There’s been a lot of weather here in Seattle this week. It looks like the Tukwila DC’s power blipped this morning. It gave me an excuse to update some configs on a few of the OpenVPN endpoints, re-configure some of the shorewall6 stuff, and enter a bunch of hosts and IPs into the BIG-IP’s node list. It gives me a quick way to know what needs fixing first when things start breaking and is a lot easier to configure than NAGIOS. If I really wanted to get fancy, I could even write me some hot external monitoring scripts in perl. I am growing fond of this machine.