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		<title>How-to add new device to cacti by script</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adding many devices to cacti is a tedious work. For NoSQL DB, they always have lots of hosts in a cluster. So I wrote a script to add them easily. With this script, what you need to do is just add one row to the table as follows: As usual, it&#8217;s not a perfect script [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexzeng.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4375561&amp;post=625&amp;subd=alexzeng&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SQL Plan Management handy commands</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a blog about SPM previously. Now I want to introduce a set of handy commands to operate SPM. The script is ksh script. Here is the summary commands: Some examples: Ex1. Find a SQL with SQL Plan Baselines using &#8220;ora spmlike&#8221; Ex2. Drop a Sql Plan Baseline of this SQL using &#8220;ora spmdrop&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexzeng.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4375561&amp;post=607&amp;subd=alexzeng&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How-to write Python for Oracle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Zeng</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all, you need to install the Python driver for Oracle module, cx_Oracle. The easiest way is to use pip or easy_install to install it. $ pip install cx_Oracle or $ easy_install cx_Oracle Then, you can start to write scripts. Here is an example: Of course, it’s a quite simple example. But it’s a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexzeng.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4375561&amp;post=598&amp;subd=alexzeng&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How-to write Python for MySQL</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all, you need to install the Python driver for MySQL module, MySQL-python. The easiest way is to use pip or easy_install to install it. $ pip install MySQL-python or $ easy_install MySQL-python Then, you can start to write scripts. Here is an example: Of course, it’s a quite simple function. But it’s a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexzeng.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4375561&amp;post=595&amp;subd=alexzeng&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How-to write Python for Cassandra</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Zeng</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all, you need to install the Python driver for Cassandra module, pycassa. The easiest way is to use pip or easy_install to install it. $ pip install pycassa or $ easy_install pycassa Then, you can start to write scripts. Here is an example: Of course, it’s a quite simple function. But it’s a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexzeng.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4375561&amp;post=588&amp;subd=alexzeng&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How-to write Python for MongoDB</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Zeng</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all, you need to install the Python driver for MongoDB module, pymongo. The easiest way is to use pip or easy_install to install it. $ pip install pymongo or $ easy_install pymongo Then, you can start to write scripts. Here is an example: Of course, it’s a quite simple example. But it’s a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexzeng.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4375561&amp;post=580&amp;subd=alexzeng&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How-to use cacti to monitor Cassandra</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Zeng</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to share my experiences to setup monitor for Cassandra in cacti. The template for Cassandra is based on mysql-cacti-templates and Cacti Templates for Cassandra. The setup steps are listed in the README file of the package. The original template is based on Cassandra 0.6.8 while I need to monitor Cassandra 0.8. So there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexzeng.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4375561&amp;post=569&amp;subd=alexzeng&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How-to use cacti monitor db</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Zeng</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Table of Contents 1. Summary 2. Installation guide 3. Configure view graph without login 4. Templates 5. How-to add servers 1. How-to add DB servers Special for Cassandra Special for MongoDB Special for MySQL DB 2. How-to add servers using Linux host template 6. How-to import templates 7. How-to add templates manually 8. How-to create [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexzeng.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4375561&amp;post=552&amp;subd=alexzeng&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How-to use cacti to monitor MongoDB</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Zeng</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently setup a cacti instance to monitor MongoDB. I&#8217;d like to share it. To begin with, I setup a cacti instance by referencing cacti installation document. At first, I use the template from here. It works. But there are some issues in my situation: It uses ssh to access the MongoDB server. I don&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexzeng.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4375561&amp;post=508&amp;subd=alexzeng&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How-to write Perl script for MongoDB</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Zeng</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all, you need to install the MongoDB module for Perl. The easiest way is to use CPAN to install it. perl -MCPAN -e shell cpan&#62; install MongoDB Then, you can start to write scripts. Here is a script I wrote to get some MongoDB status information.&#160; The script run 2 commands to get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexzeng.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4375561&amp;post=514&amp;subd=alexzeng&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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