S0E15: "I Spy with My Little Eye"
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Monitoring systems, breaking into the IT field and finding work opportunities, config management (again), programming languages as relevant to a sysadmin, and the FCC trying to destroy our ‘Murican freedoms.
Notes
- Jthan says the Bubonic Plague is making a comeback
- We talk about the following monitoring systems:
- Zenoss (see also their Open-Source branch
- We mention using SNMP alerts
- Nagios
- Icinga
- Ganglia is indeed for cluster networks
- Cacti and RRDTool are very handy for graphing things like uptime
- We also mention third-party monitoring services such as Nodeping (and their API, and that they have a built-in hook for Pushover.net) and Pingdom (which also has an API).
- And there’s also Spiceworks.
- Zenoss (see also their Open-Source branch
- The Linux Foundation’s pamphlet on becoming a GNU/Linux Sysadmin.
- If you need help finding a LUG near you, you can try the resources here (or just do a search for “
Linux user group”) - ODesk has indeed become Upwork
- Elance is also really handy
- Guru tends to have more coding/programming gigs than admin/engineering gigs, but it’s still worth a look
- FreeLance.com is also.. okay.
- But make sure you hit the Freelancing stackexchange FIRST, as it has some of the most useful information you can find.
- I still insist you can just use pdsh and a script/tarball repository, but config management might have some use for your environment.
- We mention Chef
- Jthan consistently gripes about Puppet
- The current “hotness” is Ansible
- We didn’t mention it, but another popular one is SaltStack
- I also mention doing a bootstrap via iPXE and Kickstart for fully automatic installs and management.
- Lastly, it’s a bit specialized for network kit, but check out rConfig
- Conclusion: you aren’t really going to get a lot of use out of it unless you run a huge mixed-OS infrastructure.
- FCC is trying to ban modified firmware
- Languages that can be useful to a SysAdmin/Engineer:
- Powershell (for Windows)
- Bash (which Codecademy has a good intro for); get a GOOD grip on this one
- Perl is kind of dying out in popularity
- Python (I highly recommend the Codecademy course) – probably the most useful these days to learn
- C/C++ has a pretty limited place in a System Administrator/Engineer’s toolkit, but can still come in fairly handy.
Errata
- Sorry for the echoes- we found an editor, and we’re still tweaking things so we can get something we all like.
- Icinga’s FAQ mentions how to pronounce it.
- There are a lot of languages that use click-consonants
- And we totally forgot to mention Zabbix
- Oops. The editor didn’t cut 47m27s – 47m48s out. Say hi to Alli!
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