New version of Cnagios
I released a new version of Cnagios today. There's not really anything interesting it in. Oh, yeah, it uses the real function keys now. And it compiles with OpenBSD 4.0, RHEL4, FC5 & 6, SeSE10 etc.
Absent CFengine Clients
The CFengine FriendStatus( N ) etc stuff doesn't work too well, so I wrote a wrapper around cfshow --last-seen. It tells us about CFengine clients that have stopped getting automatic configuration.
Nagios Report Generator Upgrade: nagiosr v1.0.13
I just released a hugely improved version of nagiosr: for example it picks up eight alerts from yesterday that the old version missed! (I didn't write the orginal alert matching code--but I've almost entirely rewritten it now.)
ftp://noc.hep.wisc.edu/pub/src/nagiosr
New Agenda Automation Software
The old Agenda System, based on CERN's "CDS" had a serious security hole, so Will's implemented CERN's new version (called "Indico".) The old DIS05 and PHENO06 content has been migrated to the new system, but the old accounts don't work (just re-register if need be.)
CrossOver Office Upgrade
We discovered that the old CrossOver Office 4.1 has problems with complex figurers in Excel, so we've upgraded to CrossOver Pro 5.0.1, and our "Microsoft Office on Linux" nirvana has been restored.
Pheno Twiki Wiki
Much time has been spent in the last few weeks getting the Pheno LHC Twiki Wiki going. That includes creating a moderated registration system (because the thing become infested with wiki spam quite quickly!)
Mathematica
At some point during this week, I think install I Mathematica for the Pheno folks?
Agenda System Setup for Pheno
The PHENO 06 Symposium is happening soon. So I set the Pheno folks up with their very own CDS Agenda category for automating the agenda...
http://agenda.hep.wisc.edu/displayLevel.php?fid=5
Yum Yum Yum
The advent of Scientific Linux x86_64 worker nodes (with Opteron CPUs) here at UW-HEP caused the need for a fair number of i386 shared library RPMs. That was the straw that broken the camel's back with respect to package management, so I finally set up a number of yum repositories to automate the installation of RPMs. It was a dirty complex job, but, like a lot of systems admistration work, it'll pay off big time in the long run.
GLOW Migration and Condor Upgrade
The UW-HEP Condor pool is now effectively defunct: all our worker nodes have been migrated to the GLOW Condor pool. So in total, we added another 248 CPUs to GLOW recently. Along with this change, we upgraded our Condor software to version 6.1.14.
