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Weekly Snap: Puppet project, Jasmine tests and VM alternatives

Amanda Mailer —  06.06.2011 — Leave a comment

camera Weekly Snap: Puppet project, Jasmine tests and VM alternatives30 May – 3 June slipped into summer with a peek into a Puppet consulting project and tips for JavaScript testing and virtualisation.

To begin, Thomas explained his preference against large VMs. With their high overheads, he sought alternatives to hypervisors such as KVM, Xen and VMware. Instead of virtualised kernels with virtualised hardware, Thomas referred to Jails (BSD) and Zones (Solaris), or Linux-vServer and OpenVZ for Linux. Where the required patched kernels are inappropriate, he offered Linux Containers (LXC) as substitutes. In the upstream since 2.6.29 and progressing slowly, Thomas liked them as they do not need direct hardware access, do not block devices, network or memory. But most of all he liked the fact such a virtual server can perform just as well as processes on the host itself, where one single kernel manages virtual memory enabling more virtual servers to be run than on a mature VMware.

Jannis followed with his JavaSript testing tip – Jasmine. The successor to JSUnit, he recommended this test unit suite for its lack of dependencies and ability to describe tests, and even gave a user login test example to boot.

Last but not least, Birger gave us a peek into the consulting team’s latest escapades: A Puppet project at Continental, the automotive supplier. Used to help manage their heterogeneous server environment, Puppet oversees Linux and HPUX systems. Though the first is far simpler than the latter, thanks to spirit of open source the automation project was nonetheless a success.

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Autor: Amanda Mailer

Amanda unterstützt das NETWAYS Team im Bereich Marketing und da vor allem bei allen englischen Aktivitäten. Als Australierin mit einem deutschen Mann verheiratet, fällt ihr das auch besonders leicht. Neben NETWAYS arbeitet sie auch im Icinga Team mit.

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Puppet bei Continental

Birger Schmidt —  03.06.2011 — Leave a comment

conti logo Puppet bei ContinentalUnser Projekt zur Automatisierung beim Automotiv Automobilzulieferer Continental ist inzwischen 2 Jahre alt. Es hat nicht an Reiz verloren.

Wir haben bei Planung und Einsatz von Puppet als Mittel zum Management der heterogenen Serverlandschaft unterstützt.

logo web puppet 257468328 Puppet bei ContinentalLinux Systeme mit Puppet zu managen ist inzwischen Alltagsgeschäft, HPUX ist aber nach wie vor kein Spaziergang. Leider gibt es für HPUX auch keinen Support von Puppetlabs. Aber möglich ist dank offener Quellen alles. Leider darf ich hier nicht weiter ins Detail gehen.

Vielen Dank für die gute Zusammenarbeit.

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Autor: Birger Schmidt

Birger nimmt gerade ein Jahr Auszeit von NETWAYS und verbringt ein Sabbatical in Australien. Vorher hat er als Consultant unsere Kunden bei ihren Monitoring- und Systems-Management Projekten unterstützt. Aktuell berichtet er im Rahmen einer Blogserie von seinen Erfahrungen während seiner Auszeit.

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Weekly Snap: Training Dates, Siemens CEP CT3, an OTRS Project and a SQL Developer Release

Amanda Mailer —  18.10.2010 — Leave a comment
camera Weekly Snap: Training Dates, Siemens CEP CT3, an OTRS Project and a SQL Developer Release11 – 15 October was packed with news from all sides of the office, from hardware and training course announcements, to a consulting project and a SQL Developer release.
From the consulting team, Birger shared his most recent project at the German Federal Bureau of Water and Shipping – an OTRS implementation to cover multiple locations with differing domains and user groups from one single ticketing system.
Hardware man Martin then bid his last Siemens TC35i goodbye and introduced its successor, CEP CT3. Running under the current Linux kernel, Windows (see shop for drivers) and Solaris, the modem tops its predecessor by offering a USB port and relevant accessories. With an external antenna, it is ideal for server racks with poor reception and thus a perfect USB GSM modem for sending SMS alerts from your monitoring system. Martin recommended teaming CEP CT63 GSM Terminal with Moxa NPort 6150 for smooth network integration.
Following on, Bernd forwarded news of the SQL Developer Early Adopter version release and its new features. Though he recommended MySQL Workbench for straight MySQL users, Bernd praised SQL Developer for its greater flexibility in enabling access to various databases such as Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and DB2. In the Oracle realm new features included new profiling and tuning functions, a migration assistant, a data modeller for graphical ER models, as well as reverse engineering that also works with MySQL. For SQL beginners, a new visual query builder simplifies the process of creating SQL statements too. All in all after his tests, Bernd found no major bugs and gave the Early Adopter version the thumbs up.
From the events team, Manuela announced the upcoming training calendar to end 2010 and start 2011. Ending 2010 with ‘Puppet Configuration Management’ for beginners on 7 – 9 December, and kick starting 2011 with ‘Nagios SLA Reporting with Jasper’ on 29 – 30 February, ‘Nagios – Availability Monitoring’ rounds it all off on 21 – 24 March for the coming months. She guaranteed all interested participants restricted class sizes for greater individual attention and accommodation at the course hotel to allow for discussion and idea exchange, consolidating all that is learnt in and out of the class. For more information, visit our training centre: www.netways.de/training
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Autor: Amanda Mailer

Amanda unterstützt das NETWAYS Team im Bereich Marketing und da vor allem bei allen englischen Aktivitäten. Als Australierin mit einem deutschen Mann verheiratet, fällt ihr das auch besonders leicht. Neben NETWAYS arbeitet sie auch im Icinga Team mit.

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Clever Elements GmbH

Bernd Löhlein —  09.07.2010 — Leave a comment

pic logo ce Clever Elements GmbHWir freuen uns, mit der Clever Elements GmbH unseren neuesten Kunden im Bereich Managed Service begrüßen zu dürfen. Clever Elements ist ein kleines Unternehmen unweit vom Moritzplatz direkt im Herzen Berlins. Namhaften Kunden wie z.B. Siemens, BMW und IBM bietet es eine Online-Software für E-Mail-Marketing, welche die Erstellung und Versendung von Newslettern so einfach und intuitiv wie nur möglich macht.

In den letzen Tagen haben wir die bestehenden Services auf ein neues HA-Cluster in unserem Rechenzentrum umgezogen. Ab sofort profitieren die Kunden von Clever Elements  von der damit verbunden Leistungssteigerung und können sich auf die hochverfügbare Umgebung 24×7 verlassen. Die vorhandene Architektur erlaubt zudem ein flexibles Wachstum in der Zukunft ohne Downtime.

Die Arbeit von Clever Elements kann man im Social Media-Zeitalter natürlich auch auf Facebook verfolgen.

Wir freuen uns auf eine weiterhin gute Zusammenarbeit mit der Clever Elements GmbH.

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Project of the Month: NoMa up a notch

Amanda Mailer —  01.07.2010 — 1 Comment

June 2010: In a large and distributed environment, multi channel alerts for hundreds of users can get complicated. Indeed that’s where NoMa came in handy for one of our longstanding clients. With no less than 60 alert definitions, NoMa had been managing Nagios alerts for the corporation’s 1000+ users dependent on central services, across their 80+ remote sites worldwide.

All was working well, but as always things can work better. One pesky characteristic was that if a highly interconnected component were to fail, not only would the admins receive that alert, but they would also receive individual alerts for all the other services and components that were subsequently affected. This domino effect inundated the admins with messages that ultimately stemmed from the same issue. So the proposal was put forward – how about bundling all related errors into one summary message, but still be able to individually (de)activate each alert?

Consultant William took on the challenge, thereby setting the foundations of NoMa’s latest release, version 1.0.5. By transferring tNoMa screenshot 150x150 Project of the Month: NoMa up a notchhe persistence coded in Perl memory to a database NoMa had improved stability and failover precaution built in. This enabled the new feature of central outage correlations and alert summaries. Further improving the user friendliness, the team also simplified the (de)activation of alerts to be executable on the web interface, without the need for restarts.

All in all, thanks to their sponsorship and close cooperation, NoMa will soon be available as v 1.0.5 equipped with greater flexibility. As the biggest contributor to NoMa, a company representative even presented the project at the OSMC 2009. Check out the presentation for more info and keep an eye on netways.org for the official release coming soon!

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Autor: Amanda Mailer

Amanda unterstützt das NETWAYS Team im Bereich Marketing und da vor allem bei allen englischen Aktivitäten. Als Australierin mit einem deutschen Mann verheiratet, fällt ihr das auch besonders leicht. Neben NETWAYS arbeitet sie auch im Icinga Team mit.

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