Supervening event: The Twitter case, monitoring and encryption An event like the one that happened to Twitter on May 3, 2018, can happen to any company. Through a monitoring process? Let’s study the matter! Unexpected event: an introduction Surely you use the popular social …
Python Language: Graphing our monitoring data in GNU Benevolent Dictator For Life Chill out, we’re not here to talk about politics. Now that we have your attention, we have to clarify that Benevolent Dictator For Life is the actual title that Guido van Rossum, …
Centreon Engine: let’s look at this comparison with Pandora FMS “Centreon Engine” What is Centreon Engine? Well, Wikipedia was created for this purpose in the social sciences: there you will find the article in Spanish and French (I’m sorry, they haven’t written it yet …
Version control system, authoritarianism and freedom to code Version control is essential for the continuous development of software today: it is the basis for the continuous release and implementation of software.
Open Hardware: The Past and Present In the 1980s, Open Hardware made our society shake with the irruption of a giant: IBM® It seems that now in 2018 history will repeat itself! Recently, we wrote on the blog a short story about supercomputers, as …
Reversible Computing: Moore’s Law, and unconventional computing The so-called “Moore’s Law” is reaching the limits established since its formulation. We previously published an article on the subject, which serves as an introduction to what we are going to explain today. Let’s start from there …
Testing tools in 2018: Which one is the best? In the last decade, the term beta user has become very popular – even as a business, and in some cases it has become a job – for the beta user, which refers to the …
Course 101: Instrumentation, Software Metrics, Monitoring, Alerts Course 101 -1: Introduction Since the 1920s, higher education institutions have been using this term to describe the nomenclature of the early years of study. Here we announced some time ago our intentions to focus on tutorials, …
Software glitch, an unforeseen incident, is that possible to prevent at all? “Software glitch” was first defined in 1965 by astronaut John Glenn and his flight team as a sudden drop in voltage that caused the computers to restart. This is exactly what happened …
Pandora FMS as a Netcool Alternative Introduction to IBM® Tivoli® Netcool® IBM® Tivoli® Netcool ®is part of the “Tivoli Management Framework (TMF)”, and both belong to the wide range of products from the company known as “International Business Machines” or simply IBM®, as we …
Monitor Raspberry Pi with RPi-Monitor For many computer scientists, Raspberry Pi is a very well known device in terms of programming. They are economical, they use very little energy and are very flexible, for some people it might remind them of the description of …
Administration of Server Configuration (ASC) We must first introduce you, in a basic way, what the Administration of Server Configuration (ASC) is. We have already told you the story of Manolo, version 1.0, a very determined administrator, but poorly used by the company. Of …
php IPAM: Check IP addresses and all their changes Php IPAM , as its compound name indicates , is the use and administration, through PHP, of Internet Protocol Address Management (IPAM) addresses, which makes the software very unique. In this article we will look …
Rolling Release Software: Learn all about it here “Rolling Release software” is a model that has been extended in recent years due to the rise of the Internet and the technological development of its users. In Pandora FMS we announced in March 2017 the …
The importance of monitoring your CPU: Meltdown and Spectre Introduction At the end of the 20th century we witnessed something wonderful, since 1977 Dr.Dieter Seitzer and his team at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg thought about digitizing sound, but there was a small problem. The downside …
Continuous Integration Software: Learn all about Jenkins In a previous post we explained all about Continuous Release of Software and today we will see the previous step: the Continuous Integration of software but from the point of view of automated tools . We chose …
PostgreSQL10 logical replication. Find out all about it here Some time ago, we published a study on PostgreSQL monitoring in a very detailed way. A few days ago, a specialized magazine announced the good news about the launch of a plugin to monitor PostgreSQL10 …
Blackbox and whitebox testing for a better monitoring In the automated field of computing, some terms or trends are in from time to time. Today we will look at the concept of blackbox and whitebox testing, applying it to the science and art of …
Graylog2 VS Pandora FMS: a detailed comparison Brief history of syslog and Graylog2 Before introducing Graylog2, we first have to dive into what syslog is. Its history dates back to 1981 when Eric Paul Allman used to work at Berkeley University in California and …