Software
VMware Tools “Out of date” problem
While doing a VMware tools check in my homelab I found a few Linux VMs with the message “Out of date“. These machines were from an old test and I recently started them again for some testing. My first idea on seeing the message was: ‘nothing wrong, I just run a PowerCLI script and everything [...]
Combining Veeam and PowerCLI
Veeam Backup & Replication is a great tool for backing up your virtual environment. U can use it to backup certain virtual machines or your whole environment by simply creating backup jobs in which u add virtual machines. Veeam has the option which sends an e-mail if a backup was successful or failed. Sadly there [...]
Syslog-ng configuration and rotation script
I’m a big fan of syslog-ng. All my devices which allow the usage of syslog send information to my syslog-ng server. The server configuration below will send all information to specific day dirs for each device. The client configuration will send all information to the syslog-ng server but we will also keep the messages and [...]
RRDtool: 32bit to 64bit?
While playing around with creating some statistics from several servers I came to the following problem: ERROR: This RRD was created on other architecture The problem was simple, the file was created on a 32 bit machine and I was trying to access it on a 64 bit machine. The fix for this is quite [...]