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Solaris and Akorri

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So I’ve been working with Solaris 10 update 5 for a few days now and I have to say it isn’t the most pleasant experience. I’ve done a few work arounds so that I can effectively use it as a desktop system and it’s things are smoothing out tho I will admit I still prefer Ubuntu for desktop and server when it comes to a *nix system.
In other news I went through some training with the Akorri BalancePoint health check system. It’s a nice product and tho it still has some maturing to do it can be a wonderful tool in a data center. It has all the usually monitoring abilities for servers and virtual appliances but what I think makes the product stand out is it’s ability to monitor storage devices. Now a drawback would be that it requires it’s own virtual appliance to run and in smaller setups it can become the largest consumer of resources. I should also note that for it to monitor Windows servers or desktops it will also require the setup up of a Windows proxy server (either virtual or physical) to relay information since it can not directly interface with the Windows machines. What is nice is that the setup and configuration of BalancePoint is very simple and straight forward.
BalancePoint also offers some great ways to view the collected data and it watches the traffic flow and drive mountings to build a topology map automatically. Thru this it is able to show you how your resources are being used and where any bottle necks are.
Overall the product is very helpful and I look forward to seeing how the product grows.

So I’ve been working with Solaris 10 update 5 for a few days now and I have to say it isn’t the most pleasant experience. I’ve done a few work arounds so that I can effectively use it as a desktop system and it’s things are smoothing out tho I will admit I still prefer Ubuntu for desktop and server when it comes to a *nix system.
In other news I went through some training with the Akorri BalancePoint health check system. It’s a nice product and tho it still has some maturing to do it can be a wonderful tool in a data center. It has all the usually monitoring abilities for servers and virtual appliances but what I think makes the product stand out is it’s ability to monitor storage devices. Now a drawback would be that it requires it’s own virtual appliance to run and in smaller setups it can become the largest consumer of resources. I should also note that for it to monitor Windows servers or desktops it will also require the setup up of a Windows proxy server (either virtual or physical) to relay information since it can not directly interface with the Windows machines. What is nice is that the setup and configuration of BalancePoint is very simple and straight forward.
BalancePoint also offers some great ways to view the collected data and it watches the traffic flow and drive mountings to build a topology map automatically. Thru this it is able to show you how your resources are being used and where any bottle necks are.
Overall the product is very helpful and I look forward to seeing how the product grows.

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