cron

Wednesday, 02. 24. 2010  –  Category: sw

Obviously cron jobs are abundantly useful for so many things, all the way from basic housekeeping up to big application functionality.
They’re also the source of plenty of flail. What do I mean?

They are neither code nor data, so often get overlooked, or shonkily installed, by application deployment tools
They run with a minimal environment that can [...]

SOAP in unexpected “actually, quite easy” incident.

Wednesday, 09. 30. 2009  –  Category: sw, web

In web service access shuffle, today’s mission is introducing large N number of new backend pools, traffic rules and virtual servers to Zeus ZXTM balancers. No time for monkeying around in the web UI, better check out their well documented API. It uses SOAP, which I’ve never got busy with before – slightly apprehensive.
The reference [...]

ipmitool for OSX

Tuesday, 09. 29. 2009  –  Category: sw

Nothing searchable in MacPorts, but found this.
Update: Turns out this build is missing isol mode serial-on-LAN for IPMI 1.5 hosts1, and building the ipmitool distribution wasn’t so hard after all. Packaging systems have made me lazy!
Dell R200 uses IPMI 1.5, Dell R410 uses 2.0. Both do SOL and remote power management well enough [↩]

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