This week has been rather busy, finishing off the deployment of a bunch of SQL clusters for a major project the entire company is working on. Yesterday I spent the entire day fighting an install of a single instance of SQL with all kinds of errors1. But this one is a quick post on an easy error we stumbled upon this morning…
A post will be forth coming on that day of hell ↩
Every now and again I get issues with the MSI installer service complaining that a previous install is pending a reboot, even after a reboot. I’ve seen this issue crop up on Exchange updates, Visual Studio updates, and more recently on a Trend Micro Office Scan upgrade. This causes some hair pulling most of the time, but I stumbled across the secret key that controls this feature…
Over the weekend, we had a major maintenance project, which involved taking down our entire storage infrastructure for some upgrades to the CPUs of the storage controllers.
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Over on the LinkedIn Nagios Users group, Michael Sverdlik asked an interesting question about how to handle a mixed NRPE environment, where some hosts require SSL and others do not. The first recommendation is a custom script that basically executes the command twice, the first one looks for an error, then falls back to using non-ssl mode… I came up with a different way of handling it, without falling back to using custom scripts.
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For several months I’ve had Nagios sending notifications for some services via Twitter. I set this up so that I could offer a couple of friends a little more visibility into their services. This used to be a trivial task as Twitter supported basic authentication, however they decided to go with a more secure methodology, and enforced OAuth authentication…
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