The Gears Inside My Head

For anyone reading this that's looking for updated information on our situation, everything is good. For those curious, I live in the Sierra foothills in California.  The Butte fire which started a week ago just ravaged my area.  70,000 acres burned, 360 homes destroyed, 2 fatalities. The fire stopped about 500 yards from my home.  We were EXTREMELY lucky.  Seems to be a freak effect of the area we live in that caused the fire to shift and detour around our street.  All the houses on our street are fine, no damage, and just across the creek are foundations with no houses.  Damn scary. The roads are still closed due to downed power poles and lines.  I understand the need to make things safe, and I am amazed at the herculean effect PG&E is taking to get power back in place,  but I am really getting tired of people telling that "the roads are still closed" just to watch the "special" people drive right down them.  Those would include a...

I like to keep an arsenal of automated scripts that run as scheduled tasks to report on the status of various things I manage.  Here is one of those. Our virtualization environment uses a SAN backend as most do.  We run exclusively in NFS (NAS) mode.  This has numerous advantages (an explanation of which is outside the scope of this post).  I like to keep a rough idea of the gains and losses of each NFS share on a daily basis. I run the following script automatically each day and it emails me the details of the gains or losses due to systems being added or removed.  I included a "noupdate" option that allows testing without processing the files.  That way you can rerun using the current file again and again for testing. Results are very basic and color coded for gain/loss.  The raw dump files are stored in the script folder.  I have another process I use to import them into Excel and graph them over time.  If I get a chance I'll post th...