Networking: We have two nodes that are reachable by below Networks: 10.1.1.0/24 : Cluster heartbeat vlan. 172.16.1.0/24 : LAN with access to the Internal LAN network and Internet. We have set the following hostnames: [master ~]# hostnamectl set-hostname master.sysadmin.lk [client ~]# hostnamectl set-hostname client.sysadmin.lk We defined the Hostname and IP Address in “/etc/hosts” file(On both […]
Setting Up an NFS Server and Client on CentOS 7
I’m using two CentOS systems here: NFS Server: server.example.com, IP address: 192.168.1.100 NFS Client: client.example.com, IP address: 192.168.1.101 Configure the Firewall firewall-cmd –permanent –zone=public –add-service=nfs firewall-cmd –reload Installing NFS and enable and start the nfs server service.(Client / Server) yum -y install nfs-utils systemctl enable nfs-server.service systemctl start nfs-server.service Exporting Directories on the Server mkdir […]
Important Linux Commands
### Check Inode usage for i in /*; do echo $i; find $i |wc -l; done ### How do you empty a linux directory with a large size/number of files? -bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long find . -name “*” | xargs -n 10 rm
Adding a New Disk Drive to a CentOS 6 / 7 System
Finding the New Hard Drive in CentOS # ls /dev/sd* /dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb Creating Linux Partitions # su – # fdisk /dev/sdb Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0xd1082b01. Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide […]
Install and Configure MySQL Cluster on CentOS 7
MySQL Cluster is designed to provide a MySQL compatible database with high availability and low latency. The MySQL Cluster technology is implemented through the NDB (Network DataBase) and NDBCLUSTER storage engines and provides shared-nothing clustering and auto-sharding for MySQL database systems. In the shared-nothing architecture, each of nodes has its own memory and disk, the […]
Mount SSHFS In Redhat / CentoS
Step 1 – Enabling the kernel module This is a simple step – all you need to do is run the following command as the root user: modprobe fuse Step 2 – Installing Fuse/SSHFS yum install fuse-sshfs sshfs Step 3 – Using SSHFS The commands to use SSHFS are fairly simple. To mount a remote […]
PHP 5.6 on CentOS/RHEL 7.4 and 6.9 via Yum
To install, first you must add the Webtatic EL yum repository information corresponding to your CentOS/RHEL version to yum: CentOS/RHEL 7.x: rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el7/webtatic-release.rpm CentOS/RHEL 6.x: rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el6/latest.rpm Remove old php version yum remove php* Now you can install PHP 5.6’s mod_php SAPI (along with an opcode cache) […]
Send Nagios SMS Alert with Gnokii
Installing Gnokii Requirements – intltool-0.35.0-2.i386.rpm tar -xzvf gnokii-0.6.28.tar.gz cd gnokii-0.6.28 ./configure make make install cp -Rdp /usr/share/doc/gnokii/sample/gnokiirc /root/.gnokiirc or cp -Rdp /usr/share/doc/gnokii/sample/gnokiirc /etc/gnokiirc configure Gnokii for Wavecom GSM modem #vim /root/.gnokiirc [global] port = /dev/ttyS0 model = AT initlength = default connection = serial use_locking = no serial_baudrate = 9600 smsc_timeout = 10 [xgnokii] allow_breakage […]
How to Install Nagios 4.3.4 on RHEL / CentOS
Nagios is an awesome Open Source monitoring tool, its provides you more comprehensive monitoring environment to always keep an eye on your all machines / networks whether you are in a your data center or just your small labs. With Nagios, you can monitor your remote hosts and their services remotely on a single window. […]
Color text output on bash scripts
Users who have been using Linux for awhile often learn that creating a basic script is a good way to run multiple, often-repeated commands. Adding a little color to scripts can additionally provide nice feedback. This can be done in a fairly straight-forward way by using the tput command. A common way of doing this […]