Today we were configuring Squid on a RHEL 5. box. Building from source, we knew we’d get a nice 64-bit Squid caching server, ready to quickly process the cache and what have you. We run a filtering plugin from Secure Computing, which had to be compiled in with it. Unfortunately, […]
As we approach the end of a budget year, it is amazing to me the way the office changes. Overtime is cut back, yet, spending which was not a high priority previously suddenly gets a rush order. All of this spending has caused us to take a look at our […]
Blast! Today I was rudely interrupted by a SQL injection attack on our main public facing web server. When I arrived this morning at 7:30, I promptly overheard the help desk folks alerting us to the fact that when we visited our website (which happened to be the default home […]
As systems sprawl has taken place, we have had the unfortunate task of implementing products that do not or did not utilize a central store for information, such as Active Directory. As a result, we have numerous products that have their own information stores. This becomes frustrating as an administrator, […]
Well, it is official: We have our iSCSI target set up on our DL380 G5 WIndows Storage Server. Our final specs ended up as follows: HP DL380 G5 Windows Storage Server1 Quad-Core Intel Chip (2.2ghz)2GB MemoryMSA 60 w/ 12 750gb drives (9.6tb total) We configured the initial volume for RAID5 […]
We started setting up our VMWare ESXi environment today using an HP DL580 G5 server, along with an HP DL380 G5 Windows Storage Server (with iSCSI target). We installed and updated the iSCSI target today and set up a target immediately. Then we installed the Virtual Infrastructure client and attempted […]
There are a number of additional components available for purchase from various organizations that claim to help you manage your Active Directory environment. I must admit, many of them look quite intriguing, however, I find it hard to do a justification for such tools when many of them could be […]
Though rare, there are times when the mighty Google can fail to find the answer. But the fault isn’t that the search engine was wrong and that you needed to trot over to another such as Yahoo or Ask, rather that the information you’re looking for probably actually wasn’t out […]