Here is an updated version of the instructions given at Free Alternative to Splunk Using Fluentd. The installation was performed in CentOS 6.5. 1. Install ElasticSearch mkdir /opt/src cd /opt/src wget https://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-1.2.1.noarch.rpm rpm -ivh elasticsearch-1.2.1.noarch.rpm /sbin/chkconfig –add elasticsearch service elasticsearch start # Move default file locations if required mkdir /data/elasticsearch mkdir /data/elasticsearch/data mkdir /data/elasticsearch/tmp mkdir /data/elasticsearch/logs […]

Here’s just a little update of the process found here, Installing Fluentd using Ruby Gem on OpenSuSE 12.1 ?View Code BASHzypper install ruby zypper install ruby-devel gem install fluentd –no-ri –no-rdoc cd /etc fluentd1.9 –setup ./fluent vi /etc/fluent/fluent.conf # config file, there’s some forwarding server configured here that you may want to alter or remove […]

I received the following error, on CentOS 6.5, when configuring a High Availability cluster. This also cause the computer to freeze on the os boot. clvmd startup timed out The fix was found here and involved an edit of /etc/lvm/lvm.conf. This required a minor change to the library_dir line as the location of these libraries […]

This post is part of a series that will deal with setting up a MySQL shared storage cluster using VirtualBox & FreeNAS. In this post we deal with the setup of an iscsi volume on two nodes. The text in bold below represent commands to be executed in the shell. yum install iscsi-initiator-utils iscsiadm -m […]

Linux Node1 In VirtualBox, Node1 > Settings > Network. Adapters 1, 2 & 3 should be enabled and set to “Bridged Adapter”. Start the Linux VM to boot CentOS. Login as root. Execute the below command… ?View Code BASHifconfig -a | grep eth[0-9] You should see interfaces eth0, eth1 & eth2. Run the command system-config-network-tui […]