I shared my LAMP/MAMP build script on Github.

I gave a presentation called Monitoring Drupal with Sensu at DrupalCorn 2013.

Annotated slideset is up at the link above.

Sensu-Admin is a nice GUI for the Sensu monitoring framework. However, installing it on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ends in pain, since RHEL6 comes with an older version of ruby (1.8).

You might be creative and get most of the required gems installed but ultimately there will be gems that simply require ruby 1.9:

Fortunately, Red Hat has created Software Collections which provides a modern distribution of the major languages, including ruby 1.9.3.

I enabled the Red Hat Software Collections 1 Beta channel in Red Hat Network and proceeded to install ruby 1.9.3. Note that the RHEL Server Optional channel is also enabled, as is EPEL.

Then I set paths for ruby 1.9:

Check that the correct ruby is being found:

Now to install the dependencies needed for the gems needed for sensu-admin:

Install all the necessary gems:

Edit sensu-admin/db/seeds.rb to modify the default username and password. Then use rake to install:

Open port 3000 in your firewall:

And start the thin webserver which will run on port 3000:

Point a web browser to http://yourserver:3000 and you'll see the sensu-admin logon screen:

Reference: Puppet template for ruby 1.9.3 environment variables

One of the nice features of Mail, the bundled OS X mail client, is Smart Mailboxes. A smart mailbox is a filtered view of your mail based on your own criteria.

I have both IMAP and Exchange accounts and use Mail for both.

The trouble I was having was creating a view of recent mail from all inboxes that did not include mail from the Exchange Junk E-Mail box. When I created a rule for "Message is not in Mailbox" and specified the "Junk E-Mail" box from my Exchange account and saved the smart mailbox attributes, it wouldn't take. In other words, the next time I opened the smart mailbox settings it said "No mailbox selected":

To solve this problem, I went to Mail / Preferences / Junk Mail and changed my selection for "When junk mail arrives" from "Mark as junk mail , but leave it in my Inbox" to "Move it to the Junk mailbox".

Now my smart mailbox works as expected and remembers its rules. And I don't have to use Outlook.

Reference: Smart Mailboxes not working with Exchange Folders?