SysAdmin

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “SysAdmin”

• What’s New on BigAdmin

  
  System News for Sun Users - The Blog — Authority: 136
  As of November 5th, 2009 Updated for New Solaris 10/09 Release: x86 Installation Check ToolThis tool detects whether your x86 system is able to run the Solaris 10 OS. Version 1.7 loads the Solaris 10 10/09 kernel.Community Tech Tip: Creating a Solaris 10 x86 OS Bootable DVD or CD A sys [...]
  3 days ago

• “Sun Systems for Enterprise 2.0 with Oracle”

  
  System News for Sun Users - The Blog — Authority: 136
  Sun BluePrints Describes Architecture, Provides Performance Information A Sun BluePrints Online article discusses the Sun Systems for Enterprise 2.0 with Oracle solution, describing the architecture and performance characteristics for determining proper sizing of systems. According to the authors, the Sun Systems ...
  4 days ago

• Pop goes the apocalypse

  
  Opposed Systems Design — Authority: 118
  A friend gave me a copy of Pop Apocalypse and I started reading it last night. It reads like some of William Gibson’s more recent work, sprinkled with low-calorie shavings of Stephenson’s early work. So far, it’s fun. For the national security geek crowd, it includes Leviathan-SysAdmin terminology.
  1 week ago

• Solaris News Bites

  
  System News for Sun Users - The Blog — Authority: 136
  Short Items of Interest for Solaris Users DTrace Quick Start GuideZFS: Changing The Way You Look at StorageTuning ZFS for Sun Storage F5100 ArrayZFS Deduplication Features in PSARCpkgin and 5,000 Packages for Solaris 10/x86Multiple LDom vdisks With the Same BackendInstalling Native and Branded ZonesAutomated Backups ...
  1 week ago

• Restricting login to account based on IP address

  
  ptone — Authority: 106
  At work we needed to have a standard local account that would work off campus, but not on campus. Here was my solution. First I check for the user and create it if it doesn’t exist user_exists = ` dscl . -read / Users / remote GeneratedUID | grep -c GeneratedUID ` if [ $user_exists -ne 1 ] ...
  1 week ago

• cPanel Bandwidth Checking Script

  
  DEVTRENCH: Web Development from the Front Lines — Authority: 108
  Ive been pretty frustrated with the way that cPanel notifies (or doesnt notify) me of bandwidth overages. Seems sometimes I get them and sometimes not. So when I found out that you can do this with the WHM XML api I wanted to get it set up ASAP. This script can be used along with cron and PHPMailer to notify you of ...
  1 week ago

• Strategy: Are Contractors ‘The Sys Admin Force’ Conceived by Thomas Barnett?–Great TED Presentation!!

  
  Feral Jundi — Authority: 482
  
  2 weeks ago

• Linux Customers Benefiting More From Virtualization Than Windows Users

  
  System News for Sun Users - The Blog — Authority: 136
  TCO Advantage Favors Linux Enterprises using Linux virtualize roughly 30 percent more than those that prefer Windows. What this means for enterprises incorporating Linux into their environments is cost savings in hardware and licensing fees, and a significant advantage in total cost of ownership (TCO). These ...
  2 weeks ago

• Version 1.1.4 of improved Cacti templates released

  
  Xaprb — Authority: 119
  I’ve released version 1.1.4 of my improved Cacti templates . Unlike the prior release, which was solely bug fixes, this one includes new graphs in the MySQL template. Some of the graphs are of data that’s exposed in standard MySQL versions, but some of it is available only in Percona’s high-performance ...
  2 weeks ago

• A review of The Art of Capacity Planning by John Allspaw

  
  Xaprb — Authority: 119
  The Art of Capacity Planning The Art of Capacity Planning . By John Allspaw, O’Reilly 2008. Page count: 130 pages. (Here’s a link to the publisher’s site .) This is an outstanding book. As far as I know Ewen Fortune was the first Perconian to read it, and it’s been spreading amongst us since then. I ...
  2 weeks ago

• How to capture debugging information with mk-loadavg

  
  Xaprb — Authority: 119
  Maatkit’s mk-loadavg tool is a helpful way to gather information about infrequent conditions on your database server (or any other server, really). We wrote it at Percona to help with those repeated cases of things like “every two weeks, my database stops processing queries for 30 seconds, but it’s not ...
  2 weeks ago

• CIO Guide: The Strategic Value of MySQL

  
  System News for Sun Users - The Blog — Authority: 136
  Calculating Database Costs This white paper examines a model whereby CIOs can reduce database costs by adopting a heterogeneous database architecture and implementing MySQL for much of business critical and operational applications. MySQL customer examples, usage scenarios along with target applications, as well as ...
  2 weeks ago

• Optimizing Sun HPC Hardware for ANSYS FLUENT

  
  System News for Sun Users - The Blog — Authority: 136
  Guidelines for IT Administrators The Sun BluePrints article “Sun Business Ready HPC for ANSYS FLUENT: Configuration guidelines for Optimizing ANSYS FLUENT Performance” by William Aiken explores the parameters to be considered when defining a processing configuration for ANSYS FLUENT. The number of cores ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Question of Latency

  
  System News for Sun Users - The Blog — Authority: 136
  The Challenges of a SAN Between Servers and Storage Joerg Moellenkamp does the math to demonstrate that latency does indeed matter when there is SAN between your server and your storage. He pits a direct-connected storage-server configuration that uses a 10 meter long cable against a second configuration that uses a ...
  4 weeks ago

• “Process-Driven SOA Development”

  
  System News for Sun Users - The Blog — Authority: 136
  Developing a Complete, Complex, End-to-end, Real-World Process According to Dr. Matjaz B. Juric, the most important benefits of a process-centric SOA approach are better alignment between business and IT, fewer errors, and faster development cycles. These benefits are outlined in a case study he covers as part of the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Linux Sys Admin – Join the Brightbox team!

  
  Brightbox Blog — Authority: 99
  We’re looking for an experienced and motivated Linux Systems Administrator to join our Technical Team here at Brightbox. You’ll work closely with our Technical Director and Senior Sys Admin to run our virtual hosting platform, our Ruby on Rails hosting clusters, our network and our MySQL databases. A full job ...
  4 weeks ago

• How to Unlock an iPhone 3GS

  
  Brent Kearney — Authority:
  Here I hope to help alleviate the confusion that some iPhone 3GS owners have about jailbreaking and unlocking their phones. This article pertains to the iPhone 3GS only. The iPhone 3GS is the one that came out in the summer of 2009. These instructions do not pertain to other models of [...]
  5 weeks ago

• Sun Grid Engine Inspect

  
  System News for Sun Users - The Blog — Authority: 136
  New Monitoring Tool Developed Purely in Java, Uses JMX Inspect is a new monitoring tool included in Sun Grid Engine (SGE) Update 3. It is a flexible interface for viewing current and historical data about SGE cluster(s) and the Service Domain Manager. The new GUI-based monitoring tool is developed purely in Java and ...
  7 weeks ago

• Quick Start Guide: VMware on Sun

  
  System News for Sun Users - The Blog — Authority: 136
  VMware ESX on the SunFire x4150 and Unified Storage 7000 Series Ron Graham has written a 10-page PDF for system administrators outlining the basic steps of setting up VMware Infrastructure 3 functionality on the Sun Fire X4150 and implementing shared storage with the Sun Storage 7210 Unified Storage System. The quick ...
  7 weeks ago

• Couple of hours with an Dell Studio XPS 16 – 2

  
  Experiences in the community — Authority: 108
  This post is an extension or/and update to the last Dell Studio XPS 16 experience with Linux Mint which I wrote sometime back.
  7 weeks ago

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