The new version of seafelt Performance Manager is collecting data and saving it successfully to the database. This is a major milestone on the way to the release of version 3.0. The backend collector has been almost completely rewritten to use the Storm Object Request Modeller, which provides significant correctness,… Read More
I’ve been herding Deferred chains in seafelt Performance Manager version 3 today. It’s getting there, but today wasn’t an amazingly productive day, unfortunately. Perhaps fish oil supplements really do make a difference? I forgot to take one this morning, and my brain just hasn’t been firing as well. Hopefully I’ll… Read More
Hooray! After waaaay too long, I’ve finally fixed up my registration with the Python Package Index and uploaded libsnmp. Version 2.0.4 is now available in the Python Cheeseshop (aka PyPI). Assuming you’ve already installed python setuptools, getting libsnmp is now as easy as: easy_install libsnmp How cool is that? For… Read More
I love statistics. The part of me that wishes I was a rock star is very unhappy about me admitting that in public, but there it is. Of course, the cool kids are calling it analytics these days, but it’s still statistics. It’s a bunch of numbers that can tell… Read More
For years I’ve wanted to build a tool that helps you to manage configuration in a heterogeneous environment. I’ve been frustrated by the myriad of vendor specific tools for managing configuration on their devices, and the state of the art hasn’t really advanced all that much in the 8 years… Read More
I’ve made a lot of progress with seafelt 2.1 lately. I managed to implement the TCP polling framework with some working examples in a frenzy of activity over two weekends and about 40 hours all together. The big bonus for me was really learning how Jim’s backend framework actually works.… Read More
