Articles by shakey_1
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Web Based Project Management With Collabtive On Ubuntu 7.10 Server
Author: shakey_1 • Tags: ubuntu • Comments: 13Web Based Project Management With Collabtive On Ubuntu 7.10 Server Project management is becoming an increasingly important part of the Sys Admin's life. While Microsoft Project seems to be the standard project management tool used in most environments that I have worked in, it can sometimes be nice to have such tools web based so that multiple users can share information. This is where tools such as Collabtive come in. Collabtive is a web based project management tool that supports everything that you need to plan out and complete your projects.
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Monitoring With Groundwork Open Source On CentOS 5.1
Author: shakey_1 • Tags: centos, monitoring • Comments: 4Monitoring With Groundwork Open Source On CentOS 5.1 Nagios is (in my opinion) one of the finest availability and monitoring solutions available. The stability, extendability and cost effectiveness (it is free under the GPL), are second to none (again, my opinion). That being said, it is far from being the easiest monitoring solution to implement. The build process itself, while not being overly complicated, can be vexing to new Linux users. That doesn't even include the configuration, which sometimes still makes me cringe.
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RackTables On Ubuntu 7.10 Server
Author: shakey_1 • Tags: ubuntu • Comments: 1RackTables On Ubuntu 7.10 Server In the words of the developers, RackTables is "A management framework for rackspace, IP addresses, servers, switches, routers and much more!". To me, it is the solution to a project that I have been working on for some time - a means of mapping out our data center at work. I have, for a long time, wanted a way to map out and make available in a web interface, our server racks.
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Network Diagnostic Tool (NDT) On Ubuntu 7.10 Server
Author: shakey_1 • Tags: ubuntu • Comments: 0Network Diagnostic Tool (NDT) On Ubuntu 7.10 Server This guide will walk you through the setup process for implementing NDT running under Ubuntu 7.10 server. For those unfamiliar with NDT, it is a network performance testing application. NDT will measure the throughput between your server and the desktops that you run the java client from.
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KnowledgeTree Document Management System On Ubuntu 7.10 Server
Author: shakey_1 • Tags: ubuntu • Comments: 1KnowledgeTree Document Management System On Ubuntu 7.10 Server This guide will walk you through installing the KnowledgeTree Document Management System on Ubuntu 7.10 Server. This guide does not include any pictures. I just felt with this type of install, that they were not warranted.
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Installing the Jaws CMS on Ubuntu 7.10
Author: shakey_1 • Tags: ubuntu • Comments: 2Installing the Jaws CMS on Ubuntu 7.10 Jaws is a content management system that utilizes a PHP framework with a MySQL back end. I have been looking for a good CMS for a little while now, but what attracted me to Jaws was its simplicity and appearance. I decided that since I was going to test Jaws out, I may as well document it, so that it might help others who are thinking about using it.
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Cacti On CentOS 4.4 Including The Plug-in Architecture
Author: shakey_1 • Tags: centos, monitoring • Comments: 0Cacti on CentOS 4.4 Including The Plug-in Architecture This guide will step you through the process of installing a functional Cacti installation on CentOS 4.4 including the Plug-in Architecture, which will allow you to expand your monitoring solution.