Practical experience of migrating from HyperVM to VDSManager

This is originally posted by JOEsDC in WHT. It may come to use others’ help. I was able to successfully migrate all my hypervm nodes to VDSmanager without any data loss. Here are the steps I took. NOTE: I was running an up to date version of CentOS 5.3 x86_64 on all my nodes. I [...]

Installing and configuring monit to monitor your server(s)

Monit is a utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and filesystems on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations. Pre Install Step: yum install openssl* Step 1: Installing monit from Source cd /usr/local/src wget http://mmonit.com/monit/dist/monit-5.0.3.tar.gz tar -zxvf monit-5.0.3.tar.gz cd monit-5.0.3 ./configure –sysconfdir=/etc/monit/ [...]