Me: Lars Michelsen
Hello there! My name is Lars Michelsen. I'm an IT expert from Germany. From my education I am mainly a system administrator. At the moment I mainly work as developer and consultant.
The focus of my job is on Open Source technologies. My special topics are System and Network monitoring solutions. Solving my daily tasks I use many different technologies.
You like to read more about me? Take a look at the About Me page.
Latest activities
Jul/10
Check_MK with a lot of new upcoming checks
After writing a lot of new checks for Check_MK the last days I have to put my fingers in a bucket of ice water to get them cooled down again. With the checks Check_MK can now monitor a lot of new different new systems. And the best is: Check_MK will find the systems to be [...]
Jul/10
Nagios geek meeting in Munich
Cheers from our todays meeting of German Nagios geeks in Munich. omd.
Jul/10
NagVis and PNP4Nagios trainings in Munich/Germany
I am happy to announce the first dedicated NagVis and PNP4Nagios training in Munich/Germany. The trainer is no other than me. This is certainly not be the first training where NagVis is one of the topics but the first where NagVis and PNP4Nagios are the major topics. The training happens in the beautiful Munich in [...]
Jun/10
Firefox offline mode vs. NetworkManager (Ubuntu 10.04)
Sometimes I need to set manual network configuration on my Ubuntu driven laptop. For this cases I ignore the network configuration of the NetworkManager. But I don’t want to disable the network manager at all. So I wait for the NetworkManager to finish it’s tasks for setting the IP configuration manually afterwards.
One annoying thing in this case is that the NetworkManager puts the Firefox in offline mode. I searched my system to turn off this functionality in NetworkManager. But since I did not found the configuration option I searched the Firefox configuration. And I found an option to turn off the NetworkManager influence to the online/offline state of Firefox.
Jun/10
Filter Vuvuzelas in MediaPortal
Watching the first games of the Soccer World Cup in South Africa I could ignore the annoying permanent sound of the vuvuzelas. But after some matches I was fed up with these sounds and searched for a better solution than turning the sound totally off.
And I found one!
Jun/10
NagVis 1.5 released
NagVis 1.5 is the new major and stable release I just announced. It contains a lot of new features and performance improvements compared to the NagVis 1.4x releases.
Jun/10
Nagios Workshop 2010 is over
The community event Nagios Workshop 2010 in Nürnberg/Germany is over now. It was a very successful event and a nice platform for exchanging information round about Open Source Monitoring Solutions using Nagios and/or Icinga. It was nice to meet the members of the German Nagios Community again.
May/10
See you on Nagios Workshop 2010!
The community organized German Nagios Workshop 2010 will happen in Nürnberg Germany this year. The workshop is being organized by Sven Velt in this year.
The event focuses on technical topics for Nagios users and addon developer. We have a 2 day event full of Monitoring and Nagios related topics.
May/10
Nagios Statusmap – trash it!
The statusmap of Nagios is delivered with the default web interface since more than 10 years now. There was no major change or innovation in the Nagios statusmap in this time. Even within the Icinga fork there was no real change to make the statusmap more usable.
Apr/10
MKLivestatus – Experience the new way getting Nagios live data
I introduced MKLivestatus before so I won’t get in detail what MKLivestatus is and what it is meant for. Today I give you some simple examples on how straight forward it is to get status information out of Nagios using Livestatus. Assumptions In the following examples I assume you got a working Nagios installation with [...]
