[lopsa-tech] WBEM / Perl

2010-10-13 Thread Brian Ruppert
Greetings, I have two questions about WBEM / CIM. As part of VMware's edict that we should move towards ESXi, I'm reworking our hardware monitoring so it doesn't depend on our monitoring software having an agent in the service console. HP provides an agent that lives in ESXi which exposes ha

[lopsa-tech] WBEM/CIM

2010-10-29 Thread Brian Ruppert
I'm investigating using WBEM-HTTPS to monitor VMware ESXi servers, since we used to monitor ESX hosts using an agent that lived in the service console. It seems like there was a lot of interest in CIM/WBEM a few years ago which gradually died down, perhaps due to the complexity and learning cu

Re: [lopsa-tech] PDA suggestion

2010-12-14 Thread Brian Ruppert
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:39 AM, John BORIS wrote: > I have been looking for an electronic organizer for my wife. I know > there are a ton of smartphones out there but she will not use one of > them and the data rates are something right now I don't want to deal > with. I tried resurrecting my Pa

Re: [lopsa-tech] Need help with Google Apps for education

2011-11-17 Thread Brian Ruppert
> P.S.  The "tech" mailing list is for people doing technical work for > LOPSA... maintaining the web site, etc.  I think you meant to post to > discuss@ The description of the tech mailing list (as displayed on lists.lopsa.org) is: "The t...@lopsa.org mailing list is an open forum for the discu

Re: [lopsa-tech] wSDL primer?

2013-04-09 Thread Brian Ruppert
If you're writing an application which will connect to a SOAP web service (the WSDL is a description of what methods are provided by the web service), you might want to look into SoapUI. It's basically a generic client which takes a WSDL and allows you to manually generate and execute web servic

Re: [lopsa-tech] VM as an NTP server

2016-04-04 Thread Brian Ruppert
We're running VMs as NTP servers in several places, and our experience has been that it works fine under normal circumstances, but things get out of sync (at least temporarily) when a vMotion operation occurs. I haven't had time to do any significant research into this, but have conside