Last year I shared a series of posts walking through how to set up and monitor MongoDB with Aria Operations. For reference, here are those articles: When I originally created those posts, Mongo DB had not yet added support for Ubuntu 24.04, so I used Ubuntu 20.04, as I had…
Managing snapshots in vSphere environments is a task that folks have dealt with for years. I remember one of my first PowerCLI scripts was one that sent email notifications for snapshots over a week old to review and manually clean them up. In this post we’ll walk through one way…
I recently set out to configure the open-source Telegraf agent on a physical system in my lab, with the goal of sending telemetry data to Aria Operations. The process for setting this up is documented here: https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/aria/aria-operations/8-18/vmware-aria-operations-configuration-guide-8-18/connect-to-data-sources/monitoring-applications-and-os-using-open-source-telegraf/monitoring-applications-using-open-source-telegraf/monitoring-applications-using-open-source-telegraf-on-a-linux-platform-saas-onprem.html. Since most of my lab systems are virtualized, the only physical candidate available…
I was recently made aware of a KB article titled “Tag associations are not removed from vCenter Server database when associated objects are removed or deleted” (https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleNumber=344960). The article includes a script that removes orphaned tag assignments left behind in the vCenter Server database after object deletion. Investigating the Issue…
When building or troubleshooting infrastructure, it is often useful to simulate high CPU or memory usage withou deploying full production workloads. To assist with this, I previously created a few purpose built, like cpubusy.sh and memfill.sh. Historically, I created multiple Tiny Core Linux templates, each designed for a specific purpose,…