Continuation

It looks like Xmas comes early this year.

I was planning still to do a few things, but time – just vanished.

Well, hope that 2009 will be less crazy than 2008 and I will have more time for things, I would like to do in my professional life, but I didn’t had time to.

So now, Christmas is almost there, have to prepare to host my guests…

Looked around to find out if there is one already and I couldn’t find any.

I’ve created a multifunctional plugin for Munin for monitoring Cherokee server.

DOWNLOAD HERE

It’s written in Ruby. So far I can confirm that it’s compatible with Munin 1.3.4 and Cherokee 0.11.3 on Gentoo.

It gets data from the server_info module available under /about , which has to be set to at least normal.

Plugin graphs will appear under cherokee category and I believe it allows you to monitor multiple servers from single munin-node as it uses the host field.

Plugin can monitor :

• Number of connections, Active, Open and Reusable
• Number of modules Loaded
• Data Transferred by the Server
• Data Transfer rate, but this is just a concept as it doesn’t yield usable data after a while.

How to use it

Place it in directory like

/usr/local/lib/munin/plugins

add executable bit

 chmod +x /usr/local/lib/munin/plugins/cherokee__type_.rb

link from /etc/munin/plugins

cd /etc/munin/plugins
ln -s /usr/local/lib/munin/plugins/cherokee__type_.rb cherokee_hostname_type_conn
ln -s /usr/local/lib/munin/plugins/cherokee__type_.rb cherokee_hostname_type_mod
ln -s /usr/local/lib/munin/plugins/cherokee__type_.rb cherokee_hostname_type_data
ln -s /usr/local/lib/munin/plugins/cherokee__type_.rb cherokee_hostname_type_rate

restart munin-node

/etc/init.d/munin-node restart

I have started evaluating the Cherokee Web Server. Have it installed on Gentoo. Using latest version from Ayron.

So far, I have found

• that it gives a nice secure web interface ( via the cherokee-admin ),
• has a bug with Security setting when using IPv6 addresses ( I’ve sent feedback on that ).

2 days ago, I came back from my holiday.

It was great time spent with my family. Just two days were spoiled by work issues, that’s an achievement!

Now it’s time to get to real life. Start buying presents for Xmas and think about New Years Eve.

I’m still immersed in the Spinward Fringe books. Looks like I will have to wait to read Broadcast 4 Frontline as MobiPocket still doesn’t have it.