CMDB I have known
Data center management is pretty big. I suspect most big centers have roll-your-own solutions. Here are the open source solutions I looked at: RackTables RackMonkey OneCMDB GLPI Just FYI.
April 2009
Datacenter / network management software
Have you used any software for tracking data center assets? This computer powered by this UPS which is covered by this service contract? Some background: I asked a similar question on the FreeBSD ISP mailing list. Check that out.
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LANG prevents PostgreSQL initdb
I was looking at RackMonkey and RackTables today. As part of the latter, I was installing PostgreSQL on my FreeBSD workstation. I failed. This had worked many times before, on many other servers. This was the first time I’d seen this particular situation. # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql initdb The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user “pgsql”. This user must also own the server process. The database cluster will be initialized
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qemu – running emulation
I managed to get CENTOS5 booting today. In a virtual machine on my FreeBSD workstation. This post is mainly just notes for myself. Create the blank HDD image file on my host OS: qemu-img create -f qcow2 c.img 3G Installing the new guest OS, by booting from the ISO image which appears as a CDROM: qemu -cdrom CentOS-5.2-i386-bin-DVD.iso.iso -hda c.img -m 256 -boot d Setting up the bridging between the guest and the
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OneCMDB – notes for improvment
These are my notes on attempting to setup OneCMBD. Some of these items would be added directly to their wiki, if I they give me access. At http://www.onecmdb.org/wiki/index.php/Get_Started_V2.0#On_Linux_platforms_2: bin/onemdb.sh start should be bin/onecmdb.sh start (missing a ‘c’) Same for the stop command. Same error occurs in the README. bin/onecmdb.sh contains #!/bin/bash. Why bash? Why not /bin/sh? ELF binary type “0” not known – you need to load linux compatibility: kldload linux. This needs
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CMDB
Are any of you running OneCMDB? If not, are you running some other Configuration Management Database?
Best Buy website reports incorrect stock levels
I wanted to buy a netbook tonight. I failed. The website claimed the item was in stock. Off I went. “Sorry, we don’t carry that item at this store.” I’m sorry Best Buy, but I’m not driving to another store until you give me accurate information.
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Incorrect bind column causes HY093
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been learning more about XSL, Javascript, and CSS. Along the way, I’ve been doing much more work with PDO. Yesterday I encountered a 501: Internal Server Error which had me stumped until this morning. The SQL was something like this: INSERT INTO mybconfig.keys (key_name, key_type_id) VALUES ( :key_name, :key_id_type )’ Upon calling execute(), the exception thrown was similar to this: 501: Internal Server Error Description: The server
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