Archive for September, 2007
Monitoring products
Well it’s time I started to monitor my home setup. I’ve used [http://www.nagios.com Nagios] for quite some time now and would like to try something that fixes up some of the issues I have with it. To be fair, some of those issues are sorted by packaged and enhanced versions such as [http://www.altinity.com/ OpsView] (which [...]
Posted: September 11th, 2007 under Linux, My setup.
Comments: 2
partprobe
The other day I needed to increase a filesystem – no problem – I use LVM. Hmm – not enough space left in the volume group – again, not a problem – I had some unallocated space from the disk (in case you are wondering why I didn’t put the whole disk into LVM, it [...]
Posted: September 11th, 2007 under Linux, Work.
Comments: none
VM performance (vmware, virtualbox)
Recently I’ve been doing automated puppet builds using VirtualBox as my VM (I have an old laptop with no hardware virtualisation support). This worked fine but now that I need to run two VMs, the laptop is crawling. So I finally decided to do some benchmarks. Hopefully I’ll do these on my desktop (which does [...]
Posted: September 9th, 2007 under Linux, Work.
Comments: none
VMWare setup on Debian
Took a little while to piece these bits together, so I’ll write this down to save people some time: The main issue is that the vmware kernel modules from vmware are so old that they don’t compile on recent kernels so you need the latest vmware-any-any patch (which I recall from vmware v1? days1). Dear [...]
Posted: September 8th, 2007 under Linux, My setup.
Comments: 8
puppet update
Well I now have the two main VMs building nicely (in fact I did right at the start of this week). The first VM bootstraps with debconf and then runs puppet which sets up: * various common stuff (ssh, various packages – that kind of thing) * BIND server * NTP server * LDAP server [...]
Posted: September 6th, 2007 under Linux, Work.
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