07 August 2017
San Francisco, United States, August 7, 2017 – From today credativ is going to be a part of the OpenChain community and adhere to the specifications given by the OpenChain Project. “The addition of credativ brings another important Open Source pillar into the OpenChain community and boosts our mission to make Open Source Software compliance […]
24 February 2017
Debian 9 “Stretch”, the latest version of Debian, is about to be released and after a full-freeze on February 5th everyone is trying its best to fix the last bugs that are left. Upon entering the final phase of development in February the test version was “frozen” so that no more packages could be added […]
10 August 2015
In this post we describe how to integrate Icinga2 with Graphite and Grafana on Debian stable (jessie). What is Graphite? Graphite stores performance data on a configurable period. Via a defined interface, services can send metrics to Graphite, which are then stored for the designated period. Possible examples of the type of metrics that it […]
31 March 2010
The vast majority of Debian installations are simplified with the use of Preseeding and Netboot. Friedrich Weber, a school student on a work experience placement with us at our German office has observed the process and captured it in a Howto here: Imagine the following situation: you find yourself with ten to twenty brand new […]
25 February 2010
The administration of a large number of servers can be quite tiresome without a central configuration management. This article gives a first introduction into the configuration management tool, Puppet. Introduction In our daily work at the Open Source Support Center we maintain a large number of servers. Managing larger clusters or setups means maintaining dozens […]