Category Archives: osuosl

Routerstation Pro Backfire Nightlies!

That’s right boys and girls. I’ve started compiling RouterStation Pro OpenWRT nightly builds for all punks who like to live on the edge. From my testing these images are rather stable, and aren’t prone to consistent or serious issues. Since … Continue reading

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Upgrading GuruPlug Kernels

I recently had more time to investigate my earlier problems with the GuruPlug.  The problem was discovered by some people on the plugcomputer.org forum.  The problem stock U-Boot is that is incorrectly reports the arcNumber.  The solution then, is to … Continue reading

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RouterStation Pro OpenWRT upgrade

In an effort to upgrade my network from the aging–and failing WRT54G’s, I purchased a RouterStation Pro.  A RouterStation Pro is an embedded Linux board with some impressive hardware specs.  The part that appealed to me was the 3 Mini-PCI … Continue reading

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Munin-cron overlap fix

Recently I’ve migrated my munin instance onto a Linode virtual machine. Having fewer resources was a potential source of problems. One of the problems that I ran into early on was that sometimes a munin-cron run would still be executing … Continue reading

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Part III: Munin[node] in cfEngine

At work we use munin and cfEngine extensively, therefore it is accurate to assume that we have a tight-knit setup that allows us to scale munin-node to all hosts in cfEngine, and have the munin-master configured through it as well. … Continue reading

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Part II: The Munin-master

Hopefully you’ve read the first part(Munin-Node), and have one or more nodes already configured. It’s alright if the munin-node is running on the same machine as the munin-master. The master is more of a pain to set up than the … Continue reading

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Part I: Setting up Munin-Node

After becoming increasingly frustrated with cacti’s lack of sane repeatable configuration and extensibility I began to explore other options. Munin showed the most promise and compatibility with many of the services we run at the OSL, such as memcached and … Continue reading

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