Apr
18
2007
Important note: Heartbeat is now obsolete and has moved to a new stack available on Clusterlabs. For simple high availability project using a virtual IP, try out keepalived that does monitoring and failover with just a simple configuration file. When a Mysql server contains critical data, it’s always a good idea to rely on more […]
Tags: cluster, Database, Mysql
Apr
01
2007
Having a few databases running on Mysql with tables growing to several millions of rows, backups become pretty heavy. If the server fails, it can mean several hours lost, working on setting up a new server and reimporting the data from the backup. I’m not even talking about the potential financial loss due to the […]
Tags: cluster, Database, Mysql
Oct
11
2006
Logging Radius accounting into Mysql database can fill up a lot of space. Some performance issues will arise at some stage as well, especially if traffic reporting scripts are to be added to the overall system. That’s why we added a new table to archive older Freeradius accounting records. Motivations We can of course delete […]
Tags: Accounting, Database, Freeradius, linux, Mysql, radius
Sep
26
2006
Steps to authenticate Apache against Windows Active Directory with LDAP module.
Tags: Apache, Authentication, ldap, linux, Windows