stevenjmurawski

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   I'm a Windows Systems Administrator... And It's OK(stevenmurawski.com)

   3 points by stevenjmurawski 13y ago|0 comments
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   by stevenjmurawski 13y ago

   Not at all. The Windows OS now has command line accessible management points that are similar to Linux. There is still a great deal of difference in their management models (I blogged about this a while back - http://blog.serve
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   by stevenjmurawski 13y ago

   That's actually a very good point and a major downside to the open source tools. My whole work experience (and that of many sysadmins) is in primarily Windows shops. Since many of the OSS tools don't work or require hacks to mak
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   by stevenjmurawski 13y ago

   jmelloy ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6334778 ) had a really good point that wasn't covered in the post, since it was a post about what we are doing not necessarily why we are doing it. One of our major problems
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   by stevenjmurawski 13y ago

   We tried Nagios a while back, before going to Orion. Nagios has some great structural ideas, but fell down in other areas (don't know all of them, that was before I came on board). We use Puppet to manage our Linux infrastructure and
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   by stevenjmurawski 13y ago

   The patching dashboard has scheduled jobs on the clients (PowerShell scripts on the Windows boxes and Ruby scripts on the Linux boxes). We use Puppet to deploy the client to our Linux boxes and for Windows we deploy the task and scripts wit