MonAMI

Yeah, it's been far too long since the last bit of news so here's a entry just to announce that MonAMI now has a new plugin: inklevel.This plugin is a simple wrapper around Markus Heinz's libinklevel library. This is a nice library that allows easy ... [More] discovery of how much ink is left in those expensive ink cartridges.The library allows one to check the ink levels of Canon, Epson and HP printers. It can check printers directly attached (via the parallel port or USB port) or, for Canon printers, over the network via BJNP (a proprietary protocol that has been reverse engineered).libinklevel supports many different printers, but not all of them. There's a small collection of printers that the library doesn't work with. There are some printers that are neither listed as working or not working. If your printer isn't listed, please let Markus know whether libinklevel works or not.Credit for the photo goes to Matthew (purplemattfish) for his picture CISS - Day 304 of Project 365. [Less]

Yeah, it's been far too long since the last bit of news so here's a entry just to announce that MonAMI now has a new plugin: inklevel.This plugin is a simple wrapper around Markus Heinz's libinklevel library. This is a nice library that allows easy ... [More] discovery of how much ink is left in those expensive ink cartridges.The library allows one to check the ink levels of Canon, Epson and HP printers. It can check printers directly attached (via the parallel port or USB port) or, for Canon printers, over the network via BJNP (a proprietary protocol that has been reverse engineered).libinklevel supports many different printers, but not all of them. There's a small collection of printers that the library doesn't work with. There are some printers that are neither listed as working or not working. If your printer isn't listed, please let Markus know whether libinklevel works or not.Credit for the photo goes to Matthew (purplemattfish) for his picture CISS - Day 304 of Project 365. [Less]

Yeah, it's been far too long since the last bit of news so here's a entry just to announce that MonAMI now has a new plugin: inklevel.This plugin is a simple wrapper around Markus Heinz's libinklevel library. This is a nice library that allows easy ... [More] discovery of how much ink is left in those expensive ink cartridges.The library allows one to check the ink levels of Canon, Epson and HP printers. It can check printers directly attached (via the parallel port or USB port) or, for Canon printers, over the network via BJNP (a proprietary protocol that has been reverse engineered).libinklevel supports many different printers, but not all of them. There's a small collection of printers that the library doesn't work with. There are some printers that are neither listed as working or not working. If your printer isn't listed, please let Markus know whether libinklevel works or not.Credit for the photo goes to Matthew (purplemattfish) for his picture CISS - Day 304 of Project 365. [Less]

Yeah, it's been far too long since the last bit of news so here's a entry just to announce that MonAMI now has a new plugin: inklevel.This plugin is a simple wrapper around Markus Heinz's libinklevel library. This is a nice library that allows easy ... [More] discovery of how much ink is left in those expensive ink cartridges.The library allows one to check the ink levels of Canon, Epson and HP printers. It can check printers directly attached (via the parallel port or USB port) or, for Canon printers, over the network via BJNP (a proprietary protocol that has been reverse engineered).libinklevel supports many different printers, but not all of them. There's a small collection of printers that the library doesn't work with. There are some printers that are neither listed as working or not working. If your printer isn't listed, please let Markus know whether libinklevel works or not.Credit for the photo goes to Matthew (purplemattfish) for his picture CISS - Day 304 of Project 365. [Less]

Work continues a-pace ... well kinda. I've added a new reporting plugin for a new monitoring system: Graphite [see launch-pad and wiki sites]. If you've not heard, is a funky new monitoring system that does away with the traditional RRDTool and ... [More] does everything in python.There's two main components to Graphite: carbon and graphite.Carbon is a recording daemon (in fact, a set of three daemons) that stores information efficiently on disk (using a custom format) and maintain a fast in-memory cache. Sending new metric values to the carbon agent is very simply.Graphite is a python web front-end that uses the Django framework and the ExtJS AJAX toolkit. Graph rendering is achieved using cairo (via python's cairo bindings). It's possible to run Graphite (Django) in stand-alone mode, but I guess most people will use mod_python and apache. Although there's a simple drag-and-drop compositor, the real power comes when using the CLI interface. There, each logged-in user can create their own custom graphs (multiple can be opened concurrently). These can be arranged on the screen and the resulting view saved for later recall.It's a bit of a faff to setup (although better with v0.9.3) and there's a few rough edges (again, better with v0.9.3). That said, it's already usable and the AJAX interface is pretty nice. It's early days, so I'm not sure where it will fit within the monitoring eco-system compared to established projects (e.g., ganglia, munin, cacti). I guess time will tell.Because of the way Graphite (and Carbon in particular) is designed, adding the MonAMI plugin to send it data is very easy. The code is now in CVS, ready for the next release. I've included a few screen shots that show the graph compositor. [Less]

Work continues a-pace ... well kinda. I've added a new reporting plugin for a new monitoring system: Graphite [see launch-pad and wiki sites]. If you've not heard, is a funky new monitoring system that does away with the traditional RRDTool and ... [More] does everything in python.There's two main components to Graphite: carbon and graphite.Carbon is a recording daemon (in fact, a set of three daemons) that stores information efficiently on disk (using a custom format) and maintain a fast in-memory cache. Sending new metric values to the carbon agent is very simply.Graphite is a python web front-end that uses the Django framework and the ExtJS AJAX toolkit. Graph rendering is achieved using cairo (via python's cairo bindings). It's possible to run Graphite (Django) in stand-alone mode, but I guess most people will use mod_python and apache. Although there's a simple drag-and-drop compositor, the real power comes when using the CLI interface. There, each logged-in user can create their own custom graphs (multiple can be opened concurrently). These can be arranged on the screen and the resulting view saved for later recall.It's a bit of a faff to setup (although better with v0.9.3) and there's a few rough edges (again, better with v0.9.3). That said, it's already usable and the AJAX interface is pretty nice. It's early days, so I'm not sure where it will fit within the monitoring eco-system compared to established projects (e.g., ganglia, munin, cacti). I guess time will tell.Because of the way Graphite (and Carbon in particular) is designed, adding the MonAMI plugin to send it data is very easy. The code is now in CVS, ready for the next release. I've included a few screen shots that show the graph compositor. [Less]

Work continues a-pace ... well kinda. I've added a new reporting plugin for a new monitoring system: Graphite [see launch-pad and wiki sites]. If you've not heard, is a funky new monitoring system that does away with the traditional RRDTool and ... [More] does everything in python.There's two main components to Graphite: carbon and graphite.Carbon is a recording daemon (in fact, a set of three daemons) that stores information efficiently on disk (using a custom format) and maintain a fast in-memory cache. Sending new metric values to the carbon agent is very simply.Graphite is a python web front-end that uses the Django framework and the ExtJS AJAX toolkit. Graph rendering is achieved using cairo (via python's cairo bindings). It's possible to run Graphite (Django) in stand-alone mode, but I guess most people will use mod_python and apache. Although there's a simple drag-and-drop compositor, the real power comes when using the CLI interface. There, each logged-in user can create their own custom graphs (multiple can be opened concurrently). These can be arranged on the screen and the resulting view saved for later recall.It's a bit of a faff to setup (although better with v0.9.3) and there's a few rough edges (again, better with v0.9.3). That said, it's already usable and the AJAX interface is pretty nice. It's early days, so I'm not sure where it will fit within the monitoring eco-system compared to established projects (e.g., ganglia, munin, cacti). I guess time will tell.Because of the way Graphite (and Carbon in particular) is designed, adding the MonAMI plugin to send it data is very easy. The code is now in CVS, ready for the next release. I've included a few screen shots that show the graph compositor. [Less]

Work continues a-pace ... well kinda. I've added a new reporting plugin for a new monitoring system: Graphite [see launch-pad and wiki sites]. If you've not heard, is a funky new monitoring system that does away with the traditional RRDTool and ... [More] does everything in python.There's two main components to Graphite: carbon and graphite.Carbon is a recording daemon (in fact, a set of three daemons) that stores information efficiently on disk (using a custom format) and maintain a fast in-memory cache. Sending new metric values to the carbon agent is very simply.Graphite is a python web front-end that uses the Django framework and the ExtJS AJAX toolkit. Graph rendering is achieved using cairo (via python's cairo bindings). It's possible to run Graphite (Django) in stand-alone mode, but I guess most people will use mod_python and apache. Although there's a simple drag-and-drop compositor, the real power comes when using the CLI interface. There, each logged-in user can create their own custom graphs (multiple can be opened concurrently). These can be arranged on the screen and the resulting view saved for later recall.It's a bit of a faff to setup (although better with v0.9.3) and there's a few rough edges (again, better with v0.9.3). That said, it's already usable and the AJAX interface is pretty nice. It's early days, so I'm not sure where it will fit within the monitoring eco-system compared to established projects (e.g., ganglia, munin, cacti). I guess time will tell.Because of the way Graphite (and Carbon in particular) is designed, adding the MonAMI plugin to send it data is very easy. The code is now in CVS, ready for the next release. I've included a few screen shots that show the graph compositor. [Less]

With some unfortunate timing, it looks like the "Axis of Openness" webpages (SourceForge, Slashdot, Freshmeat, ...) have gone for a burton. There seems to be some networking problems with these sites, with web traffic timing out. Assuming ... [More] traceroute output is valid, the problem appears soon after traffic leaves the Santa Clara location of the Savvis network [dead router(s)?]This is a pain because we've just done the v0.10 release of MonAMI and both the website and the file download locations are hosted by SourceForge. Whilst SourceForge is down, no one can download MonAMI!If you're keen to try MonAMI, in the mean-time, you can download the RPMs from the (rough and ready) dev. site:http://monami.scotgrid.ac.uk/The above site is generously hosted by the ScotGrid project [their blog].Thanks guys! [Less]

With some unfortunate timing, it looks like the "Axis of Openness" webpages (SourceForge, Slashdot, Freshmeat, ...) have gone for a burton. There seems to be some networking problems with these sites, with web traffic timing out. Assuming ... [More] traceroute output is valid, the problem appears soon after traffic leaves the Santa Clara location of the Savvis network [dead router(s)?]This is a pain because we've just done the v0.10 release of MonAMI and both the website and the file download locations are hosted by SourceForge. Whilst SourceForge is down, no one can download MonAMI!If you're keen to try MonAMI, in the mean-time, you can download the RPMs from the (rough and ready) dev. site:http://monami.scotgrid.ac.uk/The above site is generously hosted by the ScotGrid project [their blog].Thanks guys! [Less]