Massoud Mazar

SQL Server Reporting services provides a decent reporting framework, and in 2008 release of SQL server, it is even better than previous versions. SSRS allows you to use many different types of data sources in your reports, but when I decided to add some reports with MySql sources, it was lacking data source type for it. With some research on the net, I realized it should be possible to add MySql data sources to both Visual Studio report designer and to the reporting services itself. More...

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if you already have nagios setup to monitor your servers, it's a good idea to use it to monitor your hadoop data nodes as well. you can use nrpe to call your dfs monitoring plugin. I found this blog post about setting up nrpe on CentOS extremely useful. The only trick to get it to work was to also setup rpmforge repositories for yum, so it finds the nrpe packages (nagios-nrpe and nagios-plugins-nrpe). 

The next step was to add monitoring script for hadoop dfs, which I found here. Since I was using hadoop 0.20.2, I had to make some changes to the script to correctly parse values out of the dfs report:More...

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