A few weeks a go I finally received my Synology DS1815+ Nas. Although I always have used my ZFS loving Freenas setup, I really think these kinda, factory made ready solutions, are going to takeover the Nas communities.
With ease I was able to setup my home and business storage. Thanks to DSM (which is OS of course) it is dead simple to add shares, sync with multiple clouds, and add iscsi luns to my systems with a blink of my eye.
As promised. I have released the dashboard code on Github. Please remember! This is my initial commit so bugs are included. As for myself, I’m not a programmer but more a graphical designer and I hope someone will enhance the code.
Zabbix is great! Since I’ve worked with a lot of Monitoring systems (including HPOM, NNMi, Nagios, Zenoss and Cacti to name a few) Zabbix struck me with it’s Enterprise ready features. It totally fulfills all the needs my employer (and me) wants from a Monitoring system.
All needs??? Mmmm, almost all!
There is one feature I really miss in Zabbix and that’s a decent dashboard function. Yeah, the default dashboard (or screens / slideshows) are great but only for technicians. What I was looking for was a Dashboard that does explain things in a overview without being too technical.
Was I lost? Not really! In comes the Zabbix api!!
We have managed to create a dashboard function using the Zabbix api and php which creates a nice overview of things that are happening in our environment. Although I am not a programmer (I am more a front end developer) we’ve managed (thanks Don!) to create something nice (in my opinion)
What does it do I hear you asking?
Well, it does this and that, but let me summarize it:
Soon I will publish a second post which will be more “in detail”. Second, I’m going to post the files onto Github so everyone can use/adjust/fork the files.
Happy Zabbixing 🙂
As a newbie Netapp administrator this struck me and left a warm feeling behind (Thanks Peter).
f1> priv set advanced
f1*> useradmin diaguser unlock
f1*> useradmin diaguser password
Enter a new password:*****
Enter it again:*****
f1*> systemshell
login: diag
Password: *****
f1% sudo bash
Now you have a full blown unix environment at your disposal. Be careful and remember Netapp is watching you 🙂
Although very isolated from the rest of the world, my wife and me had one common wish: “Explore Cuba in it’s current state”. So we did on our honey moon! Three weeks of tasting, exploring, witness the old Cuba, and we loved it!
