Saturday, March 29, 2014

7 Tips For Successful PCI DSS Audit

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In the light of my recent experience leading Instart Logic through the process of PCI DSS Level-1 certification , and some experience im...
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Saturday, November 30, 2013

Vendor Management Tips

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Overview This post is for technical operations folks managing vendor contracts. For technical people dealing with vendors and legal ...
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Sunday, June 16, 2013

What to monitor on a Linux box

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This article is a kind of reminder for me (and for anyone else managing a monitoring system) about which metrics should/can be monitored fo...
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Metrics, metrics, metrics...

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A lot has been said about the importance of system and application metrics - I'll not repeat this, and will concentrate on of-the-shelf...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

The art of crontab jobs monitoring, part II

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In part I of the discussion I've outlined some basic principals of crontab jobs monitoring. One of the biggest disadvantage of the des...
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Saturday, May 26, 2012

The art of application logging

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There are three frequently met problems with logging functionality in in-house software: Application developers don't really care a...
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Saturday, April 21, 2012

The art of crontab jobs monitoring

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In a regular production or development environment there are normally a lot of crontab jobs configured on running servers. The jobs can be a...
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Saturday, November 5, 2011

Don’t hesitate to ask your R&D for software documentation!

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If you, as an Operations Engineer, have experience working with third-party software, it is most likely that you enjoy a full set of docume...
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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Remote Control for Your Production Site

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Have you ever found yourself rushing to the office data center in the middle of the night just because a critical server is down, and you do...
Saturday, October 8, 2011

Have a problem managing your tasks? Read this post!

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If you are lucky enough to handle all your tasks and requests in time, without a need to manage and prioritize a backlog, then you probably...
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Sunday, October 2, 2011

My monitoring tools set

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Now it is time to talk about my set of monitoring tools suitable to monitor medium and large systems. Nagios monitoring service I just l...
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Friday, September 30, 2011

Handling of external monitoring alerts

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If you have an Internet-facing production system it is always wise to use an external web availability and/or performance monitoring service...
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Sunday, September 25, 2011

Why you need an Operations Change Log

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This post will explain why you need to manage an Operation Change Log, and will describe a simple and effective method on how to accomplish ...
Friday, September 23, 2011

Email and SMS alerting policy

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In a regular production environment there are normally three types of monitoring events and corresponding notification methods: Critical al...
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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Assigning DNS names to IP addresses

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Why is it so important to configure proper DNS names for all used IP addresses? A few reasons: To make people remember the names and not ...
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Monday, September 12, 2011

My list of favorite Nagios check scripts

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Nagios is a great monitoring tool - I used it to monitor networks with hundreds of hosts and thousands of service checks. One of the biggest...
Saturday, September 3, 2011

Equipment naming convention

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Why it is so important? Having a clear and meaningful equipment naming convention will help you to: minimize human errors of executing ...
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Monday, August 29, 2011

How to start?

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Some people ask me - how to start building a production system, and make sure that it will be reliable, scaleable and manageable when it wil...

Operations requirements for in-house R&D products

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This post will help you to define specific requirements from Operations to R&D for all in-house software provided for production depl...
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Thursday, June 23, 2011

Knowledge and information management

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Knowledge and information management is one of the building blocks in an effective Operations department. It is really important to get a...
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