yet another tech-blog - made in Switzerland

Replacing my old webcam (Creative VF0700) with a new model (Foscam W81) on Linux Mint

Published on November 24th 2022 - Listed in Personal Linux Multimedia Hardware - comments

Dell OpenManage shows degraded storage backplane, but is it?

Published on July 27th 2022 - Listed in Monitoring Hardware Linux - comments

How to enable remote (syslog) udp logging in Shelly IoT device

Published on July 8th 2022 - Listed in Monitoring Hardware Linux - comments

check_esxi_hardware 20220708 released: Added JSON output for Zabbix compatibility

Published on July 8th 2022 - Listed in Hardware VMware Virtualization Monitoring - comments

How to properly wipe data from a replaced raid drive and solve couldnt open /dev/sdX for write - not zeroing

Published on June 15th 2022 - Listed in Hardware Linux - comments

check_smart 6.13.0 available: Skip temperature check and improved handling of missing smartctl command

Published on April 27th 2022 - Listed in Monitoring Hardware - comments

IMHO: Toshiba hard drives are underrated (expanding NAS with larger disks)

Published on April 23rd 2022 - last updated on April 25th 2022 - Listed in Hardware Linux Personal - comments

How to enable Wake On LAN (WOL) on ASRock motherboard in Linux Mint

Published on April 22nd 2022 - last updated on April 27th 2022 - Listed in Hardware Linux - comments

ILO3 hardware monitoring stopped working after Debian upgrade due to outdated TLS protocols

Published on March 24th 2022 - Listed in Hardware Monitoring SSL - comments

Announcing new monitoring plugin: check_shelly to monitor Shelly IOT power devices

Published on February 16th 2022 - Listed in Monitoring Hardware - comments

The pressure shock-wave from the Tonga volcano explosion caught by Adafruit/Bosch BME680 VOC sensor monitoring

Published on January 20th 2022 - Listed in Hardware Monitoring Personal InfluxDB Grafana - comments

Another Western Digital Green SSD dead without any pre-fail indication

Published on January 8th 2022 - last updated on January 12th 2022 - Listed in Hardware Linux - comments

Monitoring plugin check_smart 6.12.2 available: Bugfix release

Published on December 16th 2021 - Listed in Hardware Monitoring - comments

Monitoring plugin check_smart 6.12.1 released: Security fix, NVMe perfdata fix, Erase_Fail_Count_Total

Published on December 10th 2021 - last updated on December 10th 2021 - Listed in Hardware Monitoring Security - comments

Monitoring plugin check_smart 6.11 released: NVMe attributes with dots and order output by priority/criticality

Published on October 4th 2021 - Listed in Monitoring Hardware - comments

Debian 11 (Bullseye) boot and freeze issues with Kernel panics on HP Proliant DL380 G7 servers

Published on September 16th 2021 - Listed in Hardware Linux - comments

Debian 11 (Bullseye) and the problem with bond (bonding) LACP interfaces

Published on September 1st 2021 - last updated on September 15th 2022 - Listed in Linux Hardware Network - comments

How to solve vertical lines in scanned documents on Brother MFC 9330CDW

Published on August 24th 2021 - Listed in Hardware - comments

Crackling, buzzing sounds and bad audio quality in Linux Mint finally solved!

Published on August 11th 2021 - last updated on July 5th 2022 - Listed in Multimedia Linux Hardware - comments

Monitoring plugin check_smart 6.10.0 released: Added support for aacraid controllers

Published on July 6th 2021 - Listed in Monitoring Hardware - comments

How to install Dell OMSA (OpenManage Server Administrator) 10.x on Ubuntu 20.04

Published on June 21st 2021 - last updated on August 31st 2022 - Listed in Hardware Linux Monitoring - comments

How to setup Raspberry Pi Zero without mouse and keyboard attached to micro USB

Published on June 16th 2021 - Listed in Hardware Linux Network - comments

How to use Linux hw-probe behind a HTTP Proxy (for probe upload to linux-hardware.org)

Published on June 11th 2021 - last updated on June 15th 2021 - Listed in Linux Perl Coding Hardware - comments

How to create RAID-1 array with Hot Spare from three disks on Dell PowerEdge R7525 with PERC H745 controller

Published on June 9th 2021 - last updated on June 11th 2021 - Listed in Hardware - comments

When is a Solid State Drive (SSD) really dead? An analysis on a Crucial MX 500 1TB SSD.

Published on April 27th 2021 - Listed in Hardware Linux Monitoring - comments

How to monitor and graph power usage (consumption) of HP Proliant servers

Published on April 22nd 2021 - Listed in Hardware Monitoring - comments

Monitoring plugin check_smart 6.9.1 released: Security fix in pseudo-device path

Published on April 8th 2021 - last updated on October 15th 2021 - Listed in Monitoring Hardware Security - comments

Hardware upgrade: ASRock B550 and AMD Ryzen 5 3600 on Linux Mint 20.1 with Kernel 5.8

Published on March 12th 2021 - last updated on August 7th 2021 - Listed in Personal Hardware Linux - comments

Monitoring plugin check_smart 6.9.0 released: Allow PCI device paths, add Percent_Lifetime_Remain SSD check

Published on March 4th 2021 - last updated on April 13th 2021 - Listed in Hardware Monitoring - comments

How a dying SSD of a Windows virtual machine killed the physical Linux host

Published on January 25th 2021 - Listed in Hardware Windows Linux VMware Virtualization - comments

Brother MFC 9330 CDW and the mystery of the unwanted embossing marks (a.k.a. fuser replacement)

Published on January 21st 2021 - last updated on January 22nd 2021 - Listed in Hardware Office - comments

Western Digital SSD Dashboard (Software) broken, shows empty black display

Published on November 13th 2020 - Listed in Hardware Windows - comments

How to identify and replace a failing drive behind Fusion-MPT SAS-2 controller on IBM System X server

Published on October 26th 2020 - Listed in Hardware Linux - comments

How to do a firmware update of Integrated Management Module (IMM2) on a IBM System X Server

Published on October 21st 2020 - Listed in Hardware - comments

How to update smartmontools drivedb in Debian Stretch (without package update)

Published on October 15th 2020 - Listed in Monitoring Hardware Linux - comments

Monitoring plugin check_smart 6.8 allows to skip SMART self-assessment check, adds Commmand_Timeout attribute to default raw list

Published on October 14th 2020 - Listed in Hardware Monitoring - comments

Farewell to another hard drive: Western Digital Green 2 TB dead after 63791 hours

Published on October 1st 2020 - last updated on October 3rd 2020 - Listed in Hardware Linux - comments

Digitalising DVDs on Linux with Handbrake and video splitting with LosslessCut

Published on September 27th 2020 - Listed in Multimedia Kodi Hardware Linux - comments

Linux Mint Desktop: CD/DVD drive tray closes immediately after opening

Published on September 22nd 2020 - Listed in Hardware Linux - comments

Crucial MX500 SSD drive dead after 8650 hours

Published on August 10th 2020 - Listed in Hardware Linux Monitoring - comments

When the replacement SSD drive is the same model - but with less capacity

Published on July 28th 2020 - last updated on July 30th 2020 - Listed in Hardware Linux - comments

Leaving a party without saying bye: Western Digital Green SSD dead without pre-fail indications

Published on July 21st 2020 - Listed in Hardware Monitoring Linux - comments

New version of check_esxi_hardware available: Two minor fixes

Published on July 10th 2020 - Listed in VMware Hardware Monitoring Virtualization - comments

New release of check_esxi_hardware introduces new parameters to define SSL/TLS protocol and ignore chassis intrusion alerts

Published on June 5th 2020 - Listed in Hardware Monitoring Virtualization VMware - comments

Bugfix release 6.7.1 of monitoring plugin check_smart available

Published on June 2nd 2020 - Listed in Hardware Monitoring - comments

Unable to create KVM virtual machine: Host does not support domain type kvm for virtualization type hvm

Published on April 25th 2020 - Listed in Linux KVM Hardware Virtualization - comments

Unable to mount NTFS partitions on a drive which is part of an Intel isw raid (fakeraid)

Published on April 9th 2020 - Listed in Hardware Windows Linux - comments

Raspberry Pi and Power over Ethernet: Comparing PoE hats and splitters

Published on April 1st 2020 - Listed in Hardware - comments

check_smart monitoring plugin now supports NVMe drives

Published on March 25th 2020 - Listed in Hardware Monitoring - comments

Finally: Improving Your PC Speed with a Solid State Drive (SSD)

Published on March 11th 2020 - Listed in Hardware - comments

Version 0.3 of check_rpi_temp monitoring plugin changes the way temperature is read

Published on February 7th 2020 - Listed in Hardware Linux Monitoring - comments

How to install Linux Mint 19.3 from USB stick and solve boot from USB issues

Published on January 24th 2020 - Listed in Linux Hardware - comments

Unable to boot Knoppix 8.6 from USB stick on a Dell Latitude? Check boot option in BIOS!

Published on January 23rd 2020 - Listed in Linux Hardware - comments

Raspberry Pi 3b+, Gigabit PoE switch and PoE splitter: An impossible setup? Nope!

Published on December 13th 2019 - Listed in Hardware Linux Network - comments

Monitoring plugin check_smart version 6.6.1 available: Fix deprecated warning

Published on December 4th 2019 - Listed in Monitoring Hardware - comments

check_smart 6.6 is out: Multiple drives check using -g parameter now support 3ware and cciss controllers

Published on November 29th 2019 - Listed in Monitoring Hardware - comments

check_smart 6.5 available: Default attribute raw list defined

Published on November 22nd 2019 - Listed in Monitoring Hardware - comments

Monitoring plugin check_smart 6.4 released: Independence and new quiet parameter

Published on October 29th 2019 - last updated on October 29th 2019 - Listed in Hardware Monitoring - comments

check_smart 6.3 now allows to completely ignore SMART attributes

Published on October 1st 2019 - Listed in Monitoring Hardware - comments

Introducing monitoring plugin check_rpi_temp to measure and check Raspberry Pi board temperature

Published on September 30th 2019 - Listed in Monitoring Hardware - comments

Cannot print or open System Settings Printers anymore in Linux Mint

Published on September 4th 2019 - Listed in Linux Hardware Office - comments

Version 6.2 of monitoring plugin check_smart allows quicker identification of drives with problems

Published on August 19th 2019 - Listed in Hardware Monitoring Linux BSD - comments

I am an egg boiler, too, said the hard drive and caused application issues

Published on August 8th 2019 - Listed in Hardware Linux - comments

Dell support links updated in check_esxi_hardware and new Python on Windows install guide

Published on July 2nd 2019 - Listed in Windows VMware Virtualization Hardware Monitoring - comments

check_smart v 6.1 allows using pseudo device /dev/bus/N

Published on June 12th 2019 - Listed in Monitoring Hardware - comments

Replace hard or solid state drive with a bigger one and grow software (mdadm) raid

Published on June 7th 2019 - last updated on April 25th 2022 - Listed in Linux Hardware - comments

Major release: check_smart plugin now allows multi attribute checks, supports multiple warning thresholds

Published on June 4th 2019 - Listed in Monitoring Icinga Nagios Perl Hardware - comments

Hard drive to SSD upgrade on a HP 250 G5 notebook

Published on May 11th 2019 - last updated on May 11th 2019 - Listed in Hardware Windows Linux - comments

check_esxi_hardware now supports regular expressions for elements in ignore list

Published on May 10th 2019 - Listed in VMware Virtualization Hardware Monitoring - comments

How to install and use check_netapp_ontap plugin to monitor NetApp filer

Published on March 22nd 2019 - last updated on August 20th 2021 - Listed in Monitoring Icinga Nagios Perl Hardware - comments

Getting the EDIMAX EW-7811UN to work with Linux Mint 18.1

Published on February 11th 2019 - last updated on December 4th 2019 - Listed in Linux Network Wireless Hardware - comments

Monitoring plugin check_smart 5.11.1 released

Published on January 8th 2019 - Listed in Monitoring Hardware Linux BSD Icinga Nagios - comments

Linux going AMD Ryzen with Debian 9 (Stretch)

Published on December 31st 2018 - last updated on July 21st 2020 - Listed in Hardware Linux - comments

Monitoring plugin check_smart 5.11 available, introducing exclude list

Published on December 28th 2018 - Listed in Monitoring Hardware Linux BSD Icinga Nagios - comments

check_esxi_hardware now supports python3!

Published on October 2nd 2018 - Listed in Hardware Monitoring VMware - comments

How to compare speed of USB flash pen drives (USB sticks)

Published on September 26th 2018 - last updated on December 1st 2019 - Listed in Hardware Linux - comments

Install Linux Mint 18.3 on software raid (mdraid) device

Published on May 26th 2018 - Listed in Hardware Linux - comments

Hardware Error: Parity error during data load. Or: Clean me!!!

Published on May 24th 2018 - Listed in Hardware Linux - comments

Monitoring plugin check_smart version 5.10 released

Published on May 8th 2018 - Listed in Nagios Icinga Monitoring Hardware - comments

Monitoring plugin check_smart version 5.9 released

Published on April 29th 2018 - Listed in Nagios Icinga Monitoring Hardware - comments

New version 20180411 of check_esxi_hardware released

Published on April 11th 2018 - Listed in Monitoring Nagios Icinga Hardware VMware - comments

Monitor dual storage (raid) controller on IBM x3650 M4

Published on April 6th 2018 - Listed in Hardware Linux Monitoring - comments

How to install Dell OpenManage 9.x and racadm on Ubuntu 16.04

Published on December 6th 2017 - last updated on July 14th 2021 - Listed in Hardware Monitoring Nagios Icinga - comments

Cant kill a non-numeric process ID in check_vmware_esx plugin

Published on November 27th 2017 - Listed in Monitoring Nagios Icinga Hardware VMware - comments

check_smart v5.8 now supports regex for MegaRaid interface

Published on October 19th 2017 - Listed in Monitoring Nagios Icinga Hardware - comments

55700 hours or the grey old age of a SATA drive

Published on July 7th 2017 - Listed in Hardware - comments

Firmware-Upgrade of a Dahua IPC-HFW1320S network camera

Published on April 18th 2017 - Listed in Hardware Security Network - comments

UEFI boot does not like software raid at all (GRUB Error 17)

Published on February 20th 2017 - Listed in Linux Hardware - comments

TVHeadend Mutex Scan Settings for Cablecom and Thurcom (Switzerland)

Published on December 6th 2016 - Listed in Personal Hardware Multimedia Kodi - comments

Downgrade Mac OS X on a new iMac? Forget about it!

Published on November 21st 2016 - Listed in Personal Hardware - comments

Remove old and install new version of Dell OMSA on CentOS

Published on September 6th 2016 - Listed in Hardware Linux - comments

SD card of Raspberry Pi dead - after almost (or only?) a year runtime

Published on July 6th 2016 - Listed in Hardware Linux - comments

Raspberry Pi sd card issue after power outage (constant red led)

Published on June 7th 2016 - Listed in Hardware Linux - comments

AMD Radeon on Windows 7: Sometimes white is yellow(-ish)

Published on February 24th 2016 - Listed in Windows Hardware - comments

Bugfix in check_equallogic when volume does not exist

Published on October 6th 2015 - Listed in Nagios Icinga Monitoring Hardware - comments

Finally a good example of a long lasting SATA drive

Published on May 20th 2015 - Listed in Hardware Linux - comments

Upgrade a HDD running Windows 7, fix boot issues and resize NTFS

Published on April 29th 2015 - Listed in Hardware Windows Linux - comments

check_smart: Change of syntax when -g (global) parameter is used

Published on March 12th 2015 - Listed in Nagios Monitoring Hardware - comments

Solaris: Cannot copy partition table (not aligned on cylinder boundary)

Published on March 3rd 2015 - Listed in Solaris Hardware - comments

check_smart: Your opinion is needed for a bugfix

Published on February 16th 2015 - Listed in Nagios Monitoring Hardware - comments

check_smart: Version 5.5 released (run plugin outside of nagios plugin dir)

Published on February 12th 2015 - Listed in Nagios Monitoring Hardware - comments

check_smart: Version 5.4 released (allow SAS drives behind MegaRaid)

Published on February 5th 2015 - Listed in Nagios Monitoring Hardware - comments

check_smart version 5.3 released (support for more than 26 devices)

Published on February 4th 2015 - Listed in Nagios Monitoring Hardware - comments

check_equallogic: Bugfix in percentage calculation in volume check

Published on February 3rd 2015 - Listed in Nagios Monitoring Hardware - comments

Will I still be root if I install an update on Sony Xperia Android?

Published on January 23rd 2015 - Listed in Android Hardware - comments

Bug (cannot concatenate) fixed in new version of check_esxi_hardware plugin

Published on January 19th 2015 - Listed in Nagios Monitoring Hardware VMware - comments

Server does not detect network card anymore (as if the card was gone)

Published on January 14th 2015 - Listed in Network Hardware Rant - comments

check_esxi_hardware: Support for multiple serial numbers for blade servers

Published on January 9th 2015 - Listed in Monitoring Nagios Hardware VMware - comments

New version of check_equallogic features snmp connection check

Published on July 25th 2014 - Listed in Nagios Monitoring Hardware - comments

Presenting new Nagios plugin: check_promise_vtrak

Published on July 4th 2014 - Listed in Nagios Monitoring Hardware - comments

Bugfix in etherror check type in check_equallogic

Published on June 27th 2014 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

CPU upgrade on a Toshiba Satellite C660D notebook (AMD V140 to Turion II)

Published on May 28th 2014 - Listed in Hardware - comments

Some disk write performance statistics on a Raid-50

Published on May 26th 2014 - Listed in Linux Hardware - comments

Ubuntu freeze due to bug in tg3 driver for Broadcom NIC (?)

Published on May 12th 2014 - Listed in Linux Hardware Rant - comments

Bug fixes in check_smart plugin (version 5.2)

Published on May 5th 2014 - Listed in Nagios Monitoring Hardware - comments

New version of check_smart supports multiple disk check (-g, --global)

Published on April 25th 2014 - Listed in Hardware Linux Nagios Monitoring - comments

Multiple ways to monitor physical hard drives, very different results

Published on April 23rd 2014 - last updated on April 22nd 2021 - Listed in Hardware Linux Nagios Monitoring - comments

check_smart Nagios plugin version 4.2 released

Published on March 20th 2014 - Listed in Nagios Monitoring Hardware - comments

Another two Dell elements ignored in check_esxi_hardware

Published on March 19th 2014 - Listed in Monitoring Nagios Hardware VMware - comments

System freeze because of defect Storage Controller ECC Memory

Published on March 3rd 2014 - Listed in Hardware Solaris Unix - comments

Added snmp authentication support to check_storcenter

Published on January 20th 2014 - Listed in Nagios Monitoring Hardware - comments

Remote SSH work on Android tablet with ConnectBot and physical keyboard

Published on December 23rd 2013 - Listed in Android Linux Hardware - comments

check_equallogic: Bugfix in poolusage check

Published on December 19th 2013 - Listed in Nagios Monitoring Hardware - comments

check_equallogic: Bugfix in vol check and issue with firmware 7.0 (?)

Published on November 22nd 2013 - Listed in Hardware Nagios Monitoring - comments

check_smart plugin now has its own (documentation-) page

Published on November 16th 2013 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

smartctl on FreeBSD with CCISS (HP SmartArray) raid: Watch out!

Published on November 11th 2013 - Listed in Hardware FreeBSD - comments

Install and use smartctl (smartmontools) on Solaris (opencsw package)

Published on November 7th 2013 - Listed in Solaris Unix Hardware - comments

check_smart monitoring plugin saves server lifes (defect hard drive detected)

Published on November 5th 2013 - Listed in Hardware Nagios BSD Monitoring - comments

check_smart.pl adapted to support cciss and handle grown defect list

Published on November 4th 2013 - last updated on April 22nd 2021 - Listed in Monitoring Hardware Nagios BSD Linux - comments

Read Disk SMART values on FreeBSD (6.0) behind a HP Raid (cciss)

Published on November 3rd 2013 - Listed in Hardware BSD Monitoring - comments

check_equallogic: Bugfix in temp check and optical cleanup

Published on October 25th 2013 - Listed in Hardware Nagios Monitoring - comments

Continuous reboot loop after RAM upgrade in Toshiba Notebook (solved)

Published on October 21st 2013 - last updated on March 27th 2020 - Listed in Hardware - comments

check_smart plugin now supports FreeBSD

Published on October 14th 2013 - Listed in Nagios Monitoring BSD Hardware - comments

Check SMART values of disks behind an Intel Raid on FreeBSD

Published on October 11th 2013 - Listed in BSD Hardware - comments

How to test if a SDHC card is defect or is dying

Published on October 5th 2013 - Listed in Personal Linux Hardware - comments

HP Gen8 Servers: Intelligent Provisioning is stupid

Published on September 12th 2013 - Listed in Hardware Rant - comments

Replace hard drive in Solaris 10 on IBM x3650 with arcconf and zpool

Published on September 5th 2013 - Listed in Solaris Hardware Unix - comments

check_ilo2_health 1.58 fixes drive check for multiple backplanes

Published on August 9th 2013 - Listed in Hardware Nagios Monitoring - comments

Query disk information from HP Proliant Servers through SNMP

Published on August 8th 2013 - Listed in Hardware Unix Linux - comments

check_equallogic and copying to spare raid status

Published on August 6th 2013 - Listed in Hardware Nagios Monitoring - comments

Updated Dell warranty information check in check_esxi_hardware

Published on July 25th 2013 - Listed in Nagios VMware Hardware Virtualization Monitoring - comments

Improved authentication error timeout in check_esxi_hardware

Published on July 11th 2013 - Listed in Nagios VMware Hardware Virtualization Monitoring - comments

check_smart with support for hardware raid controllers

Published on July 8th 2013 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Linux Perl Monitoring - comments

HP ILO Download Mirror

Published on July 2nd 2013 - Listed in Hardware Internet - comments

A dying SDCard (EMMC) causes strange effects on Android

Published on June 19th 2013 - Listed in Android Hardware Personal Rant - comments

Solaris: Add a new hard drive to existing zfs pool (with hpacucli)

Published on June 17th 2013 - Listed in Solaris Hardware Unix ZFS - comments

Seagate ST3000DM001-9YN166: A catastrophic disk

Published on June 11th 2013 - Listed in Hardware Linux Rant - comments

dd copy: How long does it take for a 3TB SATA Disk?

Published on June 1st 2013 - Listed in Linux Hardware - comments

ILO update 1.16 to 1.55 fails - use 1.28 as intermediate version

Published on May 22nd 2013 - Listed in Hardware - comments

Monitor zfs pools - which Nagios plugin should be used?

Published on May 7th 2013 - Listed in Nagios BSD Hardware Unix Monitoring ZFS - comments

ILO4 Firmware 1.20 changed the XML output

Published on March 13th 2013 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

rm: cannot remove due to Input/output error (EXT4-fs error)

Published on March 2nd 2013 - Listed in Linux Hardware - comments

ILO2 Firmware Upgrade fails with Internet Explorer 9

Published on February 18th 2013 - Listed in Windows Hardware - comments

grub2 boot issues after hdd replacement

Published on January 26th 2013 - Listed in Linux Shell Hardware Rant - comments

Solaris: Replace defect HDD with hpacucli and zpool

Published on January 17th 2013 - Listed in Unix Solaris Hardware - comments

check_equallogic now also checks power supply fans

Published on December 31st 2012 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

Building a home file server with HP Proliant N40L

Published on December 28th 2012 - Listed in Hardware Linux Samba - comments

Nagios/Monitoring Plugin check_esxi_hardware FAQ

Published on December 5th 2012 - last updated on April 26th 2022 - Listed in VMware Nagios Icinga Virtualization Monitoring Hardware - comments

Raid verifying percentage in check_equallogic

Published on December 4th 2012 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

Disk failures are not always seen by S.M.A.R.T.

Published on November 4th 2012 - Listed in Linux Hardware Rant - comments

New check_esxi_hardware.py version adds workaround for Dell PE x620

Published on October 27th 2012 - Listed in Nagios Hardware VMware Virtualization Monitoring - comments

check_esxi_hardware and Dell PowerEdge R620: Riser Config Err 0

Published on September 21st 2012 - Listed in Nagios Hardware VMware Virtualization Monitoring - comments

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295 running on openSuSE 12 with dual screens

Published on September 20th 2012 - Listed in Hardware Linux - comments

Mass unpacking, racking and cabling of HP ProLiant DL380 servers

Published on September 14th 2012 - Listed in Hardware - comments

Raid percentage bugfix in check_equallogic

Published on September 13th 2012 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

Fixed Cleaning Status check in check_ibm_ts_tape.pl

Published on September 1st 2012 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

CentOS 6.3 changed device names from /dev/cciss to /dev/sdX

Published on August 29th 2012 - Listed in Linux Hardware - comments

New version of check_ibm_ts_tape.pl released!

Published on August 22nd 2012 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

check_equallogic shows status of raid reconstruction

Published on August 16th 2012 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

Fixing slow Wireless LAN - the damn Multicast Rate setting

Published on July 25th 2012 - Listed in Internet Windows Android Hardware Personal Rant - comments

How to replace a hard or solid state drive in Linux software raid

Published on July 25th 2012 - last updated on October 2nd 2020 - Listed in Linux Hardware - comments

Bugfix in check_equallogic (info check)

Published on May 3rd 2012 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

Bugfix in check_esxi_hardware (Manufacturer discovery)

Published on May 1st 2012 - Listed in Nagios VMware Hardware Virtualization Monitoring - comments

Monitor Equallogic Snapshots with check_equallogic

Published on April 30th 2012 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

New/rewritten pool checks in check_equallogic

Published on April 6th 2012 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

Monitor how many (virtual) tapes are left available in Datadomain

Published on March 29th 2012 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Backup Monitoring - comments

New plugin to monitor IBM System Storage TS Tape Libraries

Published on March 19th 2012 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

Performance data added to volumes check in check_equallogic

Published on January 25th 2012 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

Bugfix in check_equallogic (volumes check)

Published on January 23rd 2012 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

Minor update of check_equallogic (info and temp check)

Published on January 5th 2012 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

How to forward USB device to a virtual machine

Published on December 21st 2011 - Listed in Windows VMware Network Virtualization Hardware - comments

Dell OMSA + ESXi 5.0 is now working!

Published on December 19th 2011 - Listed in VMware Nagios Hardware Virtualization Monitoring - comments

check_esxi_hardware + ESXi 5.0 + DELL OMSA = FAIL

Published on November 8th 2011 - Listed in Nagios Hardware VMware Virtualization Monitoring - comments

New versions of check_storcenter and check_equallogic

Published on October 31st 2011 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

First minor update of check_storcenter

Published on October 20th 2011 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

Bugfix in check_equallogic and new Nagios plugin: check_storcenter

Published on October 13th 2011 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

New (and final) version of check_equallogic released

Published on August 8th 2011 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

Possibility to check disk pool utilization on Equallogic

Published on August 4th 2011 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

Improved disk check on check_equallogic Nagios plugin

Published on July 25th 2011 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

Bad luck or bad manufacturing?

Published on July 19th 2011 - Listed in Hardware Rant - comments

Mount a HDD which is a member in Intel Raid to back up data

Published on July 8th 2011 - Listed in Windows Hardware Linux - comments

Printing issues on Mac OS X 10.6 after upgrade to Snow Leopard

Published on July 5th 2011 - Listed in Hardware Apple Office Rant - comments

USB3 problems with Asus P8H67-M EVO and Windows 7 64bit [solved]

Published on June 30th 2011 - Listed in Hardware Windows - comments

check_esxi_hardware now reads file for username AND password

Published on June 14th 2011 - Listed in VMware Nagios Hardware Virtualization Monitoring - comments

Testing some Swiss Online-Shops for Hardware Upgrade

Published on June 7th 2011 - Listed in Personal Hardware Internet - comments

HP's customized ESXi 4.1U1 fails on HP BL460C (Gen1)

Published on June 6th 2011 - Listed in VMware Nagios Hardware Virtualization Monitoring - comments

Modified Nagios Plugin check_dell_warranty (Adapted to euro website)

Published on May 26th 2011 - Listed in Nagios Internet Hardware Monitoring - comments

Bugfix for IBM Blade Servers in check_esxi_hardware

Published on May 20th 2011 - Listed in Nagios VMware Hardware Virtualization Monitoring - comments

Nagios plugin check_esxi_hardware updated and comments on blog

Published on May 19th 2011 - Listed in Nagios VMware Internet Hardware Monitoring - comments

Gotcha, little bugger (Wyse WTOS 7 DomainList and SelectGroup bug)

Published on May 17th 2011 - Listed in Hardware Virtualization Wyse - comments

Everything bad has to die some day

Published on May 2nd 2011 - Listed in Hardware Rant - comments

New/Rewritten temperature check in check_equallogic

Published on April 7th 2011 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

check_equallogic: Bugfix in volumes and etherrors thresholds

Published on April 4th 2011 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Network Monitoring - comments

check_equallogic now catches ethernet packet errors

Published on March 28th 2011 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Network Monitoring - comments

The fight to install HP Mgmt Agents and System Management Homepage

Published on March 24th 2011 - Listed in Hardware Linux Rant - comments

Lost check type 'temp' added again to check_equallogic

Published on March 23rd 2011 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

Some minor changes in check_equallogic plugin

Published on March 15th 2011 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

Why Philips DVP 3360 has problems with large DivX files

Published on March 13th 2011 - Listed in Hardware Personal Rant - comments

Space + Speed = 600GB SAS 15k

Published on February 24th 2011 - Listed in Hardware Virtualization - comments

HP Color LaserJet 2600n prints red 'background'

Published on February 20th 2011 - Listed in Hardware Office - comments

New version of check_esxi_wbem (Intel server bugfix)

Published on February 7th 2011 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Virtualization Monitoring - comments

Major Update of check_equallogic: Volumes check

Published on December 2nd 2010 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

Added 'fan' type in check_equallogic

Published on November 2nd 2010 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

New version 20101026 of check_equallogic

Published on October 26th 2010 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

And I still hate Blade Servers

Published on October 25th 2010 - Listed in Hardware Rant - comments

First fights with UCS -> Port Channel Uplink doesn't work [solved]

Published on October 22nd 2010 - Listed in Hardware Network - comments

Magical ethernet interface (network card not detected - electrical circuit issue?)

Published on September 19th 2010 - Listed in Hardware Personal Network Rant - comments

Hello Cisco UCS, goodbye SUN!

Published on September 10th 2010 - Listed in Hardware - comments

ESXi 4.1 and the disk capacity... Update!

Published on September 3rd 2010 - Listed in VMware Hardware Linux Virtualization - comments

Yes, you have maintenance, but not for batteries

Published on September 3rd 2010 - Listed in Hardware Internet Rant - comments

iSeries/AS400 Disk Expansion Installation

Published on August 26th 2010 - Listed in Hardware - comments

Connection type fix in new version of check_equallogic

Published on August 12th 2010 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

When Windows 2003 setup cannot find the (SAS-)disks...

Published on July 16th 2010 - Listed in Windows Hardware - comments

New version 20100705 of check_esxi_wbem

Published on July 5th 2010 - Listed in Nagios VMware Hardware Virtualization Monitoring - comments

New version 20100630 of check_equallogic released

Published on June 30th 2010 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

New version 20100628 of check_esxi_wbem

Published on June 28th 2010 - Listed in Nagios VMware Hardware Virtualization Monitoring - comments

Hands on Dell PowerVault 124t (LTO5)

Published on June 9th 2010 - Listed in Hardware - comments

The iPad has arrived - and this is serious!

Published on May 28th 2010 - Listed in Hardware Internet Personal Android Apple Rant - comments

New version 20100526 of check_equallogic available

Published on May 28th 2010 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

Wyse support: Frustration guaranteed

Published on May 18th 2010 - Listed in Hardware Wyse Virtualization Rant - comments

What might be the best Blade system?

Published on May 5th 2010 - Listed in Hardware Internet Rant - comments

HP re-releases ESXi Offline Bundle 1.3

Published on May 4th 2010 - Listed in Hardware VMware - comments

HP ESXi Offline Bundle 1.3 - not working and disappeared?

Published on April 29th 2010 - Listed in Hardware VMware Virtualization Rant - comments

New version of check_equallogic released

Published on April 20th 2010 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

Dear LiteON support

Published on March 18th 2010 - Listed in Hardware Rant - comments

The HP Blade nightmare continues

Published on March 3rd 2010 - Listed in Hardware Rant - comments

Changes in Sun Customer Support since Oracle took over

Published on February 16th 2010 - Listed in Hardware Internet Rant - comments

Dell's official answer and bugfix of Equallogic plugin

Published on January 8th 2010 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

check_equallogic with more than one member

Published on December 10th 2009 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

Immediate Availability of check_equallogic

Published on November 21st 2009 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments

Good support, bad support

Published on November 20th 2009 - Listed in Hardware Internet Rant - comments

Nagios Plugin for Dell Equallogic

Published on November 9th 2009 - Listed in Nagios Hardware Monitoring - comments