by nClouds | Jun 11, 2013 | Announcements, Migration, MSP
I tried to kill query on AWS RDS today and I got an error saying “ERROR 1095 (HY000): You are not owner of thread” , even though I was using the admin account for RDS. As the error suggests, in order to kill it, you need to be the process owner. You can get the info...
by nClouds | Jun 4, 2013 | Announcements, Migration, MSP
With the new version of Chef we have more options and more features and an even better knife status command, which brings us to the discussion at hand which is how to alert for stale nodes on Chef using Nagios:- The knife status command is used to display a brief...
by nClouds | May 30, 2013 | Announcements, Migration, MSP
We shall be using the knife-essentials plugin to upgrade from Chef 10 to Chef 11. Prerequisites To upgrade, you need a live Chef 10 and Chef 11 server, and a knife workstation that can hit them both, loaded with the latest knife-essentials. 1. To install Chef...
by nClouds | May 22, 2013 | Announcements, Migration, MSP
Ohai is a tool which is used by chef-client to obtain information about the node’s platform detail, networking usage, memory usage, processor usage , kernel data , host names, fully qualified domain names and other configuration. It also has command line tool which...
