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Meta monitoring revisited - EC2 meta monitoring
May 21, 2014

Meta monitoring revisited - EC2 meta monitoring

How to compare the inventory in AWS with another inventory.

Categories: Development OP5
Using sudo and redirecting output to a file
Feb 4, 2014

Using sudo and redirecting output to a file

Sudo is a cool tool to have under your belt. I have heard excuses for not using sudo so many times, that if I was given a penny every time I would at least be able to buy myself a coffee.

Categories: Development Linux
Obscure one liner to kill a running an Oracle expdp job
Jan 30, 2014

Obscure one liner to kill a running an Oracle expdp job

How to issue a "KILL_JOB" command.

Categories: Development Oracle
Hotplugging more than 15 scsi devices in Ubuntu
Aug 24, 2013

Hotplugging more than 15 scsi devices in Ubuntu

Today I ran into something that took me a bit to figure out. I could not add new disks to a virtual machine running Ubuntu.

Categories: Development VMWare Ubuntu
Who monitors the monitor?
May 20, 2013

Who monitors the monitor?

How do you know that all virtual machines (VM's) in a VMWare environment is actually monitored in your monitoring system?

No more insane clicking in ESXi - setup your testbed in a minute
Feb 19, 2013

No more insane clicking in ESXi - setup your testbed in a minute

Very often, I find myself in the situation where I have to quickly setup a test environment. In my case that usually means that I will quickly setup a

Categories: Development ESXi VMWare