Sun Ray Server Software 4, Beta Update 2 – running on CentOS
Here’s my quick notes on getting SRSS 4, Beta Update 2 (the latest) running on Centos 4.4.
Month: July 2008
Clustering: Don’t turn the Rocks firewall off unless you know what you’re doing…
Recently Professor Diana Franklin was awarded an NSF grant to build a small high performance computing cluster here on campus. As the “friendly neighborhood system administrator” I volunteered to help build and run it. We chose UCSD’s Rocks Linux based… Continue Reading
Unix – Active Directory Integration
Currently I support thousands of users on hundreds of machines in a mixed Unix and Windows environment. The legacy environment has 2 separate systems to administer user accounts. On Unix, we still (!?!) use plain old NIS. For Windows, we… Continue Reading
Monitor your stuff: Nagios
Nagios is a system monitoring tool that runs on Unix/Linux platforms, but will monitor practically anything – Unix, Windows, databases, environmental/HVAC, you name it. Nagios is good, and works well – but it isn’t easy to configure.