WATO > Manual Checks and click on "State and Count of Processes"
Add the description, check-type, process name and process matching and set the levels for the number of these processes that are expected:
Visit the page below to download the mkp package: https://checkmk.de/check_mk-exchange-file.php?&file=linux-updates-1.0.mkp Upload the mkp package to your check_mk server then install it : OMD:~$ mkp -v install linux-updates-1.0.mkp On... » More
Newer iDRAC web interfaces show the physical and virtual disks on a PERC controller but for older servers with an old iDRAC use openmanage on the command-line. To view a list of the physical disks: omreport storage pdisk controller=0 To... » More
On the Check_mk web UI visit:WATO menu > Monitoring Agents In the list on check agents you should find the nginx_status. Clicking on it shows the code for the check. Copy that code to the client server. The location on web001 for the check (for me... » More
The scenario here is that I would like to add a 'custom notes' link to any services with the word 'postfix' in the name of the service. I started by visiting WATO and drilling down to a host and one of the services I was interested in adding notes... » More
By default check_mk places icons under a 'hamburger' icon as shown below. I wanted the 'Custom Notes' icon to be visible at all times rather than being located under the actions icon. To do that visit the 'Global Settings' menu item and under... » More
On an EC2 instance with an EBS volume of 200GB I right-clicked the volume and chose to 'Modify Volume', then set a new size for the disk. On the OS (RHEL 7.6) you can check that the new size of the disk is visible with: fdisk... » More
On a server where normal reboot commands such as 'shutdown -r now' are not working and if you don't have access to an iDrac or similar the following worked:
echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger
Requirement was to run a process on a server on a new port but the original port was hard-coded into the client so we needed to redirect all traffic bound for the original port to the new port. First check the IP Forwarding is enabled. sysctl... » More
Had difficulty accessing an old iDRAC 6 interface with a more recent release of a web browser. Some of the drac interface shows but you get 404 error messages. The solution was accessing it via the compatability mode on IE: Then add the... » More
WATO > Manual Checks and click on "State and Count of Processes"
Add the description, check-type, process name and process matching and set the levels for the number of these processes that are expected:
