What’s worse, because they aren’t tasked with understanding how people in different parts of a company do their jobs, IT managers often can’t appreciate how profoundly certain tools can improve how we work. Why corporate IT should unchain our office computers. – By Farhad Manjoo – Slate Magazine. At first glance, this article made me…
[Reposted from my work blog.] There are four basic things you need to do when attempting to set up encrypted MySQL connections. Make sure your MySQL installation is configured with SSL. Create a set of certificates for your master, your slave, and your client(s). Configure your master and slave my.cnf with the correct ssl-* options….
Someone on #lopsa recently asked what he should tell an auditor who wants the root account completely disabled on a Unix system. The analogy I could come up with is: Disabling root would be akin to cutting the master key to a building in half and making parts of the building unusable at certain times….
In June, I gave a presentation to LOPSA Austin of various out of band management technologies that I’ve experienced and used in my day to day work. As promised, here are the slides if anyone else is interested. This a high-level overview of IPMI, ILO, ILOM, and some third party addons and management tools. -edit-…
Example ZFS configurations for a Sun x4500 with 24TB of raw disk. Two disks are held for OS, leaving 46 available disks for ZFS. One 45 disk raidz2 zvol across 6 controllers. Most disk, but very slow performance. ~21TB space. zpool create -f thumper raidz2 c0t1d0 c1t1d0 c4t1d0 c5t1d0 c6t1d0 c7t1d0 c0t2d0 c1t2d0 c4t2d0 c5t2d0…
Register for the website! http://www.austinsug.org/Members.html If you want to be part of the leadership board, contact Jeff. Jeff.blanchard at sun.com. Thanks to Sigma Solutions for providing the food and drink. Next meeting: August 15, 2007. Solaris 10 Dtrace by Jarod Jenson, chief architect at Aeysis. Jarod is the resource Sun brings into companies who need…
I’ve been receiving double notifications for things posted to the website. Trying to see where it’s occuring.
Last night Sun held it’s first Austin Solaris User Group meeting at Painter Hall on the UT campus. The event was reasonably well attended with ~15-20 people from various companies and academia around Austin. The meeting was broken up into two parts: a presentation about new features in Solaris 10 release 11/06 and a discussion…
Recently, Sun announced an initiative called Project Blackbox. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s something they call a “virtual data center”. But, it’s real and physical. You can touch it, hear it, move it, and … as the Sun guy said, taste it if you like. (Personally, I wouldn’t, I don’t know where that…
Some photos I took of LOPSA at LISA2006.