{"id":85,"date":"2006-04-25T22:50:16","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T02:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2006-04-25T22:50:16","modified_gmt":"2006-04-26T02:50:16","slug":"monitoring-maintenance-windows-and-more-with-google-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/2006\/04\/monitoring-maintenance-windows-and-more-with-google-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring, Maintenance Windows and more with Google Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found a unique SaaS play in the Enterprise Monitoring as a service area called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truepathtechnologies.com\/\">TruePath Technologies<\/a>.  One of their very innovative solutions is the use of Google Calendar&#8217;s API for visualization of enterprise monitoring data, scheduling and communicating change requests, maintenance windows, etc.  They&#8217;re also doing some neat portal stuff using Web 2.0 sites like Pageflakes, 24eyes and RSS feeds.<\/p>\n<p>Probably not very scalable for high event volumes, but the idea of using this as a way to communicate critical events or change and downtime windows is nice.  I&#8217;ve seen some other monitoring related uses of Google Maps for visualizing monitoring status based on location.  It&#8217;s pretty useful for the visualization of WiFi hot spot coverage without spending huge $$$ on GIS mapping tools.<\/p>\n<p>Is anyone doing neat Web2.0 stuff like dashboards, portals, ITSM, workflow, monitoring, etc. using emerging web development technology?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found a unique SaaS play in the Enterprise Monitoring as a service area called TruePath Technologies. One of their very innovative solutions is the use of Google Calendar&#8217;s API for visualization of enterprise monitoring data, scheduling and communicating change requests, maintenance windows, etc. They&#8217;re also doing some neat portal stuff using Web 2.0 sites like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,32,25,37],"tags":[175,173,939,174,170,991,172,176,943,134,171],"class_list":{"0":"post-85","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-dashboard","7":"category-events","8":"category-general","9":"category-implementation","10":"tag-24eyes","11":"tag-change-management","12":"tag-dashboard","13":"tag-downtime-windows","14":"tag-google-calendar","15":"tag-monitoring","16":"tag-pageflakes","17":"tag-portal","18":"tag-rss","19":"tag-saas","20":"tag-web20"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}