weblog.infoworld.com — "Admin++, what root never told you" is Ron Gorodetzky's presentation at the Southern California Linux Expo 2007. Ron recommends a lot of useful Linux tools to help you scale along the way, and his points on infrastructure, site and servers, can be used in any environment.
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geronimoMar 15, 2007
I wasn't aware of these:<a class="user" href="http://www.cfengine.org/">http://www.cfengine.org/</a><a class="user" href="http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/index.html">http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/index.html</a><a class="user" href="http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2">http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2</a><a class="user" href="http://trac.t7a.org/isconf/">http://trac.t7a.org/isconf/</a>This looks like a good replacement for nagios:<a class="user" href="http://www.zabbix.com/">http://www.zabbix.com/</a>He mentioned IPMI.. If you get a SIMSO card you can remotely attach cd roms. Remotely management is key for me, locally they wanna charge $400 per mbit, 2 hours away it's $40/mbit.
bisqwitMar 15, 2007
Bonus points for using the pipe from Super Mario Bros!
bmeshierMar 15, 2007
Worthless read. Nothing a entry level sys admin couldn't spew out in 5 minutes. Dugg down.
ringo380Mar 15, 2007
Sounds to me like the presentation was intentionally simplified, probably for comedic value. Almost like a Dimitri Martin bit."Equipment can't hear your threats of violence."
mrfishMar 15, 2007
"Linux was mentioned in the first sketch of the first episode of Comedy Central's Chappelle's Show. This is likely why it was such a success."Last point on last page. I agree! lol.
3p0chxMar 15, 2007
"Wire every possible port." - The more I think about this the more it makes great sense. There's nothing worse than going into a switch and pulling or patching ports inside a rats nest. Instead, spend the time when first setting up the switch and put a cable in every port, then label the cable. That way, if a cable is not being used, it can be hung off to the side. Rather than pulling the cable and causing another port/cable to become disconnected, and getting a phone call. This could be done for every server, or other piece of hardware - searching for a spare serial cable sucks as well.
staticpageMar 16, 2007
I don?t know it could be a bad thing too. working behind a guy that just fill all the ports with cable then mislabeled a bunch would be a headache, not to mention if keystones are not used they would not be tested.
ilovecelebsNov 28, 2007
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