Monitor

Using OpenBSD with a Dell U2723QE monitor

2024-02-07 487 words, 3 minutes
dell
monitor
openbsd

Not so long ago, I bought a Dell U2723QE 4K monitor. I was not sure OpenBSD would support using it with only a USB-C connection. Spoiler alert, it does.

How good monitoring can help the business

2013-09-20 2029 words, 10 minutes
capacity management
capacity planning
graph
health status
metrology
monitor
monitoring
mrtg
nagios
poll
qos
quality of service
rrdtool
status

There are many times when I see IT managers not monitoring their user’s services at all or setup a general application and consider the job done. Most of the time, they realise much is missing when they have to report about (recurrent) issues regarding business critical services. Monitoring is not to be considered as a cure solution but as a forecast tool. When planned and configured as such, it’ll help prevent predicable failures and drive capacity planning.