http://www.nickyeates.com/ 2010-07-30T19:49:37-04:00 http://www.nickyeates.com/ http://www.nickyeates.com/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-07-26T12:56:03-04:00 http://www.nickyeates.com/technology/mac/customizations?rev=1280163363&do=diff1280163363 This is a page full of changes, additions, programs, and preferences that I like to often set on my mac platforms. Refer to it when you get a new mac, or have recently reinstalled the OS. Duhs - You have to have these * Safari or Firefox - Interweb :-) ; free open source * Apple Mail or Thunderbird - email galore; free open source * VLC - plays all movies; free open source; thought now I use Plex * Dropbox - Cloud file system, synced everywhere you go text/html 2010-07-17T00:31:40-04:00 http://www.nickyeates.com/technology/zenoss/useful_commands?rev=1279341100&do=diff1279341100 * mysql -u zenoss -p mysql -uroot * MySQL prompt for doing SQL queries * -u username (zenoss in this case) * -p password; without the password written in here, it prompts you for it, so that the pass is obscured * mtop mysqladmin processlist | grep -v Sleep show full processlist\G; text/html 2010-06-30T17:37:47-04:00 Nick Yeates http://www.nickyeates.com/technology/cloud/ec2_instance-store_to_ami?rev=1277933867&do=diff1277933867 What and Why You will be converting the current state of an EC2 system to an AMI, which is an image that you can use to start new EC2 instances. This can be needed when certain providers or amazon machine images (AMI) are originally created with instance-store bootable hard drives. I had to use a Rightscale AMI which unfortunately did not use EBS, but the instance-store storage method. EBS volumes are persistent and bootable, while instance-stores reset themselves to their original state when r… text/html 2010-06-30T17:23:11-04:00 Nick Yeates http://www.nickyeates.com/technology/zenoss/cloudbox?rev=1277932991&do=diff1277932991 Zenoss in the cloud was installed multiple times. See below for each instantiation. See the TOC at right for an overview of the structure to this document. Later installs are latest and greatest. Followed directions at: * <http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonVPC/latest/GettingStartedGuide/> * Specifically, Click on the subsection “Getting Set Up”. Scroll down to the section titled “The Java Runtime Environment” text/html 2010-06-30T17:21:22-04:00 Nick Yeates http://www.nickyeates.com/technology/cloud/setup_ec2_api_tools?rev=1277932882&do=diff1277932882 To implement some functionalities that Amazons EC2 Cloud provides, you have to interface with their command-line API tools. Likely, the product is too young to have the equivalent functionality built-in to their GUI management console yet. For now, we do it this way, and its a little complex. text/html 2010-06-28T17:38:20-04:00 Nick Yeates http://www.nickyeates.com/technology/zenoss/useful_code?rev=1277761100&do=diff1277761100 if evt.message.find("Error reading value for") >= 0: evt._action = "drop" * drop ALL “oid x.x.x.x. is bad” events. whats the best way to do this system wide? (zenoss 2.4.1) * utilizes heirarchical transforms; you can put the above transform at /Events to apply it to all events text/html 2010-06-25T11:40:52-04:00 http://www.nickyeates.com/technology/unix/useful_commands?rev=1277480452&do=diff1277480452 top ; shows running processes; 'c' = see process details; 'q' = quit; '1' = show processor cores; 'k' = kill a process screen ; lets you share screens with other people nano ; text editor that lets you use modern keyboard keys psql <database name> ; connect to postgres database in postgres command prompt /sbin/service postgresql restart …