Install and Configure Thold on Cacti

There are a bunch of Cacti’s plugins which can do better monitoring. One of the recommended and popular plugin for Cacti is Thold. Thold is a plugin to monitor bandwidth usage and trigger an alert when it reaches the threshold. Plugin Architecture needs to be installed in order to activate it on Cacti.

Let’s start the installation and configuration.

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Force Email Delivery on Exim

Hundred emails are queuing on your mail relay server, and you have to push the email to the destination mail server after it has came online. Using exim -M can helps you to delivery the email instantly.

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Arrays in Bash

Arrays is useful when it comes to data processing. Using Arrays in Bash is quite easy, and most importantly is to get your job done with the data loaded into the Arrays.

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How To Set Your Blackberry with Tone + Vibrate with BuzzMe

On all the Blackberry model, the incoming call or text messaging (SMS) notification doesn’t support vibrate and tone, you can set maximum 3 vibration and after that the tone will ring out loud. But the problem with the 3 vibrations is most of the caller without good patient will hang up the call after 3 ring tone (For my case ;) ).

There is a software call BuzzMe, Free or Pro edition to set your incoming call or text messaging with Tone and Vibration.

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Grep Exim Email Transaction with Bash

While email transport having problem, the first we look for is the email log file, to check incoming and outgoing email transaction, to see was the email sent to the recipient or whether did the sender’s email it delivered to our email server.

I like exim log file provide the transport when an email is coming in or out from the server. I have written a simple script to grep sender/recipient email address and analysis the email transaction. Read the rest of this entry »