Someone recently asked me – ‘What would your perfect configuration management tool look like?’. It took awhile to come up with the answer for the question; after all, configuration management is a large and complex subject. On top of that, who can ever really say what the perfect anything would be? I [...]
I realize most of the time I end up complaining about Opsware – that’s generally because it’s part of the human condition. We say stuff when we’re upset or angry or don’t like something. How many times have you ever called up the phone company to tell them ‘Great job!’
Yeah, I thought so.
So I figured [...]
I’ve been getting back into the swing of things and trying to organize my life in an effort to regain my sanity. One of those things that I’ve been trying to do is get back into Opsware. You can find a couple articles of mine where I express my.. dislike.. for certain aspects [...]
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 [...]
If you’re like me and you use your MacBook Pro for work, it might stand to reason that you have to VPN into your work network. If so, it also may be a good chance that you use the Cisco VPN client and have run into this annoying message:
Error 51: Unable to communicate with [...]
