Munin is a system monitoring program designed to capture and graph performance statistics with minimal configuration. It is significantly easier to configure than MRTG and has a wide variety of plugins. The Ubuntu (Debian) installer will setup a reasonable configuration on installation. It requires one server, and a client daemon on all monitored servers including the server. Scalability to large (campus) environments has been reported to be an issue (more…)
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Installing WordPress on Ubuntu
WordPress is available as a packaged application for Ubuntu. However it requires a bit of post installation configuration. The installation will install the apache2 multi-user server if no server is installed. I modified the installation to run over top of an existing site. The default installation creates directories under
/var/www, which I move to/srv. (more…) -
OpenWRT and Ubuntu dnmasq setup
Now I have replaced my old firewall with OpenWRT, I needed to enhance the configuration of
dnsmasqto support the network. The old Ubunutu based firewall was already runningdnsmasq, as does the DNS server on the LAN.I run a mixed network with wired and wireless clients on separate address ranges. DHCP services are provided by the OpenWRT router. An Ubuntu server is the primary DNS server for the wired network. (more…)