OpenNMS and WMI - Part 1, getting started
I’ve setup and used OpenNMS at my last job and my current job, and it works very nicely. One thing I haven’t done until last week, though, is get WMI monitor...
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Powershell and WMI
I’ve been working a fair bit with WMI on Windows servers, in particular pulling out performance counters (will shortly be putting up another post about OpenN...
OpenNMS / Ubuntu / network thresholds notifying incorrectly
I’ve been setting up OpenNMS at work, and ran across a problem suitably annoying and obscure that the solution should be recorded for posterity.
Cacti - Graph 16 CPUs for one Windows machine
We have some nice new machines at work, Dell R610 boxes with dual quad-core CPUs. These CPUs also have hyperthreading, so the OS sees 16 cores. We’re running...
Ubuntu jaunty - external monitor annoyance
Just to give equal opportunity to issues I have with Ubuntu, here’s one that bit me today.
Bing, which leads to Silverlight and Moonlight
I’ve started trying the new Bing search engine now that Microsoft has relaunched it as a replacement for Live Search. Bing is WAY better than Live was, but s...
Connecting to MSSQL clusters from a NAT’ed VM
So, as noted in my previous post, I’ve changed from running Vista on my work laptop to running Ubuntu and Windows 7 in a VM.
Google Chrome on Ubuntu - not yet auspicious
Just for fun, since I use Google Chrome as my main browser on my Windows desktop now, I decided to try the very first public Dev release of Google Chrome for...
Funny RFCs
Courtesy of Wikipedia, here’s a list of all (?) the humourous RFCs (Internet standards documents).
Irony - had to use Ubuntu to write a Windows 2008 install disc
I have an ISO of Windows 2008 Server and need to burn a disc so I can install it on a bunch of servers at work tomorrow. (mmm, Dell R610s) Yes, we have licen...