Author Archives: Kaven Gagnon

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About Kaven Gagnon

System & Network Architect

Linux : Add OpenNMS data source to Grapfana not found error

Heading toward OpenNMS and Grafana for your monitoring and visualization needs? Way to go! (or Oh Yeah! like Duffman would say). First of all, I suppose since you’ve end up reading that post, that you have a successful installation of OpenNMS, Grafana and OpenNMS Help plugin. Adding a data source in Grafana in your OpenNMS… Read More »

JunOS : Configuring DHCP forwarder on QFX serie

Here is how to configure DHCP relay on the QFX platform. 1. Define a DHCP server group with DHCP servers IP address(es) : set forwarding-options dhcp-relay server-group <server-group-name> <ip.address> Example : If you want to name the group as “PRD-dhcpSrv” and the IP of the server is 10.1.1.10 : set forwarding-options dhcp-relay server-group PRD-dhcpSrv 10.1.1.10… Read More »

Windows : Backspace not working with PuTTY

If you are using PuTTY or any variant version such as Kitty (not the feline, but the SSH client!), you may have noticed that backspace does not work with some devices. To resolve this matter, follow the easy steps below. 1. In the client window, on the left pane, browse to : Terminal > Keyboard… Read More »

Category: PC

Linux : How to enable the cPanel feature on R1Soft server

If you are running both cPanel and have your own R1Soft server, there is a nice integration in cPanel that allow users to restore files, database or their whole account from this external backup source/destination. There are several steps involved for this, such as : 1. Enable control panel restore on the R1Soft server ;… Read More »

Linux : How to run Google Chrome as root

By design, Google Chrome cannot be started as root on Linux systems for security reason, which totally make sense. However, there might be some exceptions where it is required. Here is how to make it work. If you need to run it once or really occasionally, you may start it with the following command using… Read More »