• Login as Administrator
• Create windows user with name ftp_user (and specified the password)
• Go to http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/download/ download Binary Installer Release then Extract and Install Openssh server.
• Open command prompt and type:

  cd C:\PROGRA~1\OpenSSH\bin
  mkgroup -l >> ..\etc\group
  mkpasswd -l -u ftp_user >> ..\etc\passwd

• Open Regedit, Find key My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/home
  change native value with c:\sftphome
• Create folder c:\sftphome
• Create folder c:\sftphome\ftp_user and make sure user ftp_user has Full Control
• Start the OpenSSH server. Open command prompt and type:

  net start opensshd

• Make sure SSH server is running, type:

  netstat -an

  and look for 0.0.0.0:22 on Local Address

• Test connection by using putty for ssh or filezilla for sftp. Credentials to use:

Username: ftp_user (or anything you choose)
Password: user’s pass
Host (IP Address): server’s IP Address
Port: 22

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To validate (make sure) your IP Address already has license for cPanel to to cPanel License Validator, and enter your server main IP Address.

• If you have updating your cPanel License from Trial to Active, or
• If you change your server hostname, or
• You get Invalid License File error due to hostname change, bad system time, license IP address binding, firewall rules, and some other more obscure scenarios

You can try run this command as root

/usr/local/cpanel/cpkeyclt

A helpful expired license checklist in the cPanel forums takes troubleshooting further if the above methods don’t help.

PS: With an invalid license, any Web interface to cPanel will not work (including, WHM and Webmail)

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Free PHP Uptime Status Monitoring

The guys from SillyDNS, has made a free and open source script to monitor service uptime for servers and network devices. It called Statusmon. The script is based on PHP/MySQL which you can download to your server and run the monitoring service for yourself.

You can easily add more servers and network devices, you can even add another service to monitor, and choose what service is the primary service for that device. You also can have email alert if a service is down.

It came with nice interface (you can see the screenshot), after you configure what device and service need to monitor, you need to add a cronjob for the script to check automatically. Statusmon even has an uptime archive for previous month.

The minus things are (perhaps it only me): I can’t install the script using the installer, the admin area not so intuitive, I have to click several submit/update button when I add/edit/delete some variables, and Statusmon support forum not very actice.

Other than that, this free and open source script, it’s very easy and enough for me and team to let us know which servers or network devices that down as soon as possible. Well I need to check email to know if there is alert from statusmon, but luckily although I don’t have Blackberry, my Manager has it, so he will be the first person to know

After running several years without complain, suddenly the server need to rebuild due to corrupt, or something else. But alas, you didn’t find the smartstart CD. It was several years ago, how can I remember where to put it? Ah it’s was there, but alas again, the CD was stretch. And now you hoping you can turn back in time, to get the correct CD.

But dont be afraid, my dear colleagues, HP archives all SmartStart CD version, all you need to is download the right version for your server and burn it into cdrom. Here it is the link:

HP SmartStart CD Archives

Dec 14 17:26:29 ns named[14961]: lame server resolving
'163.98.42.89.in-addr.arpa'(in '98.42.89.in-addr.arpa'?):
85.120.66.98#53
Dec 14 17:26:36 ns named[14961]: lame server resolving
'163.98.42.89.in-addr.arpa'(in '98.42.89.in-addr.arpa'?):
85.120.66.100#53
Dec 14 17:26:36 ns named[14961]: lame server resolving
'163.98.42.89.in-addr.arpa'(in '98.42.89.in-addr.arpa'?):
85.120.66.100#53

Those lines can make your /var/log/message file big pretty easily and consume your harddisk space.  So edit your named.conf (/etc/named.conf or /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf) and create a new logging section and add below lines:

# vi /etc/named.conf

logging {   category "lame-servers" {
     "null";
   };
};

# service named restart

You can put it between options and zone sections.

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To check replication status when I in the console and playing with replication configuration or when I have nothing to do yet I want to see a black screen

monitorreplication.sh

#!/bin/bash
while [ 1 ]
do
        # Your code goes here
        echo ""
        date
        echo "=============================="
        mysql -u backup -pmysqlback -e "show slave status\G;"

        # Modify sleep time (in seconds) as needed below
        sleep 10
done

Another scripts to send replication status via email
This script is for sending email to my dept. just incase replication stop. And I have manually delete file /root/backup/slave_problem.txt if problem solved.

checkreplication.sh

#!/bin/bash
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

###check if already notified###
###you have to manually delete the file after resolve the problem
if [ -f /root/backup/slave_problem.txt ]; then
exit 1;
fi

###Check if slave running###
(
echo "show slave status \G;"
) | mysql -u backup -pmysqlback 2>&1 | grep "Slave_IO_Running: No"
if [ "$?" -ne "1" ]; then
SUBJECT="DB23 - Replication IO failed"
mysql -u backup -pmysqlback -e "show slave status \G;" > /root/backup/slave_problem.txt

else

(
echo "show slave status \G;"
) | mysql -u backup -pmysqlback 2>&1 | grep "Slave_SQL_Running: No"
if [ "$?" -ne "1" ]; then
SUBJECT="DB23 - Replication SQL failed"
mysql -u backup -pmysqlback -e "show slave status \G;" > /root/backup/slave_problem.txt
fi

fi

###Send notification if replication down###
if [ -f /root/backup/slave_problem.txt ]; then
mail -s "$SUBJECT" it@myholding.com < /root/backup/slave_problem.txt
fi

This script is just to send replication status to my email only so I can monitor it if it stops, or has an error, etc.

slave_report.sh

/root/backup/slave_report.sh
#!/bin/sh
mysql -u backup -pmysqlbackup -e "show slave status \G;" > /root/backup/slave_report.txt
mail -s "Replication report on DB23" amin@rpxholding.com < /root/backup/slave_report.txt

Added the last 2 scripts into crontab:

#check replication
1,11,21,31,41,51 1-23 * * * /root/backup/checkreplication.sh > /dev/null 2>&1
5 2,6,10,14,18,22 * * * /root/backup/slave_report.sh > /dev/null 2>&1

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http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-write-infinite-loop-in-bash/
http://howtoforge.com/script-to-check-if-mysql-master-master-replication-is-working-correctly

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/boot    200MB
/tmp    2GB
/    20GB
/home    rest of partition

For a dedicated server with 160GB space or more

/boot	200MB
/tmp	2GB
/usr	15GB
/var	20GB
/	20GB
/home	rest of partition
/backup another physical disk

SWAP partition always twice the memory size. The size is just for reference only. They adjustable to your needs.

Update: April 12, 2009 got ref from http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=526319

So below is the equation for partitions for cpanel server (HDD 250GB/Mem 2GB)

/boot        150MB
/usr          10% of HDD = 10% of 250GB = 25GB
/var          5% of HDD = 5% of 250GB = 12,5GB or you can round up 15GB
/tmp         1 x Memory = 1 x 2GB = 2GB
swap         2 x Memory = 2 x 2GB = 4GB
/              10GB
/home       the rest of HDD
/backup    another hdd just use them all

edit /var should have 15% of HDD

Complete Integration Server Installation Manual – Password required to open

Problem happen during project:

Unable to use short password for user:

Solution: run gpedit.msc and change several parameters

Username Integration which I use to run FTP Monitor and automatically log-in into server are unable to login after I upgrade the server into Domain Controller. So I add several group on Integration account to enable it login to server and create Active Directory Users

and for FTP configuration, I disabled anonymous access, and change the default folder

And also to make the server automatically powered on and logon to Windows and run FTP Monitor, I change several Registry keys. Detailed instruction is available on my other blog