Today I was working on creating a logstash -> logstash -> elasticsearch -> kibana setup. As we run a dual stack ip v4/v6 environment both ipv4 and ipv6 addresses need to work. After installing logstash and adding the following config as an input filter on the indexer: input { amqp { # get logs to…
Got a nice hint from Oracle this week that they fixed the lack of having CVE information in their yum repos. As I wrote in a previous blog post, it was disappointing that at the time of releasing OEL for the “masses” they did not have metadata available which put them on par with CentOS….
Last week I was building up a RabbitMQ cluster with shovel from New York to Los Angeles. As we use a dual stack environment ipv4/v6, I expected that RabbitMQ would resolve the ipv6 address first as normal Linux systems do. So I begun to do my tests and realized, that it didn’t. My publisher (see…
Last week I came across this link: http://linux.oracle.com/switch/centos/ and thought “wow, this might be a very nice alternative to RHEL.” Here is a quote of Oracles site: “FAQ Wait, doesn’t Oracle Linux cost money? Oracle Linux support costs money. If you just want the software, it’s 100% free. And it’s all in our yum repo…
I work for @AWSCloud & my opinions are my own. Laurent is a Chief Technologist for Worldwide US Federal Financial Services at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Over the past 20 years, he worked in different roles from leading teams in Product Management, Consulting and IT to working as a Principal Solutions Architect, Consultant and Developer….
Today I was searching for a nagios check which gets memory information over snmp. So I came across check_netsnmp_memory. It has also a nice php template for pnp4nagios. To test the command I run: # ./check_netsnmp_memory -L “Memory Utilization” -A ‘*’ -H graylog2.domb.net -C public -a ‘total,user,cached,buffer,%used_real,%used_swap,%user_real,%cached_real’ -w ‘,,,500MB,,65%,65%,’ -c ‘,,,800MB,,80%,80%,’ As a result I…
Yesterday I’ve had to clean up a host from the storeconfig mysql database. I ran the puppetstoredconfigclean.rb script and bumped into the following documented Bug http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12405 which will be fixed in version 2.7.12: # ./puppetstoredconfigclean.rb kvm0.domb.net ################################################################### /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require’: no such file to load — sqlite3 (MissingSourceFile) from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require’ from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:510:in `require’ from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:355:in…
This How to will walk you thru the steps of installing Pupppet, The Foreman, RabbitMQ, and MCollective: 1. Add your hostname to /etc/hosts.conf and /etc/sysconfig/network [root@puppet ~]# echo -e “127.0.0.1 puppet.${DOMAIN} puppet foreman.yourdomain.com foreman localhost” > /etc/hosts [root@puppet ~]# echo -e “NETWORKING=yes\nHOSTNAME=puppet.yourdomain.com” > /etc/sysconfig/network [root@puppet ~]# hostname foreman.yourdomain.com 2. First we need to add the…
Syncing a 100-200 hosts every 30 minutes and reporting to the dashboard creates a huge amount of data. This reflects in the /var/lib/mysql/ibdata file which can easily grow to 15-20GB. In this blog post I’ll show how to shrink ibdata and how to write a cleanup job for puppet-dashboard. 1. If you are not sure…
We run a quite early version of puppet-dashboard (version 1.1.0). In the dashboard I have the possibility to delete nodes, create nodes, create classes and groups… As a system engineer I want to be able to do the tasks on the command line. So I researched a little and found that if you “cd” into…