Keeping an eye on things

Being on a quest for minimal downtime lately on all servers, I have been working with all new kinds of interesting monitoring tools. The ones I seem to have settled on are monit and munin. The former being a server process that will monitor and restart as needed, processes on the server and also email me if it cannot get to a given service on another server. The latter keeping an eyes on a bunch of servers and reporting back to a single server that gives a great set of graphs showing everything you could want to know about you machines.

As for what was happening in the previous entry, no trip to Taiwan, but maybe still something with the company. The fiber optic thing will likely be happening this summer. A friend of mine got it and loves it.

At this point most spare time has been spent with the kids and getting paperwork to the Infernal Revenue Service so they will give me back all the money they seized from me. Isn't that nice of them? Sheesh.

On a more personal note, Mark Hudson is not touring with Ringo after all this summer, so there likely goes my chance to hang with him (Mark, not Ringo) this summer. Too bad - he's a great guy and an amazing raconteur.