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check_oes_stat on an OES2/Linux server works with Nagios and NRPE to return some statistics that we were used to getting with check_nwstat and mrtgext.nlm on NetWare.

Ever wanted to remove a driver health configuration completely but found that the "Delete" button on the "driver health configuration" tab in iManager does not do it ? Well, just move to the next tab...

Technology as a Commodity Utility Keeping the Lights on OR
Technology as Innovation Driving Business Growth

Two articles from last week have caught my attention as well as the continued pressure in corporate objectives to use technology to drive business growth and be an enabler, differentiator in the market and not just a utility running the business like electricity as a commodity. It catches my attention both from a marketing perspective and the role of technology to drive business growth. Read On......

The Intuit outage on Tuesday night, June 15th that lasted 36+ hours, affecting hundreds of thousands of customers and one third of the $1.607 B in revenue as reported for the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering of it's Turbo Tax Online, Online Banking , Small business Accounting, Online Payroll and Intuit Website spurs this much awaited blog entry - Do SLA's matter? YES!

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4 Letters that inspire Holy War IT Debates

The CMDB, more importantly the CMS, is the inner mechanism within IT organizations that will enable agility, control, silo to service transition, and the list goes on. However, it is the topic that stirs passion on the magnitude of discussing politics or religion in mixed crowds! I have been speaking on the topic for several years now and often spoke of the coming complexity that has now arrived in the data center and IT management world, virtualization has left the “development lab” and moved into production. If you didn't have your CMS strategy in place, it just exploded a magnitude of difficulty higher with a virtualized infrastructure AND the coming next magnitude of difficulty with a mixed private and public cloud infrastructure!

The article that prompted this blog asks the question “Is the CMDB irrelevant in a Virtual Cloud Based World?” ( http://virtualization.info/en/news/2010/06/on-the-... ) It's not the CMDB that is relevant, but rather what comes out of the CMDB and how it enables the IT organization. Read on........

Updated: dsDash is a cross-platform, multi-tree, automated eDirectory monitoring application.