Beginning tomorrow, our family life changes as we're going to get a puppy! This might mean I might be a bit more silent here (or then not, we'll see), but also that means that in one way or another, I'm gonna monitor the dog. :)

We're going to have a puppy in about one week. Cannot wait! 

BUT ... our home router was in a bit of a danger zone considering the puppy, so I moved the home router from our living room to my home office. 

First things first

As our home is very much monitored by Zabbix, of course I needed to first setup a maintenance window before starting the move.

Long time ago back in part 21 I blogged on concept level about how to monitor your CCTV streams with Zabbix and some shell scripting. The idea back then was to use mplayer, vlc or similar tool for watching the stream. If the playback stops, then the stream is broken, thus there's something wrong with the camera or the connectivity to it. That method works, but with Zabbix 7.0 and its Selenium tests, it's very much possible to monitor your CCTV natively through Zabbix without any external scripts.

Those of you who have read my blog for long enough might remember how I showed how to monitor the color of a banana. This, of course, motivated by Steve Destivelle the Banana Guy. My example back then was a quick hack to just show the potential and compared to what's possible today with the inevitable march of LLMs, it was very primitive.

I know, outside of the scope of this blog, but worth mentioning here for the future generations to marvel. 

Thank you, Forcepoint and my dear colleagues! I'm just doing my work and being the punny myself.

Last week I got to experience the fun little thing that is pneumonia. It was annoying but luckily not TOO bad. Nevertheless, nearly +39C for some time plus some side effects of that made me sleep a lot. Or, if not sleeping, at least staying in my bed.

What does a monitoring nerd do while trying to heal? Thinks how to monitor his fever, of course. 

Some time ago Metricio interviewed me for their blog, and here is the transcript of the interview on their blog. :)

Zabbix 7.2 is almost out with its 7.2.0rc2 release so I today updated my dear What's up, home? environment to it. What possibly could go wrong with a release candidate version? 

I've had a very long-running on-off asthma-stylish cough, recently getting worse than ever. No worries, my dear readers, I can live normal life, I go to work, live with my family, do all that, everything is well apart from annoyance.

Anyway, fpr debugging me, the doctors have taken all kinds of tests from me and the latest one is that I'll be doing PEF tests for two weeks twice a day. In PEF tests, you blow to a meter which then tells how many liters per minute you can huff and puff. For tracking the results, they gave me a paper. PAPER. PAPER! That blows. 

Welcome to another episode of What's up, home? weirdness. Who wouldn't have their own Netbox at home and who wouldn't think of it as home CMDB? I just started experimenting with that. For those who do not know, CMDB -- or Configuration Management Database -- is the source of truth for your inventory of stuff. In data centers, your servers, their cables, their everything, telling in which data center and which rack they are.