Author: Sonassi Guru
Stack Services Administration with Monit
You can view service statuses; stop, start and restart services across MageStack using the Monit management interface. Read more about Monit. You can access it via the following URL: https://mmonit.magestack.com ! You must be connected to the VPN to use … Continue reading
MySQL Administration with PHPMyAdmin
PHPMyAdmin is accessible at: Latest Version: http://phpmyadmin.magestack.com If you have multiple servers, you should access the servers respective PHPMyAdmin instance: i.e. http://phpmyadmin.2.magestack.com ! You must be connected to the VPN to use this service
Log Administration with Kibana
Kibana is a web interface to the centralised logging server. From here you can review logs from all nodes within MageStack; filter information, find trends or export statistics. Kibana is installed and accessible at: https://kibana.magestack.com ! You must be connected … Continue reading
Stack Utilisation Graphs with Munin
Graphs are plotted for all major system information and also for each application running on each node. You can see an overview of Nginx connections, RAM usage and much more through the Munin graphs. The graphs are rendered and accessible … Continue reading
Directory structure
Table of Contents/microcloud/backups_ro /microcloud/logs_ro /microcloud/domainsOnce logged in via SSH/SCP/FTP, you will soon familiarise yourself with the directory hierarchy. /microcloud/backups_ro |-mysql |---monthly |---weekly |---daily |-lost+found |-domains |---latest |---2013-05-05 |---2013-05-06 |---2013-05-07 This directory is read-only and contains your domain backups and database … Continue reading
Hostnames and DNS
We have many universal DNS shortcut records set up for access, they are as follows: dh1 172.16.0.61 acc.magestack.com 172.16.0.71 munin.magestack.com 172.16.0.71 phpmyadmin.magestack.com 172.16.0.101 mmonit.magestack.com dh2 172.16.0.62 acc.2.magestack.com 172.16.0.72 munin.2.magestack.com 172.16.0.72 phpmyadmin.2.magestack.com 172.16.0.102 mmonit.2.magestack.com dh3 172.16.0.63 acc.3.magestack.com 172.16.0.73 munin.3.magestack.com 172.16.0.73 phpmyadmin.3.magestack.com … Continue reading
Accessing MageStack for the first time
You will need to first issue a VPN bundle from the control panel. Each user will require a bundle. You will receive two emails (or 1 email and one SMS depending on your request); one containing a password protected ZIP … Continue reading
Magento incident diagnosis
We’ve got a fairly structured regiment that we would follow, Ask the customer if they are running a newsletter/promotion Ask the customer if they have changed any store configuration settings Ask the customer if they has installed any new modules … Continue reading