18-06-2009

Simpel måling af dataforbrug på Nokia E65 (Symbian)

Category Danish Telefoner
Jeg har lige fundet ud af en metode til at se, hvor stort ens data-transport-forbrug er på en Nokia E65.
Menuknap->Log->Venstre->Packet data

Her kan man se sit dataforbrug for udgående og indgående siden en eller anden dato. Eftersom man ikke kender den så er man ikke kommet så langt endnu.
Men så kan man nulstille tælleren:
Options->Clear counters

Her skal man (jeg skulle) bruge en "Lock code" som ikke er den samme som den kode man bruger når man tænder enheden.... Jeg fandt ud af at default er koden sat til "12345".
Nu er den nulstillet. Vend tilbage om en uge og se, hvad den så står til...

Min telefon brokkede sig over at den ikke kunne nulstille når der var en aktiv Data Packet connection. Derfor gik jeg ind i Lotus Traveler og satte den til at automatisk synkronisering skulle være slukket. Og så kunne den nulstilles.

11-06-2009

Monitoring Domino with Nagios using SNMP - research results

Category Lotus Domino Server Monitoring
I set up a Nagios server for monitoring the servers at work a while ago. It works just great. Highly recommended.
Then one of my colleagues wanted to look into whether we could monitor a Google Search Appliance (GSA) using the Nagios server. He found out that that can only be done using SNMP as you are not allowed to really get down to the OS of the GSA. He found it difficult to find his way through how to make it work. So I did a bid of research.

First I wanted to know if Nagios is able to monitor servers that expose SNMP-information. The answer looks to be a yes: check_snmp.

Then I wanted to get access to a server that was exposing SNMP-information. And for me the logical choice is to look at what Domino has to offer. And Domino does have an option for SNMP.
You need to install and configure something on the OS and then you need to install a Domino-specific service and load at least one Domino server task. The place to look for the Domino end of this is in the Administrator documentation, look for a document titled "The Domino SNMP Agent".

Then there is the Nagios end of things. How to get Nagios to get hold ot the SNMP information that Domino is making available. Here I found something that looks very interesting: Monitoring Lotus Notes/Domino Servers. It was posted a while back, but I would be surprised if it wouldn't work.
Be aware of the three downloads available from the bottom of the page. Especially the one labelled lotus-monitoring.tar.gz. Looks good. It's Domino-specific SNMP checks. For things like how many emails are dead or the availability index.

Finally I also found a promising script for Nagios - a Nagios plugin - that will probe SNMP information on the GSA: You can find information on this page: Monitoring a Google Search Appliance with Nagios. You have to scroll down a bit to find the section on Google Search Appliance monitoring.

I have not tested any of these things, but they look good. Well, actually I did test the GSA-specific script, and it told me our internal GSA wasn't responding... In all likelyhood the GSA hasn't been configured to expose SNMP data.

02-06-2009

Weekly Review done - GTD works

Category Getting Things Done
I am still using eProductivity - the Getting Things Done mail template that enhances the mail database with GTD functionality.
I upgraded to the 1.74 version of the template this weekend. I had some issues when switching between mail-db replicas on Windows and Linux, and those issues have been fixed in this release.

I just did my Weekly Review. The Weekly look at my stuff: Actions, Projects, Calendar etc. After each of these reviews there is two main things that I can highlight:
- I feel confident that I know what my commitments are. Both work- and personal commitments. Nothing is forgotten.
- I am now better at making sure that things don't slip. I now consistenly follow up on emails and projects before there is trouble because everybody involved thought that someone else was handling the issue.
Pretty good I think

I have been using the eProductivity-based way of doing GTD about two months now, and it does not feel obtrusive. Rather, I now get things into the proper shelves right away, for instance flagging an email for future follow-up. I am happy with my tool.

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Jens vægt-o-meter

12/08-06: 96,9 kg
14/10-06: 90,1 kg
14/08-07: 94,3 kg
07/11-07: 88,9 kg
09/11-08: 96,3 kg
03/02-09: 93,6 kg
09/08-09: 96,7 kg
30/12-09: 89.6 kg
25/01-10: 88.9 kg
09/03-10: 87.3 kg
31/03-10: 86.3 kg
26/08-10: 94.2 kg

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