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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from January 2010</title>
   5                 <description>Entries from January 2010</description>
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  10                 <title>Danmark går for ODF?</title>
  11                 <link>http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/Danmark_g_r_for_ODF_.html</link>
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  13                 <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Ble nettopp gjort oppmerksom på en
  15 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.version2.dk/artikel/13690-breaking-odf-vinder-dokumentformat-krigen &quot;&gt;nyhet fra Version2&lt;/a&gt;
  16 fra Danmark, der det hevdes at Folketinget har vedtatt at ODF skal
  17 brukes som dokumentutvekslingsformat i Staten.&lt;/p&gt;
  18
  19 &lt;p&gt;Hyggelig lesning, spesielt hvis det viser seg at de av vedtatt
  20 kravlisten for hva som skal aksepteres som referert i kommentarfeltet
  21 til artikkelen og
  22 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.version2.dk/artikel/13693-er-ooxml-doemt-ude-her-er-kravene-til-en-offentlig-dokumentstandard&quot;&gt;en
  23 annen artikkel&lt;/a&gt; i samme nett-avis.  Liker spesielt godt denne:&lt;/p&gt;
  24
  25 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt; Det skal demonstreres, at standarden i sin helhed kan
  26 implementeres af alle direkte i sin helhed på flere
  27 platforme.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  28
  29 &lt;p&gt;Noe slikt burde være et krav også i Norge.&lt;/p&gt;
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  34                 <title>Automatic Munin and Nagios configuration</title>
  35                 <link>http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/Automatic_Munin_and_Nagios_configuration.html</link>
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  37                 <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
  38                 <description>&lt;p&gt;One of the new features in the next Debian/Lenny based release of
  39 Debian Edu/Skolelinux, which is scheduled for release in the next few
  40 days, is automatic configuration of the service monitoring system
  41 Nagios.  The previous release had automatic configuration of trend
  42 analysis using Munin, and this Lenny based release take that a step
  43 further.&lt;/p&gt;
  44
  45 &lt;p&gt;When installing a Debian Edu Main-server, it is automatically
  46 configured as a Munin and Nagios server.  In addition, it is
  47 configured to be a server for the
  48 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/SiteSummary&quot;&gt;SiteSummary
  49 system&lt;/a&gt; I have written for use in Debian Edu.  The SiteSummary
  50 system is inspired by a system used by the University of Oslo where I
  51 work.  In short, the system provide a centralised collector of
  52 information about the computers on the network, and a client on each
  53 computer submitting information to this collector.  This allow for
  54 automatic information on which packages are installed on each machine,
  55 which kernel the machines are using, what kind of configuration the
  56 packages got etc.  This also allow us to automatically generate Munin
  57 and Nagios configuration.&lt;/p&gt;
  58
  59 &lt;p&gt;All computers reporting to the sitesummary collector with the
  60 munin-node package installed is automatically enabled as a Munin
  61 client and graphs from the statistics collected from that machine show
  62 up automatically on http://www/munin/ on the Main-server.&lt;/p&gt;
  63
  64 &lt;p&gt;All non-laptop computers reporting to the sitesummary collector are
  65 automatically monitored for network presence (ping and any network
  66 services detected).  In addition, all computers (also laptops) with
  67 the nagios-nrpe-server package installed and configured the way
  68 sitesummary would configure it, are monitored for full disks, software
  69 raid status, swap free and other checks that need to run locally on
  70 the machine.&lt;/p&gt;
  71
  72 &lt;p&gt;The result is that the administrator on a school using Debian Edu
  73 based on Lenny will be able to check the health of his installation
  74 with one look at the Nagios settings, without having to spend any time
  75 keeping the Nagios configuration up-to-date.&lt;/p&gt;
  76
  77 &lt;p&gt;The only configuration one need to do to get Nagios up and running
  78 is to set the password used to get access via HTTP.  The system
  79 administrator need to run &quot;&lt;tt&gt;htpasswd /etc/nagios3/htpasswd.users
  80 nagiosadmin&lt;/tt&gt;&quot; to create a nagiosadmin user and set a password for
  81 it to be able to log into the Nagios web pages.  After that,
  82 everything is taken care of.&lt;/p&gt;
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