I’ve been looking round for something simple and light-weight to monitor my 2 VPS’s. I wanted to see cpu, memory, disk usage output to a web page with graphs.

Munin looks quite good so I though I’d have a go at installing that.

Installation on Ubuntu couldn’t have been easier, just -

apt-get install munin-node munin

and it was done.

That created a folder called /var/www/munin so this has to be accessible through your current web server config or you might need to change a few things.

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I setup Hyperic a while ago and rather stupidly forgot the hqadmin password!

If the same happens to you it’s fairly easy to reset it. This assumes you’re using the default postgres database  -

cd to your Hyperic server’s bin directory

cd ~/hyperic/server-3.1.1/bin

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Spent a little while trying to get WinPE2 (Vista) to boot via PXE from a linux server and thought it could be useful to someone. We already had our Red Hat stuff booting from there and it seemed like a good idea to keep it in one place!

Some of the stuff could be useful for booting via PXE from a Windows box too

Windows XP was used for WAIK stuff
Fedora Core 6 was used for PXE Server
Both running on VMWare Server along with a blank VMWare machine as the PXE client
* Note – there’s a bug in RHEL5 that’s stop’s the tftpd.remap file working. Not sure how many versions this affects

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Installing WordPress on Ubuntu Gutsy. You already need to have Mysql, Apache and PHP install (see here)

Change to you www directory

cd /var/www

and get and extract the latest WordPress gz

sudo wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
sudo tar xvfz latest.tar.gz

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