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cables

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Nerds spend a goodly amount of time trying to keep their cables in something vaguely resembling order. Elastic bands don’t last. Velcro strips are great but they tend to be the wrong size and since they are pretty expensive ($2-$3 apiece) one never seems to have quite enough. For things you are putting away, they [...]

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SNMP and Mac OS X

Monday, December 31, 2007

A bit ahead of myself with the cacti post, the first job was to properly enable SNMP on all my computers, including the Macs. You would think it was as simple as setting SNMPSERVER=-YES- in /etc/hostconfig and add a read user, and you would be partly right. That would make snmpd run and answer on [...]

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cacti victory!

Saturday, December 29, 2007

I’ve been struggling over the past couple weeks to get cacti to behave. It’s a pretty fully-featured monitoring system that can peek at SNMP or other data and graph it. Anyway this is for those who already know what cacti is. I managed to do somehting I thought (maybe is?) pretty basic: graph the usage [...]

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