Category: Server
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Restore Zimbra Backup
In actuality this is syncing one zimbra to another. You can do this for replication, not just disaster recovery. This is on a centos box. #install rsync if you don't have it yum install rsync #sync our local files from a remote server 1.1.1.1 rsync -avzr -e ssh [email protected]:/opt/zimbra /opt/ #change ownership of the new…
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VMWare Network Redundancy
My VMware ESXi servers have two NICs which I maintain as much redundancy on as possible. I configure the two intefaces to be in the same virtual switch and they failover to each other. I actually trunk switch ports to each NIC and run VLAN interfaces. Here’s a quick video that shows you how to…
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Send Test Syslog Message
I have test emails send daily, but what I failed to test was my syslog server. Now that I’ve had it brick on me, I’m now doing daily test syslog messages. I use this PHP script. If you can’t happen to pull it from that site, here’s the file to download:. I then use this…
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Cacti – Syslog-NG – Duplicate Entry For Key
If you notice that your alerts stop coming in from syslog or notice that your syslog isn’t showing any results, then check to make sure the syslog-ng service is running. service syslog-ng status If it is running, then try restarting it. service syslog-ng restart If you are having the same issues I have, then you…
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Update Vmware ESXI4.1
To run updates on your ESXI4.1 server you no longer get the nice little GUI. You now have to do your updates via the CLI. You can see the link here on how to do it or use the below syntax: # esxupdate -b cross_oem-vmware-esx-drivers-net-vxge_400.2.0.28.21239-1OEM.vib -b cross_oem-vmware-esx-drivers-scsi-3w-9xxx_400.2.26.08.036vm40-1OEM.vib -b vmware-esx-firmware-4.1.0-1.4.348481.i386.vib -b vmware-esx-tools-light-4.1.0-1.4.348481.i386.vib update
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TekRadius – A Windows Radius Server
TekRadius is a Windows radius server built on the .net platform. It natively supports IETF/Cisco/Mikrotik which is nifty. I know the first thing that pops into mind is why wouldn’t you just use the Windows radius server (IAS). To this I say because IAS requires you to create windows users to authenticate with the server.…