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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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!
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>