Timothy J. Patterson is a Cloud and Virtualization Systems Engineer, currently working at ProQuest out of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Focused primarily on Amazon Web Services and VMware and technologies, Tim is currently in possession of the VCAP5-DCA, VCAP5-DCD, and VCP5-DCV technical certifications from VMware, as well as the AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification from Amazon. [More...]
January 20, 2014
Opsview CLI tool (API wrapper) 6
by tjpatter • Linux • Tags: Linux, Opsview
Recently, I was tasked with automating various tasks within Opsview (for those of you not familiar with Opsview, it is a Nagios-based enterprise-class monitoring system). Unfortunately, I found the web interface was not well suited for the tasks at hand, and the current CLI tools that ship with Opsview are very obscure and difficult to […]