Category: System Administration
Creating Host groups and adding Hosts to Nagios
Online resources to create Cron Jobs
A partition cannot end after the end of the device
How to run a DHCP server on your Windows desktop
There are instances, where we need to run a DHCP server on our workstation. Specially when we happen to work in either isolated networks and internet restricted networks. In order to achieve this there is a cool utility and this is portable, so no need to install the application on the workstation. You can get…
IIS Default Web site not working – Others work
On Windows systems there are tmes where the Default web site is not browing (even not starting), but rest of the sites are working fine. When you try to start the Default web site, you may end up with an error code: (Exception from HRESULT:0x800704BE) This is due to incorrect configuration of the localhost listener under…
Open Source VPN solution for any OS/Task
As IT professionals, there are times where we need to setup reliable VPN connections without any hassle. Recently I came across an issue where we had to carry out a cloud to cloud data center migration. The limitation was we had no option to use configure VPN connection between the cloud service providers. Almost all…
How to check the RAID configuration on Linux/Unix systems
Linux based systems support both Hardware and Software based RAID systems. So there are times that we want to check the RAID configuration through the operating system. With Linux this is possible to analyze the configuration with the help of mdstat file. So, to check the RAID configuration you can simply cat the following files; …