@fateknollogee @dbeato Glad we got both of you up and running! Please post if any other issues come up. Thanks!

@dbeato and @FATeknollogee Usually not very long between 2 and 7 minutes depending on how lucky you are in terms of agent pick ups. We did as @Dashrender said have a LOT of work done on the pick up jobs so it's possible our system has your machines listed oddly because of that. If you message me the machine name I can check and remedy the situation.

@dashrender weird.

@dashrender I hadn't but I'm gonna check it out when I get home.

@dafyre said in Sodium 7/12 Linux boxes will now add correctly!:

@quixoticjeremy said in Sodium 7/12 Linux boxes will now add correctly!:

@scottalanmiller said in Sodium 7/12 Linux boxes will now add correctly!:

Hey look, you have an avatar!

True story! I'm actually a human being now!

So... Is your name Jeremy or Pinnochio?

Jeremochio?

@scottalanmiller said in Sodium 7/12 Linux boxes will now add correctly!:

@quixoticjeremy said in Sodium 7/12 Linux boxes will now add correctly!:

@scottalanmiller said in Sodium 7/12 Linux boxes will now add correctly!:

Hey look, you have an avatar!

True story! I'm actually a human being now!

..... now.

That's the way it works, right? Until you have an avatar you don't actually exist?

Just wanted to make a quick post about a known bug. It looks like right now we are not actively, accurately displaying application data from linux boxes. We are collecting it but not displaying it properly. I already see what the issue is, when I get a moment today I'll make the correction.

@jaredbusch said in what programming language can I learn now ???:

@roopankumar said in what programming language can I learn now ???:

@scottalanmiller need to experiment myself and thinking of what limit can I able to push myself into this. change of course too alternate techie thing

Start by automating your job with scripting in the appropriate language for your systems (powershell or bash).

Then one you understand the logic flow of scripting, you can choose to get into development and actual programming.

This provides you with the benefit of improving your knowledge and your work environment at the same time.

I definitely agree with this. It actually makes the knowledge that you are gaining applicable to your everyday life to begin with. That's huge. I also agree with Scott that scripting langs are very popular right now. Compiled does have it's place in my opinion but there are arguments to be had there. That being said compiled languages would be the last thing that I would suggest for a sysadmin as it's applicability would be very little for you (if any).

@minion-queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@minion-queen that's awesome, good clients that way.

YES!! Good clients are difficult to find sometimes.

Verge unicorn status!

@scottalanmiller Sweet!!!! That's awesome to hear. Helps us a lot for everyone to be barraging it with machines like this. It allows us to really work out all the scenarios and kinks a lot quicker than normal, so thank you!

@scottalanmiller said in Sodium 7/12 Linux boxes will now add correctly!:

Hey look, you have an avatar!

True story! I'm actually a human being now!

@dustinb3403 said in Sodium Update!:

@dashrender said in Sodium Update!:

my machine never showed up.

I restarted the service, but not rebooted.

Same.

@DustinB3403 , @Dashrender Sorry I've been so quiet all day. Been wrestling some code fairly heavily. If you guys are continuing to have issues with specific machines, message me so that I can help troubleshoot with you guys.

Hi everybody! Sorry I've been so quiet all day. After a very long day of wrestling with some code for picking up linux agents we are now grabbing linux agents as intended! After installing the agent, expect a delay of 3-5 minutes (you might get lucky and get it instantly ) but it will populate! I'm seeing a good 8-10 linux boxes up and running already. Please give it a shot and let me know if you have any issues with it. I'll be online for quite a while still so please let me know if you have any questions or if things aren't working.

@dashrender Sodium itself is a service, not software, so it is neither open nor closed as that doesn't really apply to the Sodium service itself. Will we be opening the platform for other providers to manage down the road? I can't answer that. But at the moment, there are no stated plans to provide any software products, on a service. So no code of any sort going out.

@dashrender the immediately goal is to create revenue through ad placements over in some of that blank space on the right. We want to keep the ads reasonable and out of the way, but enough to make the system pay for itself. Will there be other monetization in the future? Probably, but we want to keep the system as free as possible. Some features that people are likely to want, like log collection and retention, are not reasonable to do for free simply based on storage needs alone. We could never get enough ads to offset that cost. So that is something that might be a different system where you'd have to pay to get that feature. Similar to if we were handling backup storage. Which is another thing that has been tossed around and would obviously be a pay-for premium offering. And we except some future need for either dedicated server or on location services that would require support and that would be monetized directly, rather than ads (or possible a blend, I have no idea.) So there is plenty of thought around monetization, but right now our focus is getting the product working and people wanting to deploy it. A product that is used is easy to monetize. One that is not, there is no point trying to monetize. So one thing at a time. Once people are using it, getting ad revenue is not expected to be an issue.

Part of our design philosophy with Sodium has been to build in very smart and efficient ways. We are trying hard to keep costs low so that the ability to monetize is much easier. That way we don't need a complex or intrusive advertising platform to pay the bills and keep development moving forward.

@JaredBusch is correct, Salt under the hood would be over the top power if the goal was a passive reporting and monitoring tool. But that is not the end game here, the monitoring is just the beginning as we move towards a comprehensive management solution. We are doing monitoring first because it is easier and a broad stroke. We want the technology in use and proven before we go after harder stuff and we want it useful and being used as quickly as possible. So monitoring comes first. Plus it's hard to manage something you can't monitor. Right now we are working on getting deployments and support and all of that working as smoothly as possible. We are anxious to get to the big stuff, though. So many features on our roadmap that really have us excited about where we are going with this. But certainly the end goal is an incredibly powerful management platform that does a lot more than what you are seeing at this point.

@fateknollogee said in Sodium Update!:

No worries...Keep doing your thing!

Trying to! My IT guy who does releases, cut out and went to lunch on me!

Yeah we are definitely not fixed yet so don't be alarmed by it not showing. I'm still working on things.

@dustinb3403 said in Sodium Update!:

It appears you can't remove a group once you create it.

noted: I'll look into this when I'm done with this one.

@dashrender said in Sodium Update!:

@quixoticjeremy said in Sodium Update!:

@dustinb3403 Lol, it was clear. I actually laughed out loud in the office so now everyone thinks I'm weird.

Is that all it takes ?

Lol most have figured it out far before that point.