If you run Nagios and are interested in displaying your statuses on a large screen, CoffeeSaint may be worth looking at. I haven’t tried it yet, but will be taking a look in the near future.
CoffeeSaint is a fully customizable Nagios status viewer. It grabs the status from a Nagios server and displays it in a fullscreen GUI. CoffeeSaint is compatible with Nagios version 1, 2, 3 and xi (and Groundwork).
The main features of CoffeeSaint are:
* Can display an image on the background (this can also be a URL)
* Remotely configurable via built-in webserver
* Handles all Nagios versions
* Can retrieve Nagios statuses remotely
* Can play a sound if the status goes to error
* Written in Java so should run on all systems (linux, microsoft windows, apple mac)
* Font/font size/background color/number of rows displayed are configurable
* Uses “least squares estimate” to predict error count
* Can show the status of multiple Nagios servers in one screen
* Sort-order fully configurable
* Can run in fullscreen mode - can also span multiple screens
* Can prioritize configurable hosts/services (using regular expression patterns)
* Can filter hosts/services
* Sparklines with performance data (plugin data as gathered by Nagios) and latency data
CoffeeSaint has been tested with a setup of 800 hosts and 5600 services.
Visit http://vanheusden.com/java/CoffeeSaint/ for more information.
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A while ago I came across twill whilst working on a testing project and thought others may also be interested. twill is essentially an open source web testing tool written in Python. twill allows you to browse the Web from a command line interface. twill supports cookies, forms and most common interactions.
Below is an example of a simple Google search, taken from their example page:
setlocal query "twill Python"
go http://www.google.com/
fv 1 q $query
submit btnI # use the "I'm feeling lucky" button
show
For more information visit http://twill.idyll.org.
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Thanks to everyone that came along tonight to hear my talk on Google Mapplets at the Adobe User Group. The discussion went beyond Google Maps and Mapplets, but also included Street View and other mashups and location based services. For those who are unfamiliar with Google Mapplets, they are small applications that run within Google Maps. Mapplets build upon and extend the standard functionality of Google Maps and are already being used to create some very interesting mashups. For example, you can overlay several published Mapplets from the Google Mapplet directory to get a combined view of several overlays.
Mapplets are essentially Google Gadgets (which are iGoogle widgets) that interface with the standard Google Maps API. They are hosted on Google’s servers, as opposed to a typical Google Maps application running on your server.
Mapplets provide exposure to existing mapping applications via the Google Mapplet directory, but more importantly by being used in conjunction with another Mapplet (or Mapplets) in a way that the original creator would have never thought of. If you’re working with any mapping project, I definitely encourage looking into Mapplets.
For more information visit http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/mapplets/, Google provides lots of good documentation on this topic.
The 2008 SAGE-AU Victorian IT Symposium is a one day technical conference held in Melbourne. It is organised by the SAGE-AU Victorian Chapter and aims to provide an educational forum for systems and network administrators, system managers, developers and other technical professionals to meet and share their knowledge and experiences. This is the fifth year running for this event, focusing on a providing a fast paced stream of technical presentations.
Register:
* Early bird registrations until 16th May 2008 (this week!)
* Register online at: http://www.sage-au.org.au/display/2008VIC/Registrations
Location:
Hotel Grand Chancellor
131 Lonsdale Street
Melbourne
When:
Friday 30th May 2008, 9am - 5pm
Programme:
* Evolution of Storage - Cameron Huysmans (Total RISC Technology)
* EMC Next Generation Products - Shane Moore (EMC)
* Routing and Security Platforms - Lachlan Kidd (Cisco)
* Life-cycle Management of Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Michael Wahren (Red Hat)
* Apple Technology Update - Joseph Cox (Apple)
* An Illustrated History of Software Failure - Paul Fenwick (Perl Training Australia)
The 2008 SAGE-AU Victorian IT Symposium is proudly supported by our Gold Sponsors Red Hat, EMC Corporation and Total RISC Technology.
You can find out more details at: http://www.sage-au.org.au/display/2008VIC/Home
I went along to the first Melbourne Flex User Group meeting tonight, OzFlex. I must say it was exciting to see the enthusiasm of some of the local developers in building a community that focuses on RIA. The presentation by Matt Johnston walked through a simple AIR application highlighting the native menus and the file system API. If you’re working with Flex and interested in presenting, get in touch with Matt.
For more information, check out http://ozflex.urbanwise.com.
If you’re using Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), there may come a day when you need to move the updates to another drive. Once WSUS has been installed, the WSUS Administration tool doesn’t let you do this, but you can do it using a command line tool called wsusutil found in C:\Program Files\Update Services\Tools. I’m running version 3.0 SP1.
The command is:
wsusutil movecontent logfile.log x:\WSUS
(where x: is the new destination)
If you have already copied the content (make sure you’ve set the correct permissions), you can run:
wsusutil movecontent logfile.log f:\WSUS -skipcopy
NOTE: This is separate to the WSUS database itself, this only applies to the actual patches.
To see the other uses of wsusutil, run it with no arguments:
C:\Program Files\Update Services\Tools>wsusutil.exe
Windows Server Update Services administration utility. Try:
wsusutil.exe help checkhealth
wsusutil.exe help configuressl
wsusutil.exe help configuresslproxy
wsusutil.exe help deletefrontendserver
wsusutil.exe help listinactiveapprovals
wsusutil.exe help removeinactiveapprovals
wsusutil.exe help export
wsusutil.exe help healthmonitoring
wsusutil.exe help import
wsusutil.exe help listfrontendservers
wsusutil.exe help movecontent
wsusutil.exe help reset
wsusutil.exe help usecustomwebsite
wsusutil.exe help listunreferencedpackagefolders
The local Adobe User Group is canvassing Aussies about the possibility of a Flex event in Melbourne.
Adobe Platform Evangelist Danny Dura will be in Melbourne in late January so there is a strong possibility that there will be a Flex/AIR night meeting.
The planned date is Tuesday the 29th of January, 2008.
You can register your interest at: http://www.techevents.com.au/flex/
Due to a cancellation of one of the speakers at the Melbourne Adobe User Group meeting, I gave a quick talk on Chumby. For those that don’t already know about Chumby, it’s a wi-fi, always-on, low end consumer device that runs Linux as its operating system and Flash Lite 3.0 for it’s applications. It’s a very interesting device, and project for that matter.
Below is my virtual Chumby, you can learn more about Chumby at Chumby Industries, places like Engadget, the various Chumby blogs (see the Chumby welcome screen) and of course Google.
For anyone interested in web technologies, I’ll be doing a talk tonight on Microformats at the Melbourne Adobe User Group. My talk will follow another presentation on Adobe AIR.
“After a quick discussion of the Adobe MAX Conference, a presentation will show you how you can convert HTML/Javascript, or Flash, or Flex into Adobe AIR. Afterwards an introductory presentation on Microformats.”
Find out more information.
