'Splunking' going on at the OSU Open Source Labs -
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Published on: 3/8/2005
Last Visited: 7/8/2006
Troubleshooting gains were apparent almost immediately after Splunk troubleshooting was implemented, said Corey Shields, OSU infrastructure Manager at the labs.
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While using Splunk to conduct searches across his infrastructure, Shields said he noticed a cron job (a Unix command that creates a table or list) set up by a developer who had left six months earlier that was running every minute."Splunk showed its worth almost immediately by helping to find problems I didn't even notice the symptoms of," he said.
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In a case like that, Shields and his staff would have had to go through three different boxes to fix the problem.
However, with Splunk spanning across the multiple hosts, Shields and his team could use the Splunk software to do a search for a user's email address to find out where an email ended up or if it was ever sent out at all.
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In the future, Shields said that he is looking forward to more value from the reporting aspects of the Splunk software, especially in the area of metrics.
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Troubleshooting gains were apparent almost immediately after Splunk troubleshooting was implemented, said Corey Shields, OSU infrastructure Manager at the labs.
...
While using Splunk to conduct searches across his infrastructure, Shields said he noticed a cron job (a Unix command that creates a table or list) set up by a developer who had left six months earlier that was running every minute."Splunk showed its worth almost immediately by helping to find problems I didn't even notice the symptoms of," he said.
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In a case like that, Shields and his staff would have had to go through three different boxes to fix the problem.
However, with Splunk spanning across the multiple hosts, Shields and his team could use the Splunk software to do a search for a user's email address to find out where an email ended up or if it was ever sent out at all.
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In the future, Shields said that he is looking forward to more value from the reporting aspects of the Splunk software, especially in the area of metrics.
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