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Bookmarks for 15 gen 2013 through 16 gen 2013

These are my links for 15 gen 2013 through 16 gen 2013:

  • Simplify Advanced Shell Scripting With Ruby | AIX | IBM Systems Magazine | System p, System p5, Power System | Ruby, SSH, shell scripting, Bull Freeware, sysadmin, – IBM Systems Magazine – Ruby is just for experienced programmers. right? False! Originating in the mid-1990s, Ruby is a fantastic language, made popular recently by the Web application framework—Ruby on Rails. It’s a massively flexible and easy language to learn. You can find Ruby for AIX in the AIX Toolbox at the Bull Freeware. The script we’ll be creating will do the following:

     

    * Go through a large list of servers.
    * SSH them and determine whether the server is AIX.
    * If so, it will go through all disks, returning their type.
    * It will do all of this completely in parallel in batch at 25 sub-processes at a time.

  • Recovering a lost partition table with a VMFS volume | vInfrastructure Blog – Vi possono essere diversi motivi che portano alla perdita della tabella delle partizioni o alla sua corruzione. Nel caso di datastore VMFS le possibili cause sono: resignature da un altro sistema (ad esempio il backup server, nel caso funzioni in SAN mode), un errore umano (basta eseguire, su dischi condivisi, da vSphere Client un Datastore / Delete da un ESXi non ancora collegato al vCenter Server), o anche a causa di qualche problema lato storage (mi è capitato proprio questo caso di recente su uno storage entry level)[…]

    (Mi è capitato, ho seguito la kb di vmware e ne sono uscito. Comunque sto sudando ancora adesso…)

  • DataFart – DataFart lets you easily graph data from the command line.

Bookmarks for 6 nov 2012 through 13 nov 2012

These are my links for 6 nov 2012 through 13 nov 2012:

  • Howto: Change the IP address of a Dell 4/P DRAC from the command line without rebooting the server – Normally you configure a Dell Remote Access Card (DRAC) when a server is initially commissioned. Once the card is set, administrators rarely if ever need to modify the settings. If you do need to change the settings, the server needs to be restarted so the DRAC BIOS can be modified, which obviously results in system downtime and requires a physical presence at the server console.
  • bash ini parser | /var/log/ajdiaz – In some situations i like to use INI files as configuration files, as python do. But bash do not provide a parser for these files, obviously you can use a awk code or a couple of sed calls, but if you are bash-priest and do not want to use nothing more, then you can try the following obscure code:
  • Jugg Monkey: VMWare HA Agent had an error – I recently had a problem with one hoste in a 3 node VMWare ESX 3. 5 cluster. For some reason, the HA Agent would not start after I applied outstanding software updates. I kept receiving "VMWare HA Agent had an error" in the alerts after the host came online. I had recently needed to change the IP address of the VMWare 3.5 ESX host, so I figured that was the root cause.

Bookmarks for 9 ott 2012 from 10:37 to 20:19

These are my links for 9 ott 2012 from 10:37 to 20:19:

  • notepadqq/notepadqq · GitHub – Linux clone of notepad++
  • Top 10 things you must read about vSphere 5.1 – Welcome to vSphere-land! – There has been so many documents, white papers, videos and blog posts posted about the vSphere 5.1 release that it’s hard to keep up with them all. I have at least 250 links gathered in my vSphere 5.1 Link-o-rama and it is still growing. With so many links it’s easy to miss some of the really good ones so I thought I would put together a top 10 list that highlights the ones that you don’t want to miss.
  • Three things you should never put in your database | Revolution Systems – As I've said in a few talks, the best way to improve your systems is by first not doing "dumb things". I don't mean you or your development staff is "dumb", it's easy to overlook the implications of these types of decisions and not realize how bad they are for maintainability let alone scaling. As a consultant I see this stuff all of the time and I have yet to ever see it work out well for anyone.

Bookmarks for 31 lug 2012 from 11:08 to 14:23

These are my links for 31 lug 2012 from 11:08 to 14:23:

  • VMweird | Tales from the Virtualization Crypt! – Tired of day-by-day activities, silly requests by customers, boring meetings?

    This website is right for you! It’s a meeting place for guys working in the Virtualization fields, to meet other like you and share the fun by telling your stories and have a laugh reading from others.

    [ via http://www.vuemuer.it/?p=3641 ]

  • Introduzione a GlusterFS: uno storage scalabile e distribuito – Mia mamma usa Linux! – GlusterFS è un file system open source distribuito e scalabile orizzontalmente, la cui capacità può essere dinamicamente espansa mediante l’aggiunta di nuovi nodi. GlusterFS è in grado di arrivare a gestire fino a diversi peta byte, migliaia di client e diverse aree dati (storage) organizzandole in blocchi che rende accessibili su Infiniband RDMA (remote direct memory access, fibra ottica) o connessioni TCP/IP.
    Le risorse “memoria e disco” vengono rese disponibili sotto un unico punto di condivisione e tali risorse possono essere montate dai client mediante tre diversi protocolli: CIFS, NFS od il client nativo Gluster.
    Questo articolo effettua una prova su strada di GlusterFS, introducendone i concetti e sperimentandone le funzionalità.
  • 800 Open Source Packages for AIX Ready for Downloading NOW (AIXpert Blog) – […] Instead of getting annoyed and complaining (like me), Michael decided to go and fix this short fall himself and a personal project and "give back" to AIX users world wide. So he compiles the open source packages on AIX and makes them freely available for download from:   http://perzl.org
       This website covers the AIX pre-compiled binaries for 800+ open source packages as RPM's and the other his hot project Ganglia for POWER, AIX and Power Linux […]
  • Variable Expansion | Variables and Parameters in the Korn Shell | InformIT – Variable expansion is the term used for the ability to access and manipulate values of variables and parameters. Basic expansion is done by preceding the variable or parameter name with the $ character. This provides access to the value.

Bookmarks for 9 lug 2012 through 10 lug 2012

These are my links for 9 lug 2012 through 10 lug 2012:

Bookmarks for 1 lug 2012 through 2 lug 2012

These are my links for 1 lug 2012 through 2 lug 2012:

  • exljbris Font Foundry – Well crafted (free) fonts by Jos Buivenga
    Welcome to Jos Buivenga's exljbris Font Foundry. Here you can find my [free] fonts.
    Delicious, Fontin, Fontin Sans, Tallys, Fertigo Pro, Diavlo, Anivers, Museo, Museo Sans, Museo Sans Rounded, Museo Slab, Calluna, Calluna Sans & Geotica.

    What's in this difficult to read and pronounce name? An ex libris is a label bearing the owner's name that is pasted usually on the inside cover of a book. My initials are ljb, so I that's how I came to my label: exljbris.

    [ via fullo ]

  • Tomato Firmware | polarcloud.com – Tomato is a small, lean and simple replacement firmware for Linksys' WRT54G/GL/GS, Buffalo WHR-G54S/WHR-HP-G54 and other Broadcom-based routers. It features a new easy to use GUI, a new bandwidth usage monitor, more advanced QOS and access restrictions, enables new wireless features such as WDS and wireless client modes, raises the limits on maximum connections for P2P, allows you to run your custom scripts or telnet/ssh in and do all sorts of things like re-program the SES/AOSS button, adds wireless site survey to see your wifi neighbors, and more.

    [ via: https://twitter.com/mrfabbri/statuses/218321670593716225 ]

  • Converting Windows Guests From VMWare ESX to KVM With Virtio Drivers | Backdrift – The below steps were tested while pulling my hair out trying to migrate a Windows 2k3 guest from VMWare ESX to KVM managed by libvirt, hopefully this will save you from much windows related pain and suffering.

Bookmarks for 25 mag 2012 from 16:47 to 18:38

These are my links for 25 mag 2012 from 16:47 to 18:38:

  • Tony’s VMware Site – I have assembled a package which you can download which will allow you to have Sound, Network, and CD ROM in your Windows For Workgroups 3.11 Virtual Machine.  I also have found a copy of Netscape 4.0 which will work with Windows 3.11.
  • Michele’s blog » Temperature in your server room – At work we bought a couple of Ethernet Boxes from MessPC to keep an eye on our different server room and monitore temperature, humidity and the presence of smoke. These Ethernet boxes are quite neat: they have one network port (10 Mbps half/duplex only, beware) and four RJ-45 ports where you plug-in the sensors you need. We got sensors for temperature, humidity and a smoke alarm.
  • Nagios plugin debugging – This little perl-scripts captures STDOUT and STDERR of a nagios plugin. It writes the captured output to a temp. file. Then the output is returned to Nagios for further processing.

    This allows to track down some problems when using plugins within Nagios. You'll get some information if you have problems accessing files, can view the expanded command-line parameters of service checks, view the performance data returned in a text file, etc.

    It did help me several times – so feel free to try this out.

Bookmarks for 20 apr 2012 through 28 apr 2012

These are my links for 20 apr 2012 through 28 apr 2012:

  • PDFMate Free PDF Converter – Easily Convert PDF to Text/EPUB/Image/HTML/SWF – PDFMate Free PDF Converter is a simple, fast, and free application to convert PDF to Text documents, EPUB eBooks, images, HTML, and SWF files.
    With this all-in-one Free PDF Converter, you will no longer need to worry about problems in copying or editing PDF files. You can now convert PDF to your own files easily within clicks, for further editing or other usage.
    Convert PDF to Text/EPUB/Image/HTML/SWF
    Advanced customization for output files
    Batch conversion; fast and accurately
    Easy to use; multi-languages supported

    [ via http://www.afhome.org/ ]

  • Fact checking – Contribuisci alla verifica dei fatti: dimostra se un argomento e` vero o falso con l'aiuto di altri utenti.
  • ESXi – Come resettare la password di root | vInfrastructure Blog – […] In VMware ESX 3.x resettare la password di root era banale, visto che era scritta in un filesystem Linux in una partizione facilmente modificabile da qualunque distribuzione live. Già con ESX 4.x è cose si erano fatte leggermente più complicate, visto che la service console non risiedeva più su una partizione fisica ma dentro un vmdk.

    Ma con ESXi il livello di difficoltà aumenta per vari aspetti […]

  • Squid rallenta moltissimo con molti client connessi – SpippolAzione.net – […] Avendo dovuto collegare una filiale ad un proxy di un’altra filiale via MPLS mi sono trovato nella situazione per cui lo squid cui salivano di molto il numero di client collegati rallentava moltissimo arrivando verso le mille connessioni ESTABLISHED.
    Non sembrava una questione di banda, ram o carico sul disco, ma proprio il client che fatica a farsi ascoltare da squid, si vede anche usando squidclient… […]

Bookmarks for 16 feb 2012 through 21 feb 2012

These are my links for 16 feb 2012 through 21 feb 2012:

  • QuickPHP Lightweight Standalone Bloat-free Portable (USB stick CD drive Windows Embedded Kiosks) PHP Web Server – Weighing in at just over 500KB in size and using around 9MB of memory with PHP DLL running, QuickPHP is one of the most lightweight fully functional standalone PHP web server in the world today!
  • virtuallyGhetto: Ruby vSphere Console (RVC) 1.6 Released – Rich Lane the creator of Ruby vSphere Console just recently released RVC 1.6 which includes some new features and bug fixes. If you are a current RVC user, you can update to the latest version by using the "gem" utility. For those of you who are not familiar with RVC, it is console UI for vCenter Server and ESX(i) host and it provides a way to interact with your vSphere infrastructure like the vSphere Client but using a console shell. RVC can be installed on a Windows, Linux or Mac OSX system and it's built on RbVmomi which is an open source Ruby library/bindings to the vSphere API.
  • NSClient Error – Could not get data for | Web Paths – I started receiving an error in Nagios that stated:  NSClient – Error: Could not get data for 10 perhaps we don’t collect data this far back?  I started researching the issue, and the obvious solutions weren’t working.

Bookmarks for 7 nov 2011 through 8 nov 2011

These are my links for 7 nov 2011 through 8 nov 2011:

  • Testing puppet with Jenkins before deploying | mig5.net – […] However, I had overlooked one element: I tend to make a lot of typos […]

    funny and very instructive

  • VMware Monitoring Appliance with Nagios, NagVis, PNP4Nagios, Smokeping, Cacti and OpenNMS – Monitoring in just a few minutes! This VMware appliance based on Ubuntu Server Edition 10.10 64-bit contains the most important monitoring software packages, installed and ready-to-run:

    Nagios 3.2.3
    NagVis 1.5.5
    PNP4Nagios 0.6.7
    MK Livestatus 1.1.8
    Cacti/Spine 0.8.7g
    Smokeping 2.3.6
    OpenNMS 1.8.5

    You can start immediately. It is especially suitable for comparing these different monitoring solutions. Note that OpenNMS is written in Java and produces a high load on the system. Starting and Stopping OpenNMS takes a long time (several minutes!).

  • Squid Block – DNSBL Redirector for the Squid Proxy – dnsbl_redir is a shamelessly derived redirector based on the asqredir redirector written by Thomas Zippo < thomas at zippo dot ch >. Thanks!
    Its been rewritten to use a DNSBL list (RHS type) to check for and block sites listed in the DNSBL. It will redirect your users to the page/site listed in the top of the dnsbl_redir.h file.

    dnsbl_redir is written in C. It consists of one small source file and a small(er) .h file. It has been tested and runs on the current Squid versions. It performs very well on Linux (RedHat/Fedora), BSD and technically should compile and run on any gnu/linux.