http://blog.ipunct.net technical stuff Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:59:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Abstract Confluence is a Enterprise Wiki from Atlassian, which is just awesome. It is supporting tons of free and commercial Plugins and Themes. It is perfect for documentation, document management and working in Teams. We are using it since the middle of the last year starting with Version 3.0.2 running on Sun ... http://blog.ipunct.net/2010/03/atlassian-confluence-3-1-2-on-sun-glassfish-v2/ We have a 3Ware 9550SX-8LP installed in a Linuxserver running Ubuntu Server. What I am going to describe is, how we monitor the Harddisk Temperature via Nagios and graphing it via NagiosGrapher. This HowTo can easily be modified for other 3Ware Controllers. [caption id="attachment_64" align="alignleft" width="511" caption="Temperaturegraph from a 3Ware 9550SX-8LP ... http://blog.ipunct.net/2009/06/temperature-monitoring-of-3ware-controller-with-smartmontools-nagios-and-nagiosgrapher/ We had problems within some keys like Arrow, Up, Down etc. in the Guest OS running on a Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04 running VMWare Server 2.0. The keymapping between host and guest is broken. That could be fixed with the following entries in ~/.vmware/config (create the file if it is ... http://blog.ipunct.net/2009/05/arrow-keys-are-not-working-in-vmware-guest/ How to install VMWare Tools on Ubuntu (tested on Ubunt 8.10 and 8.04 LTS) in a rush: Within your VMWare Infrastructure Client or WebGUI do a "Install VMWare Tools" VMWare will provide a ISO Image with the VMWare Tools to the Virtual Machine SSH to the Ubuntu Server you want the VMWare Tools ... http://blog.ipunct.net/2009/04/install-vmware-tools-on-ubuntu-server/ This article will explain some parts of monitoring a Cisco Catalyst 2970 switch via SNMP and Nagios. Together with NagiosGrapher it gets an powerful combination to have a longtime overview about that device and you can create nice graphics like that: Prepare the switch for SNMP requests from a SNMP polling ... http://blog.ipunct.net/2009/03/cisco-catalyst-2970-monitoring-via-snmp/