It’s starting to feel like Spring here in Seattle. Lunchtime was pretty great, with a walk over to SLU for some tacos with my co-workers. On the work front, I’ve been spending a good amount of time working on Zenoss monitoring to include sensor data from our cluster of servers. It’s easiest to pull data from the onboard BMC using FreeIPMI, outputting it in a Nagios-friendly format, and ingesting it into Zenoss. At times, I’ve been frustrated by the lack of documentation for rolling your own commands to fetch information, but am pretty happy that after getting the necessary wrapper […]
