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Systems Administration Toolkit: Monitor user usage
Do you know what your users are doing? Do you know how frequently people are using your systems? As I explain in the intro: Explore new ways to record UNIX logins and other system activities in a number of different logs, and take advantage of thi…
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System Administration Toolkit: Distributed administration using SSH
System administration and SSH is a topic I’ve covered before (see System Administration Toolkit: Set up remote access in UNIX through OpenSSH), but what I didn’t cover in that article was how you can use SSH as a solution for running commands remo…
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Voice enabling XML, Part 4: Develop a Web search application for VoiceXML
The final part of the four-part series on developing VoiceXML applications, this time covering an interface to an internet search system, is available: In this final article of a four-part series, develop an application that takes VoiceXML as inpu…
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Systems Administration Toolkit: Testing system validity
I recently had a hacking attempt on my machine, perpetrated by somebody noticing the open SSH port and trying every possible user/password and combination trick to try and get in. They didn’t succeed, and I only know that because I was able to che…
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Develop with Java and PHP technology on AIX Version 5.3, Part 6: Building the Java business application
The final part of the PHP/Java series is now available. This last part of the series covers the modification of our original application so that it employs the PHP/Java bridge as the interface between the core Java application and PHP. A detailed …
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Systems Administration Toolkit: Monitoring mail usage
Keeping an eye on your mail system is about more than making sure the mail gets through. You should also be thinking about spam statistics, usage of the mail system by users and whether users are really getting the best out of the systems that the…
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Building a grid system using WS-Resource Transfer
For those of you wanting to read the entire WS-Resource Transfer series, IBM have provided an overview page that covers all of the articles/tutorials within the series. See Building a grid system using WS-Resource Transfer
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Building a grid system using WS-Resource Transfer, Part 5: Using WS-RT for work distribution
The fifth and final part of my series on using WS-Resource Transfer is available to read now. In this last part we look at using the WS-RT system as a method for distributing work within your grid system. Read Building a grid system using WS-Resou…
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Aggregate RSS and Atom information using XQuery
XQuery is rapidly becoming seen as an alternative XML processing solution. It has some advantages – you can embed the queries into the XML, and it can be easier to follow than XSLT and some other solutions, to name but a few. So how do you use it …
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Voice enabling XML, Part 3: Develop a voice blogging app
I had a lot of fun developing the VoiceXML series, and the third article in the series is now available. There are some limitations – you cannot yet dictate your blog post, for example – but the article shows the potential power of the a VoiceXML …