Quick post : installing a mongo server is good, monitoring it is better. I wrote a very basic check that ensure your mongo DB is healthy. Grab it on my github.

In my last post I’ve been talking about mcollective (check the new website) and mongo and how awesome it is.

I run a bunch of box under OpenBSD at $WORK and I wanted to be able to run mcollective on these too. Unfortunately, there were no package available for this OS. So I took time and with some help from landry@ I was able to build a port. It has been integrated into the github repo quickly. But to be able to use mcollective you also need to have the ruby stomp connector. As I don’t like using gems and prefer them packages, I also built a port for it. You can grab it in my github repository here.