After setting up Nagios I had a network monitoring system, that could tell me when a host was down. While this is nice, it is not actually what I want to know. The goal of network monitoring is to determine, if all your services are running properly. Continue reading Service Monitoring with Nagios
Category Archives: Software
All about the software side of thing. It will probably be only a bunch of HowTos so i can reproduce the things i did
Starting with Nagios
My Home IT has grown quite a bit over the last years. I am now at a point where a problem can have causes in a bunch of different machines.
This means, that i actually can spend quite some time to identify the service that has the problem. For example if my SQL Server goes down a lot of other services will not work anymore, but i might only see that my Mediacentre stopped working or that i can’t log into my E-Mail account anymore. Continue reading Starting with Nagios
Building a ZFS Fileserver
I decided to finally split my File-server from my Hypervisor. Mainly because there were some issues with my the System not liking one of my RAID Controllers resulting in all kinds of funky error Messages.
I found some nice used Hardware at a good enough price but i still had to decide on the Software. After asking around in the forums and reading up on it a little, it was clear that at this point the only real option was something with zfs. Continue reading Building a ZFS Fileserver