As part of a larger project I needed to generate real time radius records from the CDR accounting files of several cluster pairs of Broadsoft application servers. So I wrote a perl script to do just that. It maps the CDR fields to radius attribs and encodes the accounting packet using the Net::Radius::Packet CPAN module. [...]
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What I Do – Broadsoft CDR Files to Radius Accounting Records
February 2, 2012
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What I do – Dynamic Daily Table Partitions With Postgres
January 19, 2012
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As part of a new and fairly large project I have a need to partition a few postgres tables and have a rolling daily window. That is.. I want to organize data by a timestamp storing each day in its own partition and maintain 90 days of historical data. Doing this is possible in Postgresql [...]
What I do – Voice Integration With Nagios and Asterisk
December 5, 2011
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I was called on to provide a method of alerting from within nagios that was more active and direct than the usual use of email or SMS messages. So I came up with a simple way to have a nagios notification place a phone call to our off hours tier3 support line to report certain [...]
Dynamic Rack Face Diagrams With PHP and GD
October 6, 2011
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Anyone who has to manage servers and other equipment in remote datacenters can appreciate the need for good documentation. One reason you appreciate good documentation so much is because it’s so rare. People are lazy and forgetful and when changes are made by lots of different people in lots of different locations it’s easy for [...]
What I do – Practical Data Visualization
March 28, 2011
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I’m often ask what it is I do for a living… and being lazy I usually just say ‘computer stuff’. In an effort to provide a little more context to anyone who may be interested this is one in a series of postings where I’ll cover some aspect of what it is I do. In [...]
