Alan:
Good interview.

>> A while back I had a *conversation with an architect *of a major
commercial monitoring and
>> discovery package. He thought, [in a dismissive way, that] what I was
talking about was "magic."
>> But it does work exactly like we say it does, and although it seems like
magic, it isn't.

I hope that was not me :-).  I hate to have sounded dismissive - though I
completely agree it is magical to people when discovery works as designed.

Good luck with your talk.

--krish


On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Alan Robertson <[email protected]> wrote:

>  This week's blog entry, I point to an interview that Erin Watkins did
> with me on the Assimilation Monitoring project.  Her questions do a good
> job of getting at what the project is, why I started it and why it's cool.
> Erin writes:
>
> It's still true: Monitoring sucks. Server monitoring is a touchy subject,
> and if you've got a large quantity of servers in your arsenal, it's doubly
> so.
>
> Through a combination of discovery and monitoring, Alan Robertson's
> Assimilation Monitoring Project hopes to ease those monitoring 
> woes<http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/2240159944/Monitoring-Sucks-movement-rallies-for-better-systems-monitoring-tools>.
> Robertson, Linux developer and founder of the High-Availability 
> Linux<http://searchsystemschannel.techtarget.com/tip/Linux-HA-cluster-tool-evolution-in-SUSE-and-Red-Hat>
>  (Linux HA) project, 
> willspeak<http://lcna2012.sched.org/speaker/alanrobertson#.UCkG1E1lQ3g>
>  at LinuxCon North America 2012 in San Diego at the end of August. In
> this Q&A, we discuss what this project is and how it can help.
>
> Read more --> bit.ly/SNDJPu
>
> --
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>
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