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keepalived provides a strong and robust health checking for LVS clusters. It nginx implements a framework of health checking on multiple layers for server failover, and VRRPv2 stack to handle director failover. How do I install and configure Keepalived for reverse proxy server such as nginx or lighttpd?

What a day… So we have a fancy new(new to us) Dell 6000 series switch, a 6224 actually. As it turns out, our typical remote serial solution won’t work with this switch. Normally we’ll connect the console port of these switches to a Digi Passport Server. The network has 2 entry [...]

To add a static route in CentOS 5.2 create a file specific to the interface in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.

Ok, so I had a hell of a time with some PCI compliance stuff.   I was in somebody else’s config and it was a mess.  Basically what I needed was a tool to test for what versions of SSL the server was allowing.   Instead, I kept mucking with the config trying to get all the [...]

I ran into an issue the other day installing net-snmp-utils via yum on a CentOS 4.5 box and it just happened to me again. This time however, I didn’t install the net-snmp-utils, it was from the original load of net-snmp. Basically, I typically just do a:
yum -y install net-snmp
Then copy over my [...]


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