Author Topic: Protip: Update your monitoring software before turning off servers  (Read 3499 times)

Mike

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Went through our server instances and decommissioned a bunch.  Shortly after I get the nagios alarm bitching about it.  Opps.

On the plus side:  Reduce our daily expense by about 15%!

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Re: Protip: Update your monitoring software before turning off servers
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2013, 07:53:29 PM »
omg, fuck nagios alerts, seriously.

Mike

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Re: Protip: Update your monitoring software before turning off servers
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2013, 08:03:36 PM »
lol, the nagios alerts are a lot friendlier than the AWS alerts

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Re: Protip: Update your monitoring software before turning off servers
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2013, 08:44:24 PM »

omg, fuck nagios alerts, seriously.
Whoa, have you ever cursed on here before?

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Re: Protip: Update your monitoring software before turning off servers
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2013, 09:15:22 PM »

omg, fuck nagios alerts, seriously.
Whoa, have you ever cursed on here before?

I am pretty sure the spell checker changed it from a softer, gentler word:  like fork or flick.
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Re: Protip: Update your monitoring software before turning off servers
« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2013, 05:36:20 AM »

omg, fuck nagios alerts, seriously.
Whoa, have you ever cursed on here before?

Hell, yes.

Fuck, and as soon as I post this, the site works.  wtf, mate.