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Hi. I'm jon.404, a Unix/Linux/Database/Openstack/Kubernetes Administrator, AWS/GCP/Azure Engineer, mathematics enthusiast, and amateur philosopher. This is where I rant about that which upsets me, laugh about that which amuses me, and jabber about that which holds my interest most: *nix.
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Restraining the madness: Python + SSH + pymssql = happy DBA

Posted 10-28-2009 at 06:42 PM by rocket357 (Musings on technology, philosophy, and life in the corporate world)
Updated 10-28-2009 at 07:19 PM by rocket357

I routinely get requests from management like "I need a list of the urls and the sizes of databases for our <product_name> sites!" This, I can tell you, is NOT something I want to figure out by hand (not with 300 production databases and a slew of training, demo, test, etc... databases as well). No, there is a better, more relaxed way...a way that includes plenty of time for me to check my e-mail, go get a cup of coffee, and chat with my co-workers...

A bit of architectural...
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Remote management of Linux systems via Python and ssh (Part 2)

Posted 02-03-2009 at 08:44 PM by rocket357 (Musings on technology, philosophy, and life in the corporate world)
Updated 10-27-2009 at 06:50 PM by rocket357 (modified code)

My last blogpost on Python/SSH seemed to be popular, so here I am again with a more in-depth look at what can be accomplished with this pairing.

To recap, I manage 300 databases, some M$ SQL Server, some PostgreSQL. There are a ton of Apache/Linux machines on our network and quite a few "traffic cops" based on Linux and BSD (as well as a few Cisco machines) for routing external traffic to internal machines. Pretty standard stuff. The IT department has a director, a network...
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