I use this blog as an external memory. I found myself lately looking for the obvious patches for Oracle GI and RDBMS products, and although I eventually reach the right location, the time consumed looking for them is a wasted time. So – to make sure I can remember them correctly, here are the two…
(This article is the essence of a post from this Redhat Archive and it goes as follows: Problem: You need to detect what deletes files on your Linux Solution: Using auditd, with the right flags, you could get a lot of information. In Practice: If the mount point/directory is /oracle, then: (as root:) auditctl –w /oracle -k whodeletedit -p…
Assume a server has two network interfaces as follows: eth0 : 192.168.0.1/24 eth1 : 192.168.10.1/24 Let’s assume these interfaces reside on the different VLANs. Lets assume they were connected incorrectly, in such a way that eth0 is connected to VLAN 10, which servers 192.168.10.0/24 and eth1 is connected to VLAN 2, which serves 192.168.0.0/24. You…
As far as routing goes, it is a very bad idea to place multiple network interfaces with IPs of a single network (subnet). The routing table, which decides which interface to route the data through, reads the table line by line, thus – all traffic goes through a single interface of the batch (-> of…
kSar is one of the best tools to display an easy chart based on your system’s SAR metrics collection. kSar has not been developed since sometime in 2013, and it lacks the ability to parse modern Linux sysstat charts, leaving us with some missing info. However – some good soul has taken kSar and forked…
I have created an RPM package, and SRPM package, which I will share here, for smartmontools version 6.5 on RHEL 6. Note that the official version is 5.43 which is clueless with many modern SSD disks. I have yet to test it correctly, and in general – use at your own risk. smartmontools-6-5-1-el6-src
