BBC Increases Usage of Linux 23
JediGeek writes "The BBC signed a deal to use BMC Software's Patrol product suite to manage computers running Linux.
The BBC said it would use BMC's Patrol for the next five years to improve the availability, performance and recoverability of its core applications and data.
The article can be found at
Yahoo "
Great idea... (Score:1)
What exactly is "Linux Patrol"? (Score:1)
Is anyone familiar with Patrol?
BMC supported port? (Score:1)
This would be very tempting. I have even thought about sending my resume to BMC
but never knew they had any interest in Linux....
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Re:What exactly is "Linux Patrol"? (Score:1)
the beauty of the systems monitoring market is that they all have been working with one another very nicely on the OS and Applications level without many people knowing what is going on.
I just think my career just skyrocketed !!!! (Score:1)
I have been pretty successful considering that i am running it under NT. Well with Patrol for LINUX goodby to NT. I am up and running and my conviction on LINUX seems to be paying off. I think i will this to my BOSS for a raise
Way to go LINUX
May the source be with us
improvment (Score:1)
good to see they're improv[first post!]ing
you mean that you consider their use of Linux and/or Linux Patrol (name?) and improvement? If so, then yes. However, a _great_ improvement would be for them to solely use Linux... IMHO anyway.
appears you weren't the first post after all, eh?
Re:BMC supported port? (Score:1)
I haven't seen any news of linux ports for Patrol other than the BBC story, but it wouldn't be too suprising for BMC to start pushing linux ports, considering that Tivoli is making noise about supporting linux.
Re:Great idea... (Score:2)
The BBC Online team actively encourage the replacement of NT (the default) with Linux on your workstation if it will help your productivity. Now if only I could find that Mandrake 6.0 cd I had lying around...
perl -e 'print scalar reverse q(\)-:
Re:I just think my career just skyrocketed !!!! (Score:1)
Don't get too excited
Check out Enterprise Application Management with PATROL by David Spuler for some of the porting issues.
Re:Great idea... (Score:1)
They do, however, have some Linux in development positions and a lot of it doing things like file/print/DNS/dhcp.
I was told only a couple of weeks ago that BBC1 would probably be off-air within a few hours of their Linux boxes getting pulled. It may not be powering their Oracle boxes yet, but that still sounds pretty mission-critical to me...
Matthew
- just finished a www project [bbc.co.uk] with the BBC.
Re:Great idea... (Score:2)
Re:Great idea... (Score:1)
That kind of made me wonder... If NT is so great, why isn't Microsoft using it to run their high-traffic site? hhhmmmm?????
Which version of Patrol? (Score:1)
So far I have customized 10 BMC KM to really be platform independent. None of them have a system() call
Re:I just think my career just skyrocketed !!!! (Score:1)
I have removed all system() calls from the KM's and have only used PSL function to achieve it. Yeah it was a painful effort, but it was worth it. Also PSL is not really that big a programming language. It has along way to go for that. But still most of the Maintenence tasks could be taken care of.
Re:What exactly is "Linux Patrol"? (Score:1)
You connect up to each agent with a "Patrol Console", and from there you can view the status of the agent, and the resources it monitors.
There is SNMP support built in, and agents can talk to each other.
I'm currently writing a KM for Patrol (I dont work for BMC) and have my own opinions of coding under the Patrol "environment" *ahem*
You can check out BMC's description of Patrol here [bmc.com]. I work for these guys [zeh.com]
Re:Great idea... (Score:1)
Re:Great idea... (Score:1)
:)