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Habemus Monitoring!

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Due to the big push we’re having at work for the use of IT proactive monitoring systems, to keep customers’ systems and devices under control, I’ve decided to do the same on my LoneStar Network and I’ve installed Zenoss – an opensource solution for monitoring IT items.Zenoss is distributed by a company selling it for enterprise usage, but the Core version is available free of charge, and it comes with all the features needed to reach a nice result.

I’ve dedicated a Slackware64 virtual machine to it, and after one day of work it came out to a pretty much enjoyable state. By the use of SNMP, WMI for Windows systems, and SSH for some quite ancient systems, now I’m keeping under control all LoneStar Network’s systems, a Linux VPS that I rented in the United States and all RedBaron‘s servers. This also includes email and sms alerting for critical issues, with delay – in case the problem should auto-fix within a while -, scheduled maintanence windows, and automatic repair attempts to restart those services that should suddenly stop.

A great result!

Help me disappear

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To completely dissolve
What method is used
I cannot sleep
My hands are bruised
There’s a hole in the wall
Torn up anew
One dead eye
The colour of you

To vanish for life
And promise to stay
Away from the knowing
Bird in a cage
I’d give so much
For the courage to go
If I ask for your help
Then you will know

So help me disappear
Or to believe in a change
No way out of here
That I can see
Or the nightmares that burn
Into my head at night
Make them disappear
So I can breathe

Looked out the window twice
Just to be sure
That no one was standing
Outside the door
But it’s just as calm
As it was before
They’re all gone now
Not there anymore

Isolated myself
For the sake of freedom
I clenched my fist
For the sake of kindness
I read a book full of strange words
Loneliness is a disease

So help me disappear
Or to believe in a change
No way out of here
That I can see
Or the nightmares that burn
Into my head at night
Make them disappear
So I can breathe

I wish you could have stayed

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How I needed you
How I bleed now you’re gone
In my dreams I see you
I awake so alone

I know you didn’t want to leave
Your heart yearned to stay
But the strength I always loved in you
Finally gave way

Somehow I knew you would leave me this way
Somehow I knew you could never, never stay
And in the early morning light
After a silent peaceful night
You took my heart away
And my being

In my dreams I can see you
I can tell you how I feel
In my dreams I can hold you
And it feels so real

I still feel the pain
I still feel your love
I still feel the pain
I still feel your love

Somehow I knew you could never, never stay
Somehow I knew you would leave me
And in the early morning light
After a silent peaceful night
You took my heart away
Oh I wish, I wish you could have stayed

Good shopping

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Here is my original copy of the Slackware Linux 13.1 DVD!

As I’ve said before, nowadays buying the original disks of a Linux distribution is definitively not necessary, since we all can freely download ISO files and burn them on any cd or dvd.

Buying the original media is mainly a demonstration of support, interest in the project, and a means to send a practical help to the developers team. That’s why I encourage those reading me who are Slackware users to buy, at least once in a while, the original disks of their favourite operating system through the official online store, Well, also other distributions’ users can buy their related disks, but I don’t care for other distributions. 😉

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 .