Well I gave unity the old college try in ubuntu 11.04. But last night I just couldn't take it any more. There were some small rendering issues occasionally plus some tray programs like workrave had no place to go, at least that I could find anyway and I really need workrave to remind me to change from sitting to standing positions every so often. (Read More)
SNMP v3 support added to check_snmp_extend.py
check_snmp_extend is a python script that I found orphaned on some Nagios forum. It facilitates using snmpd as an agent for executing Nagios plugin scripts. I adopted it made a few changes and tossed it on github a while back. I'm happy to merge initial snmp v3 support from Lee Whalen (Read More)
Google plus: first impressions from someone who doesnt have a facebook account and barely uses twitter
Today I spent some time checking out google plus. If you haven't heard about it by now you probably live under a rock. Google plus is googles latest push into the social networking scene. I've never been real hip on the social networking scene. (Read More)
Centos 6 on the horizon
Just happened to notice that centos 6 looks like it will be dropping soon. In QA and syncing to internal servers today, sync to public mirrors on Monday. (Read More)
Extended monitoring via snmp
Monitoring systems utilize agents running on the monitored system in order to provide a consistent access mechanism to get at host and application data. Hypric has an agent, Zabbix has an agent, Nagios has NRPE as an agent option, collectd has an agent. Maybe its just my flawed perception but when I think of agent based monitoring SNMP isn't one of the first things that comes to mind. Apparently I am not alone, in his blog on it.toolbox.com Andrew Kramer goes so far as to call SNMP "agentless" monitoring. (Read More)
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