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Troubleshooting

Intro

The incident management steps I have in mind when being on-call and getting an alert are:

• Verify the issue
• Triage
• Communicate and scalate if needed
• Mitigate

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Django Install - Nginx uwsgi

Once per server:

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
apt-get install python-setuptools python-dev build-essential
easy_install -U pip
pip install virtualenv

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Django Install - Apache

Once per server:

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi
apt-get install python-setuptools python-dev build-essential
easy_install -U pip

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# Checking for Shellshock attempts in web server logs

egrep "};|}\s*;" /var/log/apache2/access.log

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# tail log file in browser
# go to server.example.com:777

pip install tailon 
tailon -f /var/log/example.log -b 0:0:0:0:777 &

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#!/bin/bash
# check if mysql slave is running

log=/var/log/mysqlslave.log
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date >> $log
res=`mysql -u root -pPassword -h db.example.com -N -B -e "show status like 'Slave_running'"|cut -f2`

if [ $res = 'ON' ]

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# calculate mysql schemas disk size
mysql -h dbhost.example.com  -u theuser  -pThePassword -e 'select table_schema as DB, round(sum((data_length+index_length)/1024/1024),1) as MB from information_schema.tables group by table_schema order by MB desc'

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# WP "Error establishing database connection"
# substitute with site's index static page (when it's up, not with the error duh)

wget http://example.com -O [/path/to/wp]/wp-content/db-error.php

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# see http://mysqltuner.com/
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/major/MySQLTuner-perl/master/mysqltuner.pl
perl mysqltuner.pl