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Setting Hue to Listen on 0.0.0.0 [Cloudera]

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We were working on setting up a cluster, but the Hue URL was set to a private IP of the server. As we had setup all the nodes to access each other using a pr...

Nagios - Service Group Summary ERROR

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We were working on nagios and found that after our migration, service group summary was not working. You might get below error on the screen and the solution...

Zabbix History Table Clean Up

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Zabbix history table gets really big, and if you are in a situation where you want to clean it up. Then we can do so, using the below steps.

Windows Testing Using Kitchen Chef

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Kitchen-Vagrant has the capability to spin up a windows instance for testing. To make it work you will need the vagrant-winrm to be installted on the worksta...

Package Installer for Cygwin [apt-cyg].

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After a longtime I was on my windows machine and had to make it feel more like my linux machine. So install the thing what everyone else does cygwin. Surpise...

Installing CouchDB on Ubuntu 14 LTS.

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CouchDB is a database that completely embraces the web. Store your data with JSON documents. Access your documents and query your indexes with your web brows...

Installing MongoDB on Ubuntu 14 LTS.

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MongoDB is an open-source document database, and leading NoSQL database. MongoDB is written in c++. Below is a brief document about installing a mongodb on a...

Encrypted Data Bags - Chef

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Data Bags are a way to store information on the chef-server which all the cookbooks can access. Few more additional advantages are that we can encrypt the da...