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1. Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Thursday, 17-May-2018 13:52:00 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

   • Nagios Unofficial
   The CentOS !nagios packages are so annoying.
2. Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Apr-2018 20:05:16 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

   • Nagios Unofficial
   • Version Control Software
   I don't know that I mentioned this yesterday. I'm all official and stuff: https://swarm.workshop.perforce.com/projects/perforce_software-p4nagios !vcs !nagios
3. Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Apr-2018 15:29:17 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield
   #hiring Technical Support Analyst - Check out this great #job at my company #jobopening #applynow http://bit.ly/2EDYRqf
   
   This is for the #Australia office, and you must know #Chinese.
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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Apr-2018 18:11:18 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • Ben Pfaff
     @blp @musicman It's redundant at best, contradictory at worst. They should get rid of it.
   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Thursday, 19-Apr-2018 13:16:50 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

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     • Ben Pfaff
     I don't remember any such magic from law school. This sentiment likely stems from the US pre-Berne. The whole Berne thing is super-complex because the bill was in '76 if memory serves. Started in '78. We didn't "fully" go in until '88 (or '89), and really didn't go in until Golan v Holder...in 2012. And I think VARA was '94. What a complete and utter mess.
   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Thursday, 19-Apr-2018 13:32:57 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

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     • Hallå Kitteh
     The way Bradley Kuhn explained it to me when I was on the Johns Hopkins legal team was that the idea was that the All Rights Reserved applied to the copyright notice itself, but I still don't think that's the intent, since I don't think anyone would mind if they created a different license for a new project. Really, what's needed is a definition of the license, and then you can reference it. I don't think the current text is ambiguous, but I think that would be best practice to eliminate the doubt.
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4. Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Mar-2018 18:09:44 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

   • Version Control Software
   I know there are a couple of !perforce users hanging about, but has anyone used p4v?
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   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Mar-2018 20:30:24 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

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     • Nagios Unofficial
     • Samuel Hodgkins (samis) 🍄
     scaling is certainly a major selling point. Also, we handle binary files very well. That's a major reason we are big in the gaming industry. I don't have a ton of vcs experience, so it's hard for me to compare. We used gitlab and github both when I was at !nagios, but mostly I was just filing or commenting on bugs, or just digging through the source to figure out what was actually happening to solve a customer issue. I wasn't maintaining any branches, so it's hard for me to compare. I wouldn't say it's really a github competitor, but we have a github-like thing if you want to give it a whirl: https://swarm.workshop.perforce.com/
     
     It uses gravatar...no way to just upload an avatar, which I think is bizarre, but they didn't ask me as I just started on Feb 12 (I think I mentioned that in my previous post, but just looking at the replies page as I type)...maybe I'll file a feature request
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   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Mar-2018 20:31:32 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

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     • Samuel Hodgkins (samis) 🍄
     oh, to be clear, that's in our Workshop that only uses gravatar. I'm not sure about the Swarm product more generally.
   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Mar-2018 21:06:45 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

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     • Samuel Hodgkins (samis) 🍄
     and if you are asking about the company itself, well, there have been a lot of acquisitions: both us acquiring and us being acquired. We're not as loose on our support contracts as we were, but we still have the forums where anyone can get free support. There are some techs assigned to the forums to make sure answers are legit and to make sure people know we do care about the forums being viable.
5. Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2018 20:40:15 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

   • Nagios Unofficial
   I'm going to leave the !nagios tag on my profile. I still know stuff and can still help people.
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6. Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2018 19:41:26 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

   • Nagios Unofficial
   I'm a bit torn. I've known Tarus at #OpenNMS for years (note the OpenNMS office locations), and I'd like to work there once my non-compete is over. However, my !nagios knowledge is clearly strong and I could be an asset to that community (in as much as there is one).
   
   The thought literally crossed my mind of having some sort of Minnesota Nagios User Group meetup. Am I fucking insane? I have more than enough going on.
   
   Anyway...yeah, I think it'd be good to keep my nagios skills up. OpenNMS uses SNMP, WMI and NRPE, and a variety of things Nagios uses so maybe just keep those skills sharp.
   
   Honestly, stuff not showing up on datamost is a pretty good monitoring system to see whether the cats unplugged the server, and that's the only thing I use the server for, but I guess occasionally a check_http is useful. I used it for finding out when Alinea tickets went on sale, for example. Maybe I'll set up both, because wtf, why not?
   
   If I do say something about starting a meetup group, someone please fly here, punch me, and take the money for the flight. It will have been worth it.
7. Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2018 18:34:13 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

   • Nagios Unofficial
   Anybody around here know about #mod_gearman? It's used in several non-nagios products....although I guess that's true about most everything we use...
   • Linux Walt (@lnxw48a1) (lnxw48a1)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2018 18:47:45 UTC Linux Walt (@lnxw48a1)

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     I've never heard of it. Is it a webserver module, like "mod_rewrite" and so on?
   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2018 19:32:29 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

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     • Linux Walt (@lnxw48a1)
     nope: https://labs.consol.de/nagios/mod-gearman/index.html
8. Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2018 15:20:33 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

   • Nagios Unofficial
   3 !nagioscore threads: http://support.nagios.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=7
9. Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2018 18:17:32 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

   • Nagios Unofficial
   Just this one !nagioscore thread: https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=46858&start=9999#bottom
10. Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2018 20:31:13 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

    • Nagios Unofficial
    5 !nagioscore threads: http://support.nagios.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=7
11. Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2018 02:57:41 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

    • Nagios Unofficial
    I suppose I can say this now without really being biased, although I am still an employee. Plenty of people at !nagios really do care about open source. Nagios does, of course, employ people to work on and support the entirely #GPL Nagios Core, which is completely usable (and as far as performance is concerned, better than the commercial product anyway)
    
    #NRPE is also completely GPL and used by our commercial product and developed and supported by the company. The plugins are open source (licenses on github).
    
    The #NCPA licensed is designed specifically to prevent #icinga and icinga wannabes from using it (op5, naemon...possibly others) and so that's a bit of open washing, but the code is all out there and you can hack on it for your own needs.
    
    I wish someone would extent the olive branch, and there is still some cross discussion in back-channels. It's not very much, but it's there. Maybe, someday someone can bridge the gap.
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    • El Acheche Anis 🇹🇳 (elacheche)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2018 10:45:38 UTC El Acheche Anis 🇹🇳

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      @musicman I have a unrelated question, I guess, do you think it is a bad idea to do all checks using the "by_ssh" check instead of using NRPE? I was using "by_ssh" for all my checks for almost 2 years, I cant see the down side of doing that, yet, and it seems like I am the only one that is doing that x)

    • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2018 12:55:16 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

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      • El Acheche Anis 🇹🇳
      @elacheche you are not the only one. There is a down side but you may not notice: performance. Obviously you could run shit plugins that are less performant but we usually consider by_ssh to be "the worst". If you don't have the server overloaded though, two thumbs up. :)
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    • El Acheche Anis 🇹🇳 (elacheche)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2018 12:56:39 UTC El Acheche Anis 🇹🇳

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      @musicman Thanks for the feedback :)

12. Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jan-2018 18:51:36 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

    • Nagios Unofficial
    15 !nagios core threads: http://support.nagios.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=7
13. Linux Walt (@lnxw48a1) (lnxw48a1)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2018 00:35:41 UTC Linux Walt (@lnxw48a1)

    • Douglas A. Whitfield
    • Nagios Unofficial
    @musicman That message sounds like it could involve law enforcement or legal process. I'd suggest you forward it to your manager with a recommendation to contact (even through a translator) the originator for clarification.
    
    !nagios
    • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2018 01:21:22 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

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      @lnxw48a1 he sent me the English translation and it was benign. I think he means the changed the IP address or something. There was more context in the original.
    • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2018 01:26:34 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

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      @lnxw48a1 or maybe it has something to do with #DRDB. Basically he's blaming his network team on something. I can't figure out what though.
    • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2018 22:27:23 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

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      "When I refer to a channel it is the connection that directs the data center". I understand what he is asking now, and it's not related to his other cluster issues (and I mean cluster in the technical sense, not the clusterfuck sense, though it's certainly that too.)
14. Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 18:48:56 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

    • Nagios Unofficial
    9 !nagioscore threads: http://support.nagios.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=7 -- seems like we are likely to be hiring, so if you'd be interested, having a few posts on the forum will definitely be helpful.
15. Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2018 16:12:02 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

    • Nagios Unofficial
    10 !nagioscore threads: http://support.nagios.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=7
16. Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2018 15:33:37 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

    • Nagios Unofficial
    8 !nagioscore threads: http://support.nagios.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=7
17. Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2018 17:04:23 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

    • Nagios Unofficial
    10 !nagioscore threads: http://support.nagios.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=7
18. Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2018 15:34:15 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

    • Nagios Unofficial
    This one isn't really a !nagios question, but a #SNMP question: https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=46875&start=9999#bottom
19. Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2018 15:06:58 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

    • Nagios Unofficial
    12 !nagioscore threads: http://support.nagios.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=7
20. Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2017 15:04:54 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

    • Nagios Unofficial
    3 !nagioscore threads: http://support.nagios.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=7