Back up XenServer 6 to Network Share with Fancy Scripting and Lots of Fun and No Downtime.

I have been using XenServer now for a few years. I was using Hyper-V and VMware, but I inherited a bunch of VMs on a few XenServer hosts and decided I would just work with Xen and see how I like it. I’ve gained a love/hate relationship with XenServer. But for the love, I can […]


Installing Cacti in Centos 6.2 (Part 1): Apache, PHP, MySQL, and other YUMmy things

I’ve installed Cacti all over the place for server monitoring, but haven’t yet written a guide for it here. There are a lot of great resources out there to get info on this subject, and I’ll just add my 2 cents. The Post-Install of Centos From a fresh install, do a yum update to get […]


Getting SNMP Rolling on XENSERVER 6

So I’ve been in need of getting SNMP installed on XenServer 6- its pretty simple: login to box vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables Put in before your deny all clause -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state –state NEW -m udp -p udp –dport 161 -j ACCEPT service iptables restart vi /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf Modify this config to reflect what you need. service […]