Null Byte In the previous post I went through how to configure NVMe adapters in PCIe slots to bifurcation, to enable them to be used as individual drives in your virtualization host of choice. In this post, I’ll go through how to enable the drives as pass-through in VMware to use them as Minio disk storage. If you want, you can do the same with Truenas to create a ZFS disk. Dell…
Continue ReadingThis little snippet and template allows you to monitor services on Linux. It’s really simple and might not work on all distributions. So far I’ve mainly used it on CentOS6. The required files can be downloaded from github here. To get things working, copy the files from github to /etc/zabbix. You need to change the owner of userscripts to zabbix and add the execute privileges to the .sh file. chmod…
Continue ReadingTo monitor SSL certificates expiry dates with Zabbix, there’s quite a few things you need to do. I’ve tried to make a comprehensive guide about it so you can make the thing yourself and learn how external scripts work. In the end, I’ve attached a Zabbix template for you that can easily be imported into Zabbix. This guide is for Zabbix 2.4, and the template will not work as is…
Continue ReadingInstalling VMware tools on the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS is a tad different than on 5.x and 6.x distributions. The main difference is that it’s now recommended to install Open-VM-Tools on both operating systems rather than anything else. You can read more about open-vm-tools on the VMware KB article here. Do note that no additional repository is no longer needed! yum -y install open-vm-tools to start open-vm-tools…
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RHEL & CentOS 7.x VMware Tools