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Cacti Install and Config Guide

by Farooq Ahmed | Nov 30, 2015 | Cacti

This is a easy-to-follow setup and config guide for of Cacti (Source install) on CentOS and Red Hat flavour OS. The setup is straightforward as it does not evolve any source code compiling but instead just a MySQL db setup and configuring users and permissions. The...

Enable Ls Colors in RaspberryPi – DebianWheezy

by Farooq Ahmed | May 17, 2015 | Debian Wheezy (7)

If you are finding it difficult to recognize files and folders in RaspberryPi DebianWheezy dist OS, you can enable Ls COLORS to make them more recognizable. All you need to do is edit /.bashrc and logout and login back to enable it. Login to RaspberryPi via SSH and...

Automate kinit (Kerberos Ticket) during SSH login

by Farooq Ahmed | Mar 13, 2015 | Red Hat IDM

It is possible to automatically get a Kerberos Ticket (kinit) generated everytime you login via SSH to a host by editing “.bash_profile”. This also applies to a scenario wherin you are using Red Hat IDM/IPA and want to automate “kinit” instead...

Access ESXi DCUI via SSH

by Farooq Ahmed | Mar 6, 2015 | ESXi

It is possible to use DCUI (Direct Console User Interface) via SSH session to ESXi. At the command prompt just type in “dcui” and then you would be able to see the same screen as given below. You need to resize the SSH window BIG enough otherwise the DCUI...

How to install/update VMWare Tools on CentOS/Red Hat

by Farooq Ahmed | Feb 27, 2015 | ESXi

This article will explain how to go about installing VMWare Tools for CentOS/Red hat v6 & above. The install can be done via SSH Putty session but the recommended method is doing it via VMware console session and reason being that as it updates drivers that...