Creating a Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Cluster Rumi, April 1, 2013April 1, 2013 I hear you…you want your SQL, DHCP, Hyper-V or other services to be highly available for your clients or your internal users. They can be if you create a Windows Failover Cluster and configure those services in the cluster. By doing that if one of the servers crashes the other(s)… Continue Reading
Install Munin on CentOS 5 Rumi, January 20, 2013 1 Preliminary Note Our system's hostname is server1.example.com, and we have a web site www.example.com on it with the document root /var/www/www.example.com/web. 2 Enable The RPMforge Repository On CentOS 5.2, munin and monit are not available in the default CentOS repositories. Fortunately we can install them from the RPMforge repository…. Continue Reading
Munin Memcached Installation Rumi, January 16, 2013 Download memcache plugin memcached.tar.gz the plug-in was found here: http://munin-monitoring.org/browser/trunk/plugins/node.d/memcached_.in. The alternate download link is Here- memcached.tar The plug-in is written in Perl and needs the Memcached Perl library installed to communicate with memcache. ~$ apt-get install libcache-memcached-perl ~$ tar -zxvf memcached.tar.gz ~$ cp memcached_ /usr/share/munin/plugins ~$ ln -s /usr/share/munin/plugins/memcached_… Continue Reading
VBoxHeadless Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox On A Headless Debian/ubuntu Server Rumi, August 3, 2012December 4, 2017 I have implemented this on Debian 6 (Squeeze system) with the IP address 192.168.0.100 where I’m logged in as root. Installing VirtualBox To install VirtualBox 4.1 on our Debian server, we open /etc/apt/sources.list… added this line- deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian squeeze contrib non-free Use appropriate OS source list from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads Then we… Continue Reading
Nagios Bookmark Rumi, January 10, 2012 This is a very important page that and for some reasons I just forget the links on nagios- Some very basic links that I should bookmark immediately- http://support.nagios.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/docs/Monitoring_Linux_Using_SNMP.pdf Continue Reading
Installing Squish Rumi, November 9, 2008November 9, 2008 Well, install squint is quite simple! But installing squish is quite tricky- the document provided is not sufficient to cover few steps. I’ll try to summerize it (I’ve tested it on FC-5 distro)- Step -1 Make backup of your squid.conf for in case things go wrong. Install perl GD module…. Continue Reading
Set up the firewall to listen MySQL on port 3306 Rumi, September 6, 2008 Just a small tweaking comnand that allows MySQL server on a linux server to open & listen to port 3306 for remote connectivity- [root@linux root]# iptables -I INPUT -p tcp –dport 3306 -j ACCEPT Continue Reading
User Disk Quota in Linux using Webmin- essentials for Hosting Web Hosting Platform Rumi, May 23, 2008 Quotas on Linux are tricky, not because they are difficult to setup, but because they are so poorly documented, and what documentation exists is more often than not incorrect to the point of not working. If you are using a relatively recent Linux version, the following instructions should work without… Continue Reading
Working with FC-5, Webmin, Usermin & Virtualmin (GPL) PART-3 USERMIN Rumi, May 23, 2008May 23, 2008 Usermin: Installation Method-1: Step by step installation (Complicated and usually I do not follow) guide available on the followin URL- http://www.linuxjunkies.org/adminstration%20Howto/webminguide/x804.htm Method-2: (My Way): Installation within Webmin. Under “Un-used Modules” from the left frame “Usermin Configuration” hyper link “Install usermin RPM package“ Configuration: Actually there’s nothing much to configure on… Continue Reading