Monitoring DNS Queries

Monitoring DNS Queries

Recently I've been decommissioning old DNS servers and those things are notoriously hard to get rid of. The problem was that the IP addresses...
Google Search Tips

Google Search Tips

Google has some advanced search features that few people use, which is a shame. Here are some of them. I am sure there are...
Verify Network Port Access

Verify Network Port Access

There are several tools you can use to verify access to a remote network port: nc, tcping, telnet. Unfortunately, nc from the netcat package has been...
Rsync Time Backup

Rsync Time Backup

This is a simple wrapper for the awesome rsync-time-backup script by Laurent Cozic. Through clever use of hard links rsync-time-backup greatly speeds up incremental backups and...
Grepping for IPs

Grepping for IPs

This is a small collection of tools and examples for working with IP addresses and ranges in Bash. This post is not meant to...
Copying a VM between VCenters

Copying a VM between VCenters

I had a little task: clone an operational VM from one VCenter to another. Normally, for such a task I would use the Standalone...
Agedu - Finding Old Files

Agedu – Finding Old Files

I almost never delete anything (not on purpose anyway). Having said that, sometimes I do need to find old data on a server and...
Monitoring Solr Cores

Monitoring Solr Cores

The Cloud tab of the Solr Web UI is convenient, but not for monitoring purposes. Just like you, I hate XML and parsing it...
Tracking Emails in Postfix Logs

Tracking Emails in Postfix Logs

Depending on your Postfix configuration, the same email may cycle through the postfix queue several times, changing it's queue ID and making it difficult to...