This blog post is a continuation of the previous part 1, where we have covered the basics of SNMP integration with ClusterControl. In this blog post, we are going to focus on SNMP traps and...

ClusterControl comes with a number of distinctive alerts (or alarms) which you won't find in other monitoring systems. ClusterControl understands a database cluster topology as a whole - all database nodes and the relation between...

One of the biggest concerns when managing a database is the size and complexity of its data. As the size of the database increases, you need to have a plan in place for how to...

Most database management systems have several techniques of securing their data from an outsider or an unauthorized person or application. The techniques prevent your data from being read or copied without the user’s permission. MongoDB...

Ensuring the database is healthy is one of the critical and important things that a database administrator must do. If we neglect the maintenance of the database, there is a higher probability that we run...

Organizations are making use of infrastructure in the cloud because it offers speed, flexibility, and scalability. You can imagine if we can spin up a new database instance with just a click, and it takes...

Many system administrators commonly overlook the importance of ongoing database configuration tuning. Configuration options are often being configured or tuned once, during the installation stage, and being left out until some unwanted events occur to...

If you’re a database administrator, chances are that you have heard that once things become related to your database, you have a couple of options to choose from. You can choose from MySQL, MS SQL,...

With many kinds of data stored in the database, sometimes we may be dealing with confidential data, which might include credit card data, financial record, personal information. Those PII (Personal Identifiable Information) data is subject...

Database automation helps make complex and time consuming tasks simple and fast. The tasks most commonly and easily identified for automation are those that are time-consuming yet repetitive. These often consume productivity, and can affect...

Backups are very crucial to any organization as they cushion against the complete loss of important data or information. In case of accidental data loss, it can easily be restored or recovered from the earlier...

In Severalnines’ recent release of ClusterControl version 1.8.2 we have introduced a lot of sophisticated features and changes. One of the important features is the newly improved User Management System, which covers New User and...