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Learn to apply best practices and optimize your operations.
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Learn to apply best practices and optimize your operations.
Managing high-volume CPU processes with Bash
Learn how to use and modify a simple Bash script to alert you when CPU processes reach abnormally high levels. Continue Reading
HP keeps its Linux edge with BladeSystem
As HP's reign atop the Linux server heap continues, one company exec explains how its BladeSystem and Linux can keep it competitive with IBM in the blade server space. Continue Reading
SUSE Linux administration: How to set up a cluster file system
Setting up OCFS2 as a shared file system in a cluster environment helps when multiple nodes have to write to the same file system concurrently. Learn how to do it with SLES10. Continue Reading
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Linux/Unix commands: How to get copy, conversion power with dd
Learn how to use dd, a Linux command for handling convert-and-copy tasks. An expert shows how to clone your hard drive, create a backup of your Master Backup Record and increase your swap space. Continue Reading
Easing SUSE Server administration from the command line
Sander van Vugt, author of "The Definitive Guide to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server" expands upon the uses of SUID and SGID, how to make device sharing easier and ways to manage files that live in more than one place. Continue Reading
RHEL4 administration tools: ifconfig, arp, tcpdump and iptraf
Master network integration in your existing RHEL4 infrastructure with the use of command-line tools like ifconfig, arp, tcpdump and iptraf.Continue Reading
What strategies will help organize a messy data center?
Data center design and physical infrastructure expert Carrie Higbie offers some simple, but often neglected, strategies for organizing a messy data center.Continue Reading
Data center cooling strategies: Overheating server prevention
Five strategies from Syska Hennessy data center cooling experts, Christopher Johnston and Vali Sorell, for preventing servers from overheating.Continue Reading
Study ranks cheapest places to build a data center
In a new study focusing on the healthcare industry, the Midwest once again came on top as one of the most affordable places to build a data center.Continue Reading
Calculating costs of data center cabling infrastructure
In part two of our series on data center cabling decisions, data center infrastructure expert Carrie Higbie offers a cost calculator for determining TCO on a cabling project.Continue Reading
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Simple Event Correlation installation and configuration
Simple Event Correlation is an open source tool designed for reading incoming data feeds and performing actions based on user-defined rules. Learn how to install and configure this small- to medium-sized enterprise appropriate tool.Continue Reading
Planning your server environment
In this excerpt from TechTarget's upcoming book, "Servers and Storage," two experts discuss the support necessary for applications and clients, as well as financial implications when choosing between Windows and Linux/Unix.Continue Reading
Seven tips for optimizing shell script security
Inherent weaknesses, a complex syntax and the general lack of consideration for security make writing secure shell scripts difficult. This tip focuses on major issues in shell script security across multiple shells.Continue Reading
Fast Guide: Data center metrics and standards
Implementing standards and metrics can help ensure that a data center is run smoothly. By clearly defining metrics a business can increase its productivity; however, if metrics are unorganized or poorly defined a company can begin to slide down the ...Continue Reading
Using ASHRAE specs for data center metrics
Measure proper temperature and humidity using Ashrae's Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments.Continue Reading
Installing and running Linux on IBM p5 systems
Mixing Linux with p5 architecture can help your IT shop reap rewards in support, gain the capacity to run on a 32-way system and more.Continue Reading
Target builds a better data center
Just five years after Target built a new data center, it's building another one to keep up with company growth. Target technical architect Doug Hall says data center designers are smarter today because they learn from each other.Continue Reading
Best practices: A guide to cable management
What you will learn from this tip: This tip can help you maximize uptime by limiting bandwidth, distance, latency and congestion issues in your cable plant.Continue Reading
Making sense of metrics
Metrics focus employees' attention on the tasks and processes that executives deem most critical to the success of the business. Metrics are like levers that executives can pull to move the organization in new and different directions. In fact, ...Continue Reading
Top 10 things to review when developing a hardware scalability plan
Developing a plan for scalability for an application is based on many complex variables and requires a detailed analysis of the applications, operating systems, and hardware platforms to be used. Here are the top 10 items to include in your ...Continue Reading
Linpack benchmark
The Linpack benchmark is a method of measuring the floating point rate of execution of a computer by running a program that solves a system of linear equations.Continue Reading
OpenOffice 2.0 tips: Creating database forms
OpenOffice expert Solveig Haugland explains table relations and how to create a data entry form linking separate tables.Continue Reading
OpenOffice tip: Everything about envelopes
OpenOffice expert Solveig Haugland walks users through the printing, formatting, and design processes for making a custom envelope.Continue Reading
Roaming profiles for Linux users
Windows-to-Linux desktop migration tips: Why to switch, how to plan
Versora CTO Jon Walker provides the why and how of migration from Windows to Linux. Why, in a nutshell: Better technology.Continue Reading
Best practice for UPS loading on distrubted parallel or prallel redundant configuration
Expert Robert McFarlane gives an expert's opinion on a good question.Continue Reading
Learning Linux security administration
Learning Linux, especially Linux security administration, can seem particularly tricky for those only well-versed in Windows. Here, security expert James Turnbull offers some pointers for getting up to speed.Continue Reading
Database tip: All about subqueries
A continuation of Mich's response to a user's question about different types of joins.Continue Reading
Database tip: Understanding joins and set theory
Sybase expert Mich Talebzadeh provides an excerpt from his book explaining set theory and different types of joins.Continue Reading
Configure LSF in a Unix environment (Solaris and Linux)
Find out how to configure Load Sharing Facility (LSF) in Unix and Linux.Continue Reading
Sharing files between Linux servers with NFS
Using the Network File System (NFS) allows you to share files on a network as if they were on your local drive. Ken Milberg shows you how in this tip.Continue Reading
Minimize outsourcing risks: Best practices in security
Offshore outsourcing can cut costs, but if you fail to analyze a vendor's certifications, methodologies and security procedures, it'll cost you more than money in the long run.Continue Reading
Using CORBA as your client-server interface
Why a disaster recovery plan is a core part of compliance
Compliance cares whether or not the organization can provide accountability and assurance that they are protecting the information's and processes' confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Hence, the connection.Continue Reading
Step 2: Get a champion in top management
Managing a successful IT Project isn't just a technical and organizational issue. It's about managing people. Poor communication, internal politics, poor teamwork, lack of management support and poor planning are the primary reasons that projects ...Continue Reading
UPS management checklist
UPS management checklist: Business continuity efforts will end in a fizzle if your power fails. Here are ten ways to make sure your data center is always plugged in.Continue Reading
What is the difference between utility computing and grid computing?
Using IEBEDIT to randomize Job Control Language steps on the mainframe
The IEBEDIT utility for mainframe programming copies data into new data sets and retains the original order. So is it possible to switch IEBEDIT to 'random mode'?Continue Reading
What can you do with the "cat" command?
What happens when you type the "cat" command?
Who wrote Linux? The second installment of tall tales
Here are two more tall tales from SearchEnterpriseLinux.com readers who want to know who really wrote Linux.Continue Reading
ICETOOL, SYNCTOOL utilities exclude mainframe subset files
Mainframe programmers can turn to ICETOOL and SYNCTOOL utilities to avoid writing a COBOL program when working with records.Continue Reading
Migrating from Oracle to Linux -- tips and TCO considerations
Netstat: A small but powerful tool for administrators
Learn how to check for network spies using the netstat command.Continue Reading
Get the full command line argument of any running process with bash
Get the full commandline arguments of any running process with this tip.Continue Reading
Watch out when changing the name of IBM VSAM files
You can rename VSAM datasets, but you might lock the mainframe out of VSAM files if you do it incorrectly. Here's how to change a VSAM name.Continue Reading
Is there a way to manage DFHCSD file using the batch utility DFHCSDUP?
Working with IBM SMF record types to monitor mainframe performance
Historical SMF records on a mainframe offer insights into performance. Extract this data for basic reports or add modifiers to customize the report.Continue Reading