Nagios, on the other hand, is unnecessarily hard. Especially for simple setups and novice users, the pain is ridiculously out of proportion to the gain.
But it's not for the simple setups and novices, it even says that in the manual. What Nagios is easier for are those situations where you need to monitor some custom service.
A monitoring system reflects the complexity of the systems and services it monitors. If you have a relatively simple network with standard services then Nagios probably isn't required. Try Zabbix instead, it handles those situations fairly well.
Nagios is easy, but it only makes sense if you have dozens or hundreds of systems, for less, get something simpler, and it will only work if you understand how to group your hosts, services etc.
You just set high and low load thresholds for server on/off. And a load balancer which simply adds the new server to the server pool when it notices it's there, removes them when it's gone. So no need to try to predict stuff.
5 seconds or 3 minutes, the server boot times are largely irrelevant. If you think you're going to handle a slashdotting you are mistaken, you can't handle oneoff events this way. You would have to go from 1 to 100 servers and connections in 5 seconds.
What it can do is grow really quickly if a service becomes very popular very quickly, or reduce your datacenter costs if it's typically used only 9-5. Or even, dual purpose processing. Servers do X from 9-17 and Y from 15-20.
If more Americans would learn to live within their means, we wouldn't be in this mess.
Sounds counterintuitive, yes, but if everyone lived within their means, there would be no bank credit, the economy would be approximately 1/10th the size it is now... If everyone now decides to live within their means, you would have a couple of decades of 5% - 10% per year deflation. Think the DOW at 1,000... Not 10,000.
to start to pay down all the debt that we've accumulated.
Here's the thing... Credit is ~90%-95% of all the money which exists and the corresponding debt is by definition larger than this and is increasing at the rate of (1+n%)^Y.
That's a whole lot of bankruptcies and defaults for a very long time... ~90% in fact.
It is these 21st century bank runs that's causing banks whose foundations are completely solid to go bankrupt over night.
Listen to what you just said...
Businesses which are completely solid simply do not go bankrupt overnight.
Banks are not solid businesses, none of them. All of them lend fractionally, which means that there isn't a single bank in the world which could not be taken down overnight. They are all inverted pyramids of debt piled on a tiny base of real money. They are the very definition of borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.
If banks were completely solid, they could survive a bank run and remain solvent. That is only possible with full reserve banking, not fractional reserve.
Nope. Like the national debt, it will simply be rolled over into bigger loans.
The idea that credit is not inflationary is laughable... It is ONLY non inflationary if you actually allow the bubble to deflate. If you allow the debt to consume the credit... The WHOLE point of this loan is to prevent precisely that happening...
New debt IS starting up the printing presses, but without all the hassle of paper and ink. Go take a look at exactly how the CPI figures are calculated for a good laugh about the true nature of capitalism and economic growth .
Americans are going to need an extra zero or two on their salaries in the coming years... But hey, look at the bright side, everyone gets to be a milionaire.
A low power "set top" linux box; 1 lan, 1 wifi, 4 USB, no internal storage; plug in external usb drives. Tv out, usb audio & video in.
Serving; Email, web, files, printers, p2p, music & videos, video calling. easy VPN between trusted boxes easy sharing files (rsync over vpn) easy sharing calendar & addressbook(with outlook, thunderbird integration).
The key is an easy and secure way to set up trusted vpns between multiple set top home servers to form friend & family networks. Perhaps email an URL "invite".
Also... 8 year old malts *are* paintstripper. You need 12 years at an absolute minimum for something drinkable. Preferrably 15 or more years.
Adding a few ml of warm water will reduce the catch at the back of the throat for those lesser beverages. Also, try with crystalised ginger to complement.
Why? Describe the process you're suggesting, and why it wouldn't happen without fractional reserves.
Full reserve banking. Money which is lent out to one party is taken away from the lender for the period of the loan. With fractional reserve lending, the original lender still has access to their money through the bank's reserve, almost doubling the money with each loan. Then there's a race against the debt.
With 100% reserve lending, money is removed from the lender and given to the borrower, the lender no longer has access to the money. It's gone, and if the borrower defaults, the lender loses their money permanently. The money has moved, not grown. Therefore the act of lending itself doesn't cause a boom.
No boom, no bust.
How do you get 95%? AFAICS, even M0:M3 doesn't get to 95%. In what way are notes and coins guaranteed?
1 trillion in physical currency, and M3 estimated 14 trillion. ~95%
Notes and coins are "legal tender" and must be accepted as payment for a debt, they also don't evaporate in a puff of debt, only in the puff of a government.
You'd have to create an awful lot of new M0. Someone would still have the impossibly difficult decision 'how much?'. And I don't see how this would end boom and bust.
Really. What's the world worth? Everything... Imagine holding it in your left hand. In your right, you have all the money in the world... 1 cent.
Basically this is what Europe did when they switched to the Euro... Not so difficult. Course the Euro is just as fiat as the dollar. The actual amount doesn't really matter, as long as the smallest unit usefully represents the smallest thing one can buy.
If you have an electric vehicle and travel 20k miles per year.
The economic case for photovoltaics comes from transportation rather than domestic energy production. This is a trick the solar companies and BEV companies seem to be missing.
Under Fractional Reserve Banking, boom/bust is the only way it goes. Smaller booms and busts usually, but boom/bust nevertheless.
Now that 95% of money is credit, and the only guaranteed money is cash; notes and coins. It's potentially a long long way down.
Now... If you fancy changing the banking system and denying banks the ability to lend fractionally, the business cycle and the boom/bust nature of credit will change completely.
Slashdot Mirror
They'll just NAT the world.
Nagios, on the other hand, is unnecessarily hard. Especially for simple setups and novice users, the pain is ridiculously out of proportion to the gain.
But it's not for the simple setups and novices, it even says that in the manual. What Nagios is easier for are those situations where you need to monitor some custom service.
A monitoring system reflects the complexity of the systems and services it monitors. If you have a relatively simple network with standard services then Nagios probably isn't required. Try Zabbix instead, it handles those situations fairly well.
I used nagios for years.. many many years. It has to be, as many have already pointed out.. the most difficult to configure OSS project ever made.
R$+@$=W $@$1@$H user@thishost -> user@hub
R$=W!$+ $@$2@$H thishost!user -> user@hub
R@$=W:$+ $@@$H:$2 @thishost:something
R$+%$=W $@$>3$1@$2 user%thishost
Sendmail...
Nagios is easy, but it only makes sense if you have dozens or hundreds of systems, for less, get something simpler, and it will only work if you understand how to group your hosts, services etc.
"Or if the outside temp falls below 30 degrees Fahrenheit, as heat pumps will not work below like 20 degrees."
Work all winter down to -20C.
Some people aren't happy until they have the worst of all worlds.
"Because I can".
I can manage my privacy at the press of a button. Wipe my cookies and become another identity. I can define my privacy as I like.
I mean look:
A terrorist:
http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=A%20terrorist&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
Not a terrorist:
http://images.google.co.uk/images?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&q=Not+a+terrorist&btnG=Search+Images
Problem solved. NEXT!
http://www.ocolly.okstate.edu/issues/2001_Fall/011011/pix/1.%20OSAMA%20BIN%20LADEN.jpg
This is NOT a terrorist:
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MMPH/242259~Cliff-Richard-Posters.jpg
See! Clearly a difference. Easy.
I don't see the problem...
Or... How propaganda and political meddling manage to send science research down blind alleys for 10 years.
Sorry. The Hydrogen infrastructure not only isn't going to happen, it would be a disaster if it did.
Sorry, It's just not worth the pain. Boot to RAM.
You just set high and low load thresholds for server on/off. And a load balancer which simply adds the new server to the server pool when it notices it's there, removes them when it's gone. So no need to try to predict stuff.
5 seconds or 3 minutes, the server boot times are largely irrelevant. If you think you're going to handle a slashdotting you are mistaken, you can't handle oneoff events this way. You would have to go from 1 to 100 servers and connections in 5 seconds.
What it can do is grow really quickly if a service becomes very popular very quickly, or reduce your datacenter costs if it's typically used only 9-5. Or even, dual purpose processing. Servers do X from 9-17 and Y from 15-20.
an alliance of media groups, former politicians, judges and armed drug dealers and militia.
Sure sounds like government to me.
still could be done a whole lot better.
Better *for whom*?
The people who need to validate the result of an election, or the people who need to manipulate the result?
If more Americans would learn to live within their means, we wouldn't be in this mess.
Sounds counterintuitive, yes, but if everyone lived within their means, there would be no bank credit, the economy would be approximately 1/10th the size it is now... If everyone now decides to live within their means, you would have a couple of decades of 5% - 10% per year deflation. Think the DOW at 1,000... Not 10,000.
to start to pay down all the debt that we've accumulated.
Here's the thing... Credit is ~90%-95% of all the money which exists and the corresponding debt is by definition larger than this and is increasing at the rate of (1+n%)^Y.
That's a whole lot of bankruptcies and defaults for a very long time... ~90% in fact.
It is these 21st century bank runs that's causing banks whose foundations are completely solid to go bankrupt over night.
Listen to what you just said...
Businesses which are completely solid simply do not go bankrupt overnight.
Banks are not solid businesses, none of them. All of them lend fractionally, which means that there isn't a single bank in the world which could not be taken down overnight. They are all inverted pyramids of debt piled on a tiny base of real money. They are the very definition of borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.
If banks were completely solid, they could survive a bank run and remain solvent. That is only possible with full reserve banking, not fractional reserve.
No?
Very disappointed. I want to be able to put on a pair of 3d glasses and look around and see all of the information superimposed on reality.
I'm not going to shell out any cash till that's one of the features.
Post vehicle.
etc etc.
If you have a truck, you'll be able to mow down a whole group rather than just the front rank!
Nope. Like the national debt, it will simply be rolled over into bigger loans.
The idea that credit is not inflationary is laughable... It is ONLY non inflationary if you actually allow the bubble to deflate. If you allow the debt to consume the credit... The WHOLE point of this loan is to prevent precisely that happening...
New debt IS starting up the printing presses, but without all the hassle of paper and ink. Go take a look at exactly how the CPI figures are calculated for a good laugh about the true nature of capitalism and economic growth .
Americans are going to need an extra zero or two on their salaries in the coming years... But hey, look at the bright side, everyone gets to be a milionaire.
A low power "set top" linux box; 1 lan, 1 wifi, 4 USB, no internal storage; plug in external usb drives. Tv out, usb audio & video in.
Serving; Email, web, files, printers, p2p, music & videos, video calling.
easy VPN between trusted boxes
easy sharing files (rsync over vpn)
easy sharing calendar & addressbook(with outlook, thunderbird integration).
The key is an easy and secure way to set up trusted vpns between multiple set top home servers to form friend & family networks. Perhaps email an URL "invite".
So... Basically... You want a distributed version control system...
google for "subversion", or "git", or "distributed version control system".
hth
Also... 8 year old malts *are* paintstripper. You need 12 years at an absolute minimum for something drinkable. Preferrably 15 or more years.
Adding a few ml of warm water will reduce the catch at the back of the throat for those lesser beverages.
Also, try with crystalised ginger to complement.
Ice? Coke? Go on, get off my lawn.
Why? Describe the process you're suggesting, and why it wouldn't happen without fractional reserves.
Full reserve banking. Money which is lent out to one party is taken away from the lender for the period of the loan. With fractional reserve lending, the original lender still has access to their money through the bank's reserve, almost doubling the money with each loan. Then there's a race against the debt.
With 100% reserve lending, money is removed from the lender and given to the borrower, the lender no longer has access to the money. It's gone, and if the borrower defaults, the lender loses their money permanently. The money has moved, not grown. Therefore the act of lending itself doesn't cause a boom.
No boom, no bust.
How do you get 95%? AFAICS, even M0:M3 doesn't get to 95%. In what way are notes and coins guaranteed?
1 trillion in physical currency, and M3 estimated 14 trillion. ~95%
The ratio of the total amount of money to notes and coins.
http://www.fms.treas.gov/bulletin/
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/money-supply
Notes and coins are "legal tender" and must be accepted as payment for a debt, they also don't evaporate in a puff of debt, only in the puff of a government.
You'd have to create an awful lot of new M0. Someone would still have the impossibly difficult decision 'how much?'. And I don't see how this would end boom and bust.
Really. What's the world worth? Everything... Imagine holding it in your left hand. In your right, you have all the money in the world... 1 cent.
Basically this is what Europe did when they switched to the Euro... Not so difficult. Course the Euro is just as fiat as the dollar. The actual amount doesn't really matter, as long as the smallest unit usefully represents the smallest thing one can buy.
Cos I thought they only talked in billions and trillions. Y'know 700 billion here, a trillion there.
If you have an electric vehicle and travel 20k miles per year.
The economic case for photovoltaics comes from transportation rather than domestic energy production. This is a trick the solar companies and BEV companies seem to be missing.
One of these for instance.
http://www.cleanova.com/public/sve/
Postal companies, couriers, taxis etc etc.
AKA "The Business Cycle".
Under Fractional Reserve Banking, boom/bust is the only way it goes. Smaller booms and busts usually, but boom/bust nevertheless.
Now that 95% of money is credit, and the only guaranteed money is cash; notes and coins. It's potentially a long long way down.
Now... If you fancy changing the banking system and denying banks the ability to lend fractionally, the business cycle and the boom/bust nature of credit will change completely.