Archive for the ‘SysAdmins’ Category
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
This post, written by LogicMonitor's Director of Tech Ops, Jesse Aukeman, originally appeared on HighScalability.com on February 19, 2013
If you are like us, you are running some type of linux configuration management tool. The value of centralized configuration and deployment is well known and hard to overstate. Puppet is our ...
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Monday, January 7th, 2013
Sample SAT question: xUnit is to Continuous Integration as what is to automated server deployments?
We've been going through lots of growth here at LogicMonitor. Part of growth means firing up new servers to deal with more customers, but we also have been adding a variety of new services: proxies that allow our customers to route ...
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2012
You only get noticed when things go wrong.
The burden of entire companies rests on your shoulders.
Your work day never ends at 5:30 pm.
You’re on call 24/7/365.
You keep things running 99.999% of the time.
Today, we express our gratitude for your knowledge, dedication, and patience.
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Monday, October 1st, 2012
VMworld 2012 took place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco a few weeks ago. The weather was surprisingly nice, but the real buzz was inside the convention hall. We had a pod in the New Innovators section of the Vendor Expo in Moscone West. It being our first VMworld ...
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Monday, September 24th, 2012
As the new hire here at LogicMonitor brought in to support the operations of the organization, I had two immediate tasks: Learn how LogicMonitor's SaaS-based monitoring works to monitor our customer's servers, and at the same time, learn our own infrastructure.
I've been a SysA for a longer than I care ...
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Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
A company started a trial yesterday, added a bunch of windows hosts, and immediately got warnings triggered that their hosts were "receiving 42 datagrams per second destined to non-listening ports...Check if all services are up and running."
This was across many of their hosts, and was an issue they were unaware ...
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2012
Your monitoring solution should make your life easier, not harder.
Monitoring should not have to be a full time job.
Data collection, alerting, trending and reporting should all be integrated.
Everyone in IT/Ops should be able to use your monitoring - not just the person that set it up.
Monitoring should tell people about ...
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Saturday, June 30th, 2012
Even with a great monitoring system, it can be hard sometimes to keep the noise down. (Indeed, the more powerful the monitoring, the more difficult this can be, as more data is collected and tested, automatically.) And keeping noise down in monitoring is vital, as you do not want staff ...
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Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
It’s 6 AM. Bob, an entry-level IT engineer walks into a cold, dark, lonely building – flips on the lights, fires up the coffee pot, and boots up. Depending on what he’s about to see on his computer screen, he knows the fate of the free world could rest in ...
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Thursday, May 10th, 2012
by Cisco Arias
In the modern world of consumerism, there are so many choices, noises and deals, it’s sometimes hard to calculate the real value of the products and services we purchase. At LogicMonitor, we try to make it obvious.
I don't like to call our solution a "product" because for some ...
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