Not dead
Sorry for not posting, I'm not dead. Just busy, New job.
I'm no longer working for Wells Fargo left there, and 3 weekslater started another Unix Admin job, trying to get up to speed in the new environment. Trying to be a productive employee, when you haven't even figured out what systems you are responsible for can be very trying.
Of course the new job is ripe with challenges, The most important box I'm responsible for runs an OS I haven't touched in over a decade, and even then I was just a user not an administrator. Of course I also have to deal with windows systems. Which bring there own challenges with them.
If you are looking for a cheap way to manage a bunch of systems, I recomend nagios, it really rocks spent at least a couple weeks updateing my new job's nagious server. We currently have 80 servers, and we are monitoring 155 services, its nice when the process setting up monitoring leads to catching problems before they become major issues, like finding a drive on a production server that is 98.5% full.
Hard drives are getting cheaper all the time, I just got a 750GB sata drive that will go into my mythtv server I talked about in my last post, of course I have to dedicate some time to put it in, well not even in, since I ordered it with a sata/firewire/usb2.0 enclosure just need to mount the drive, connect, format and copy data, etc. I've had the drive for 2 days still can't find the time.
I will try and post more, but no promises.
I'm no longer working for Wells Fargo left there, and 3 weekslater started another Unix Admin job, trying to get up to speed in the new environment. Trying to be a productive employee, when you haven't even figured out what systems you are responsible for can be very trying.
Of course the new job is ripe with challenges, The most important box I'm responsible for runs an OS I haven't touched in over a decade, and even then I was just a user not an administrator. Of course I also have to deal with windows systems. Which bring there own challenges with them.
If you are looking for a cheap way to manage a bunch of systems, I recomend nagios, it really rocks spent at least a couple weeks updateing my new job's nagious server. We currently have 80 servers, and we are monitoring 155 services, its nice when the process setting up monitoring leads to catching problems before they become major issues, like finding a drive on a production server that is 98.5% full.
Hard drives are getting cheaper all the time, I just got a 750GB sata drive that will go into my mythtv server I talked about in my last post, of course I have to dedicate some time to put it in, well not even in, since I ordered it with a sata/firewire/usb2.0 enclosure just need to mount the drive, connect, format and copy data, etc. I've had the drive for 2 days still can't find the time.
I will try and post more, but no promises.
posted by jamesd_wi at Wednesday, April 30, 2008
4 Comments:
wow, that doesn't seem like a lot of services for that many hosts. Are you planning on adding more in the future?
I've got 183 services on 44 hosts, but each machine has disk space checks in addition to service checks. I'm also doing database concurrency checks and room temperature. I'm planning on adding several, including internal machine sensor checks and stuff when I turn up my blade enclosure.
What kind of monitoring are you doing?
James,
I was wondering when you were going to post again.
Your new job sounds interesting - a lot of new toys. I hope things go well with your new employer.
Roy
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I've used Nagios for many years. You can't beat the cost, but I think it leaves some things to be desired in the tiering of alerts based on severity and built-in trending of statistics. Some will argue that you don't need stats or that stats shouldn't be a part of alarming, but they can be useful when trying to figure out a new environment.
I recently changed jobs and we tried about Groundworks for a little while. One aspect of it that is exciting, yet dangerous, is that it will use nmap to attempt to discover hosts and services on the local network. Anyhow, keep up the good work. You keep writing, I'll keep reading.
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