Category: Linux
Blog is back!
I’ve retired my Digital Ocean VM and moved to a hosted solution. It was an interesting technical exercise running my own web server however I just don’t have the time to maintain it, secur... Read More
NetApp NFS chgrp issue
Had an interesting issue that I’ve resolved just now. Because of my history in networking and Windows administration I’m not that aware of Linux and NFS legacy stuff like I maybe am with W... Read More
NetApp Cluster Trend Reporting using Zabbix
Preamble The following is a summary of what we’re monitoring of a NetApp cluster: Auto Discovery of Flexgroups Auto Discovery of Infinite Volumes Auto Discovery of Aggregates Storage utilisation... Read More
Zabbix Custom Discovery Scripts – NetApp
Flexgroups #!/bin/bash flexgrouparray=( $(ssh monitor@$1 volume show -is-flexgroup true -fields volume | awk '{print $1","$2}' | grep -v "volume" | grep -v "entries" | grep ^[a-z]) ) numberofflexgroup... Read More
Zabbix Custom NetApp Statistics Gather Scripts
Aggregate Stats #!/bin/bash # # script expects to be supplied the following values: # $1 = cluster name # cluster=$1 ssh monitor@$cluster statistics aggregate show -iterations 1 -interval 10 | sed -... Read More
Don’t Upgrade Just before Holidays: Ubuntu 14 -> 16 breakage!
Just a real quick post. So I did something you really shouldn’t, especially to a work system, so thank god it was only my personal blog server. I decided do an OS upgrade just before holidays! S... Read More
Freenas – Check all drives for SMART info
I received another warning on a drive today about not being able to read the SMART info. So as I normally do I check run smartctl against it. This turned up some reallocation entries. Hmm how do I eas... Read More
Customising a WordPress theme
I really like the Aldehyde theme when it updated and it’s standard blog view. Trouble is I couldn’t easily customise it via the GUI so I guess I’ll have to dive into the code. After ... Read More