-<p>I regi av
-<a href="http://www.personvern.no/">personvernforeningen</a> har jeg
-startet på
-<a href="http://personvern.no/wiki/index.php/Kameraovervåkning">et
-kart over overvåkningskamera i Norge</a>. Bakgrunnen er at det etter
-min mening bærer galt avsted med den massive overvåkningen som
-finner sted i Norge i dag, og at flere og flere overvåkningskamera
-gjør det vanskeligere og vanskeligere å gå igjennom livet uten at
-små og store brødre trenger inn i ens private sfære. Datatilsynet
-har et register over kameraovervåkning, men det viser seg å være
-ubrukelig både til å finne ut hvor det er kamera plassert, og til å
-sjekke om et kamera en kommer over er registrert. Dette nye kartet
-fikser en av disse manglene, men det vil fortsatt være umulig å vite
-om et kamera er registrert etter lovens krav eller ikke. Pr. nå er
-22 kamera i Oslo registrert, og det trengs flere til å registrere
-alle. Informasjonen registreres direkte inn i <a
-href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/">OpenStreetmap</a>, sa hentes det
-automatisk over i spesialkartet.</p>
+<p>One of the new features in the next Debian/Lenny based release of
+Debian Edu/Skolelinux, which is scheduled for release in the next few
+days, is automatic configuration of the service monitoring system
+Nagios. The previous release had automatic configuration of trend
+analysis using Munin, and this Lenny based release take that a step
+further.</p>
+
+<p>When installing a Debian Edu Main-server, it is automatically
+configured as a Munin and Nagios server. In addition, it is
+configured to be a server for the
+<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/SiteSummary">SiteSummary
+system</a> I have written for use in Debian Edu. The SiteSummary
+system is inspired by a system used by the University of Oslo where I
+work. In short, the system provide a centralised collector of
+information about the computers on the network, and a client on each
+computer submitting information to this collector. This allow for
+automatic information on which packages are installed on each machine,
+which kernel the machines are using, what kind of configuration the
+packages got etc. This also allow us to automatically generate Munin
+and Nagios configuration.</p>
+
+<p>All computers reporting to the sitesummary collector with the
+munin-node package installed is automatically enabled as a Munin
+client and graphs from the statistics collected from that machine show
+up automatically on http://www/munin/ on the Main-server.</p>
+
+<p>All non-laptop computers reporting to the sitesummary collector are
+automatically monitored for network presence (ping and any network
+services detected). In addition, all computers (also laptops) with
+the nagios-nrpe-server package installed and configured the way
+sitesummary would configure it, are monitored for full disks, software
+raid status, swap free and other checks that need to run locally on
+the machine.</p>
+
+<p>The result is that the administrator on a school using Debian Edu
+based on Lenny will be able to check the health of his installation
+with one look at the Nagios settings, without having to spend any time
+keeping the Nagios configuration up-to-date.</p>
+
+<p>The only configuration one need to do to get Nagios up and running
+is to set the password used to get access via HTTP. The system
+administrator need to run "<tt>htpasswd /etc/nagios3/htpasswd.users
+nagiosadmin</tt>" to create a nagiosadmin user and set a password for
+it to be able to log into the Nagios web pages. After that,
+everything is taken care of.</p>