Imil wrote as nice 5 minutes collectd + facette setup article using NetBSD. After a quick look in the ports, I saw it was possible to monitor OpenBSD using Collectd and Facette too. Hang tight, it only takes seconds to achieve. Grab the metrics using Collectd # pkg_add collectd-rrdtool collectd-mysql # vi /etc/collectd.conf (...) BaseDir "/var/collectd" PIDFile "/var/collectd/collectd.pid" … Continue reading "Monitor OpenBSD using Collectd and Facette"

Once upon a time, the collectd database was hosted on the dagobah InfluxDB 1.4.x server. Then came the moment when it had to be migrated to the hoth server. The backup and restore process happened this way… On the source server, enable remote management for InfluxDB: # vi /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf (...) bind-address = "0.0.0.0:8088" # rcctl … Continue reading "Backup and Restore InfluxDB databases"