TROUBLESHOOTING WONKY ZABBIX REPORTS

I rely on Zabbix to keep tabs on all of my machines and to make sure all of The Storehouse is working perfectly. It’s always troubling to wake up to 30+ emails from Zabbix and is pretty good cause for alarm. Turns out, these things were fairly innocuous and the sign of a pretty simple issue and related to the backup of that VM. I’ll try to outline the steps I used to diagnose and lessons I learned along the way.

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BUILDING A CUSTOM OPENVZ TEMPLATE

One of the things I’ve thought would be handy for much too long was setting up a custom template for my virtual machines. I don’t do anything too crazy, but I use LDAP and some other utilities that I continually have to setup and configure on every machine. The ultimate in convenience would be to create a new virtual machine and have all the environment specific config done, so I can get right into building it out.

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ROBO AS A PHP TASK RUNNER

One of the things I ran into when developing The Storehouse was the need for a task runner that fit into my weird style of development. I’m not really a fan of having multiple tools that do the same thing, so consolidating all of my dependencies into Composer was a goal of mine once I started needing task runners. At first, I started off using Gulp and Node.js to do task running.

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