Open source monitoring

Noticed that the Register has got something about some open source support companies getting together in an attempt to persuade businesses to use Nagios, Zenoss etc, rather than proprietary horrors like Tivoli.

Sounds like nothing but a good thing...

Storage Path Manager

Yay, yay, yay for us! After several failed attempts, we've finally managed to get SPM in and working with GFS. It was the high point of a somewhat lacklustre day, which was otherwise only distinguished by the shocking number of cups of coffee drunk in an attempt to stave off ennui.