Utah Open Source Podcast

Ubuntu Utah: May 2009 - Partitions, Filesystems, LVM and RAID

The presentation was on partitions, filesystems, LVM and RAID by Aaron Toponce. The focus of my topic will by system administration, rather than for new beginners to the distribution, but it will be benificial for them as well learn how to properly work with their filesystems.

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ubuntu-utah | filesystems | 2009 | raid | lvm
May 9, 2009

Utah Python - March 2009: GridBackup

Shawn Willden presents on GridBackup: A peer to peer backup system built on top of the allmydata.org Tahoe distributed file system.

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gridbackup | python | utahpython |
Mar 9, 2009

Ubuntu Utah - February 2009: OpenVPN by Will Smith

The meeting focused around the simple setup for OpenVPN. Including the configuration files, commands and certificates.

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ubuntu-utah | openvpn | 2009
Feb 8, 2009

UTOSC 2008: Monitoring your Data Center using Apache and Ganglia

Brad Nicholes presents the insightful session on Data Center Monitoring.

As an IT professional or systems administrator, one of the most important aspects of your job is to know and understand at all times what is going on in your data center. What is the health status of your hardware? Are your resources overloaded? What are your hardware utilization trends and how can your resources be better utilized? These are just some of the questions that must be answered in order to be sure that your data center is running smoothly. Fortunately there are ways to anwser these questions which will allow you to stay on top of what is going on. By deploying a pure Open Source solution using Apache as a frontend to the Ganglia monitoring system on the backend, this solution will provide the necessary information to monitor the status of your data center. Through Apache and Ganglia, you will be able to monitor statistics such as CPU utilization, memory consumption, network throughput, disk I/O and much more. Additionally, since the Ganglia monitoring system is built on top of the Apache Portable Runtime libraries, it is able to be deployed on a wide variety of operating systems giving you total data center coverage. The graphical web frontend displays a series of summary or per-machine trending graphs that can be customized over hours, weeks or months. This presentation will provide you with an overview of how Apache and Ganglia can be used to monitor your data center and the various ways in which the solution can be customized or extended to meet your data center needs.

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