Maarten De Paepe

If you've set up a shinken monitor, you'll probably be a bit disappointed that the graph feature is not included, and that setting it up isn't all that easy. Luckily, this guide will show you how to do this, fairly easy. The first thing to know is that you'll be

Introduction Shinken is a monitoring service based on Nagios written in python. The cool stuff here is that it's written in python, but also that you are able to use many, if not all, Nagios plugins. "But Maarten, why is it so great that it's written in python ?"

If for some reason you want to perform basic actions on your LDAP server, be it for troubleshooting or integration with and app you're writing, and you don't really know what data to expect. Then I've got some code for you that you can execute quick and easy in a

The fun part about working in IT is that you're often forced to work with - and make things work based on - technologies you are unfamiliar with. So, at one point in my (infant) career, I was asked to set up an LDAP server that supported user, groups, and