Last year, I did blog about monZphere's custom Zabbix widgets a few times. For those who don't know, monZphere is a company specialized for building custom Zabbix modules and widgets. Some of the modules are free for all of us and can be found from monZphere's GitHub page, some do cost money, but oh boy how their modules do change Zabbix interface and the ways you can use it.
Can you monitor the signal strength of your different Wi-Fi devices that are connected to your (home) router with Zabbix? Of course you can! This is a really quick morning post before I hop on to my work duties, showing also how ChatGPT or any LLM can boost your productivity when doing this kind of things.
In my previous post I did show some command-line tools that could be useful for showing interesting metrics about your Mac. I also told that in the follow-up post I would show you how to monitor your Apple Silicon (with that, I mean Apple M-series chips CPU/GPU/ANE [Apple Neural Engine]) with Zabbix.
I'm almost successful with that, but then still embarrassingly far. This has not been my most successful project so far. I am sure there would be so many better ways -- if so, please let me know!
When using command line, I of course have my trusted tool belt with plenty of legendary shell commands that have been around for decades. But just to keep myself fresh and not become a grumpy Unix greybeard, every now and then I explore what's out there today. Here are some tips that may or may not help you with Zabbix as well.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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