I thought I would write a post about using Subversion (SVN) with PowerCLI for managing changes to Infrastructure, with the aim of reducing report emails in my inbox, and reduce the amount of storage space required to store a set [...]
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Using Subversion with PowerCLI for vCentre operations
15 May 2013 – 12:16 pm
Building Subversion and DavSVN on SLES 11 SP2 x86_64 from source
18 April 2013 – 6:54 am
So, the time came where I needed to knock up a quick subversion DavSVN test on a box that was out of support for updates from SuSE, which made it more difficult to grab the rpms,etc that I would need [...]
Backups using storage level snapshots for DB2 using EqualLogic
19 February 2013 – 1:11 pm
This post will detail the steps to go through to allow you to create storage level snapshots using DELL EqualLogic ASM/LE on Linux SLES 11 SP2, and then move the data off onto other storage arrays. – This is handy [...]
Simple bash one-liner to ping an entire network range
21 November 2012 – 12:32 pm
Just a quick post… I knocked this one-liner up as a lazy way of finding out what addresses will answer a ping on a particular address range. I used the ‘seq’ command in Linux to produce the address numbers from [...]
Integrating LDAP support into XRDP on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
19 November 2012 – 3:18 pm
I wanted to be able to setup something along the lines of a Linux Terminal server, to allow remote users the ability to execute long running jobs without the need to have any applications locally on their machines, or stay [...]
DB2 LDAP configuration on SLES11 SP2
18 September 2012 – 12:59 pm
Having problems with YaST wiping out your custom PAM setting for DB2 since upgrading to SLES 11 SP2?? This is a short post detailing a problem I found with the YaST method of managing manual pam/ldap configuration under SLES 11 [...]
A Tale of Corporate Storage Evolution – switching from HP to DELL
22 August 2012 – 12:35 pm
I thought I would share some of my thoughts on how I have seen our server and storage platforms evolve over time. What I loved about them, what I hated about them, where I am at today and what made [...]