To get a list of availale updates
yum -v check-update
To get a transaction list of last updates
yum -v history list
To get a list of changes during a transaction
yum history info <transactionID>
To remove obsolete kernel packages without questions
package-cleanup –oldkernels -y
Hey there,
it’s at the time to share my experiences with the monitoring of Citrix Netscaler with Check_MK (below called CMK).
The so-called innovation release of CMK 1.2.7i contains some checks for Netscaler that are based on SNMP: Continue reading
Hi there,
I’ve updated the package to the version 2.2.3. Please consider updating to the new version some time. The change concerns only the check fortigate_ipsec and corrects a bug, that can cause an issue, when a IPSec tunnel doesn’t exist anymore. In this case the check can disturb the execution of other checks and make it not possible to re-execute the inventory.
The new version 2.2.3 is located as always on the check_mk exchange site.
Best regards
Hermann Maurer
Sometimes you need to extend the existing volume group to be able to add free space to the logical volumes in there.
Look at this situation:
[root@localhost ~]# vgs data VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree data 1 1 0 wz--n- 39.99g 0
Hi there,
again there has been a bug in the OID in the check fortigate_sessions. Or maybe I didn’t create the package carefully enough. Anyway there is a new version 2.2.2 and it’s located as always on the check_mk exchange site. Please consider updating as soon as possible, because the version 2.2.1 collects wrong values.
Best regards
Hermann Maurer
I hope you enjoy the great monitoring software Check_MK. If you have a big environment with lots of hosts and services distributed over dozen of sites (company locations) , you might have already configured your Check_MK to use the distributed monitoring in WATO. I assume that you have got a master and some slaves. The master in terms of Check_MK is the host, which you are using to configure your whole Check_MK installation and to look at all hosts and services, whilst slaves are those hosts that receive the configuration from the master and which the master gets the monitoring results from. Distributed monitoring is an extremely nice and powerful feature of Check_MK that allows you to keep your configuration at one place and that takes care on distributing the changes on the configuration to the slaves. Also it’s very easy to connect a new slave to the master site.
I’ve just uploaded a new version of the check to Check_MK Exchange site. This is a bug fixing version, is doesn’t contain any new features.
The new version includes a minor bug fix in fortigate_sslvpn check. I corrected the OID used there to get the value of the active SSL VPN sessions. The old versions might show a wrong number of active sessions. Please update the package.
In some distributed environments and with a lot of configured users and connection to Microsoft active directory configured in Check_MK times to distribute the changes from the master to all slave sites grow up strongly. Check_MK distributed monitoring uses Apache web server acting as reverse proxy. Sometimes one of Apache web server’s instances doesn’t return data within a pre-defined time range. In such cases you can get the error like this while trying to replicate your slave with the master site:
If you’ve got a fresh Fortigate and want to configure it as HA, you have to prepare something, because the factory-standard configuration doesn’t let you to enabled High Availability.
The preparation steps are as follows:
I had to configure OMD/Check_MK version 1.2.4p3 to use LDAPS to connect to Windows domain controller. The operating system on the host running OMD/Check_MK is CentOS 6.5 x64.