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Cacti Linux Sys Admin VMWare

Monitoring VMWare’s Free ESXi 3.5 with Cacti

When I realised that the free version of VMWare ESXi only kept an hours worth of logging information I went looking for a solution to keep more statistical data. This is what I have come up with so far.

VMWare ESXi 3.5 CPU Graph in Cacti
VMWare ESXi 3.5 CPU Graph in Cacti
VMWare ESXi 3.5 Memory Graph in Cacti
VMWare ESXi 3.5 Memory Graph in Cacti
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Linux

CTRL-S issue when using PuTTY or other terminal sessions?

If you press CTRL-S during a PuTTY session and the screen locks up. All is not lost, just press CTRL-Q and things should return to normal.

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Linux Puppet Sys Admin

Strange Puppet Errors

I have been playing with Puppet today in a way to manage my web server farm at work when i came up against this strange error:

Apr 21 15:39:12 predev2 puppetmasterd[6692]: Could not parse for environment production: Could not match 'import' at /etc/puppet/manifests/modules.pp:1

This issue is caused by files saved in the Windows format, to solve just open your files in VI and enter the following command:

:set fileformat=unix

This will convert the file from DOS to UNIX based line endings. You can also use any decent text editor to do the same thing.