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• nagios, mdadm and snmp

  
  Off you go... into the purple yonder! — Authority:
  I found this script while looking for a simple script to monitor mdadm arrays. The script is fine, but it has a subtle bug – it will never report an error because the –detail parameter is missing in the call to mdadm. I modified the script a bit, like so: #!/bin/sh# (c) 2008 Jasper Spaans worst=0msg=""for dev ...
  8 hours ago

• 10 Applications that can help you with Personal Information Management

  
  Frugal IT — Authority: 125
  Lets face it, Post-It notes are great and convenient for jotting down notes, ideas, todo’s etc. But at the same time they can really suck and become totally impractical (when it comes to trying to find that one post-it). Personal Information Management (PIM) is very important to me.  Any given day I can have up to ...
  21 hours ago

• how-to launch applications that need root/admin privileges on Ubuntu when on a remote session

  
  /home/kOoLiNuS — Authority: 91
  Did you ever find yourself at work with a remote session on your Ubuntu server (or workstation) invoked by ssh -X command and needed to launch users-admin or some similar graphical application that need a sudo (or root) authentication to work? Did you ever got frustrated of not having the possibility to enter or ...
  1 day ago

• RackTables, a nifty solution for datacenter/server-room asset management

  
  Frugal IT — Authority: 125
  Racktables is a nifty and robust solution for datacenter and server room asset management. It helps document hardware assets, network addresses, space in racks, networks configuration, etc. Lots of system and network administrators come to the point where they have to maintain quite complex documentation of the ...
  1 day ago

• Worklog - New server, SSD, Redis, Amazon S3 bills, Google Analytics API

  
  Code Monkey Island — Authority: 91
  Most of the stuff that happens during a week at work is too long for Twitter and too short for a blog post.There are still things that I’d like to share, so I thought I’d try batching them up. New Database Server We made our first hardware purchase of 2009 - a new database server from Silicon Mechanics.I chose a ...
  3 days ago

• 20+ Useful Cheat Sheets for Sysadmins

  
  Frugal IT — Authority: 125
  The great folks over at Packet Life opened up their Library and provided 24 Cheat Sheets that all Sysadmins could appreciate. They kindly break the cheat sheets into categories (and in separate PDFs) that include: Protocols Applications Reference Syntax Technologies Misc. Each image links to the PDF ...
  3 days ago

• Community Tech Tip on BigAdmin Wiki: Trapping the SIGTERM

  
  SDN Program News — Authority: 430
  A member of the sys admin community posted this tech tip directly on the BigAdmin wiki: How to leave scripts running when you log off (and exit nicely when a script is sent a SIGTERM signal). This page highlights the usefulness of the trap command for trapping the SIGTERM, 1, signal to enable scripts to keep ...
  3 days ago

• The UN pull personnel from Afghansitan

  
  Opposed Systems Design — Authority: 118
  The UN pulls 600 staff out of Afghanistan after the Taliban attacked them.“The United Nations is fully committed to helping all of Afghanistan’s people, as it has been for more than half a century,” the statement said.If the UN his fully committed to helping the Afghan people, how many casualties is the UN ...
  4 days ago

• 10 Free Server & Network Monitoring Tools that Kick Ass

  
  Frugal IT — Authority: 125
  Ben Dowling at Six Revisions wrote a great article about free network monitoring tools. When you have a website or a network, it’s helpful to be aware of any issues as soon as they occur. There are open source and freeware server/network monitoring tools that will supervise your infrastructure for any issues ...
  4 days ago

• Marketing Eng, Application Engineer, Sysadmin & Administration Vacancy

  
  Info Lowongan Kerja Terbaru 2009 — Authority: 144
  As an established company which is agents of API and ANSI Process Pump, is looking for MARKETING ENGINEER (MERS) -S1 Mechanical Engineer -Fresh Graduate or 1 year experience in repair shop -Able to write and speak in English -Able to work hard and under pressure -Inhouse training for repair knowledge will be ...
  4 days ago

• Sun BluePrints Article: Sun Systems for Oracle Coherence

  
  SDN Program News — Authority: 430
  This Sun BluePrints article discusses a drop-in implementation of Oracle Coherence running on Sun servers utilizing Oracle Fusion Middleware components. Benchmark test results are provided. (Registration or login required.)
  4 days ago

• Community Tech Tip: Bootable DVD or CD for Solaris 10 OS on x86 Platforms

  
  SDN Program News — Authority: 430
  A sys admin from the BigAdmin community posted this tech tip on our wiki. Here is one way to create a bootable DVD or CD for the Solaris 10 OS on x86 platforms, which you can then use for system recovery and bare-metal rebuilds.
  5 days ago

• Putback: x86gentopo Project

  
  Scott Davenport @ Sun — Authority: 103
  A few months ago, I talked about the x86gentopo project - a reusable baseboard enumeration approach for x86 systems. Its the same spirit that drove the platform independent sun4v FMA work . Yesterday evening, the project integrated into OpenSolaris. If you missed the flag day message, here it is again. If you dont ...
  5 days ago

• System Administrators (Unix / Windows) & Dotnet Consultants

  
  Asia Jobs 2009 — Authority: 112
  We are urgently looking for 1)System Administrators (Unix / Windows ) with atleast 4 years and above experience & 2) Dotnet Consultants with 2 years and above for our clients in SingaporeKindly forward your latest profile with following details1)Present & Expected Salary2)Visa Status in Singapore3)Notice ...
  5 days ago

• To Windows users: Put the Ctrl key where it deserves to be! That is the ‘Caps Lock’ position.

  
  FZ Blogs — Authority: 115
  Do yourself a favor, don’t bother hacking MS Windows registry and simply use Ctrl2Cap to put the Ctrl key where it deserves to be: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897578.aspx PS: It is already available easily in GNU/Linux environment , why should Windows users miss the convenience of easier ...
  5 days ago

• Download Squad job boards, whether you’re hiring or looking for work

  
  Technology you can trust here... — Authority: 154
  Filed under: Business , News Need a sysadmin, coder, designer or other web working new hire? Virtual, on-location or whatever, the Download Squad job boards have you covered. Post your resume using emurse , or (better yet) post a job position in no time and immediately get an engaged, targeted audience of ...
  5 days ago

• Driver/Device List Updated for Solaris 10 10/09 Release

  
  SDN Program News — Authority: 430
  Device drivers for the Solaris 10 10/09 update are now included in the BigAdmin Device Driver list , along with third-party devices that run on the Solaris 10 10/09 OS.
  6 days ago

• The specified network name is no longer available samba

  
  HM2K.com — Authority: 110
  I keep getting this error: Error Copying File or Folder Cannot copy xxx: The specified network name is no longer available. Why? Well, I’m trying to copy a folder from my Windows XP SP2 Pro workstation onto my network share drive, which in fact is a samba (smb) server running on my “CentOS release 4.6 ...
  6 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

• Sun Booth at LISA (Sys Admin Conference)

  
  SDN Program News — Authority: 430
  News flash: Our BigAdmin guy wasnt able to come out to LISA (Sys Admin Conference this week in Baltimore, Maryland). So please go say "hi" to the Solaris folks at the Sun booth. (p.s. Rumored possibility of BigAdmin swag...)
  1 week ago

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