Kudos out to the folks at MetaFilter for this thread that I wrote about a while back. I purchased several books mentioned in the thread, including: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, by Edward R. Tufte Crossing the Chasm, by Geoffrey A. Moore Influence: Science and Practice, by Robert B.… Read More
In recent days, I’ve noticed that a couple of monitoring products out in the market are still doing something dumb. Cacti is one, and NetApp’s Operations Manager (nee DFM) is another. They both do the same dumb thing: They both poll everything in their database all at once. Cacti polls… Read More
In the last week I’ve managed to prove, and improve, the extensibility of ModiPY to be able to provision anything with a command and control interface. I have extended the base classes to use NetApp’s ZAPI, which is a form of XML-RPC. In so doing, I’ve cleaned up a lot… Read More
