Month: September 2013

Linux Snapshot Backups

Creating Linux Snapshot Backups

Uptime vs Database Backups Backups of your database can be an enemy to your system uptime.  Doing a filesystem dump of your database tablespace files will require that it occur while your database is down so that you don’t have…

MySQL Master / Slave Replication

Master Slave MySQL Replication Summary Master / Slave replication in MySQL is a great way to store an exact replica of your database on another machine in another location as part of a disaster recovery plan.  Before setting up Master…

Nagios Remote Plugins with NRPE

Nagios: Setup Nagios NRPE

Nagios Remote Plugins with NRPE Two weeks ago, we setup Nagios in the article: Monitoring Your Systems with Nagios and last week, we defined Nagios hosts and services in the article: Configure Nagios Hosts and Services.   This week, we will…

Configure Nagios Hosts and Services

  Now that you have Nagios installed (See last week’s article:  “Monitoring Your Systems with Nagios” ), you are ready to begin monitoring services such as ssh, websites, and other services.  So that brings us to the purpose of this…