Category Archives: Planet Redpill-Linpro

New Munin-plugin for HP P2000 StorageWorks

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Trygve Vea

I committed a new Munin-plugin for HP P2000 StorageWorks. It monitors through the HTTP XML-RPC interface. It detects all disks, vdisks and controllers automatically – all you need to provide is the username/password, IP-address, and set up some symlinks. It … Continue reading →

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Presentation: Writing modules for nginx

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Trygve Vea

I held a presentation at Redpill Linpros “C / C++ / Embedded” Competence Group-meeting yesterday. It was about writing modules for nginx. It contains a lot of source code. I believe it’s an OK primer. Extending functionality in nginx, with … Continue reading →

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New Munin-plugin for HAProxy

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Trygve Vea

I committed a new Munin-plugin for HAProxy. It’s a multigraph plugin, it discovers all the configured frontends and backends automatically – all you need to provide is the username/password for the haproxy status page. It produces 8 graphs, + subgraphs … Continue reading →

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Detailed network metrics with Munin (Linux)

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Trygve Vea

Munin already does a great job on graphing – but I noticed that there weren’t any plugins dealing with the metrics in /proc/net/snmp and /proc/net/netstat. I didn’t know what all the metrics could mean, so I made some generic code … Continue reading →

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Bugtesting: There’s work to do

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Trygve Vea

I’ve yearned to start giving back to the free software community for years, but never really figured out what I can do. I’ve aimed high, and tried to find bugs to start working on, but most projects don’t really have … Continue reading →

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