Archive for 'Software'
OpenSolaris ZFS replication
I’ve had this goal for quite some time now, every since my employer went with Sun X4540 storage systems to serve as our data storage for backup applications. The goal was to handle data replication at the ZFS file system level, removing the need for application-level awareness of the file system replication. A couple products [...]
Posted: March 29th, 2009 under Guides, Software.
Tags: opensolaris zfs replication
Comments: 5
FreeBSD NFS performance and OpenSolaris
While setting up and testing our Sun X4540 OpenSolaris NFS server, I noticed that our FreeBSD NFS clients were having severe performance issues while writing to the server. After a few days of digging around, I came across some ancient posts (circa 2005) on the FreeBSD-performance mailing lists describing similar problems. Here is a brief [...]
Posted: January 31st, 2009 under Software.
Tags: FreeBSD, NFS, NFSv3, NFSv4, OpenSolaris, Performance
Comments: 1
SNMPTT Zabbix trap handler
I’ve wondered how to integrate standard SNMP traps into Zabbix for some time, many of our systems are Dell’s with OpenManage installed. OpenManage supports sending SNMP traps to a monitoring station who receives them and then takes defined actions. Inside you’ll find a writeup on how to capture and report on various SNMP trap events.
Posted: October 21st, 2008 under Guides, Software.
Tags: SNMP, SNMP Trap, SNMPTT, Zabbix
Comments: 2