by Katherine Villyard | May 13, 2012 | monitoring
Do you know about Write or Die?  It’s described as “putting the prod into productivity” and is for procrastinating writers to force themselves to write.  (Writers procrastinate.  It’s a thing.  You can spend hours surfing the web for baby name...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Katherine Villyard | Apr 29, 2012 | monitoring
You may be asking yourself, “Self, why should I cough up cash for SQL Monitor or spend time (or pay someone to spend time) setting up Nagios?” The answer, of course, is:  Do you want to know something is wrong now, or when a customer calls you and says...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Katherine Villyard | Mar 6, 2012 | monitoring, scripting
I checked out Nagios Exchange, and didn’t see anything that checked the status of a job and used Windows/AD credentials/trusted connection.  So I wrote this. It’s intended to run as an NRPE script, and doesn’t require anything that doesn’t come...