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PgBackMan

PgBackMan is a tool for managing PostgreSQL logical backups created with pg_dump and pg_dumpall. It is designed to manage backups from thousands of databases running in multiple PostgreSQL nodes, and it supports a multiple backup server topology.

Zabbix-CLI

Zabbix-cli is a tool for managing some administration tasks in monitoring systems running Zabbix. It is a terminal client written in Python that uses the Zabbix-API to connect to your Zabbix installation.

Blog

In the blog section you have a selection of articles about system administration, system monitoring, programming, data analysis and trending.

In the spanish version of the website you have access to an archive of selected articles published in Linux-ES and PostgreSQL-ES during the last years.

Presentations

In this section you will find a selection of presentations I have given at various technical conferences around the world.

Blog posts

Articles about system administration, system monitoring, programming, data analysis and trending.
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Elasticsearch - Common maintenance tasks
2017-07-10 / 0 comments

If you have to administrate an Elasticsearch cluster, there are some common maintenance tasks that you will have to run to keep your data growth under control, backup your indexes and keep the clus

Tags: elasticsearch, blog, curator, sysadm, ansible
Cat: System Administration
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Access to Elasticsearch with Cerebro via SSL+LDAP
2017-06-25 / 0 comments

One of the main plugins we were using with our 2.x Elasticsearch cluster was KOPF.

Tags: blog, elasticsearch, data analysis
Cat: System Administration
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Using Zabbix with PostgreSQL as the database backend
2017-06-19 / 5 comments

We started using Zabbix to monitor the IT infrastructure at The University of Oslo in 2014.

Tags: blog, zabbix, postgreSQL, performance, planetpostgresql
Cat: System Administration
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PgBackMan - Release version 1.2.0
2017-06-13 / 0 comments

It has been a while since the last release of PgBackMan and with this version we hope to start a new period with more frequent releases.

Tags: pgbackman, postgreSQL, blog, planetpostgresql
Cat: PgBackMan
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Zabbix-CLI - Release version 1.7.0
2017-06-09 / 0 comments

A new version of Zabbix-CLI has been released to the public. Source files, RPM and DEB files are available at

Tags: zabbix-cli, blog, monitoring, zabbix
Cat: Zabbix-CLI
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Examples from the new version of Zabbix-CLI - v.1.6.0
2017-01-13 / 0 comments

Just before Christmas we launched a new version of the Zabbix-CLI client we have developed at The University of Oslo.

Tags: zabbix-cli, zabbix, monitoring, blog
Cat: Monitoring, Zabbix-CLI
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Zabbix-CLI - Release version 1.6.0
2016-12-06 / 0 comments

A new version of Zabbix-CLI has been released. Source files, RPM and DEB files are available at

Tags: zabbix-cli, monitoring, release notes, blog, zabbix
Cat: Zabbix-CLI
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PgBackMan - Release version 1.1.0
2015-10-28 / 0 comments

This new release of PgBackMan implements some new features and fixes some bugs from version 1.0.0. Read the"Migration to 1.1.0" section for important details before you upgrade to this new version.

Tags: blog, pgbackman, release notes, postgreSQL, planetpostgresql
Cat: PgBackMan