Amazon Linux Upgrade Woes

Author: erics, April 10th, 2012

Upgraded the OS on one of my Amazon server instances today. After rebooting I had the unpleasant experience of seeing my rpc.rstatd monitoring daemon stop functioning. It turns out that AWS changed the actual kernel version for this release, I guess to “celebrate” the fact that it is no longer “beta”. The difficulty is that […]

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How To Use jPerfmeter with rpc.rstatd

Author: erics, November 1st, 2011

Download the program from SourceForge: http://jperfmeter.sourceforge.net/

Create a shell wrapper called jperf:

Here is how I invoke jperfmeter using a shell script called perfmon: perfmon script

HINT: rpc.rstatd and jPerfmeter communicate using RPC via UDP – be sure to open your firewall to allow this.

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How To Install rpc.rstatd On CentOS

Author: erics, October 26th, 2011

UPDATE on 3/30/2022 – Source code patched to support new AWS Linux 5.10 kernel. (Amazon Linux 2) http://www.wyzaerd.com/public/rpc.rstatd-5.10.tar.gz UPDATE on 8/16/2016 – Source code patched to support new AWS Linux 4.9 kernel. http://www.wyzaerd.com/public/rpc.rstatd-4.0.4.tar.gz UPDATE on 7/12/2016 – Source code patched to support new AWS Linux 4.4 kernel. http://www.wyzaerd.com/public/rpc.rstatd-4.0.4.tar.gz UPDATE on 11/9/2015 – Source code patched […]

Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: AWS, CentOS, EC2, howto, portmapper, rpc.rstatd, rpcbind, rpcinfo, rstatd, rup, statd, tips | 3 comments