There are a few guides on this already (especially the Windows part), but I figured I’d write something anyhow. I’ve recently come into a small set of Windows servers that need to be added to…
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I’m preparing my beloved 2005 Yamaha FZ6 to be a sport touring moto-camping machine for this coming spring. I’ve had a pair of soft saddle bags, but unfortunately some bad loading and a few bumps…
We utilize the old school (v1) Basecamp at my office, and some time ago standardized on an Adobe Air app called Timy as a nicer GUI to help employees track time entries compared to doing…
Fall is here, which means beautiful foliage, colder weather, and a new operating system from our friends in Cupertino. I ran into a change today that surprised me a bit – the command line snmpconf…
Read the PostChanges to OS X’s snmpconf in 10.11 “El Capitan”
If you missed Part 1 (setting up the SNMP daemon), click here to read it! I know not many shops use OS X servers any more, but we do – so here’s a how to…
Read the PostMonitoring OS X Servers with Observium – Part 2: the Observium Agent
I know not many shops use OS X servers any more, but we do – so here’s a how to on getting Observium to draw pretty, pretty graphs of your Apple boxes. This guide applies…
Read the PostMonitoring OS X Servers with Observium – Part 1: SNMP
As I find my need for virtual machines increasing and my satisfaction with Parallels new licensing options decreasing, I am working on converting much of my testing to use VirtualBox. Provided by Oracle and free, it…
Read the PostConverting Parallels VMs to work with VirtualBox
Update: the latest revision of Observium now supports slack notifications (as well as a few other services)! You can add a slack channel in a contact with the format channel::#channel-name||username::username||url::webhookapi-url-for-slack and associate it as usual.…
I’ve long been fascinated by the power of automation, but even more fascinated with being lazy AND utilizing heavy automation. A few years ago, I watched a presentation from Jesse Newland at Github about their…
I got pretty sick of having to constantly remember to put “:9000” to reach my Graylog web interface, and didn’t really want to mess around with adding SSL support into graylog itself. The solution? Run…