Archive for the ‘MetaNET’ Category
Saturday, July 19th, 2008
One of my evening projects has been setting up OpenNMS to monitor a network primarily comprised of VENDORNAME switches. OpenNMS is being put in to replace a bundle of Nagios, Cacti, Smokeping, and Groundwork Fruity for Nagios configuration management. The existing system worked well enough, but the lack of autodiscovery ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
During the initial import of data to the {{post id="jabbermetanetnz-has-moved" text="new jabber.meta.net.nz server"}}, I noticed that the roster information failed to be migrated if I was using an ODBC backend - it would just fail entirely. I didn't think too much of it until I tried to restart ejabberd, and ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
I bit the bullet and moved jabber.meta.net.nz onto its new server last night. DNS records have changed, however the TTL was set to 60 seconds a long time ago so this shouldn't be a problem. If you're having problems connecting please verify that you're actually connecting to jabber.meta.net.nz and that ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
I have a server with different sets of RAID1 arrays, across two different sets of disks. The first set of arrays, on the first pair of disks, always starts fine. The second set never starts on boot. I don't reboot this server very often, so it's not often a ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
I've finally gotten sick of the jabber.meta.net.nz services having a negative impact on the rest of the server due to the transports chewing up lots of ram, and so have put together another server and will start migrating things over. The new server is a dual 1GHz Coppermine P3, with ...
Posted in jabber, MetaNET, WLUG | 1 Comment »
Monday, October 30th, 2006
Matt Brown asked if I could think of any way to allow a certain group of users to scp into a host and use a password, while requiring a valid key pair for most other users. Perry suggested a solution to this a while ago, so I sat down and ...
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