http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/ Trinidad and Tobago Linux Users Group Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:47:45 GMT Ace Suares http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/message/19366 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/message/19366 ... But with a bit of sourcery you can bind the splunk webinterface to localhost, and then build an ssh-tunnel so really only you can access the webinterface. Wed, 05 Jun 2013 22:06:31 GMT Lawrence, Rellon http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/message/19365 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/message/19365 If i can help let me know ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Wed, 05 Jun 2013 20:30:31 GMT Falina Baksh http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/message/19364 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/message/19364 I saw Kiwi installed on one of the windows servers here, not in use though, I'm guessing a previous admin had this setup at one point. My syslog-ng host was Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:59:34 GMT Stephen Sankarsingh http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/message/19363 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/message/19363 I only ever read the first line of an email but I went back and read the other lines after my last response and realized that I missed most of your concerns. Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:50:40 GMT Stephen Sankarsingh http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/message/19362 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/message/19362 Splunk replaced my old centralized syslog server too. It can do a stellar job at syslog but as previously indicated you'll end up using it for much more. Chalk Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:46:34 GMT Falina Baksh http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/message/19361 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/message/19361 Spunk is actually sounding quite decent for log analysis. Currently I have my Cisco devices reporting to a syslog server and I was considering writing some Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:12:32 GMT Stephen Sankarsingh http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/message/19360 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/message/19360 Cacti is easier to configure than MRTG, though I still wouldn't consider it n00b friendly. It's rock solid though and I had a server running it for many years Wed, 05 Jun 2013 18:38:43 GMT Falina Baksh http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/message/19359 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/message/19359 I used nagios in the past for host and service monitoring and it works quite well, but I would like to setup something that's easy for anti-cli n00b co-workers Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:32:47 GMT Stephen Sankarsingh http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/message/19358 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/message/19358 What kind of monitoring? You have Nagios for services, people tend to like it but I don't. Splunk for any type of text log file and Cacti for bandwidth. Splunk Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:13:45 GMT Falina Baksh http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/message/19357 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/message/19357 Fabric sounds interesting, will check it out. What do you guys favor for monitoring? I'm feeling like stepping away from nagios and trying some of the other Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:36:40 GMT browwwsers1996 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/message/19356 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/message/19356 Love that comment. Doing nothing should be every sysadmin's goal. Had only one issue with 13.04 after update and that was apport kept crashing...the lack of Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:29:21 GMT browwwsers1996 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/message/19355 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/message/19355 Thanks for the invite will check out the group...but..."Would like to do some stuff with openstack and LTSP btw" kinda goes contra to the idea of making Ubuntu Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:29:25 GMT Stephen Sankarsingh http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/message/19354 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/message/19354 Sucks when all you guys talk about is Linux desktops and the desktop sucks so hard. Any interesting applications? Recently, I've been using something called Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:23:03 GMT Lawrence, Rellon http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/message/19353 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/message/19353 ok then Pear looking real nice now. Not as buggy as 5. Alot of polish for the new comers ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:21:47 GMT Lawrence, Rellon http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/message/19352 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLUG/message/19352 there is a ubuntu caribbean group on Google+ join in. Would like to do some stuff with openstack and LTSP btw ... [Non-text portions of this message have been