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Big Brother

A long time ago, I administered a decent-sized Big Brother installation. I wrote a number of extensions and patches and released them into the wild. They're completely unmaintained and unsupported any more but if you use Big Brother, they may be of use to you. There may be more than what's listed here but these are the ones I remember writing. [Roughly sorted by usefullness.]

bb-content-feed - Generates a RSS feed of your alerts.
trouble_ticket - This provides a framework for integrating Big Brother into ticketing systems.
NOCDisplay - This lets you consolidate separate BB displays into one, unified display.
distnet - This lets you install multiple BBNET servers such that hosts are only tested from one of them.
col_repeat_patch - A patch to repeat the column headers on lengthy BB pages.
current_status - This generates a very minimalist display of your current alerts.
disk_report - Use the .disk files to generate a web page of all the monitored file systems on all your hosts.
histlog-minder - This lets you keep an eye on the histlog directory.
simple_stats - Generates some interesting-to-BB-admins stats about Big Brother.
remove_hosts - a command line script to remove a host from a Big Brother system.
bbportal - Very experimental. This will probably cause cancer in labratory rats.

MySQL

At one point, I was my company's primary MySQL DBA. I had the opportunity to work with some challenging databases (I never lost one row of data that the client didn't tell me to get rid of!)

rw-ratio - I wrote rw-ratio so I could gauge the read and write activity of some MySQL databases I was managing.

Linux

I eat, sleep, breathe Linux.

file2dev - I wrote this so I could easily identify which device a particular file or directory was on.