BGP.guru

BGP.guru

A Nerd blog.

04 Feb 2015

Does Everything Still Work?

Does everything still work? This is a question often asked after changes in your environment.
19 Jan 2015

MikroTik SNMP Oddity

I've been trying to track down an issue with SNMP on one of two redundant MikroTik Cloud Core CCR1036-12G-4S routers.
21 Dec 2014

SaltStack, CouchDB, and Nagios

Using SaltStack to run distributed monitoring checks is fun, but what is really awesome is writing the result of all those checks to CouchDB. Instead of returning the result of the check to the command line, or to the master even via programmatic method, you can use SaltStack's returners to have the output returned somewhere else.
25 Nov 2014

Observium November Release

Right along time with its six-month release schedule, Observium 0.14.11 has been released.
25 Nov 2014

Phased Service Moves

This evening I successfully moved a second set of services from service provider IP space to BGP IP space. The first phase of this project began over a year ago -- I turned up AS62758 in early December 2013 prior to the migration of a Learning Management System.