Year: 2010

Plesk VPS Migration for plesk 9 series

1. Upload migration agent and modules to the source server. For example for Parallels Plesk Panel, there are two folders: “/usr/local/psa/PMM/agents/shared” and “/usr/local/psa/PMM/agents/PleskX”. Use the command below to copy the Migration Manager: destination ~# scp -r /usr/local/psa/PMM/agents/shared/* /usr/local/psa/PMM/agents/PleskX/* root@source:temporary_migration_directory/ 2. Login to source server and change to directory /temporary_migration_directory. Run migration agent (PleskX.pl) with parameter […]

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PRTG Network Monitor

PRTG Network Monitor runs 24/7 on a Windows-based machine within your network, recording network usage parameters. Recorded data is stored in a database for historic reports. The easy to use web-based user interface allows to configure the devices and sensors that you want to monitor. You can create usage reports and provide colleagues and customers […]

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Extract the contents of an RPM

Using rpm2cpio command, the contents of an RPM package can be extracted without having to install the package. For source RPMs too this command can be used. This is illustrated with an example as follows, where we extract the contents of RPM, google-chrome-beta_current_i386.rpm. $ rpm2cpio google-chrome-beta_current_i386.rpm | cpio -idv ./etc/cron.daily ./etc/cron.daily/google-chrome ./opt/google/chrome ./opt/google/chrome/chrome ./opt/google/chrome/chrome-sandbox ./opt/google/chrome/chrome.pak […]

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Nagios Installation and Configuration

Nagios Installation in Ubuntu Required Packages Install the following packages on  Ubuntu before continuing. Apache 2 PHP GCC compiler and development libraries GD development libraries If not installed, using apt-get the above packages can be installed as follows sudo apt-get install apache2 sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 sudo apt-get install build-essential sudo apt-get install libgd2-xpm-dev Create […]

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