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SplunkBase Brings IT Troubleshooting Wiki to the Masses
OSS_ilation writes "IT troubleshooting firm Splunk is using LinuxWorld Boston as a platform to formally launch Splunk Base, a global wiki that will offer IT pros a free-of-charge venue to exchange troubleshooting information, tools and fixes. Splunk is promising that the wiki is completely vendor neutral, and can be compared to Wikipedia, the online open encyclopedia that is regulated and updated by the community-at-large. Users don't even have to have a copy of Splunk Professional to use it. From the article: 'If you believe the research from firms like Framingham, Mass.-based IDC, then Splunk Base has arrived at a key moment. According to IDC, companies will spend more than $100 billion this year on managing the world's data centers. And with virtualization quickly becoming an IT buzzword in 2006, the complexity and costs could increase.'"
http://www.splunk.org/
Meh.
If I buy an advertisement on here will that also entitle me to stories that will directly contribute to my bottom line? I'm not sure the Slashdot readership appreciates these tactics.
...is the actual address of the IT wiki in question. How do I get to this Splunk Base? (Splunk base is IMO the worst name of any Web2.0 company ever. Sounds like a euphemism for... well anyway...)
So come on editors, it's the announcement for the release of a new wiki, which despite the $DIETY-awful name, might be a useful resource. How about, you know, linking to it? I hear the web is good for that.
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Expert's Exchange? Give me a break. Most of their solutions require a login and the page is so filled with ads that it's not worth your time.
Google, as great as it is with other shit, usually returns Expert Exchange as the first couple of hits on any search for help. Boo.
I welcome any open and free wiki competitor to EE.
All your splunk base ARE belong to us!
Have You Tried Turning It Off And Then Back On Again
So true. They've gotten to the point that when I google a problem, I immediately scroll past the experts-exchange.com links to try to find a real solution.
Or do what I do, add "-site:experts-exchange.com" to my search criteria. The search won't include links from that domain.
I think this needs to be summarized because I was thoroughly confused by reading the Slashdot blurb and the linked article didn't help much.
Splunk is a log aggregation server that classifies and tags events found in your logs making it easy to grep through them.
SplunkBase is an extension of Splunk, a web based service that you can lookup events (linked from the Splunk application) and (perhaps) get more information about them.
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I think you are confusing plain old "Splunk" with "Splunk Base" - they are two different things. Both offered by the same people, but different none the less.
http://www.splunk.com/
I've tried to use ExEx about two dozen times, and never has my answer been available without a subscription.
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
Right there, see that BIG orange circle with, "View Solution" in the middle? What does it link to? Yeah, register.
Nice troll though!
"View Solution" would be what the OP called [lame subscription button].
If you had bothered to read the OP you would have scrolled down past the lame View Solution button. There you will find all answers to the question. I've just checked it for the link you gave and they are there.
Nice troll though!
Note that when you open an Experts Exchange page without logging in, a popup ad window appears. If you leave that window open behind your question page, you can scroll down to the answers. If you close that window, the question page excludes the answers from your view.
I will say that the unregistered EE is heavy on the advertising, and they make it fairly difficult to register for a free account. This signs you up as an "expert," although any registered user, paid or not, can answer questions.
You get a limited number of points per month to ask questions with, and need to earn 10,000 expert points (answer a question for 500 points with an 'A' grade, and you get 2000 expert points) to get free premium membership, then 3000 pts/mo to maintain that membership. If you are knowledgeable about anything tech, you can do it easy.
The tech forums are extremely well moderated, and the caliber of people who answer questions is fairly high.
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Splunk != Splunk Base
/. article is about, that happens to be the brainchild of Splunk.
Splunk = the log file aggregator you looked at, that you have to pay for, and is not a wiki.
Splunk Base = the free wiki that the
PS - Splunk is not intended for displaying your logfiles to the world, it is only intended to provide a nicer, Ajax-based website interface for grepping your log files. Ideally it will be used only on the corporate intranet, not the public internet. If SysAdmins or Developers need access to it from outside the internet, they can VPN into the intranet and access it that way. There's no reason to make this available publicly through the firewall.
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