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I sometimes want to omit directories from my disk usage (du -sh *) checks. This includes virtual files systems such as proc / dev and also mounts to other filesystems (data in the example below). This is what works for me: du –exclude={proc,sys,dev,data} -sh * The equals sign appears to be optional and worked both… Read more »
I was checking the memory on approximately 140 servers using ansible: ansible –user root -k -i servers.list -m shell -a “free -h; mysql” test but the output appears over several lines e.g. server103.domain.dev | SUCCESS | rc=0 >> total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 94G 44G 49G 59M 203M 4.6G -/+ buffers/cache: 39G 54G… Read more »
In a Cloudera cluster we had a few nodes reporting the following error message in the logs under hadoop-cmf-hdfs-DATANODE-whatever.com.log.out The error included: Datanode denied communication with namenode because the host is not in the include-list: : DatanodeRegistration One solution could be to ‘Refresh Node List’ as shown in the screenshot below. Find it by clicking… Read more »
On the Windows Domain Controller I checked the current NTP settings with: w32tm /query /configuration I tried a few alternative commands and got errors such as “the rpc server is unavailable”. The command that worked was: w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:time.windows.com /syncfromflags:manual /reliable:yes /update After issuing that command I could see the ntp server listed when… Read more »
I wanted to add some checks to a Windows server and the methods seem to have changed a little over the years. At the moment I have amended the nsclient.ini file on the Windows box with: CheckDisk=1 CheckSystem=1 Then from the Nagios box I can check CPU with a threshold as follows: /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H winserver001.domain.tld… Read more »
Using the Hadoop command we can send fairly regular filesystem commands to navigate HDFS. On Cloudera I am sending commands to port 8020 of the active name node. If you don’t have the hadoop command available on your system you need to download hadoop, extract it and add the bin directory to your path. For… Read more »
So working on a system that had incorrect partitioning configured. In /etc/fstab the partitions were configured with: PARTLABEL=data1 /data1 ext4 defaults 0 0 PARTLABEL=data2 /data2 ext4 defaults 0 0 but the partitions did not have PARTLABELS set. The LABEL and PARTLABEL can be viewed with: lsblk -o name,label,partlabel,mountpoint,size,uuid To set the label property use: e2label… Read more »
I needed to access the Hue file browser service and for my version of cloudera this was: cd /opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH-5.7.6-1.cdh5.7.6.p0.6/lib/hue Run the createuser command: ./build/env/bin/hue createsuperuser Username (leave blank to use ‘joebloggs’): Email address: joebloggs@whatever.tld Password: Password (again): Superuser created successfully.
Download the latest version of the Arduino IDE as the version in the Ubuntu/Mint/Debian repositories is a little old: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software At the time of writing I am using version 1.8.5 Configure Arduino IDE First we need to import everything we need to operate the MKR Fox 1200 so first visit Tools > Board > Board… Read more »
Good concise article here on devopscube for installing zookeeper cluster. I’ve added some of my own bits: Firewall Disable firewalld or allow ports 2181 3888 2888 Install Java yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk User Create a zookeeper user groupadd zookeeper useradd -g zookeeper -d /opt/zookeeper -s /sbin/nologin zookeeper Install Zookeeper Download ZooKeeper from the Apache: wget http://mirrors.ukfast.co.uk/sites/ftp.apache.org/zookeeper/zookeeper-3.4.10/zookeeper-3.4.10.tar.gz… Read more »
