After Clone network configuration

The best part about Virtual Environments is the ability to clone new hosts from old ones.  Most of our infrastructure resides in vmware, so when we clone a system it retains the old Nic settings.  This is how you get the network interface working after cloning the system: vi /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net-rules remove eth0 rename eth1 to […]

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My MySQL Cheat Sheet

I know, man.  No, I mean I know I could use ‘man pages’!  Or I could just ‘google it’ but then it isn’t mine.  Since I do not have time for a complete brain-dump this MySql “cheat sheet” will grow over time.  Feel free to add your favorite MySql commands in the comments, if their […]

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Putting ‘lsof’ to use

lsof is a powerful tool that has proven very userful over the years in troubleshooting and forensic investigations.  Here are some useful lsof command examples: In this example we are looking at all the files a given process has open (pid=1655 here this is the zabbix agent) lsof -p 1767 Note you can clean up […]

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Splunk Installation

Fairly short and sweet to get the agent installed; details are below. 1)      Install the appropriate package from a designated and trusted source: 2)     The default installation path, ${INSTALL_PATH} = /opt/splunkforwarder 3)      Next, create a file with the path /opt/splunkforwarder/etc/system/local/deploymentclient.conf with the contents: [deployment-client] [target-broker:deploymentServer] targetUri = splunkdeploy.uits.uconn.edu:8089 4)      Run the following (supplying your own […]

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