An interesting tool

Posted on December 29th, 2007 in Search Engines by Russ

I found this interesting tool that should help with search engine optimization.

While I’ve been around the internet a few times ( I’ve been here since 1993 ), I tend to think that SEO is easy. Using a tool like this does the quick tests for me and determines how well I’m doing. It gives good reminders for things like alt tags, description tags and the page title, and how well they match to the page.

The Thorns of Cacti

Posted on December 12th, 2007 in system admin by Russ

Learned a lot about cacti today.

First, had a problem where I couldn’t get anything to go into the $argv variables in php. Even in a dummy “print_r($argv)” script. Nothing. var_dump claimed that the $argv array was null. I finally gave up and forced it to use the right php.ini file with the -c (path to php.ini) flags.

Second, had a problem where the mysql version didn’t support the global use of “show status” — so I had to make the adjustment to the mysql_stats file listed here… http://forums.cacti.net/about6108-0-asc-105.html

Third, had to remove the texts in “unit grid value” and recreate all my graphs. http://forums.cacti.net/about12327-0-asc-15.html

Fourth, and I was starting to feel kind of old-hat at this; some of the servers I was configuring were deduced by cacti to be “down” — and it refused to make graphs for me. I had to remove the snmp community string and cacti figured out not to check that for those servers (those servers didn’t have snmp running ).