HP ProLiant DL380 Array configuration tool for SLES 8

# cat /proc/driver/cciss/cciss0cciss0: HP Smart Array 5i ControllerBoard ID: 0×40800e11Firmware Version: 2.66IRQ: 10Logical drives: 3Current Q depth: 0Current # commands on controller: 0Max Q depth since init: 128Max # commands on controller since init: 128Max SG entries since init: 31
Sequential access devices: 0
cciss/c0d0:       69.45GB       RAID 1(0+1)cciss/c0d1:       69.45GB       RAID 1(0+1)cciss/c0d2:       69.45GB       RAID 1(0+1)
 
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Munin node –> Can’t exec /usr/share/munin/plugins

Just happened on couple of SLES 9 servers after installing the followings
the server just came back with postfix plugin.
perl-Net-Server-0.87-29.4.i586.rpmmunin-node-1.2.4-1.sles9.rpm
 
But by default munin plugins are
cpu entropy forks if_eth0 iostat memory mysql_slowqueries  open_files processes df exim_mailqueue
if_err_eth0  if_eth1 irqstats mysql_bytes mysql_threads open_inodes
swap df_inode  exim_mailstats if_err_eth1 interrupts load mysql_queries
netstat postfix_mailvolume vmstat
Then I manually did symbolic links from [...]

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daemontools for UNIX services

daemontools is a collection of tools for managing UNIX services.
supervise monitors a service. It starts the service and restarts the service if it dies. Setting up a new service is easy: all supervise needs is a directory with a run script that runs the service.
multilog saves error messages to one or more logs. It optionally [...]

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Linux rlimit problem

On Linux, we have started experiencing the following problem:
Jun 11 14:07:52 10.1.123.234 kernel: open files rlimit 1024 reached for uid 0 pid 7127 (seen 2 times)
The following seems to fix the problem after a reboot:

Modify /etc/init.d/cron and add the line in red.
case “$1″ in    start)ulimit -n 65536        echo -n “Starting CRON daemon”        ## Start daemon [...]

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SUSE Linux + LVM in rescue mode

Just Steps
1.  Boot from SUSE Linux Install CD2.  Select Rescue Mode3.  Login as “root” to rescue mode (no password)4.  Manually mount your non-LVM disks        a.  mkdir /mnt/root    b.  mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/root/boot
5.  Manually mount your LVM stuff:    b.  vgscan    c.  vgchange -a -y rootvg    d.  mount /dev/rootvg/lvroot /mnt/root/boot    d.  mount /dev/rootvg/lvusr /mnt/root/boot/usr    d.  mount /dev/rootvg/lvopt [...]

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