In this article we will show how to reset the administrator password on the HPE server management board — Integrated Lights-Out (ILO). This guide is based on iLO v4, but…
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Parted is a PARTition EDitor for Linux to create, format, delete, shrink and extend disk partitions. The tool is easy to use and available in all Unix/Linux distros. A GUI…
In this article we will discuss how to check the performance of a disk or storage array in Linux. IOPS (input/output operations per second) is the number of input-output operations…
In my work, I sometimes come across a problem when Linux is booted with the “Welcome to emergency mode” message. Most often, this problem occurs after an emergency power outage on…
In this article we’ll show how to configure ICMP-based network device monitoring using ping in Zabbix. It is the easiest and the most popular task of agentless monitoring, when you…
Zabbix is an enterprise-level open-source monitoring system. Currently, Zabbix is one of the most popular and powerful free monitoring systems. Due to its simple installation and configuration, Zabbix may be…
In this article we will explore some methods of table/database compression and defragmentation in MySQL/MariaDB, that will help you to save space on a disk a database is located on.…
PHP-FPM (Fast Process Manager) is a separate implementation of FastCGI to run PHP scripts. You can use a combination of NGINX web server (processing static) and PHP-FPM to build a…
In this article we’ll show how to solve problems that occur when a computer running Linux Ubuntu/Mint/Kali doesn’t boot or drops to a busybox prompt during the initramfs initialization. The user…
In this article, we’ll consider a high-available failover configuration of two squid (Linux) proxy servers to access the Internet from a corporate LAN. To build a failover configuration we are…