Puppet, Factor, Dashboard, MCollective, Hiera, Foreman… Where does it end?
I want to setup a system based around the open source Puppet software stack… I am just not sure what the stack contains. My goal is a system that is holistic... » Read more
Automatically Starting And Stopping Oracle Fusion Middleware On Red Hat 5
At work we utilize Oracle Fusion Middleware on Red Hat 5.8. As the primary systems administrator for the servers running FMW, I always found it to be a real... » Read more
Vagrant, Veewee, & Me (part 1)
I have toyed with the idea of diving into Vagrant for a while now and, tonight, decided it was time. I decided to be different and RTFM… this left me with t... » Read more
Gentoo & MySQL Binary Logging
So, I learned today that the root cause of my site issues was that Gentoo apparently decided to enable binary logging by default yet did not have a max size ... » Read more
More Monitoring… NOW!
As some may have noticed, I have had a few site issues lately. Those should be in the past now. As a result of these issues, I am now actively monitoring thi... » Read more