Introduction The following guides cover it. http://www.tecmint.com/install-cacti-network-monitoring-on-rhel-centos-6-3-5-8-and-fedora-17-12/ Watch out for the section named “Configure MySQL settings for Cacti”, the file it references the path as /etc/cacti/db.php but the path may actually be /var/www/cacti/include/config.php http://www.betweendots.com/topic/4-install-cacti-on-centos-6x/ Things to look out for: Path
Linux Pausing Commands And Running Commands In The Background
Introduction What is this tip about? Just a simple one but really useful. Imagine this, you open a text editor to create or modify a file but halfway through someone says, “Can you just check this for me quick .
How to Auto Redirect Apache Default Webpage to a Specific Page CentOS
Introduction Not much to add here as its the same as an older post: https://ip-life.net/how-to-auto-redirect-apache-default-webpage-to-a-specific-page/ Fix The only difference required in CentOS is to actually make the index file in the /var/www/html/ location: # touch /var/www/html/index.html Then modify as per
RANCID Scripts for VyOS/Vyatta
Introduction I wanted to add my Vyatta virtual router to my RANCID server as I was in the process of extensive testing for IPv6. Luckily I found this little gem and thanks to those who created the scripts: https://github.com/natecarlson/vyatta-rancid Now
RANCID 3.x Supress Output from Diffs
Introduction This is just another post relating to a previous post. The location of the changes required is different in this latest version of RANCID. https://ip-life.net/rancid-suppress-output-from-diffs/ If you have configuration you need to remove, it will no longer be in
Securing OpenSSH with Certificates on CentOS
Introduction If you want to stop using passwords to SSH onto your servers then certs are the way to go. When you run an application such as putty and pageant side by side then you will never have to use
Cacti Validation Error
Introduction You try and add a new graph/s to a Graph Tree in cacti but you get “Validation error”. Fix Try editing the: /usr/share/cacti/graphs.php file and comment out the following line and restart apache. //input_validate_input_number(get_request_var_post(‘drp_action’)); service httpd restart
Install Cacti on Ubuntu 12.04
Introduction I am really just linking some other great content here but there was something I had to figure out before I could follow the great guide by digital ocean. I was getting these errors on the server after install
CentOS default Eth0 Interface Down on Startup
Introduction The title says it all really. Fix Edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-$IFNAME Change the ONBOOT line’s value to yes
RANCID Setup on CentOS 6.6
Introduction If you looking for a guide on how to setup the latest version of RANCID which is currently 3.2 (June 2015) then you have come to the right place. I have previously done a post on RANCID setup on