Katherine’s Excellent Log-Shipping Adventure
Or, Log-Shipping over 1200 databases automagically. The Problem Question: How many SQL Server databases can you put on one server? Answer: It depends on how fast you need them restored if something terrible happens. Because Dude, if your server crashes most heinously,...Nagios Event Handlers on Windows
Nagios event handlers are WHERE IT’S AT, BABY, YEAH! There are some services that I can just automagically restart without any problems. (WSUS, SQL Agent, etc.) This way, instead of notifying me, Nagios can just fix the problem for me and We Need Never Know....Nagios Twitter Notifications – working again!
Yeah. Twitter changed their authentication, and my old Twitter notifications (based on Ed Voncken’s work) seized up and failed. I had to update the python tweepy library to get them to work. pip install tweepy –upgrade And they’re back! I love...Jabber Nagios Notifications – Working Again!
I like using non-email notifications, especially when monitoring, you know, email. So I have notifications going out via twitter and google talk. Of the three, the order of speediness is: Google Talk Twitter Email So I was really sad when the google talk...Thanksgiving Gluttony
Yum, Nagios gluttony! I’m donating Nagios monitoring to a couple of nonprofits, and this brings up how Nagios configurations grow. In short, you learn over time what you need to keep an eye on. For example: On one nonprofit, someone forgot to renew the domain...True Confessions
I run Nagios at home. It texts me when my machines need patches. I told this to a charming gentleman who was my dinner companion for the evening and he gave me a look that implied that I was not all there. (He’s a Nagios admin, too, but not willingly.) I...Clearly, you’re doing it wrong.
So, I have this friend. (No, really, it’s my friend, it’s not me, I set up my own Nagios server.) She’s a DBA with no responsibility for anything outside of a bunch of SQL Servers. Nagios wakes her up in the middle of the night if the web server...Tracking total file usage, DBs only.
Yes, I’ve been bad about updating. I was traumatized by a bunch of friends getting laid off from a former employer, and then I had two very busy weeks. This system of tracking total file usage, DBs only, came up talking to someone recently (Eric, are you...Perfmon Link
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