Reading Ted Dziuba’s article Monitoring Theory article, I was reminded of several conventions that I have developed over the years to help with monitoring servers, network devices, software services, batch processes, etc. First, break down your data points into levels so that you can decide how to route them. Second avoid interrupt driven technology like email, it lowers your productivity and prohibits good analysis techniques.
Designing a Robust Monitoring System
This presentation was created for the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2011. It gives an overview of a fairly sophisticated set of criteria to build a large Nagios installation.
Monitoring Data Structure Metrics
I finished reading this article on High Scalability entitled, Troubleshooting Response Time Problems – Why You Cannot Trust Your System Metrics and it reminded me of why I developed a Cacti graphing plugin for monitoring sockets, pipes and files.
Going to Red Hat
Well, it’s official, I have accepted a position at Red Hat. I am excited because Red Hat is a company that I have wanted to work with since I started using Linux 1998. For Red Hat, I will be a Solutions Architect for Enterprise Linux, also known as a technology evangelist. Now, it’s my job [...]
Posted on April 19, 2011 
