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Add custom action button to the Opportunity screen in SuiteCRM (SugarCRM)
Subject When working with an opportunity, I would like to change the status of the Opportunity also making some extra logic to execute. For example, when applied online for an opportunity, there is not much information to be added to …
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Monitor bacula backup jobs with zabbix
Subject There is an email notification mechanism built in into bacula out of the box. It really sends out email notification after each job. This works, but in the case a job is stuck and who reads emails after all?…
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Opportunities, Tasks and ToDoist for SugarCRM — part I
Subject When new Opportunity created or its status changed, new Task to be created and also new Task in ToDoist application to be created. Optional: when Opportunity is closed, all open Tasks to be closed as well, also on ToDoist.…
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md raid and zabbix
Subject In this article I explain how to setup Software RAID monitoring with zabbix. The solution will use two ways – active monitoring (polling) of an array status and passive traps for array events, sent out by the mdadm…
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Many-to-many relationships in SugarCRM via REST and perl
Subject In my previous article “Create appointments (meetings) in SugarCRM via REST and perl” I described how I created appointments using Web services. This worked, but with one major glitch – solution provided didn’t put appointment status in …
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Create appointments (meetings) in SugarCRM via REST and perl
Subject To prepare for some bigger project I plan with SugarCRM I decided to write a client program, which would create new appointments or meetings as they call it in SugarCRM. Initially I was planning just to program a tool …
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OpenWRT pptp tunnel to the office LAN with Windows VPN server
Problem The idea was to have a separate VPN tunnel tothe office to access office LAN resources without a need to bring up the VPN connection on the workstation. The challenge was a) to find right PPTP options to connect …
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Stop pam_unix polluting log files
Problem PAM module pam_unix produces lots of log messages, that pollute system log files. In my case this was in the /var/log/auth.log file. Excessive log messages are logged in particular for sudo, sshd and CRON. In the particular …