Monitoring a specific date

In this article we will see something different and that we can give it the use we need, and it is nothing more than being able to monitor a day or a specific date and let us know as the day approaches. An ideal and practical example, Well, to have centralized when the licenses or maintenance of each software/hardware that we have acquired expire, For example; or, My birthday, the 12 and congratulate 😉 me

Monitoring Citrix Licenses with Centreon

If we want to have centralized control of the licenses of our Citrix environments, we can easily do it with Centreon, as usual, we will base ourselves on a script that will run on the license server and pass its output to Centreon, this way we will know when we are going to run out of licenses and above all, we will have them under control and they will serve to justify new acquisitions.

Monitoring our Bosch Indego lawnmower with Grafana

Come, We continue with a somewhat geeky post, but if you have a garden you may be interested… The thing is, I have one of those robots that mow the lawn at home, specifically a Bosch Indego 350, and through an API given to us by the manufacturer we will be able to know the status of the lawnmower at all times, as well as having access to some interesting values; And by the way, with this API we will also be able to control it, At the end of the post we will see how to check the weather and if it is not raining, Well, we sent it to be cut 😉

Monitoring a Synology Array

If we have a Synology NAS array in our environment, we should take into account centralizing and monitoring its status, No? It will be very easy to integrate it into our Centreon and be able to know at all times its health and that of its components such as disks or volumes, as well as consumption or temperatures! These types of cabins must be under control, since they usually store either backup backups or directly all the company's data.

Monitoring with Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Grafana, Beats…

Well, We are going to make a series of documents where I am going to show you the necessary steps to have a fully skilled and functional real-time monitoring solution. We will base ourselves on the multiple options that the mythical Elastic Stack will give us, made up of Elasticsearch-type tools, Logshtash, Kibana and of course Beats packs. There will be a few posts, I hope you enjoy them, Let's freak out 😉

Checking the Health of Citrix VDA Machines with Centreon

All of us who work with Citrix environments know about the criticality of VDA machines, A very simple way to know your health, will be monitored with Centreon. We will be able to know the status of the VDA agent of the machines, On the one hand, you get VDA machines that have registration problems with the Delivery Controller, and also interesting if we have one in maintenance mode.