Networking
Yes, we’re still alive.
Friday, June 1st, 2007Just busy. Actually, Oliver may in fact be deceased, I haven’t talked to him in a week or so. You’ll have to ask him.
One of the reasons that I haven’t been posting much is ’cause I’ve been prepping ASAP for release. Check out the introduction on The Deep End at InfoWorld.
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APC Nagios plugins
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007Check out the code page — I’ve just posted a new Nagios plugin for APC gear. This plugin monitors APC ACRC and ACSC air conditioning units, as well as NetBotz and 3-phase rack PDUs. I’ve also written Cacti plugins for the same devices, but I haven’t had time to package them yet. Stay tuned.
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You’ll never guess where I’m calling from
Thursday, April 19th, 2007So here I sit, writing a blog post in a most interesting fashion. I’m typing these words into a browser displayed on a NatureTech Note-170, a device that closely resembles a laptop, but isn’t — there’s no hard drive, RAM, or CD/DVD drive. The Note-170 is a Sun Ray client.
Sun’s Sun Ray thin-client platform has […]
Friday the 13th
Saturday, April 14th, 2007My Friday the 13th certainly fit the stereotype. It was the day after I completed the majority of a massive office and datacenter relocation project in New Jersey. 30-something Windows, Linux and Solaris servers, two Cisco 6509 switches, a 4.5Mbit MPLS link, Internet and voice circuits, and around 20TB in four filers had to move […]
Coming soon: FindMe
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007Unlike some others on this blog that might best be described as carbuncles on the ass of IT, I’ve actually been busy writing tools that admins can use. So I didn’t post yesterday. Sue me.
I’m a few days shy of releasing a new tool called FindMe. Essentially, it’s a Web- and telnet-based Cisco VLAN management […]