Category Archives: op5 Tech Blog

Anything and everything to do with the latest in technology, from network monitoring updates to random hacks for firewalls, you can find it here!

Open Source is the future according to study

In association with our client Amadeus Professor Jim Norton has written a extensive scientific study on the future of Open Source, entitled “Open For Business: The Value of Open Source Software in transaction processing“. In his conclusion Norton states that … Continue reading

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Displaying status data on your desktop with op5 Monitor’s HTTP API

In this tutorial, we will show you in simple means how to utilize the brand new HTTP API that ships with op5 Monitor 5.7.0. In about 15 minutes, you will have status information displayed right on your desktop, updated live, … Continue reading

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Maintenance, Improvements and Upgrades

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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A salute to all Net Admins!

Better late then never and I blame it on my holiday as I was not logged in yesterday… in any case this is just to highlight the ”12th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day” – our most important users and influencers to … Continue reading

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Pushing logs with NSCA

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!

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

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

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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op5 NSClient++ 0.3.9 is out

NSClient++ is a nagios agent used for monitoring Windows type operating systems. Some bugfixes and a couple of new features have been added by op5 coders in the op5 NSCLient++ 0.3.9. Continue reading

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Eventblocking madness and more stresstesting

Ok, so I couldn’t quite be satisfied with the stress-test results I saw in the last post. Like all perfectionists, I always want more. More, I tell you, MORE! So what the hell have I done now? Well, the long … Continue reading

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