Author Archives: Espen Braastad

KVM with iPXE in RHEL 6

A while ago I discovered the amazing iPXE project. It is a complete PXE implementation with lots of nifty features, based on the gPXE project. Redhat ships the gPXE firmware for qemu and KVM, and you might want to use … Continue reading

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Workaround of the day: PXE as primary boot dev on a dl360 g7

The problem: How to set PXE as the preferred boot device on a default HP dl360 g7 from Linux? The key words here are “from Linux”. No iLO tricks are allowed. Of course, the simple answer should be: “use ipmitool!”. … Continue reading

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munincollector-ng

Munincollector-ng is a perl script that collects graphs from multiple munin installations to display them in one page. A scenario where this is helpful is when you have (too) many munin clients on (too) many munin masters, and you want … Continue reading

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