-
Dagens nyhet er at omsetningen til Microsoft for første gang er
-synkende. Ikke spesielt uventet med den generelle nedgangen i
-økonomien som vi ser verden over. Det fikk meg dog til å tenke på en
-ting fra noen år tilbake.
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Da jeg besøkte en kamerat i Beijing sommeren 2000, ble jeg fortalt
-at påstanden til Microsoft om at de brakte inn enorme pengesummer til
-USA nok var litt overdrevet, da de fleste inntektene fra lisenssalg
-rundt om i verden ble kanalisert inn til skatteparadiset
-Cayman
-Island. Jeg har aldri lykkes med å få bekreftet dette påstanden,
-men tok i dag en titt på hvilke selskaper som eier de norske delene av
-Microsoft som jeg kjenner til, dvs.
-Microsoft
-Norge AS og
-FAST,
-A Microsoft Subsidiary (tidligere FAST Search & Transfer ASA).
-
-
Førstnevnte er eid av "Microsoft International Holdings Spain
-S.R.L.", mens sistnevnte i følge Wikipedia nå eies av
-Microsoft-underselskapet "MACS Holdings Limited". Jeg har ikke klart
-Ã¥ finne mer informasjon om noen av disse. Mon tro om noen av dem
-sender pengene til Cayman Island? Finner det jeg tror er
-informasjon
-om spaniaselskapet på spansk, men jeg kan ikke lese spansk. :(
+
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.
+
+
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
+SiteSummary
+system 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.
+
+
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.
+
+
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.
+
+
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.
+
+
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 "htpasswd /etc/nagios3/htpasswd.users
+nagiosadmin" 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.