At work we have been using Onapp for almost a year now, and we have had a pretty bad run with it, possibly due to how we were using it. The good points A fantastic GUI A simple user panel Fantastic technical support at levels 1 and 2 But, we also had a few bad: …
Nov 20
Click Frenzy Fail
It was supposed to be the shopping spree that stopped the nation – marketed as “The sale that stops the nation” Instead, someone underspeced the hardware and caused epic fail across the internet as the site crashed 2 minutes after launch. We (as in the company i work for) weren’t involved at all, but …
Aug 26
Serial Port
For those of you that are fans of Furturama, you may remember the scene from “Beast with a billion backs” where Bender is poured a glass of port when he is in the underground secret room of the League of Robots Massive nerds would have noticed that the bottle was named “Serial Port” with a …
Aug 26
Life as an Oncall SA
Doing oncall SA work has its moments but can be dull. I have learnt the following so far: The night sky is always clearest at around 3am FSCK’s always need to be forced at around 2am Security at the datacenter will always make your life harder Clients will only notice outages (despite monitoring alerts) around …
Aug 14
OpenNMS Update
Hey all, As i mentioned, i was going to add more info on OpenNMS This has been slightly halted due to a bug that has been found in OpenNMS that prevents OpenNMS detecting services on nodes 🙁 They are aware of it, but i can’t really move forward until this is fixed. So when its …
