SNMP is a great utility for systems monitoring. Some systems support SNMP better than others. I was working on an gateway product and ran into the limitations of OID 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.10 (ifInOctets). This also applies to 1.3.6.1.2.1.…
Gnome3 has been a struggle. Unity has been a struggle. I've been a steadfast ubuntu/gnome user through the process. To make the desktop workable for me, I do a couple things. 1. Disable online lenses from unity to prevent constant irrelevant upsell content from being displayed in…
On my LAN, I have 6T of storage. I've been working on upgrading this to add capacity and improve data duplication for backup purposes. Through the upgrades, I've been introducing disk striping and NIC bonding to improve performance. All my disks are managed using LVM because…
I only partition my disks using LVM anymore because it's easier to manage multiple physical disks. Something linux has always done, and windows has more recently figured out, has been to let you mount drives as a folder. In the *nix world, this is obvious because everything is…
I was trying to enable e-mail reporting from a Metropolis ProfitWatch Call Accounting System yesterday, but hit a couple hurdles. First, the ISP didn't provide an e-mail relay service. Second, it seems the metropolis has a very simplistic e-mail client implementation and doesn't appear to accept…