Splunk There are a couple of components of Splunk. From Components of a Splunk deployment: Indexer Splunk indexers, or index servers, provide indexing capability for local and remote data and host the primary Splunk datastore, as well as Splunk Web. …
Install Splunk and Send Logs to Splunk with Rsyslog over TCP with SSL
Posted by Karim Elatov
on June 15, 2013
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Monitor Disk IO Stats with Zabbix
Posted by Karim Elatov
on June 15, 2013
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I wanted to get a feel how much IO my machines are doing each day. As I was going through the zabbix graphs I noticed that IO statistics are not included. I did some research and I came across these …
Migrate from Libvirt KVM to Virtualbox
Posted by Karim Elatov
on June 15, 2013
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I was recently trying to migrate some VM from our KVM server to my laptop to run in my VirtualBox install locally. As I was going through the process I realized it’s not a very easy process, so I decided …
Enabling LDAPS on Windows 2008 Active Directory Server
Posted by Karim Elatov
on June 15, 2013
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I installed Active Directory by selecting the “Active Directory Domain Services” Role from the Server Manager Dialogue. Step by step instructions can be seen in Deploying a Test Windows Environment in a KVM Infrastucture. Running an ldapsearch against a Windows …
Set up simpleSAMLphp as an IdP to be Used in an SP-Initiated SSO with Google Apps
Posted by Karim Elatov
on May 22, 2013
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SP-Initiated SAML SSO Hopefully the title of the post isn’t too confusing. To clear up what I am trying to achieve let’s check out “SP-initiated Single Sign-On POST/Artifact Bindings“. Here is a pretty concise description of what SP (Service Provider) …
Configure HAProxy to Load Balance Sites With SSL
Posted by Karim Elatov
on May 4, 2013
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Starting with HAproxy version 1.5, SSL is supported. From the main Haproxy site: Update [2012/09/11] : native SSL support was implemented in 1.5-dev12. Prepare System for the HAProxy Install I was using CentOS for my setup, here is the version …
Installing and Configuring OmniOS
Posted by Jarret Lavallee
on April 20, 2013
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Installing OmniOS is pretty straight forward. The installation documentation from OmniOs can be found here. From that document: Boot the disk and follow the directions. Aside from selecting a disk on which to install and a timezone, there are no …
Snapshots Take a Long Time When “Keep Memory” is Enabled
Posted by Jarret Lavallee
on April 18, 2013
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When taking a snapshot with memory, the VM may be unresponsive and the snapshot may take a long time to complete. This is because the ESX host has to dump the VM’s memory to disk. When looking in the vmware.log …
