIB CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL and in this first step we focus on the fans.

You can use this plugin to test if your system supports CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL-MIB and if the compliant device has enabled access SNMP, and utimately if there is a dependency for the proper functioning of this plugin.

check_cisco_fru_fan plugin allows us to check the status of all fans indicated through a list and compare with states indicated by the warning and critical arguments. check_cisco_fru_fan is fully embedded Perl compatible (ePN) and can be downloaded from our website or through Nagios Exchange.

We hope this plugin be of great help and we urge you to be attentive to future plugins that we will publish soon over this MIB.

Today we've released in our donwload site the Nagios plugin check_cpqups_mode. This plugin allows knowing the working mode and status of HP (Hewlett Packard) UPS devices supporting SNMP and CQPUPS-MIB.

Plugin manages the device reported information for stating the working mode as one of the following:

• Online: Working mode in which UPS is getting power supply in its input(s) and protecting the attached devices with the power supplied by its batteries.
• Offline: Working mode in which device is not getting power supply in its input(s) but devices  are protected by batteries. Plugin interprets this state as three possible sub-states: Offline, offline with low battery power and offline with depleted batteries.
• Bypass: Working mode in which UPS is not protecting the attached devices, only transfering power from its inputs to its outputs.

Additionally to the working mode, plugin reports information about battery charge level and autonomy time, in minutes, based on battery level and UPS output consumption. User can set warning and critical thresholds based on both battery levels and autonomy time.