Equipment
First Home Rack I purchased a smoked glass cabinet with exhaust fans and a slide out keyboard/monitor tray. I filled it primarily with Sun Solaris machines but also had an 8mm tape drive for backups, a 6 drive SCSI raid, and a UPS. Each machine served a dedicated function – mail server, portal server, web […]
Map Of Infrastructure
What is it?! I wrote this application in Perl and it has evolved from job to job over the years. It began life as a hardware inventory, and later also included virtual servers. Eventually this branched out into including user information, as we needed that for the support team, to assign ownership of equipment to, […]
Monitoring
Monitoring Software Monitoring is a huge portion of my job and I’m perpetually seeking the utopian monitoring system. What makes for a perfect monitoring system you ask? I’m glad you asked! Offhand I would describe it as such: Holistic — watches every conceivable metric, preferably from multiple vantage points Corollary — distills data to provide […]