by Sam Ramji on April 29, 2008
I have the privilege of interacting almost every day with technical and business experts who are creating the future of software—including both core engineering teams at Microsoft and thought leaders across a broad spectrum of open source communities... more
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by Sam Ramji on February 27, 2008
When I think about what works really well in open source development and technology, the following things stand out: Modular architectures You can find these wherever you see participation at scale – and often a rearchitecture to a more modular system... more
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by kishi on August 07, 2007
This blog includes open-source technology directed primarily at host-based logging, log file rotation and log file analysis. Many of these tools are very common free and open-source software tools that are distributed and preconfigured with most of the major Linux systems, including major vendors such as RedHat and Novell.
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by kishi on June 29, 2007
This is blog number six in the Systems Manageability Series. Patch Management and Maintenance focuses on those solutions available to deploy and install software update on Linux systems, with a primary focus on Novell based Linux systems...... more
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by kishi on June 21, 2007
This is Part 5, continuation of the series of 8 blogs I’m doing on Systems Manageability. In this specific blog, I will focus on and explain the third part of the “ontology” which is “Monitoring”...... more
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by Sam Ramji on June 15, 2007
I had the opportunity to sit down with Javier Soltero, CEO of Hyperic last month in San Francisco at the OSBC. We had a great discussion, which I opened bluntly by saying, “You don’t need to tell me about your software; I’ve seen it, my lab team thinks it’s cool, and we’re impressed.” He was happy to hear it but probably not surprised. Javier and Doug MacEachern (their CTO, and a maintainer for... more
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by kishi on May 25, 2007
System Configuration and Management encompasses all tasks related to the configuration of a host in a standardized and (when possible) centralized way. Many projects in this category provide a common configuration interface, either command-line or GUI-based, designed to ease typical administrative tasks. Other projects, specifically Cfengine, provide a higher level policy-based system to provide... more
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by kishi on May 03, 2007
Deployment and Provisioning as we understand it, encompasses all tasks related to the initial installation of an operating system on remote system, as well as post-installation of software on a remote system. Much of these toolsets are geared toward automated system provisioning and cloning. There’s lots of different tools out there that can be used but we have focused on the most popular ones, namely... more
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by kishi on April 06, 2007
In my last blog called “Why Manageability Matters” I talked about why we chose to work on “Systems Manageability” as a whole and get a grassroots understanding of it within the context of Linux and Open Source space. In this blog, I’m going to address the Methodology and Ontology of the Systems Manageability project. This will shed immediate light on how we approach, design and implement projects in... more
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by kishi on March 21, 2007
This is the 19th year I have spent in the Information Technology business, out of which more than 15 were spent designing and implementing IT environments of various scopes, platforms and sizes. Among several similarities and differences between each implementation, a few constants always emerged, and my favorite of all: Systems Manageability...... more
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by MichaelF on November 14, 2006
Today at IT Forum in Barcelona Microsoft announced the release of Powershell (the shell formerly known as MONAD) a command line shell and scripting language intended to simplify administration and automation for system administration. To provide the Port 25 community with some additional information about this release, Sam sat down and interviewed the Powershell Architect: Jeffrey Snover...... more
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by jcannon on August 01, 2006
Today, the IT departments offering and managing various IT Services might find themselves in what I would call a “pressure-cooker”. They are faced with a multitude of tasks and added pressure to maintain daily operations while driving efficacy, managing the growing complexity of Service Offerings and most importantly, doing so while keeping pace with the industry best practices. This has been one of... more
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by jcannon on July 11, 2006
A simple question that has always perplexed me is how software and hardware OEM’s across the world simulate heterogeneous environments under lab conditions. I have witnessed several different approaches, practices and stages of this adaptation and each one of them is unique and correct in its right and merit. I guess, that leaves the “big” question which remains unanswered i.e., how do you bring a... more
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by jcannon on July 05, 2006
Free open source management projects have existed for years, as illustrated by nagios and webmin, and exist as BYOC (bring your own console) free alternatives to commercial management systems from HP, BMC, CA, IBM and Microsoft. In the last few years, we've seen a rise in commercial software companies moving to support Linux and heterogeneous environments...... more
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by admin on March 31, 2006
Fifty Linux distributions, Check. Fifteen versions of UNIX, Check. Now, how do we manage all of this? Learn how we leverage Systems Management Server and Vintela to manage the lab.... more
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