Home Services Hosting Blog About Us Contact Us
Tampa Bay Computing
  • About
  • Privacy Policy

Install Zenoss ZenPacks from github.com with git

by Matt on November 14, 2011 · 1 Comment

It’s quite simple actually. First install git. apt-get install git OR yum install git Then su – zenoss cd to where zenoss installed. /usr/loca/zenoss/ZenPacks/ OR /opt/zenoss/ZenPacks/ Then: git clone git://github.com/epuzanov/ZenPacks.community.DellMon.git git clone git://github.com/epuzanov/ZenPacks.community.CiscoEnvMon.git zenpack –install ZenPacks.community.DellMon zenpack –install ZenPacks.community.CiscoEnvMon

Continue Reading →

Shrink Thin Disk on VMware ESXi in Linux and Reclaim unused space

by Matt on November 9, 2011 · 2 Comments

First, you need to zero out the free space. This command will do this by creating a file filled with zeros. This works best on RHEL6 since it uses ext4. RHEL5 with ext3, you don’t regain as much space, due to not being able to defrag the volume. cat /dev/zero > zero.fill;sync;sleep 1;sync;rm -f zero.fill [...]

Continue Reading →

Sendmail masquerade outgoing email address – send as a different domain

by Matt on October 11, 2011 · No Comments

So I was working on a server at work and had to change the hostname. Long story short, the emails from that server started going out with the new hostname as the domain. That wasn’t good!!! The server was using Sendmail and a quick google search turned up the answer: vi /etc/mail/sendmail.mc MASQUERADE_AS(domain.com)dnl FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl FEATURE(masquerade_entire_domain)dnl [...]

Continue Reading →

Setting up Samba on CentOS 6 with Likewise 6

by Matt on September 29, 2011 · No Comments

The setup is pretty simple but a few gotchas that aren’t in the setup instructions. Step 1: Edit /etc/sysconfig/selinux and change Enforcing to Permissive and reboot. Step 2: Download, install Likewise 6 and join it to the domain. URL: http://www.beyondtrust.com/Technical-Support/Downloads/PowerBroker-Identity-Services-Open-Edition/ Step 3: Install samba and winbind. yum install samba samba-winbind (need winbind installed but not [...]

Continue Reading →

Setting up Dell OpenManage Server Administrator on CentOS and RedHat Dell Repo

by Matt on September 23, 2011 · No Comments

This is quite simple, just getting getting it down right the first time is always the hardest. Step 1: yum install net-snmp Step 2: wget -q -O – http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/bootstrap.cgi | bash Step 3: yum install srvadmin-all Step 4: Setting up SNMP. Generally there is a lot of garbage in the snmp.conf, so I create a [...]

Continue Reading →

sudo: must be setuid root

by Matt on September 23, 2011 · No Comments

So I gave a user the right to sudo but when they tried to use it, they received the error: sudo: must be setuid root Comparing the permissions of /usr/bin/sudo showed me that the permissions were off on this machine. A simple: chmod 4111 /usr/bin/sudo fixed my issue You may want to make sure that [...]

Continue Reading →

Setting up Zenoss 3.2 on CentOS 5.6 x64

by Matt on September 14, 2011 · 3 Comments

This is quite simple. I first tried to install Zenoss 3.2 on CentOS 6.0 which is NOT supported and won’t even run. Also, there is a LARGE bug with GA 3.2, which we will patch during this install. The bug keeps most of the zenpacks from even working. First, get your base install of CentOS [...]

Continue Reading →

Working with Likewise 6 on Linux

by Matt on September 14, 2011 · No Comments

Working with Likewise 6 on Linux can be a little challenging at first. Let’s dig into it. First go and download it for your OS. I have used this with CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu and Debian. It works the exact same way on all of them. Download: http://www.beyondtrust.com/Technical-Support/Downloads/PowerBroker-Identity-Services// Make sure you have a FQDN for the [...]

Continue Reading →

Dell Latitude E5420M Unknown Device

by Matt on August 5, 2011 · 1 Comment

After a fresh install of Windows 7 x64 Pro on a Dell Latitude E5420M we had 1 unknown device we couldn’t figure out. Google searches came up with nothing, which is odd. Looking through available drivers downloads it was under Applications and named St Microelectronics – Driver * Free Fall Sensor!

Continue Reading →

32bit DSN on 64bit Windows Operating System

by Matt on February 23, 2011 · No Comments

So I was trying to create a 32bit DSN for Virtual Center’s Update Manager on Windows 2008 R2. Finally I found an article with the command to run: [WindowsDir]\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe<code>

Continue Reading →
← Previous Entries
  • Categories

    • Apache
    • CentOS
    • Debian
    • Dell Open Manage Server Administrator
    • ESXi 4
    • ESXi 5
    • Hardware
    • Likewise
    • Linux
    • MSSQL
    • MySQL
    • Nginx
    • OpenSSL
    • PHP
    • Samba
    • Sendmail
    • Squid
    • Tomcat
    • Uncategorized
    • VMWare
    • Windows
    • Zenoss
  • Archives

    • November 2011
    • October 2011
    • September 2011
    • August 2011
    • February 2011
    • January 2011
    • November 2010
    • October 2010
    • August 2010
    • July 2010
    • June 2010
    • March 2010
    • February 2010
    • October 2009
    • September 2009

Tampa Bay Computing

Pages

  • About
  • Privacy Policy

The Latest

  • Install Zenoss ZenPacks from github.com with git
    It’s quite simple actually. First install git. apt-get install git OR yum […]

More

Thanks for dropping by! Feel free to join the discussion by leaving comments, and stay updated by subscribing to the RSS feed.
© 2011 Tampa Bay Computing