[Xymon] Blog entry about Big Brother

[Josh Luthman]

Quest not Qwest, different companies!

Josh Luthman
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On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:16 PM,  <cleaver at terabithia.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, February 6, 2012 5:11 am, Xymon User in Richmond wrote:
>> On Sun, February 5, 2012 22:46, Sean MacGuire wrote:
>>> Guys:
>>>
>>> I'm no longer with Quest, and for those who don't know me, I'm the guy
>>> that wrote the original Big Brother.
>>>
>>> If you were an old brother, you can see what happened in the blog entry
>>> here: http://blog.maclawran.ca/what-next
>>>
>>> And a great big thanks to Henrik for keeping the community going.
>>>
>>> Ironic - I may end up having to use *your* software :)
>>>
>>> Take care guys! -- Sean MacGuire
>>
>> Great to hear from you, Sean.  I ran BB on hp-ux 7 back in the day and was
>> on the old list.  Thanks for a tool that let me spend time on architecture
>> and projects instead of "making rounds" of my servers every day. Henrik
>> has done a fantastic job of extending the functionality and making things
>> scalable, but BB was the swiss army knife of its day.
>>
>
> I still remember being introduced to BB one day by the grizzled Academic
> Computing admin at SDSU back in '98 when I was working as a tech in one of
> the labs. He was was using it to monitor various University Computer
> Operations boxes, and I ended up writing a classic Mac OS scriptlet to
> report in the AppleShare IP servers we were responsible for too.
>
> Been a promoter of BB, and then Henrik's re-implementation, at every ISP,
> managed server company, and production installation I've been at since.
> It's fast, simple, shows what admins care about, and hides what we don't.
>
> Thanks for everything you've done! It's sad to see (and confirm) what
> Qwest did, but I'm glad you've been able to take it well.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Japheth "J.C." Cleaver
>
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