Configure Amazon CloudWatch Monitoring Scripts for Linux

Installing dependencies

yum install cpan
yum install perl-Time-HiRes
cpan >> install Switch
yum install zip unzip
yum install wget
yum install perl-Crypt-SSLeay


wget http://ec2-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/cloudwatch-samples/CloudWatchMonitoringScripts-v1.1.0.zip
unzip CloudWatchMonitoringScripts-v1.1.0.zip
cd aws-scripts-mon/

vi awscreds.template
AWSAccessKeyId=
AWSSecretKey=

Test it
./mon-put-instance-data.pl --mem-util --mem-used --mem-avail --disk-path=/ --disk-space-util --disk-space-used --disk-space-avail --swap-used --aws-credential-file=/root/aws-scripts-mon/awscreds.template

Add it to cron
* * * * * /usr/bin/perl /root/aws-scripts-mon/mon-put-instance-data.pl --mem-util --mem-used --mem-avail --aws-credential-file=/root/aws-scripts-mon/awscreds.template --from-cron

 

 

Shell In A Box – A Web-Based SSH Terminal to Access Remote Linux Servers

Shell In A Box (pronounced as shellinabox) is a web based terminal emulator . It has built-in web server that runs as a web-based SSH client on a specified port and prompt you a web terminal emulator to access and control your Linux Server SSH Shell remotely using any AJAX/JavaScript and CSS enabled browsers without the need of any additional browser 

RHEL/CentOS 6 32-64 Bit

## RHEL/CentOS 6 32-Bit ##
# wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

## RHEL/CentOS 6 64-Bit ##
# wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

# vi /etc/sysconfig/shellinaboxd

# TCP port that shellinboxd's webserver listens on- Which ever you need , here I am choosing port 80
PORT=80

# specify the IP address of a destination SSH server
OPTS="-s /:SSH:172.16.25.125"

# if you want to restrict access to shellinaboxd from localhost only
OPTS="-s /:SSH:172.16.25.125 --localhost-only"

[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/keystone/keystone.log'

[root@controller2 ~]# tail -f /var/log/keystone/keystone-startup.log
_setup_logging_from_conf(product_name, version)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/keystone/openstack/common/log.py", line 525, in _setup_logging_from_conf
filelog = logging.handlers.WatchedFileHandler(logpath)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/handlers.py", line 377, in __init__
logging.FileHandler.__init__(self, filename, mode, encoding, delay)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 827, in __init__
StreamHandler.__init__(self, self._open())
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 846, in _open
stream = open(self.baseFilename, self.mode)
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/keystone/keystone.log'

 

chown keystone.keystone /var/log/keystone/keystone.log