I have a few more custom facts that I’ve added to my puppet-facter-facts github repository:

• syslog_bin, syslog_type, and syslog_version
  • tell the absolute path to the running syslog binary, its short name (basename), and its version as a string. Currently only know about /sbin/syslogd and /sbin/rsyslogd.
• has_netbackup
  • tests …

I recently discovered the petit program for log analysis. It’s a simple tool to pull out useful information from syslog logs in a variety of ways. I’ve only used it a few times so far, mainly on logs from problems I’ve already solved but didn’t know …

I just installed php-suhosin 0.9.29 from EPEL on a CentOS 5.6 box. I’m running a whole bunch of name-based vhosts in Apache, and have a bunch of web apps, so I opted to run suhosin in simulation mode (don’t actually block anything, but log …

I recently added some Cacti-based graphing to a number of Linux-based servers prior to rolling out a new service. When I was looking over the performance graphs of the initial testing, I noticed that memory usage on our rsyslog server was near 98%. Looking at top(1), I saw …

I’m running a Vyatta vyatta router at home - in my opinion it’s pretty near “enterprise grade”, and I’m running the Community/Core (read: no-cost and almost all Free) on commodity hardware with great performance. Granted, I’m still on the older version (5 as opposed to the …

Last week I added some of my Nagios check scripts to my nagios-scripts GitHub repository. Perhaps they’ll be of some use to some other people…

• check_1wire_temps.php
  • quick and dirty, built for one specific application, but a good starting place for checking Dallas 1-wire temperatures via OWFS.
• check_802dot11.php …

So, here’s the “official” scoop on the new project that I’m planning/starting to work on. I’m calling it PHPsa for now, and it’s going to (hopefully) be an integrated dashboard/portal for SysAdmins. While there are a number of tools that fit into this general …

Update July 2011 - We’ve been using rsyslog for our centralized syslog infrastructure at work (site being redesigned at the moment) for about a year now. As a result, our colleagues at Rutgers University Open System Solutions have been nice enough to include rsyslog in their koji build system. Updated …