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 > > -- > Alan Robertson <[email protected]> <[email protected]> - @OSSAlanR > > "Openness is the foundation and preservative of friendship... Let me claim > from you at all times your undisguised opinions." - William Wilberforce > > > _______________________________________________ > Assimilation mailing list - Discovery-Driven Monitoring > [email protected] > http://lists.community.tummy.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/assimilation > http://assimmon.org/ > >
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