The curse of Dennis D. Spreen

nagios_mdaemon_check.exe v1.0 released

A Nagios NRPE plugin that checks the active connections to and from a MDaemon server,
the plugin checks and returns the SMTP, POP, IMAP, WorldClient and Webadmin connections.
WorldClient and Webadmin connection detection is limited because of the stateless
connections to the server.

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nagios_mdaemon_check.zip v1.0

Detailed info at http://blog.spreendigital.de/nagios/?#nagios_mdaemon_check

Tags: mdaemon, Nagios, nrpe, plugin

Create an ESXi Whitebox ISO with Windows Tools

This is a short tutorial on how to build a custom ESXi v3.5 Whitebox ISO with Windows Tools (and an Ubuntu-VMImage for VMWare Player) by integrating a new driver (RTL8169 network card) into the Community Driver Pack and integrating this pack into the ISO, too.
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Tags: ESXi, VMWare, Whitebox

nagios_mdaemon_stats.exe v1.0 released

A Nagios NRPE plugin that parses the status page of a MDaemon server, the plugin returns the SMTP, POP, Spam, virus, SPF, DK cache, IP cache, LDAP cache and tarpit statistics of the MDaemon mail server.

Detailed info at http://blog.spreendigital.de/nagios/?#nagios_mdaemon_stats

Download
nagios_mdaemon_stats.zip v1.0

check_apachestatus_auto.pl v1.1 released

A Nagios plugin that parses the status page of an apache or lighttpd server, the plugin returns the response time, the amount of idle, busy, open (apache only) and total slots. The perfdata returns the status of all slots including Requests/sec, Bytes/Request and Bytes/sec. Optionally you can specify how much slots should be available. Use http(s) and basic user authentication with non standard server-status urls. This is an enhanced version of an enhanced version of Lieven De Bodt’s check_apachestatus.pl.

Detailed info at http://blog.spreendigital.de/nagios/?#check_apachestatus_auto

Whats new
v1.1 Works with lighttpd server-status as well, added accesses perfdata (Lighttpd v1.4.19 tested)

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check_apachestatus_auto.tgz v1.1

Tags: apache, lighttpd, Nagios, plugin, server-status.

check_apachestatus_auto.pl v1.0 released

A Nagios plugin that parses the status page of an apache server, the plugin returns the response time, the amount of idle, busy, open and total slots. The perfdata returns the status of all slots including Requests/sec, Bytes/Request and Bytes/sec. Optionally you can specify how much slots should be available. Use http(s) and basic user authentication with non standard server-status urls. This is an enhanced version of an enhanced version of Lieven De Bodt’s check_apachestatus.pl.

Detailed info at http://blog.spreendigital.de/nagios/?#check_apachestatus_auto

Download

check_apachestatus_auto.zip v1.0

Tags: apache, lighttpd, Nagios, plugin, server-status.

Delphi Prism new language features

Andreano Lanusse wrote about the new Delphi Prism language features compared to Delphi Win32.

Some of them I really would like to see in Delphi Win32 and some I don’t like and disallowed it in our internal code creation rules. The most important I dislike is

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Tags: .NET, Delphi Programming, language, Object-oriented programming, OOP, Prism

Unicode in Resource files

Ever tried to put a unicode string (Delphi 2009) in a resource (.rc) file and tried to compile it with brcc32 or rc32?

You’ll get this error:  Expecting resource name or resource type name

The Solution is very simple (though it kept me searching some hours :-):

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Tags: Delphi Programming, Resource, String, Unicode

Right To Left Forms support

How to enable Right To Left Forms (including icons and form captions) with Delphi:

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Tags: Add new tag, arabic, Delphi Programming, font, RTL

OnClick Event in TTreeView Objects

This code returns the TAG of a clicked node in Delphi for PHP

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Tags: Delphi for PHP, Delphi Programming, Event, OnClick, PHP, TreeView, TTreeview