During our weekly sysadmin call this morning several of our experienced sysadmins quickly pointed out that clients seeking very high up time should not necessarily look for it on the cloud. I couldn’t believe it, but almost as an omen, this story came on my RSS feed from Webware: Google apologizes for email outage Outages [...]
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Mark Shuttleworth announced last Friday that Ubuntu 9.10 will be named Karmic Koala, and also presented what we should expect from the future version of Ubuntu: the desktop version will have a new look (more beautiful) on the server side as everybody these days Ubuntu’s future will be targeting the “cloud”. They will have official [...]
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We have a monitoring server running Nagios and we needed to add checks for Nginx process on a new server. Basically, you only need to install NRPE to monitor services, processes, disk space, load, etc on your remote machine. Check the NRPE docummention for complete reference and here’s a quick NRPE installation guide for Debian. [...]
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