IP Address Active/Passive Failover Setup in Linux CentOS 6 RHEL 6 using keepalived

Hey everyone out there in BBS land.  Your old friend Max here to dump out some knowledge on you. Imagine you’re living in a world of two systems and three IP addresses.  One of the IP addresses is really importing and if the system it’s running on explodes, you want it to come back up… Continue reading IP Address Active/Passive Failover Setup in Linux CentOS 6 RHEL 6 using keepalived

How To Setup MySQL Enterprise Monitoring with Zabbix

This article is NOT about how to setup the application called MySQL Enterprise Monitor but rather how to setup MySQL monitoring in your Zabbix Enterprise Monitoring software. Here’s how this works: – Network communication to the server provided by the Zabbix Agent. – Agent side UserParameter settings allow for needed commands to be run against… Continue reading How To Setup MySQL Enterprise Monitoring with Zabbix

Running Bacula bconsole Commands from bash CLI

Greetings, Traveler. So if you’re one of the types who use Bacula as your backup server, you’re probably familiar with the ‘bconsole’ command line utility.  I prefer using this to the Bacula Admin Tool (BAT) because it’s faster. The neat thing is that you can pipe commands right to bconsole to get immediate output from… Continue reading Running Bacula bconsole Commands from bash CLI