Posts tagged Monitoring
Logic Monitor through screen shots
Dec 12th
This is the part where I talk about LogicMonitor as a part of our ipHouse internal learning enrichment task. I am going to do this through screen shots because it works for me and I hope you learn a little along the way.
I was in great need of Nick’s help because at first I thought I could create just any host name. So of course I chose the name barf. Well you can’t do that. You need to use a machine name that already exists. Nick said I should choose smtpgrey-2.iphouse.net or smtpgrey-1.iphouse.net (inbound SMTP border servers in use on our network).
Once I figured that out it was all smooth sailing!
Infrastructure and Other Games, Part 4
Dec 8th
Part 4: The Other Stuff
Thanks for reading my series on moving from my single all-in-one server and my small ESXi server to ipHouse’s vmForge VDC product. I previously discussed moving my websites to a virtual webcluster, and moving email to a virtual mailcluster. Now I just had to move three small servers, and install a third.
The first server I moved was a small experimental VM used for testing various network, web and other items. I like to have dedicated testing environment for every operating system that I professionally run. This server was responsible for my personal Teredo tunneling, and was the one I put my CGI testing on from awhile a go. I could have easily moved it, but I wanted see how the export/import from ESXi to vmForge worked. I stopped the machine on my ESXi server, downloaded it as a OVF and uploaded it, via my Windows machine, to my catalog. It imported it as a template. I then deployed the template and deleted the server. It worked flawlessly! All I had to do renumber the machine and I was done. More >
Infrastructure and Other Games, Part 1
Nov 10th
Part 1: VDC, Layout and Firewall.
I had a problem. All of my personal infrastructure was on an aging server, cobbled together from various parts that were laying around. I had already replaced the motherboard once, and I was not looking forward to doing more maintenance. The system had 5 320gb SATA disks in a RAID 5 setup. Not very fast, and it could only survive one disk failure.
Software-wise the machine had long exceeded what it was designed to do. It was originally designed as a game server, with some web and email. I had added several other services to it as I learned and played. Data was spilling out of its assigned slices. Symlinks were used strategically but it was still a mess. More >
