OX is on the verge of releasing Version 7.10. That version will not be supported on (or packaged for) Debian 8 Jessie, but only on Debian 9 Stretch (and of course RedHat and SuSE). On the other hand, 7.8.x will not be supported on (or packaged for) Stretch. The latest UCS version is 4.3 at…
Category: Linux
Howto: Using check_mk/WATO via ssh and jumphost
I thought I’d pen this down right here as it took me a bit to really figure this out. Problem: I have some Hosts I would like to monitor but I cannot access them directly (VPN also isn’t an option in this case), so I would like to monitor them using SSH, some directly, some…
Kubernetes-Mesh
Nur so als kleiner Reminder…http://philcalcado.com/2017/08/03/pattern_service_mesh.html
Encrypted Backup-Server with Debian and Dirvish – LVM in LUKS
If you haven’t heard of Dirvish, it’s about time. It is a very neat, rsync and hardlink based backup solution, just like a pro version of Apple’s TimeMachine. What I want My setup is quite specific for my use case: Having used dirvish at work for a while I was still stuck with backup-manager on my…
Bridged Xen on Debian Wheezy on a Hetzner Server
Xen (not XeServer, btw!) seems to have taken a bak-seat recently, RedHat/CentOS/Fedora concentrating on KVM and Debian silently neglecting it. This is reflected in documentation, there is a lot of outdated stuff around, especially about bridged setups. Same occurs to packages, at least in Debian Wheezy (NB: I also tried on testing, same results with…
HowTo: Hetzner Backup-Server Automount
Das Problem: Hetzner bietet bei einem Root-Server zwar 100GB Backup-Space an, auf den kann man aber nur per FTP, SFTP oder CIFS zugreifen, es ist z.B. kein direktes rsync möglich. Ursprünglich hatte ich den backup space einfach ständig gemounted, allerdings gab es immer wieder Probleme mit hängenden Handles, vermutlich gehen die Backupserver in einen Energiesparmodus etc….
More on Accounting
Hier noch ein paar Bilder vom Accounting-Modul für PHPQstat …
Accounting für PHPQstat
Unter https://github.com/zapalotta/PHPQstat gibt es eine neue Version von PHPQstat mit einer einfachen Accountingdarstellung… Mehr später!
HowTo install Ubooquity on QNAP
Ubooquity is a very nice little server which scans your eBooks and Comics and displays them in a tablet friendly way. It is Java-based and runs fine on your Desktop, but if you’re running a (QNAP-)NAS which already stores all your books, why not have them served nicely. Prerequisites I did this on A QNAP…
checkrestart für Nagios und Check_mk
Falls es jemanden interessiert: ich habe einen kleinen Wrapper für Nagios und Check_mk geschrieben, mit dem sich checkrestart sehr einfach ins Monitoring einbinden lässt… https://github.com/zapalotta/scriptlets Update: Juhu, jetzt auch auf Nagios Exchange.