Hosting/server/device donation.
Hi All,
We've had quite a few offers of hosting recently, so I thought I'd explain why we don't take them and give some suggestions on else people could do instead.
Firstly, we don't accept offers of hosting for the websites and repository of the project because we don't want to be beholden to anyone who could change their minds. It would likely cause significant disruption if we were to have the plug pulled on a donated server out of the blue!
One of the big problems with writing and maintaining something like Observium is that it's difficult to ensure that everything works after changes. As we refactor code and add new features, support for specific devices sometimes acquires bugs or simply stops working. So one of the things which would be helpful would be access to various kinds of devices to add to the http://demo.observium.org installation both to better advertise the features of Observium as well as making sure bugs are found more quickly.
For example, thanks to the SNMP access to a 7200 recently provided by Crosstel, we'll soon fix some bugs that left the Cisco MAC accounting feature broken since we switched to using MySQL memory tables for state. :)
Thanks, adam.
(also, don't forget to give us all of your cash because we are awesome, ok?)
Hi Adam,
Well, I could help with access to some ubiquiti wifi access point and a couple of draytek SOHO routers. These are accessible on a public IP's. Most of my devices are on an internal network which can't be reached over the internet for security reasons.
Maybe it would be an idea to give an email address where people can mail their significant information like: Public IP address snmp info like community and username/password in case of v3 and what you need more
Especially since this is not really information to share on a public mailinglist.
Regards,
Alexander
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Adam Armstrong adama@memetic.org wrote:
Hi All,
We've had quite a few offers of hosting recently, so I thought I'd explain why we don't take them and give some suggestions on else people could do instead.
Firstly, we don't accept offers of hosting for the websites and repository of the project because we don't want to be beholden to anyone who could change their minds. It would likely cause significant disruption if we were to have the plug pulled on a donated server out of the blue!
One of the big problems with writing and maintaining something like Observium is that it's difficult to ensure that everything works after changes. As we refactor code and add new features, support for specific devices sometimes acquires bugs or simply stops working. So one of the things which would be helpful would be access to various kinds of devices to add to the http://demo.observium.org installation both to better advertise the features of Observium as well as making sure bugs are found more quickly.
For example, thanks to the SNMP access to a 7200 recently provided by Crosstel, we'll soon fix some bugs that left the Cisco MAC accounting feature broken since we switched to using MySQL memory tables for state. :)
Thanks, adam.
(also, don't forget to give us all of your cash because we are awesome, ok?) _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium@observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Adam Armstrong adama@memetic.org
wrote: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ :D
On Thu, 7 Feb 2013 22:59:33 +0100, ColoCenter bv info@colocenter.nl wrote:
Hi Adam,
Well, I could help with access to some ubiquiti wifi access point and a couple of draytek SOHO routers. These are accessible on a public IP's.
Most
of my devices are on an internal network which can't be reached over the internet for security reasons.
Maybe it would be an idea to give an email address where people can mail their significant information like: Public IP address snmp info like community and username/password in case of v3 and what you need more
Especially since this is not really information to share on a public mailinglist.
Regards,
Alexander
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Adam Armstrong adama@memetic.org
wrote:
Hi All,
We've had quite a few offers of hosting recently, so I thought I'd explain why we don't take them and give some suggestions on else people could
do
instead.
Firstly, we don't accept offers of hosting for the websites and repository of the project because we don't want to be beholden to anyone who could change their minds. It would likely cause significant disruption if we were to have the plug pulled on a donated server out of the blue!
One of the big problems with writing and maintaining something like Observium is that it's difficult to ensure that everything works after changes. As we refactor code and add new features, support for specific devices sometimes acquires bugs or simply stops working. So one of the things which would be helpful would be access to various kinds of
devices
to add to the http://demo.observium.org installation both to better advertise the features of Observium as well as making sure bugs are
found
more quickly.
For example, thanks to the SNMP access to a 7200 recently provided by Crosstel, we'll soon fix some bugs that left the Cisco MAC accounting feature broken since we switched to using MySQL memory tables for
state.
:)
Thanks, adam.
(also, don't forget to give us all of your cash because we are awesome, ok?) _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium@observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium
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