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Systems Administration Toolkit: Log file basics
A new article on some basic log file information and maintenance is available: A typical UNIX or Linux machine creates many log files during the course of its operation. Some of these contain useful information; others can be used to help you with…
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Aperi Discovery and Probe Videocast
As a follow up to my first introductory video on using Aperi, I now have a follow-up videocast on how to add storage systems to your Aperi installation. The process is two-stage, first you have to run a discovery process (to find the devices) and …
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Systems Administration Toolkit: Network scanning
A new article on scanning your network for information, both in a general device/service level and at a more detailed data level is now available. Discover how to scan your network for services and how to regularly monitor your services to keep up…
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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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Aperi Download and Install Videocast
Aperi is an open source storage management framework that provides you with a single interface to managing all of your different storage solutions. You can get more information from the Aperi Homepage. The Aperi application is based on Eclipse, an…
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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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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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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 …