Re: [lopsa-tech] scripting: What do you use if not bash?

2016-05-13 Thread Page, Jeremy
Bash when it's quick, Ruby (Node.js or Python) if I have to use 3rd party libs/parse or build JSON payloads. On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:21 PM, Dave Close mailto:d...@compata.com>> wrote: I am astounded by the number of non-bash scripts I've read that are nothing more than feel-good wrappers aroun

Re: [lopsa-tech] backing up your VMs

2015-10-27 Thread Page, Jeremy
We use largish NFS data stores (mostly on NetApp) for our ESX servers & have had good results just taking raw dumps of the most recent snapshots. For stuff that we're more concerned about consistancy (SQL, AD etc) we dump using their native tools to an extra disk attached to said VM. It has wor

Re: [lopsa-tech] Time and PCI

2015-09-25 Thread Page, Jeremy
Any reason you couldn't point the data center NTP servers at the one's in the corporate office? --- Jeremy Page From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] on behalf of Matt Butch [apple4e...@me.com] Sent: Friday, September 25, 2015 11:54 AM To: tech@lists.lopsa.org Subj

[lopsa-tech] FW: DevOps, continuous delivery and separation of duty (SOX/PCI)

2015-09-25 Thread Page, Jeremy
I am going through (my first) PCI audit right now (so much fun). The auditors have been quite accepting of "devops" as long as you do a good job documenting WHY the people have the access they do. --- Jeremy M Page  From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] on behalf

Re: [lopsa-tech] Server Overload and Log Processing

2015-08-24 Thread Page, Jeremy
David Lang [da...@lang.hm] Sent: Monday, August 24, 2015 9:03 AM To: Page, Jeremy Cc: Edward Ned Harvey (lopser); Adam Moskowitz; tech@lists.lopsa.org Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] Server Overload and Log Processing On Mon, 24 Aug 2015, Page, Jeremy wrote: > I think the problem is looking at it a

Re: [lopsa-tech] Server Overload and Log Processing

2015-08-24 Thread Page, Jeremy
I think the problem is looking at it as a binary up/down issue when in fact you should be able to determine the problem is occurring when the check takes longer than a specific threshold. A page taking a second or two to load is going to cause close to the havoc a 404 does. As far as false po

Re: [lopsa-tech] Monitoring your AWS instances

2014-10-10 Thread Page, Jeremy
On 10/10/2014 08:50 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) mailto:lop...@nedharvey.com>> wrote: taking 10 minutes to start apache Why are you running Apache on a micro instance? That's the equivalent of running it on an original IBM PC. I use mic