The more I work with Opsware, the more I think the tool was just designed with a much different philosophy than my own. To translate – the product isn’t bad, I just don’t agree with it ( I didn’t agree with BMC alot more tho’ ). I’m much more of a hardcore Puppet [...]
One of the things we struggle with at work is the allocation of resources. We’re all working on so many projects at once that it’s hard to tell when we’ve been assigned more work than we can really accomplish. Since we use traditional waterfall project management this often means that we have to [...]
In my industry, there’s alot of monitoring to be done. We have servers, services, processes, ports, log files, applications, you name it, we have to monitor it.
When I first started at DI, there was a current implementation of Nagios. Unfortunately, it was horribly done. Some agents used SSL, some didn’t. It [...]
I’ve always loved to cook. Unfortunately, I’m one of those people who only likes to cook with really fresh ingredients and I only end up cooking about once a month. That results in me buying alot of ingredients over and over and over, which costs me money, which makes me cook less. [...]
