Category Archives: Sys Admin

Monitor Exchange Storage Groups in Nagios

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Jon Smith

I had a failure in one of my Exchange Storage Groups last night and the Storage Group had dismounted itself. However the Information Store service was still running and so were the other three Storage Groups on the server. So … Continue reading →

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Linode Network Stats in Cacti

Posted on July 16, 2009 by Jon Smith

Linode provides a convenient XML data feed that provides information about your CPU usage and Network Usage. The graph for the CPU Usage seems a little useless, but I have included it here as the XML feed provides the data. … Continue reading →

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OpenSUSE Local Update Repository

Posted on July 3, 2009 by Jon Smith

Details how to setup and maintain a local update repository for OpenSUSE, and also how to setup clients to access and install from it. Continue reading →

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OpenSUSE AutoYast/AutoInstall Howto Part 3

Posted on June 19, 2009 by Jon Smith

OpenSUSE and SLES (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server) both come with AutoYaST which is a very powerful tool that allows administrators to quickly and easily deploy servers that have an identical configuration for rapid server deployment. In this three part series … Continue reading →

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OpenSUSE AutoYast/AutoInstall Howto Part 2

Posted on June 17, 2009 by Jon Smith

OpenSUSE and SLES (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server) both come with AutoYaST which is a very powerful tool that allows administrators to quickly and easily deploy servers that have an identical configuration for rapid server deployment. In this three part series … Continue reading →

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