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Glovebox Released on SourceForge

May 19th, 2009 Andrew Rankin No comments

On the request of my Manager, I have released Glovebox under a GPL license on Sourceforge.  I have yet to update the site with instructions but hope to soon.  I’ve included a tar ball of the current version as well as imported the full source code in Sourceforge’s SVN repo.

The SourceForge project page is located here.
The project home page is located here.

Glovebox: My Solution to Managing Servers

May 8th, 2009 Andrew Rankin No comments

When I started in the “Technology” department at my current employer, I found myself apart of a team that was tasked with taking care of hundreds of IBM blade servers, and tens of other IBM system x servers.  For the most part we could keep up with our servers by where they were in our monitoring software, but if we needed to know exactly where they were in either a blade center, by remote console name, or what Domain-0 they lived on for our Xen based virtual machines – we had to relate back to a usually out of date spreadsheet that showed where to go.

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