Re: [lopsa-discuss] Recommendations for a Network Service Monitor?

2009-03-08 Thread Brent Chapman
Anybody here have any experience with Munin? http://munin.projects.linpro.no/ Sample of a live installation: http://munin.ping.uio.no/ -Brent ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Recommendations for a Network Service Monitor?

2009-03-09 Thread Brent Chapman
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Brad Knowles wrote: > on 3/8/09 4:00 PM, Brent Chapman said: > >> Anybody here have any experience with Munin? >> http://munin.projects.linpro.no/ >> Sample of a live installation: http://munin.ping.uio.no/ > > We use it on the

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Recommendations for a Network Service Monitor?

2009-03-10 Thread Brent Chapman
like Puppet (for installing config files for UNIX/Linux-based services such as DNS, DHCP, and monitoring) and Ziptie (for installing configs on network devices; see http://www.ziptie.org). -Brent -- Brent Chapman Founder and CEO // Netomata, Inc. // www.netomata.com Ma

Re: [lopsa-discuss] New Resource: serverfault.com

2009-05-01 Thread Brent Chapman
ducts/ncg ). I've asked a number of Ruby questions there, and gotten quick and useful responses. Their archive has also grown to the point where I can often find answers to my questions there, without even having to ask. Hopefully, serverfault.com will wind up being just as useful; I sugges

Re: [lopsa-discuss] OT slightly -- Help a journalist please? VPNs and Windows 7

2009-10-20 Thread Brent Chapman
raining/tutonefile.html#m3 Plug 2: Of course, I'd also be happy to be the network consultant who you hire once, to set up up NCG and your templates, so that you don't have to keep hiring a consultant every time you want to make a straightforward change like adding one more site to your VPN

Re: [lopsa-discuss] books about technical writing

2009-12-30 Thread Brent Chapman
mean to pick on Yves, but the message that I'm replying to is a perfect example of the tendency that I'm talking about: it was the 3rd (and final) paragraph before he got around to stating what he was looking for, after first laying out a solid background for his request. -Brent -- Brent Cha

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Writer's Block

2010-06-17 Thread Brent Chapman
d to know such info, it's usually better to get it from the system directly. Second, even if it's kept accurate, this documentation doesn't tell a later reader (months or years after the system was deployed) anything at all about _why_ the system is configured that way, which makes it m

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Recommendations for Network training for a new manager

2010-08-22 Thread Brent Chapman
ed. Second, it gives you a good set of explanations and examples to use to explain to other (non-technical, such as upper management) folks why what your team does is hard to predict/forecast/manage. 5 stars, highly recommended. -Brent -- Brent Chapman Netomata, Inc. -- www.netomata.com Making