Great source of information on using RRDtool

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I’m (once again) in an RRDtool coding time and I found this (dead?) blog, full of really nice explanations and examples on how to enlighten your RRDtool graphs. I’m actually using the information to render my Xymon metrics in a better way. Be sure to read the Circles of Archimedes for pretty stylish graphs!

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Monitor VMware vSphere from FreeBSD using the Perl SDK

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VMware provides a CLI and a Perl SDK that allows managing and monitoring vSphere and ESXi environment from Windows and Linux. The Perl SDK is also available in the FreeBSD ports tree. Here’s how to install and, basically, use the VMware Perl SDK on FreeBSD.

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Install xymon server on FreeBSD

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Because it takes only a few minutes to do and because I didn’t find any tutorial on the Net, here’s my notes to get Xymon server running on FreeBSD.

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FreeBSD 9 booting from a 3 disks ZFS

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I already managed to boot FreeBSD from ZFS ; a single disk ZFS pool. Now, let’s see how to boot FreeBSD-9-RELEASE from a ZFS pool made of 3 disks using RAIDZ configuration. I used the FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso CD-ROM image.

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Install FreeBSD from remote SSH session

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I’m actually playing with a FreeBSD virtual instance on ESXi. I’m accessing the console from VMware vSphere client, running in a remote Windows XP instance that I access using TSE from my MacBook… A nice feature I saw on Debian is SSH remote installation. Here’s how to install FreeBSD using a remote SSH connection.

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