March 2016

The Munin's generated web pages are very old fashioned and dull. Its design uses tables with small text and too much spaces. This guide will show how to change the Munin's template and should be continuation of Setup Munin on CentOS 7 with nginx. There will be two alternative Munin 2.x templates will be shown here:

1. Munin Dynamic Template

This alternative template uses jQuery and Twitter Bootstrap for Munin 1.x and 2.x versions that enhanced user experience and improve web pages' appearance. The following are the steps to setup this template:

Monit can manage and monitor processes, programs, files, directories and filesystems of your UNIX server for you. You can program Monit to execute action for events like: service stops running or its using too much CPU or a host is unreachable. The following steps are tested running on my Linode server running Centos 7 64-bit. It is assumed that nginx is already installed in your system. If not, please follow this guide.

Munin provides web interface showing graphs about your server's load average, memory usage, CPU usage, MySQL throughput, eth0 traffic, etc. Although it lets you monitor more than one server, this article will discuss the monitoring of the system where it is installed. The following steps are tested running on my Linode server running Centos 7 64-bit. It is assumed that nginx is already installed in your system. If not, please follow this guide.

ATRPMS repo is down for quite a long time (http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/229661/is-atrpms-dead). Some might want to use this repo to install a software package using yum like ffmpeg. It's still possible to install it by using ATRPMS repository mirror server and this article will show how to do it.

This article is the continuation of Running multiple PHP versions on CentOS 7 using Virtualmin. Some of us assumed that the additional PHP version in our systems inherits the extension modules installed for system version of the default PHP package installed from system distribution. Remember the two PHP versions installed are independent in respect to each other so we need to install another set of extension modules for our additional PHP version.

This guide will show how to install additional PHP version (in this tutorial we will install PHP version 5.6. Check my post here for PHP 7.0) on CentOS 7 by using the Software Collections and have Virtualmin detect and use it. What requires me to perform this is because I need to install Drupal 8 which requires PHP version 5.5.9 or higher but as of this writing CentOS 7 only provides PHP version 5.4.16 plus I don't want to affect the system version of the default PHP package installed from system distribution.