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Re: Private Utilitiesby Old_Gray_Bear (Bishop) |
on Nov 30, 2005 at 19:13 UTC ( [id://513058]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I have built a number of 'SA utilities' by the expedient of tracking the requests I issue in the course of a day. If I find that I am doing a particular, complex, query more than three times a day, it becomes a candidate for a utility code, and I add it to my little list. When I find myself at loose ends (boring meetings, 45 minutes until the car-pool leaves, etc), I pop the top item of the list and write the script for it. The resulting code works in my current environment, but will probably never get ported outside the Company. It would take a fair amount of work to produce portable and general enough code for posting to CPAN.
Over the past six months I have written utilities to:
Most of these were a couple of hour projects, nothing fancy, no seriously strange code involved, not particularly well documented (blush). I have a couple of bigger problems on the list, associated with walking through SNMP trees of MIBs. I can get the Network usage information from the Network logs, but it will be 8+ hours old. I want to be able to look at the servers and routers that I Care About in a shorter time frame, say the last fifteen minutes. The Network Manager, would love to have the tool, too, but she doesn't have the body to assign to it. So I have an over-the-Christmas-break project.
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