When you get a new HP Procurve Switch, you want to configure it so that the time is correct. This helps to make your logs, monitoring, etc… all be more useful and time relevant. Additionally, in a prior article (Setup…
I recently had an opportunity to test out some HP 2920 switches for the office. We chose to use both HP 2920-48G and HP 2920-48G-PoE+ switches. We were looking for switches with 10G capability (Add the fiber sfp+ module to…
Sometimes, you think you should be receiving email from your linux host but the email messages never come. You have verified the email address, you have installed different email program variants, sendmail, mail, mutt, etc…, and yet the messages still…
From time to time every System Administrator will have to pull some wire to get a network jack in that one location. And then sometimes, you have to pull a lot of wire. We were in a pinch the other…
We have already installed ODBC drivers for Oracle and PostgreSQL in prior articles. In this article, we will install ODBC drivers on CentOS to connect us to an MySQL database. The general idea is similar to the steps we followed…
If you have worked with Linux or any version of Unix for a while, then you are likely aware of the diff command. But you may not be aware of some of the siblings commands of diff and some of…