I’ve been using the Python Suds SOAP client to consume web-services for our product at work for reporting purposes. I ran into an issue with suds 0.3.9 and choice elements for remote methods. Thanks to the awesome Actional Diagnostics SOAP Inspector I knew that the web services method I was trying to use had a [...]
I finally got around to writing up how to use the Google Visualization API with Python. Check out my tutorial here.
About a month ago, I wrote a detailed how-to on implementing email based event acknowledgment, in Zenoss. This feature is sorely missing from a lot of “Enterprise Grade” network monitoring systems. I decided to extend Zenoss and write my own. Have a look at my detailed how-to.
There was a recent post on the Zenoss Users forum about updating Min/Max thresholds via SNMP. A user wanted to update a temperature threshold from a value obtained via SNMP. What’s the point in making the change in two spots, when you can just update it on your device and have Zenoss automatically catch the [...]
Our Network Engineers at work have been trying to troubleshoot a site-tosite VPN connectivity issue with a remote office for a few weeks. They need to figure out whether or not the connection issues are on our provider’s side or not. As a result, I’d configured our Smokeping installation to monitor the firewall and switch [...]
