Smokeping FastCGI
Monitoring over 1000 devices in smokeping can be a challenge. It gets SLOW. One of the best ways to speed it up is to implement FastCGI. This is for Debian Buster but may apply to your distro. Edit /etc/apache2/conf-available/smokeping.conf and …
Openmediavault fixes
Issue 1 Getting mail with the following: Subject: Anacron job ‘cron.weekly’ on <server name>Body: /etc/cron.weekly/openmediavault-update-smart-drivedb: mesg: ttyname failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device Fix:edit /root/.profile and replace mesg n || true with test -t 0 && mesg n || true Source: …
Reset Observium dashboard
/dashboard/reset_dashboard=yes/
Show observium config
Got this off the mailing list while trying to fix broken dashboards. https://your.observium/settings/format=changed_config/ https://your.observium/settings/format=config/
Unimus
My good friend Tomas has been working on this for a very long time. Check it out at http://www.unimus.net/ Unimus is a multi-vendor network device backup and config management solution.
Massive RouterOS Update
This is the biggest update I’ve ever seen from Mikrotik. 181 items! What’s new in 6.35 (2016-Apr-14 12:55): Known issue: some huawei lte modems might not get IP address after the reboot of the router – disable/enable of the modems …
Resize CHR for ESXi
The CHR image reinstalls into it’s self and it’s 128 megabytes by default. I wanted to resize it. Find a copy of qemu-img. I’m on a Mac so I downloaded GNS3 and found the binary in /Applications/GNS3.app/Contents/Resources/qemu/bin/qemu-img ./qemu-img convert -f …
Observium – Unix Agent w/ Unbound
Documentation can be found here. Modules can be found here. I’m assuming you have been following my other guides and this is a Debain Wheezy box that you’d like to monitor. I’m doing this to monitor Unbound. apt-get install subversion …
Rancid – Add Allied Telesyn Support
Support for Allied Telesyn switches is not included out of the box with rancid. We’ve got to add 2 files and then enable the “at” type. I’ve found a few examples around for atlogin and atrancid but of the two I …