Here are some pictures of the server upgrade. Old server: P2 300MHz, with 256MB RAM: Old server, in its old location New server: Xion 3GHz+HT+EMT64, with 1GB RAM. Nice: Dell PowerEdge 1800. Nice LEDs 🙂 The whole server room during the upgrade. Notice the 3com router/switch! You’ll be able to recognise it by its antenas…
Tom Adelstein has posted an article about why people use Linux. Although I tend to stick to the tech stuff, it was rather interesting. One could never imaging MS bashing wasn’t one of the major reasons… 🙂 I have had fun with Cacti, in the meanwhile. It is one mean graphing machine. Details, as well…
It was a tough one. A real tough one. However, finally, our little Dell Server (described below) PE1800, is up and running. Replacing it’s old 5 years old predecessor. It was a living hell, but it allowed me vast experiments with wider range of technologies, better combined solutions, and newer, more mature approach to system…
When I’ve installed my lab’s SunCluster, only later did I install Veritas Volume Manager, aka VxVM. I believed they wouldn’t need it at my development dept., but I proved to be wrong. Only short while afterwards I’ve been asked to add VxVM to the configuration. I’ve added it, and installed it using Veritas install scripts….
My new Linux server-to-be will require some remote monitoring and process keepalive going there. It’s that I’ve noticed nscd (which is required, when dealing with hundreds of LDAP based accounts) tends todie once a while. I’ve also made a mistake once, and managed to kill all SSH daemons, including the running ones. I am happy…
Although I have not shared most of my work on ISPMan in this blog, and it happened due to lack of time, I wish to share a script I’ve been part of creating, which dealt with migration of flat-passwd file based authentication server, to LDAP, used through ISPMan. We’ve taken many things into consideration, such…
