Check Port on Remote Server CentOS 6.6/RHEL 6
Checking port available on a remote machine using nc command instead of telnet. Same command can be used to check on a remote server as well, change the 127....
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LUKS Disk encryption for CentOS 6.6/RHEL 6
Linux Unified Key Setup-on-disk-format (or LUKS) allows you to encrypt partitions on your Linux computer. This is particularly important when it comes to mo...
Mysql Database Moving Data Directory to New Location.
How to move an existing data directory in mysql to a new location. We were running out of space and had to move the existing data directory to a new drive. B...
Mysql Database Disk Usage.
We were running out of disk space on one of the databases server, we need to get information on what the current table/database usage was. Below are few comm...
Installing python 2.7.x on Centos 6.5/6.6
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Zabbix Database Backup Script for postgres and mysql.
After the zabbix setup is done, we would like to take backup of the database. Here we are doing a complete backup. But if we are looking for only configurati...
Installing Zabbix Version 2.4 Offline (Zabbix Server without Internet).
There might be situations where you have a remote/zabbix server which does not have internet connectivity, due to security or other reasons. So we create a ...
Zabbix Template Creation using CSV file.
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Installing SNMP Builder using zabbix-extra on Zabbix Version 2.4.
SNMP Builder/Extra is an add-in for Zabbix. It provides new web interface components to browse MIB trees and values. SNMP OIDs can then be automatically conv...
Setting up SNMP Trapper for Zabbix.
Receiving SNMP traps is the opposite to querying SNMP-enabled devices. In this case the information is sent from a SNMP-enabled device and is collected or “t...