Gary’s Shared Google Reader ItemsMy blog has been dark for a bit. I’ve been craming towards a deadline for the new gig. Our first major milestone was due on February 29th. The other interesting thing is that I needed to hit all my parts a day early. That’s because I’m on my way to Stanford for an Ultimate Frisbee [...]
I’m trying to do some simple load testing. I have a couple of web servers being “load balanced” with Round Robin DNS. That part is simple and is working fine.
I’m trying to simulate load using JMeter. JMeter has worked great when pointing at a single host so far. I’ve been able to spin up threads [...]
S3 was down for a couple of hours this morning. There is still no post from Amazon about why yet, but they have promised one.
Jesse Robbins from O’Reilly is reporting that EC2 was down as well. I currently have 8 EC2 instances running (including this blog). As far as all my monitoring goes, my EC2’s weren’t down. I’m currently [...]
This one took me a bit to figure out. Google wasn’t much help — I hope my blog post fixes that!
Our developers are using a VMware image of our server install for developing. In order to speed things up, they are mounting a Windows share of the code from the VMware image. It worked on [...]
I need to monitor 3ware raid cards using Zenoss. A few google searches didn’t show anyone else doing this directly, so I put a few things together. I’m still new to Zenoss, so this may be a bit hack-ish.
I found a Nagios plugin that was capable of checking the status of a 3ware card. It requires the tw_cli command be installed, [...]
