Openbsd

Monitor Dovecot with Munin on OpenBSD

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At the time of writing, Munin on OpenBSD doesn’t come with a dovecot dedicated plugin. I’m not sure it even comes with an IMAP plugin. Anyway, you can get one from the “Munin plugin repository” and run it on your BSD box. Here’s how:

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Monitoring with M/Monit on OpenBSD

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You may have already seen my Running Monit v5 on OpenBSD article. If not, it’s the correct time to have a look at it :) This article will describe how to install and run M/Monit. Quoting its Web site, “M/Monit expand upon Monit’s capabilities to provide monitoring and management of all Monit enabled hosts from one easy to use web-interface”. Monit has an efficient Web interface, M/Monit has a shinning one. It also has reports abilities that will please your IT CEO ;-) I’ll show how to run both on a single OpenBSD box.

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Tune MySQL on NetBSD and OpenBSD

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For quite a few days now, in my “optimize than damm WordPress” quest, I’m playing with Ubuntu, NetBSD and OpenBSD in (VMware Fusion) virtual machines and spare hardware I have. One of the idea is to optimize MySQL on those systems. The MySQL configuration file in named my.cnf and is not located in the same place on every systems…

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Monitoring with Munin on OpenBSD

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Quoting it’s website, “Munin is a networked resource monitoring tool (…)”. It’s like Cacti but smaller, faster, … It is based on a client/server configuration. By default, you install the “client” part on the host you want to monitor and install the “server” part on the host that will keep the data and do the graphics. Here’s the way I installed, configured and run it on OpenBSD 4.9.

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XCache on OpenBSD

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On my way for constant Web site rendering improvement, I decided to give XCache a try. I’ve been using eaccelerator for a long time and found it very efficient. But I never looked at the Google WebMaster Tools metrics before :)

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