Here I am again with a problem to solve. I’ve become problem solver to my self-created problems. Duh. Now what I need to solve is regarding a new monitoring software recently ported to Mac os X. It’s been one month now that BixData ported their suite, BixAgent; BixServer; BixDesktop, to my platform of predilection.
BixData’s suite […]
If you are all about making decisions backed by numbers and statistics, you must get Cacti on your organization. Cacti is a PHP front end that uses mysql and rrdtool in the back end to store and generate graphics.
This short article is all about the mechanism that drives Cacti, how to install and how to […]
Keeping track on a Unix based system of what users are doing is imperative. Lots of software/freeware are available to serve you right with this. After a friend of mine asked me how could he make sure no one hacked his server, I did a little investigation. Here is the story.
Everything starts with a weird […]
Migrating mysql data was a problem I faced when installing the server while doing the Mac os X Tiger server Best-Practices page on that site. I needed to transfer the old mysql installation to the new server without changing/loosing data nor settings.
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If you’re aware that mysqldump create a read dump of all records and […]
At a certain point in time, we all have to migrate services for all different reasons. Sometimes you need to change hardware for follow growth, sometimes you only need to because of some resources has been reassigned. My situation isn’t different then others. I had a chance to take out of production my old PowerMac […]