Greg sent me a note today suggesting that we look at the functionality in RANCID to augment Zenoss Core in it’s network management capabilities.
Here’s his suggestion:
“Configuration management / recovery / comparison of Network Switches, Routers etc.. is a key headache for IT Administrators. RANCID lets you automate that a bit and can be setup to [...]

Yeah that’s a mouthful but it’s an interesting article penned by Zenoss’ own Murat Aksu. It’s also a pretty good summary of how open source software is become a leveler that allow more organizations to take advantage of the benefits of enterprise-grade software without the Fortune 1000 price. The reason we can do this is [...]

I made it home from the Ohio LinuxFest last night and it was a bunch of fun but a long, long weekend. First, we started by having a Road Rally to the show. It was a very eclectic group of guys from Raleigh, NC who loaded up the van with ham radio equipment, power inverters, [...]