Re: [lopsa-discuss] cfengine vs. puppet vs. chef

2010-05-22 Thread Joe McDonagh
a big GUI for cfg mgmt IIRC, which I think is what partly inspired him to create puppet. I don't know if that speaks to Luke's skills and technical ability, or to the suckiness of the systems before. -- Joe McDonagh AIM: YoosingYoonickz IRC: joe-mac on freenode L'ennui est contre

Re: [lopsa-discuss] cfengine vs. puppet vs. chef

2010-05-23 Thread Joe McDonagh
On 05/22/2010 09:07 PM, seph wrote: > Joe McDonagh writes: > >> what's most important to me in a >> programming language of any type is expressibility or usability for the >> task at hand. >> >> This is why I chose puppet. Puppet's DSL is made

Re: [lopsa-discuss] cfengine vs. puppet vs. chef

2010-05-25 Thread Joe McDonagh
On 05/24/2010 09:38 PM, Christophe Kalt wrote: > On 2010-05-22, Joe McDonagh wrote: > >> On 05/22/2010 11:45 AM, Yves Dorfsman wrote: >>> Has anybody done, or can point me to a *rational* comparison between >> those >>> guys, or even one including commercial pr

Re: [lopsa-discuss] cfengine vs. puppet vs. chef

2010-05-25 Thread Joe McDonagh
On 05/25/2010 12:36 AM, Atom Powers wrote: > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Joe McDonagh > wrote: >> >> The only thing I can think of limitations in puppet that people >> frequently encounter is inter-node dependencies. I'm interested to see >> what other

Re: [lopsa-discuss] cfengine vs. puppet vs. chef

2010-05-25 Thread Joe McDonagh
On 05/25/2010 11:01 AM, Phil Pennock wrote: > On 2010-05-25 at 07:31 -0400, Joe McDonagh wrote: > >> I just finished integrating puppet with nagios so that nagios configs >> are automagically built by puppet. It's a little different than what >> you're saying

Re: [lopsa-discuss] cfengine vs. puppet vs. chef

2010-05-25 Thread Joe McDonagh
ing for a bunch of languages, nothing that is intelligent enough to determine that you stopped configuring a service via puppet. I mean we get notifications of diffs in the post-commit, so if you are paying attention to the e-mails you should notice. -- Joe McDonagh Operations Engineer AIM:

Re: [lopsa-discuss] cfengine vs. puppet vs. chef

2010-05-25 Thread Joe McDonagh
On 05/25/2010 09:33 AM, Nick Silkey wrote: > On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Joe McDonagh > wrote: > >> I saw a guy once present graphs I believe in the puppet channel on >> freenode that showed how much faster cfengine is than puppet with an >> equivalent

Re: [lopsa-discuss] OpenBSD RAID Controllers?

2010-06-18 Thread Joe McDonagh
y no > options? > > I'm not so sure the list is up to date if your suppliers are telling you that- we use OBSD on some pretty new HP hardware, and I'm sure the chipset is available on some 'whitebox' controller. -- Joe McDonagh AIM: YoosingYoonickz IRC: joe-mac on freenod

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Writer's Block

2010-06-18 Thread Joe McDonagh
e quirks * Service tags/Warranty/Support Info * Common Operations, possibly with a script attached for the longer common ops -- Joe McDonagh AIM: YoosingYoonickz IRC: joe-mac on freenode "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." ___ Di

Re: [lopsa-discuss] IP Address Scanner & Management tool suggestions

2010-06-18 Thread Joe McDonagh
> Windowsless environment here) > > Any and all suggestions will be welcome. > > Thanks in advance > > > > > JBB > Sounds like nmap with a tiny bit of logic and a small php or ruby webpage. -- Joe McDonagh AIM: Yoosin

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Ideas for tracking my "radar screen"

2010-06-26 Thread Joe McDonagh
cuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/ JIRA with the SCRUM addons sounds exactly like waht you want. The workflow of backlog items broken into tasks is incredible- you

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Your Bookshelf

2010-07-15 Thread Joe McDonagh
iscuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > practical ruby for system administration from apress. -- Joe McDonagh AIM: YoosingYoonickz IRC: joe-mac on freenode "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." _

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

2010-08-21 Thread Joe McDonagh
ire a guy who knows networking better than you and invest in upping your skills in other areas, maybe management. -- Joe McDonagh AIM: YoosingYoonickz IRC: joe-mac on freenode L'ennui est contre-révolutionnaire ___ Discuss mailing list Discus

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

2010-08-23 Thread Joe McDonagh
Forgot to hit send to list, apologies. On 08/23/2010 03:50 PM, Joe McDonagh wrote: > On 08/22/2010 10:17 PM, Luke S Crawford wrote: >> Joe McDonagh writes: >> >>> I don't really see what the point of hiring a networking guy is if you >>> plan on kicking

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Dell vs HP in our Data Center

2010-09-07 Thread Joe McDonagh
Sent this direct to Edward by accident, sorry Edward. Original Message Subject:Re: [lopsa-discuss] Dell vs HP in our Data Center Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:20:20 -0400 From: Joe McDonagh To: Edward Ned Harvey On 08/25/2010 10:33 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote