Planet Network Management Highlights – Week 36

September 4, 2009

Highlights from Planet Network Management + Planet Sys Admin for Week 36 2009. New Pandora FMS screenshots Shawn’s Admin Corner II IBM Tivoli Business Service Management LinkedIn Group Zenoss Event Management Workshop with Skills 1st – a Zenoss events management workshop in the UK Alarm Point Monitoring Zenoss 2.4.5 is Now Available Wood – a [...]

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Pedal for Pounds – Yorkshire Cancer Research

September 1, 2009

On September 13th I will be taking part in the Pedal for Pounds North event raising money for the  cancer research charity Yorkshire Cancer Research. This will be the third time I’ve taken part in the sponsored bike ride, it is always very enjoyable cycling through 50 miles worth of beautiful, rolling countryside around Harewood [...]

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Planet Network Management Highlights – Week 35

September 1, 2009

Highlights from Planet Network Management + Planet Sys Admin for Week 35 2009. Amazon Introduces Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Cloud Droplet #98 Good Will VPC – John M Willis discusses Amazon’s new VPC service. Nominations open for “Sysadmin of the year”! Graphing Nagios Services with pnp4nagios Zenoss Core Reaches 1 Million Downloads Splunk 4 [...]

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Intellipool Network Monitor v4 is released

August 17, 2009

After a full years worth of development time Intellipool Network Monitor version 4 is now available for download. Version 4 highlights include: Configurable dashboards. Build your own dashboards so you see what’s important to you Network maps Network weather maps including real time information Search engine to tame even the largest network monitoring job Quicker [...]

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The problem with the implicit contract in open source

August 6, 2009

One of the things I’ve found very interesting about being involved in open source, and indeed business for that matter, is customer expectations. Just because you give something away does not mean that you or your offering will be judged more kindly as a consequence. It does not mean that there will be a lower [...]

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Drupal 6 book recommendations

July 30, 2009

As we’ve just delivered a big lump of functionality onto our website using Drupal, in fact everything is now managed through Drupal except this blog, I thought that you might appreciate a heads up on the books we used during the development process. Getting hold of the right books early in your project will make [...]

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RiverMuse has arrived

July 28, 2009

After a protracted wait, RiverMuse has finally released its open source fault management system. Binaries for Fedora Core 9 are available for immediate download. More technical details when the source code download link works. Update: oops, bit early on this, RiverMuse isn’t officially released until 5pm today, 28 July 2009.

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Rivermuse release iminent?

July 22, 2009

Looks like RiverMuse may just be coming close to a release next week after a considerable delay (around six months) if the latest RiverMuse tweet is authoritative. RiverMuse is supposed to be a next-generation systems management tool that just happens to be open source as well. With the people involved in RiverMuse, including such network [...]

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Seen the Apollo anniversary on TV? Now read the source code…

July 21, 2009

If you want to see some excellent assembly language programming, you can do a lot worse than read NASA’s newly released source code for the Apollo program. [via ComputerWorldUK]

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Open source questions…

July 20, 2009

A great set of questions by Jacob Kaplan-Moss about the General Public License with some great answers in the comments…

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