Separating out environments for production, staging, and test
I'm wondering if anyone else has separated out their servers and services (not for other people, but for your own use) into production, staging, and test environments? This sounds like a no-brainer for...
View ArticleWindows Server licenses for file sharing and Firebird access.
I've been tasked with setting up a new Windows Server 2008 machine for a client. I usually just deal with Linux machines, but the client's custom software doesn't behave well with Linux apparently, so...
View Article[ASK] Hi, I've just switched jobs. Since one month ago I'm on a big french...
I have the LPIC-1 since last december, that was easy. I'm thinking about ccna but a friend of mine, network teacher on the university, told me that ccna was weak in ipv6 terms, and he suggested me I...
View Articlecan I increase WDS network speed
I have a new server running server 2008 R2 with the wds service. I have a 1Gbps link to that server. It is using ~5% network utilization and is having a transfer speed of 4366 KBps which is fine but I...
View ArticleMigrating a LUN from one file server to another
I have a Windows 2003 server that I currently use for a file server. I would like to move to a Windows 2008 R2 based file server. All of the files of importance are stored on a LUN which can be easily...
View ArticleWindows 2008 file server - what's the dream setup? And what tools are out...
We currently have about 4TB of data on our old file server cluster with two nodes, and I'm considering my options to replace it here in the near future. The storage is all SAN attached. Specifically,...
View ArticleFound this great resource for all things networking/Cisco related
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View ArticleBest Firewall for approximately $1000?
Hey, I'm replacing our old Juniper Netscreen 25 and I have approximately $1000 to spend (up to $1500 for the right product). What are some good firewall solutions? I've looked into the appliance thing...
View ArticleI just realized: Last week I built our 13th server, on Friday the 13th, and...
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View ArticleWhat does r/sysadmin do for international mobile access?
How many of you are travelling globally and/or supporting staff or executives who travel outside your country? What sort of options do you provide for mobile voice/data access? What concessions have...
View Article10 years of pf in OpenBSD (x-post from /r/BSD)
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View ArticleActive Directory Basics
... does anyone have any resources where I can learn the basics of AD? It's on a Windows system, if that helps. I've noticed quite a few positions that want expirience with AD so I figured I'd get on...
View ArticleAdvice on buying bulk 2.5" 30-40GB HDDs?
We ended up with a bunch of extra 2.5" HDD enclosures laying around, and it seems it would be good to start using them. People seem miffed when we ship them a 3.5" drive without an enclosure (but we're...
View ArticleAsk SysIt: Has anyone used the Brick Wall surge protector and is it worth it?
So we had a fire at a local power station and it fried a UPS and a disk controller on the other side of the UPS. We're looking into upgrading our little NOC and I stumbled upon the Brick Wall. I was...
View ArticleDocumentation Best Practices
I have just set up a Wiki that I will be using as my primary source for documentation at work (new to being a sysadmin). I was just wondering about things like general documentation rules of thumb, or...
View ArticlePacket Pushers is a high quality networking podcast
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View ArticleDell memory errors on R610s/R710s recently?
Has anyone been having memory errors recently on their Dell servers? This week I have had four Dell R610s all suddenly have bad memory DIMMs in them. All four servers had to have the DIMMs replaced. It...
View ArticleI enjoy finding holes in my own network. Anyone know of a way to bypass a...
I'm a relatively "loose" admin when it comes to security, but I still have to do my job. To test a system I try finding ways to break my own security (without cheating as an admin). My most recent...
View ArticleTrying to Setup OpenLDAP Slave
I've got a CentOS 5.6 server that I would like to bind it to a Mac Mini Server we have running OpenLDAP. I've been trying to find information online, but most of it involves having a Samba server as...
View ArticleEver used Perl's Catalyst?
This is more of DevOps type question. I used to programming larger scale applications in Ruby on Rails, however at my current gig Perl is the most widely known language, and as such that's what we're...
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