I’ve fixed a bug in version 1.2 of ModiPy relating to namespaces within iterators. I hit the bug while provisioning 3 clustered NetApp simulators in my lab. Sorry about that. I should have caught it during testing. Still, catch it I did, so now things are really working quite nicely… Read More
I’m pleased to announce that version 1.2 of ModiPy has been released. You can grab it from the CheeseShop like this: easy_install ModiPy Easy! What’s New? This version of ModiPy is the most stable yet. It’s still beta, since there are some areas that don’t have enough test coverage yet,… Read More
NetApp provide a Linux version of their DFM/Operations Manager product, but they only support certain versions of Suse and RedHat distros. I run Ubuntu, but I figured could port the installation across. How hard could it be? Not too hard, as it turns out. Here’s how to do it. Getting… Read More
I’m a bit of a documentation nerd. Writing technical documentation is a boring, but often necessary, job that other people hate doing. I’m good at it. I also care about it, for some unfathomable reason. This combination means that I’m usually the guy who ends up doing it. Now I… Read More
Using multiple redo log areas is something that many Oracle DBAs are used to doing. This post explains why you should stop doing it if you use NetApp storage for your Oracle database. What Would I Know? Once upon a time I was an Oracle DBA. I’d never done it… Read More
I had this idea a little while ago: an SNMP to Twitter gateway. It seemed like an obvious fit: Twitter is all about status updates, and that’s basically all an SNMP Trap is. So this afternoon I hacked up a little Python script to do it: #!/usr/bin/python # $Id: traptweet.py… Read More
“Well let’s see… the Model 7 is on special for $199, but we’re out of stock at the moment. We could order it in, but it won’t get here for 5 weeks. The Model 9 is $799, and yes, it has some extra features that you said you didn’t need,… Read More
Just a quick note to let you know about something I worked on a bit this past weekend. I’ve been adding a bunch of test cases to ModiPy to make the code quality better, and to chase down some corner cases that were really annoying me. I’m pleased to say… Read More
I love Python. I find it really easy to use to write programs with. I’m also pretty into NetApp Filers lately. I spend a bunch of time helping enterprise customers with using them well. So, of course, I want to be able to administer them using Python. Second Class Citizens… Read More
I upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty in the hope that it would fix the “I have no memory of your last session” problem that 8.10 introduced. Everything went smoothly, and everything seems to work well. Except one thing. The CPU utilisation was 100% on one core. I’m lucky… Read More
