Comments on: Vendors, Open Source, and Hypocrisy http://jeffgehlbach.com/?p=17 It's unprofessional to have a witty tagline Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:40:37 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: jeff http://jeffgehlbach.com/?p=17&cpage=1#comment-374 jeff Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:18:13 +0000 http://jeffgehlbach.com/?p=17#comment-374 Heya Rich! Actually I think I did closer to 100 installations (two or three per remote poller) along the way to getting it just right :) Those were the days -- the memories would be even fonder if eHealth had been on Oracle at the time instead of Ingres! Heya Rich! Actually I think I did closer to 100 installations (two or three per remote poller) along the way to getting it just right :) Those were the days — the memories would be even fonder if eHealth had been on Oracle at the time instead of Ingres!

]]> By: rmasci http://jeffgehlbach.com/?p=17&cpage=1#comment-373 rmasci Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:52:20 +0000 http://jeffgehlbach.com/?p=17#comment-373 Hey Jeff... Was just doing some internet searches and your name poped up. Just curious, did you ever do an installation for Concord eHealth at Equant? Hey Jeff… Was just doing some internet searches and your name poped up. Just curious, did you ever do an installation for Concord eHealth at Equant?

]]> By: jeff http://jeffgehlbach.com/?p=17&cpage=1#comment-371 jeff Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:04:21 +0000 http://jeffgehlbach.com/?p=17#comment-371 Regarding <a href="http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/200/trackback" rel="nofollow">William's suggestion</a> to find a way to talk to this broken agent as long as the Big Four can talk to it: see my updates -- HP OpenView NNM cannot talk to this piece of junk. Regarding William’s suggestion to find a way to talk to this broken agent as long as the Big Four can talk to it: see my updates — HP OpenView NNM cannot talk to this piece of junk.

]]> By: William Vambenepe’s blog » Blog Archive » I have seen the future of CMDBf http://jeffgehlbach.com/?p=17&cpage=1#comment-361 William Vambenepe’s blog » Blog Archive » I have seen the future of CMDBf Wed, 21 May 2008 06:43:52 +0000 http://jeffgehlbach.com/?p=17#comment-361 [...] It wouldn’t get the kind of robustness and interoperability that comes from wide adoption. While pretty similar, there might be some minor differences in the various implementations. Once your implementation has been tweaked to work with the implementations from the Big Four, you’ll call it done. Just like SNMP, another technology that is specific to IT systems management (see it happen here). [...] [...] It wouldn’t get the kind of robustness and interoperability that comes from wide adoption. While pretty similar, there might be some minor differences in the various implementations. Once your implementation has been tweaked to work with the implementations from the Big Four, you’ll call it done. Just like SNMP, another technology that is specific to IT systems management (see it happen here). [...]

]]> By: jeff http://jeffgehlbach.com/?p=17&cpage=1#comment-353 jeff Thu, 15 May 2008 19:05:01 +0000 http://jeffgehlbach.com/?p=17#comment-353 <p><a href="http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/200/trackback" rel="nofollow">William</a>, as far as French obnoxiousness (your term, not mine) goes, I am a francophone and a francophile. While I find the attitude of Jacques in this matter highly obnoxious, his employer is headquartered in the U.S.</p> <p>As far as supported management platforms and standards, the vendor's own manual, which Jacques was quoting, says "such as" -- nowhere in the manual is that list noted to be exhaustive. If the vendor would simply update the version of the UCD-SNMP agent embedded in the storage server to the very next incremental release (5.2.2) following the one they use today (5.2.1.2), the problem would go away. Your analogy to the abundance of non-W3C-compliant web sites is a poor one, as ASN.1 is meant to be a precise and unambiguous notation targeted for consumption by machines, not a human-oriented markup language like HTML. The Net-SNMP team long ago fixed this agent bug; why can't a commercial vendor incorporate <a href="http://net-snmp.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/net-snmp/tags/Ext-5-2-2/net-snmp/snmplib/asn1.c?r1=12777&r2=13027" rel="nofollow">a simple patch</a> from upstream?</p> William, as far as French obnoxiousness (your term, not mine) goes, I am a francophone and a francophile. While I find the attitude of Jacques in this matter highly obnoxious, his employer is headquartered in the U.S.

As far as supported management platforms and standards, the vendor’s own manual, which Jacques was quoting, says “such as” — nowhere in the manual is that list noted to be exhaustive. If the vendor would simply update the version of the UCD-SNMP agent embedded in the storage server to the very next incremental release (5.2.2) following the one they use today (5.2.1.2), the problem would go away. Your analogy to the abundance of non-W3C-compliant web sites is a poor one, as ASN.1 is meant to be a precise and unambiguous notation targeted for consumption by machines, not a human-oriented markup language like HTML. The Net-SNMP team long ago fixed this agent bug; why can’t a commercial vendor incorporate a simple patch from upstream?

]]> By: William Vambenepe’s blog » Blog Archive » WS-ManagementHammer: don’t do it but if you are going to do it anyway then… http://jeffgehlbach.com/?p=17&cpage=1#comment-352 William Vambenepe’s blog » Blog Archive » WS-ManagementHammer: don’t do it but if you are going to do it anyway then… Thu, 15 May 2008 17:03:55 +0000 http://jeffgehlbach.com/?p=17#comment-352 [...] 2008/5/15: How timely! Just after publishing this I find, via Coté, what looks like another example of French abrasiveness in the systems management world: the attitude, name and the way Jeff ends with a French-language quote make it quite likely that [...] [...] 2008/5/15: How timely! Just after publishing this I find, via Coté, what looks like another example of French abrasiveness in the systems management world: the attitude, name and the way Jeff ends with a French-language quote make it quite likely that [...]

]]> By: People Over Process » links for 2008-05-15 http://jeffgehlbach.com/?p=17&cpage=1#comment-349 People Over Process » links for 2008-05-15 Thu, 15 May 2008 07:38:23 +0000 http://jeffgehlbach.com/?p=17#comment-349 [...] Jeff’s Professional Side » Blog Archive » Vendors, Open Source, and Hypocrisy Classic. Big storage vendor uses old version of SNMP which bugs out, then tells OpenNMS to suck it when they discover it’s broken. (tags: opennms snmp itmanagement opensource) [...] [...] Jeff’s Professional Side » Blog Archive » Vendors, Open Source, and Hypocrisy Classic. Big storage vendor uses old version of SNMP which bugs out, then tells OpenNMS to suck it when they discover it’s broken. (tags: opennms snmp itmanagement opensource) [...]

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