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Watchdog is responsible for monitoring tiny systems like raspberry PI, BeagleBone or any other system.
The main functionality of the watchdog is to check, if the system is still responding, lets say, to keep-alive messages.
Let’s assume, the system is stuck in a kernel panic, this will be automatically restarted by watchdog after reaching a grace time period. So a manual rebooting by unplugging the DC adapter is not required at all.
If you need to change the hostname of an existing munin node with a lot of data, and you want to retain all this existing historical data, follow this procedure:
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Working on websites on Mac can be sometimes very annoying. You are writing some piece of code and you need to transfer it every time via FTP or SFTP to a linux web server.
SSHFS (Secure SHell FileSystem) is a solution to avoid this transfer layer of your develop work. By default SSHFS is not availible in Mac OS X but it can be installed
To be a able to use SSHFS it is required to [Read more…]
Another modern method for the mobile age to be up to date everywhere about your infrastructure. Everyone has a mobile device with internet access, you need only a ICQ client to receive information notifications.
Today I’m going to talk about how to bring this idea to live… [Read more…]
Another really helpful check for your Icinga or Nagios instance.
If your have any windows machines you can check the Windows Update-State. How many Updates you need to install and if you need to reboot your servers after updating them. [Read more…]