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

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

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

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...

This is a simple one: get a list of MX records for the given domains and output into CSV file. Really, the only interesting...

Below is shorthand for installing alternative versions of Java on your RHEL/CentOS system. This may come in useful for the purposes of testing. # Set...

NetData is a real-time system monitor great for visualizing performance data. Instances of netdata run independently on monitored systems. The results can be accessed remotely and...

Just a little bit of fun with Bash: a loan payment calculator. Nothing fancy here. Maybe I'll add the amortization schedule to it later... #!/bin/bash principal=$(echo...

The little script (dns_qpm2) below will look through your BIND query logs and calculate average query-per-minute rate for the given clients.e Nothing fancy, but...