Author Archives: Jonathan Petersson

Jonathan Petersson

About Jonathan Petersson

Jonathan works as our Operations Engineer maintaining a developing the internal op5 IT systems. He's been active in the open-source world for quite some time and has previously worked for MySQL AB/Inc and Sun Microsystems Inc.

Maintenance, Improvements and Upgrades

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Jonathan Petersson

We’d like to inform all our customers, partners and community-members that we’ve a planned maintenance window Thursday 22:nd of September between 14:00 – 16:00 UTC (16:00 – 18:00 CEST) where our website will be unavailable. — It’s been a while … Continue reading →

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Pushing logs with NSCA

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Jonathan Petersson

As you may know op5 monitor recommends a check interval of 5 minutes escalating to once time per minute if a check becomes critical. Running a critical system it may be of interest to have the check intervals being even … Continue reading →

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We want you!

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Jonathan Petersson

As most of you’ve seen we release op5 Monitor 5.3 today. This would never been possible without the great team we’ve at op5, and we’re looking to expand even further! We’re expanding our IT-team to further enrich your experience working … Continue reading →

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Getting notifications via Growl

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Jonathan Petersson

At op5 we have a wide verity of client-machines for our employees. At this given time we’ve a good third of each major platform, Windows, Linux and OS X actively running. Being in IT you’ve to be able to support … Continue reading →

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Consolidated PNP graphs for load-average with op5 Monitor

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Jonathan Petersson

Running op5 Monitor gives you some nice performance-graphs generated with PNP. The default template however isn’t always as usable as one might want it to be. A good example is load_average where load1,5 and 15 is separated into different graphs … Continue reading →

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Green IT by mistake

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Jonathan Petersson

Green IT has been one of the biggest catchwords throughout the last few years and as any other company op5 wants to take part of the game which we’ve done by utilizing virtualization where possible, taken advantaged of cloud-services rather … Continue reading →

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Keeping it safe

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Jonathan Petersson

Throughout the last few months op5 has taken some great steps, releasing Monitor 5.0, continued with the development of Merlin, Ninja and op5-plugins and shortly releasing Monitor 5.2. As op5 has grown so has its internal needs on the infrastructure … Continue reading →

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