Re: [CentOS] Cacti/snmp question

2010-06-16 Thread John Doe
From: Whit Blauvelt > the PNP crew enhances their documentation with some working > examples, or I learn German I was able to make some plugins without too much problems (even discovered perl in the process)... http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/developer-guidelines.html#PLUGOUTPUT Just copy/pas

Re: [CentOS] Cacti/snmp question

2010-06-16 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 02:28:51AM -0700, John Doe wrote: > I was able to make some plugins without too much problems (even discovered > perl in the process)... Agreed, it's easy enough to write Nagios plugins. I've done that too. > Then PNP will "automaticaly" plot these values... but yes, if

Re: [CentOS] Cacti/snmp question

2010-06-16 Thread Les Mikesell
Whit Blauvelt wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 02:28:51AM -0700, John Doe wrote: > >> I was able to make some plugins without too much problems (even discovered >> perl in the process)... > > Agreed, it's easy enough to write Nagios plugins. I've done that too. > >> Then PNP will "automaticaly

Re: [CentOS] Cacti/snmp question

2010-06-16 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 08:01:26AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > If have firewalling to protect from security issues, why not just run an > older > version of cacti? Sensible suggestion. One, it's not obvious where to find an older version. Two, hours of attempting to get cacti to work have led

Re: [CentOS] Cacti/snmp question

2010-06-16 Thread John Doe
From: Whit Blauvelt >> Then PNP will "automaticaly" plot these values... but >> yes, if you have n values, you will get n graphs... > So PNP is just automagical? Let me rephrase: once properly setup, it will 'automagicaly' plot any new data... ^_^ In fact, I had a look at my notes and they are

Re: [CentOS] Cacti/snmp question

2010-06-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/16/2010 8:44 AM, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 08:01:26AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> If have firewalling to protect from security issues, why not just run an >> older >> version of cacti? > > Sensible suggestion. One, it's not obvious where to find an older version. It'

Re: [CentOS] Cacti/snmp question

2010-06-16 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>> Two, hours of attempting to get cacti to work have led me to be >> underimpressed with the whole project. > >That's odd because other than the usual php version issues I've always >considered cacti to be the easiest of the graphing tools to get working >- but I haven't tried the most recent ve

Re: [CentOS] Cacti/snmp question

2010-06-16 Thread Baird, Josh
There is always ZenOSS. I would definitely take a look at ZenOSS. Very active, very powerful, nice interface, SMNP/SSH/WMI based monitoring, etc. jb -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Joseph L. Casale Sent: Wednesday, June

Re: [CentOS] Cacti/snmp question

2010-06-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/16/2010 10:30 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>> Two, hours of attempting to get cacti to work have led me to be >>> underimpressed with the whole project. >> >> That's odd because other than the usual php version issues I've always >> considered cacti to be the easiest of the graphing tools to g

[CentOS] cpuspeed settings??

2010-06-16 Thread ken
Hey, folks, Sometimes my workstation bogs down... slows to a crawl. Using gkrellm, it's obvious the CPU is the laggard. The top utility confirms: the load average gets up over 4 at times. But this occurs when cpu stepping pegs the speed at 600MHz. This processor is capable of 1.5GHz and when i

Re: [CentOS] cpuspeed settings??

2010-06-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/16/2010 1:47 PM, ken wrote: > Hey, folks, > > Sometimes my workstation bogs down... slows to a crawl. Using gkrellm, > it's obvious the CPU is the laggard. The top utility confirms: the load > average gets up over 4 at times. But this occurs when cpu stepping pegs > the speed at 600MHz. Th

[CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-16 Thread Boris Epstein
Hi all, I am just trying to consider my options for storing a large mass of data (tens of terrabytes of files) and one idea is to build a clustered FS of some kind. Has anybody had any experience with that? Any recommendations? Thanks in advance for any and all advice. Boris. ___

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-16 Thread m . roth
Boris wrote: > > I am just trying to consider my options for storing a large mass of > data (tens of terrabytes of files) and one idea is to build a > clustered FS of some kind. Has anybody had any experience with that? > Any recommendations? We've been looking at glusterfs here. It's under active

Re: [CentOS] cyrus-imapd, sendmail and delivering plus address formats

2010-06-16 Thread James B. Byrne
On Tue, June 15, 2010 15:43, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am 15.06.2010 20:55, schrieb James B. Byrne: > > Are you tackling with that for over 1 year now? > Yes. Actually, I have been dealing with this on and off for several years. I have never found an answer and other things come along that requ

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-16 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:05 PM, wrote: > Boris wrote: >> >> I am just trying to consider my options for storing a large mass of >> data (tens of terrabytes of files) and one idea is to build a >> clustered FS of some kind. Has anybody had any experience with that? >> Any recommendations? > > We'

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-16 Thread Todd Denniston
Boris Epstein wrote, On 06/16/2010 03:33 PM: > Hi all, > > I am just trying to consider my options for storing a large mass of > data (tens of terrabytes of files) and one idea is to build a > clustered FS of some kind. Has anybody had any experience with that? > Any recommendations? > > Thanks i

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-16 Thread m . roth
Boris wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:05 PM, wrote: >> Boris wrote: >>> >>> I am just trying to consider my options for storing a large mass of >>> data (tens of terrabytes of files) and one idea is to build a >>> clustered FS of some kind. Has anybody had any experience with that? >>> Any rec

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-16 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I am just trying to consider my options for storing a large mass of >data (tens of terrabytes of files) and one idea is to build a >clustered FS of some kind. Has anybody had any experience with that? >Any recommendations? You haven't actually stated whether you want the backing devices distribut

[CentOS] Disabling services in CentOS 5.5

2010-06-16 Thread Ski Dawg
Hello all, I have been doing some searching for information about disabling services within a CentOS 5.5 install. I have found a few different opinions, and wanted to ask for some feedback. First off, the system is running a LAMP stack to serve a web application. It will only be doing email to se

Re: [CentOS] Disabling services in CentOS 5.5

2010-06-16 Thread m . roth
> Hello all, > > I have been doing some searching for information about disabling > services within a CentOS 5.5 install. I have found a few different > opinions, and wanted to ask for some feedback. No brainer. > > First off, the system is running a LAMP stack to serve a web > application. It wil

Re: [CentOS] Disabling services in CentOS 5.5

2010-06-16 Thread John R Pierce
Ski Dawg wrote: > >From my research, the services that I am thinking of turning off are: > nfs (already off) > nfslock > portmap > rpccgssd > rpcidmapd > rpcsvcgssd > all safe to shut off if you're not serving NFS, NIS, etc. > apci power management. I believe you need acpid for things like s

Re: [CentOS] cpuspeed settings??

2010-06-16 Thread ken
On 06/16/2010 03:09 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > On 6/16/2010 1:47 PM, ken wrote: >> Hey, folks, >> >> Sometimes my workstation bogs down... slows to a crawl. Using gkrellm, >> it's obvious the CPU is the laggard. The top utility confirms: the load >> average gets up over 4 at times. But this occurs

Re: [CentOS] Disabling services in CentOS 5.5

2010-06-16 Thread Miguel Medalha
The following NSA document provides very good information on the secure configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/CentOS 5.x: Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/os/redhat/rhel5-guide-i731.pdf It goes through almost all the services and

[CentOS] cameras and CentOS

2010-06-16 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
Hi I want to put up a few cameras connected to a CentOS box. I currently have a box with one camera and that works (USB), I can take a pic (the script does that) and see that on a webpage. However, I want to have a couple of cameras a little further away (more than 5 meters). USB has a limit, I

Re: [CentOS] cameras and CentOS

2010-06-16 Thread Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator
Hi, Am 17.06.10 08:22, schrieb Jobst Schmalenbach: > Hi > > I want to put up a few cameras connected to a CentOS box. > I currently have a box with one camera and that works (USB), > I can take a pic (the script does that) and see that on a webpage. > > However, I want to have a couple of camera

Re: [CentOS] cameras and CentOS

2010-06-16 Thread John R Pierce
Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > Hi > > I want to put up a few cameras connected to a CentOS box. > I currently have a box with one camera and that works (USB), > I can take a pic (the script does that) and see that on a webpage. > > However, I want to have a couple of cameras a little further > away (