30 Jun

Install Percona Monitoring Tools for Nagios – MySQL Plugins

Recently a friend asked about Installing Percona Monitoring Tools for Nagios as he was facing a few issues. I managed to set-it-up on my ubuntu VM. Sharing the the work-log of Nagios and Percona Monitoring Plugins setup steps here for some-one who’s looking for the same!

Install Nagios on Ubuntu – steps:

(skip to Percona Monitoring Tools – Nagios Plugin Setup)

Install dependencies:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libgd2-xpm-dev apache2-utils libssl-dev

Configure Nagios users & group:

24 Jun

UMASK & UMASK_DIR – changing default MySQL file dir permissions

UMASK and UMASK_DIR are amongst few MySQL Environment variables which defines directory and file creation modes (file permissions). In this post we will understand using UMASK & UMASK_DIR for changing the database directory and file permissions from it’s default to what we need.

Changing default MySQL permissions using UMASK & UMASK_DIR

Let’s build some background first. Earlier we learnt about setting-up MySQL database backup using holland and xtrabackup. As a routine I have seen database backups being run under users other than “mysql” or “root” for such physical backups (looking at security aspect). For that, we need to add this backup-user to mysql group and grant the group read and exec permissions on MySQL datadir.

Adding backup user to mysql group:
usermod -a -G mysql backup

Granting group-read,execute permissions to backup user (on MySQL datadir):
chmod g+rx /mysql/data -R

07 Jun

XML to JSON converter in Siebel

Often we come across requirement for Siebel to integrate with external applications. Siebel provides various ways to integrate through EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) like EIM, Prebuilt connectors, various queues like MSMQ, JMS, WebSphere MQ. Also Web service based integration using SOAP. Siebel also supports RESTful based integration using Fusion Middleware.

One important feature of Siebel EAI is EAI Java Business Service which can be used to invoke external Java class to perform various operations.
In this article we will see how we can use various EAI Business services to communicate with JSON API of external application. We will have an XML input processed and resulted into a JSON output in Siebel.

02 Jun

Setup and configure MySQL backup using Holland and Xtrabackup

Setting up a database backup is a primary task for database administrators and we see perl and shell scripts wrapped around few of the backup-tools in practice. With right tools things can look easy and today we shall look into one of that!

MySQL Database backup can be done with mysqldump, mysqlhotbackup, xtrabackup, lvm / file-system snapshots or doing delimited-text file backups.

In this post we will learn setting up and configuring MySQL backup using Holland backup framework & Xtrabackup. We won’t be needing any scripts 🙂 (let’s have short intro first…)