Install Zabbix 2.4.6 from source on CentOS

I’m old fashion and in some cases I like to compile my stuff, Zabbix is one of these cases. You can add/remove features directly with ./configure, and mess around with some timeouts of zabbix_server and zabbix_agentd for example. In this tutorial, we will not change anything on the source code. We are going install Zabbix version 2.4.6 with MySQL, Nginx and PHP-FPM. This is the stack of what I use in production environments....

October 9, 2015 · 6 min · Danilo Fernando Chilene

Monitoring Microsoft SQL Server File Groups with Zabbix

In a previous post we installed the tools necessary to access Microsoft SQL Server, continuing our quest I needed to monitor some filegroups and decided to create something like Pyora. It only monitors filegroups (Primary used and Log used), but I plan to add more items like datasize, logcachehit, etc. The idea is pretty simple, ./pyssql.py fetch data from SQL Server via Zabbix. Follow the instructions below to install and use it:...

April 30, 2015 · 2 min · Danilo Fernando Chilene

Installing Python 2.7.8 on CentOS 6.5

CentOS 6.5 still come with Python 2.6 and I need 2.7, below a simple tutorial how to achieve this with no pain and not messing with installed Python. Update CentOS and install development tools yum -y update yum groupinstall -y 'development tools' Also you need the packages below to enable SSL, bz2, zlib for Python and some utils: yum install -y zlib-devel bzip2-devel openssl-devel xz-libs wget Installing Python 2.7.8 from source Download Python and extract it...

January 16, 2014 · 1 min · Danilo Fernando Chilene

Epel Repository on CentOS 6.x

Import the key [root@ambush ~]# rpm --import http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/fedora/epel/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6 Download the Epel package and install it [root@ambush ~]# wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm [root@ambush ~]# rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:epel-release ########################################### [100%] [root@ambush ~]# Now you can install packages from the EPEL repository.

December 9, 2013 · 1 min · Danilo Fernando Chilene