Organizing Your Splunk Shoe Rack (Defining Index Structures , Part 1 of 2 )

Posted by Anshu Rastogi on September 05, 2012 Operational Intelligence, Best Practices index, Splunk

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Your Splunk Shoe Rack

When splunking with a new customer, one the first things I review when auditing their environment is their index structure. Why? Well there's a lot you can tell about the maturity of a Splunk deployment based on this particular configuration. The old saying that Forrest learned from his mom comes to mind...

"Momma always says there's an awful lot you could tell about a person by their shoes. Where they're going. Where they've been. I've worn lots of...

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Monitoring Weblogic Environments

Posted by Vasanth Manikumar on August 21, 2012 Operational Intelligence F1 Product, Oracle WebLogic Server, Splunk

If you work with Oracle Weblogic Server(WLS) in an enterprise environment, then you likely have many managed servers, clusters, applications, and services that you have to keep an eye on. The clusters and instances in a Weblogic domain add to the complexity of the application infrastructure. So how is a Weblogic administrator supposed to keep track of the various applications and services running across several different domains and servers?  Currently, there are a few known existing resources and/or tools available that would be able to assist with monitoring as well as proactively...

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Packing Passwords

Posted by Avani Cheriathundam on August 16, 2012 Cool Tools, Best Practices Best Practices, Cool Tools, Security

A common problem faced at the workplace and at home is finding a way to securely store your passwords.  With people like “Anonymous” and identity thieves out there, gone are the days for scribbling passwords on post it notes (who would do such a thing?!?), or keeping word docs with your passwords listed on your hard drive.  Users now want a more secure way to not only store passwords, but share them as needed.

Recently for a client site, we implemented Passpack (http://passpack.com/en/home/) as our online password repository, and so far, it...

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So, maybe I want to learn a few things

Posted by Allan Mai on August 03, 2012 Development

I came on board with Function1 as a software developer. I had whet my teeth under a number of projects and what I enjoyed the most was the opportunity to grow my skill-set as a developer and go beyond that, to wear many different proverbial hats. Projects, whether it was your 9-5 or a pet interest, taking an hour here and an hour there, on the side, were the fodder for my growth as a programmer.

A while back, Amee mentioned her initiative to take on a "Code Year" - give it one full year...

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I, for one, Welcome our new JavaScript Overlords

Posted by Jon Reid on July 30, 2012 Cool Tools, Development, Enterprise 2.0 Cool Tools, Development, Javascript

You are probably most familiar with JavaScript as that sometimes useful, often quirky, client-side scripting language used on websites to enhance user interfaces and enable dynamic content.

Wikipedia describes JavaScript as “dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions … a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.” Fairly generic technical description there. Wikipedia fails to point out that JavaScript may also be a ravenous monster intent on infiltrating every bastion of technology we have!

JavaScript is not...

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