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Open Source Data Center Conference 2009: Workshop on creating collectd extensions

I will give a workshop on how to extend collectd, the system statistics collection daemon, at the Open Source Data Center Conferece 2009 which will take place in Nürnberg, Germany. The workshop, which will be held in German, gives an overview about the various ways of extending the daemon and then guides the attendees through the creation of their own plugins.

monday, december 01, 2008 | path: /projects/collectd | permanent link

collectd 4.3.0 uploaded to unstable

Yesterday, collectd 4.3.0-1 has been uploaded to Debian unstable. The most important changes since 3.x are (in chronological order):

the much improved plugin infrastructure offers a lot more flexibility

the much improved networking code offers a lot more flexibility

the new bindings to Perl allow plugins to be written in the scripting language Perl

the new unixsock and exec plugins allow external programs to communicate with the daemon and submit data

integration with Nagios has been implemented

support for flexible intervals has been added

support to read values from SNMP enabled devices has been added

basic support for monitoring has been added

many new plugins

See the changelog for details.

About collectd:
collectd is a small daemon which collects system information periodically and provides mechanisms to monitor and store the values in a variety of ways. It is written in C for performance. Since the daemon doesn't need to startup every time it wants to update the values it's very fast and easy on the system and allows very fine-grained statistics.

friday, february 22, 2008 | path: /debian | permanent link

FrOSCon 2007: Debian on a Lego robot

This little Lego robot runs (well, drives) with Debian ;-)

sunday, august 26, 2007 | path: /debian | permanent link

Debian at FrOSCon 2007

The team of the Debian booth at FrOSCon 2007. Standing (from left to right): Bernd "bzed" Zeimetz, Thomas "MrFai" Lange, I, Elmar Hoffmann, Martin "zobel" Zobel-Helas, Luk "luk" Claes. Sitting: some visitor, Christoph "Myon" Berg.

Thanks to Michael "mika" Prokop for taking this photo (I cowardly stole it from his blog).

saturday, august 25, 2007 | path: /debian | permanent link

HDR image of Les Menuires

This HDR (high dynamic range) picture was assembled from seven individual images of the city of Les Menuires, France, taken during my snowboarding vacation in January 2007. I was using Qtpfsgui (which is based on pfstools) to render the image. I am going to package those pieces of software for Debian soon.

sunday, february 18, 2007 | path: /photo | permanent link

Upgraded my laptop from Sarge to Etch

I just upgraded the Sarge system on my laptop to Etch. As I was using all kinds of selfpackaged and -backported packages from all kinds of sources a couple of minor dependency problems arised. Besides that, the upgrade went very smooth though and I did not recognize any problems so far. Good job Debian people! :-)

saturday, january 20, 2007 | path: /debian | permanent link

Is it spring already?

This picture was taken in my parents' garden today...

saturday, january 20, 2007 | path: /misc | permanent link

New camera :-)

My new camera - a Canon EOS 30D digital SLR camera and a Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM zoom lens - arrived this morning. I'm very happy that it arrived in time for my snowboarding vacation (which starts on Saturday) as I did not order it before last Friday. Today, I bought two 2GB CF cards for it so I should be equipped pretty well for the time being :-)

thursday, december 28, 2006 | path: /photo | permanent link

Yesterday I found and removed a bug in the computer lab at university ;-)

tuesday, december 05, 2006 | path: /misc | permanent link

Second set of pictures uploaded

The second set of pictures of my Norway trip - taken with my Canon EOS Rebel G camera - have been uploaded to my gallery.

tuesday, october 10, 2006 | path: /travel | permanent link

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