If the title looks a bit weird, please bear with me a bit longer and read on. The very good Wikipedia states: Idempotence is the property of certain operations in mathematics and computer science whereby they can be applied multiple times without changing the result beyond the initial application. As…

If you’ve been working with Ansible, you’d probably be writing roles to manage your configuration tasks. But how do you make sure that they’re performing what’s actually expected of them? For example, let’s consider a java app deployed on a Tomcat web server. Once it is successfully executed we’ll be…

This story is a recapitulation of the story I loved watching as a kid in good old Doordarshan. If anyone remembers there was a program called ‘Teleschool’ that was aired at around 10:00 am everyday. I enjoyed watching it and this story is vividly etched in my memory. …

HP SiteScope is agentless monitoring software focused on monitoring the availability and performance of distributed IT infrastructures, including Servers, Network devices and services, Applications and application components, operating systems and various IT enterprise components. [wikipedia] So the way it is, Sitescope runs on Java. “It does not have a proper…

In the previous post(link below) I mentioned that we started ingesting data from our VMware and Storage environments to the Elastic stack. How we centralized our logs using ELK stack Of late we’re basking in a warm triumphant feeling looking at our Kibana dashboards and feeling good how smoothly the…medium.com Here’s a brief outline of how we did it: The team were using RVTools to gather VMware data for quite some time. …

It all started with a discussion about having a nice dashboard like a NOC to view the status of our infra in real-time. Many proposals were made and we decided to do a POC with the Elasticsearch,Logstash,Kibana(ELK) stack. We initially targeted to start with the error and performance logs as…