How to monitor and manage lan gateway from a helius router?
Hi Everyone, I am trying to filter/manage a gateway through a helius router for directway. We are running windows 2000 server with all xp clients, around 50 of them. We have active directory running with the domain controller handing out dns and dhcp to clients. All clients are pointing to the helius router for their [...]

Answer Question   |  January 10, 2005  3:32 AM
Application software, Auditing, DataCenter, Integration/Connectivity, Linux, Networking Products, Routers, Security, Security management, Servers, System monitoring, System utilities, Unix, Windows 2000 Server, Windows client administration and maintenance, Windows XP

how DNS works
hello everybody, can you tell me ,how DNS works? i know the theorotical aspects that it is a large database distributed on a no. of servers etc. but i don’t know how practically it is implemented,what softwares are used to implement it and how can i access it ,if i have it implemented.i have heard [...]

Answer Question   |  December 22, 2004  10:54 PM
Active Directory, Backup & recovery, Bind, DHCP, DNS, Hardware, Installation, Intel servers, LDAP, Linux, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Networking services, Servers, Storage, Tech support, Toubleshooting, Unix, Unix Servers

Upgrade to Oracle/Intel: Go Linux vs Windows
We are planning upgrade our main database cluster (rs6000/aix) to Oracle on Intel, research done give a lot of papers from dell, hp, intel that about roi of moving out of risc/unix but there is no clear evidence about performance issues between LINUX and Windows Server as the selected OS. Do you have info about [...]

Answer Question   |  November 9, 2012  12:58 PM
CIO, Hardware, Linux, Oracle, Oracle 9i, Windows

Getting started on a Linux career
A SearchEnterpriseLinux.com reader asked me the following question, and I’m gathering information for him. Can you help? Question: “I am a Domino developer used to Windows environment, but I have a Fedora Core 2 box at home for learning Linux. I would eventually like to learn Linux and learn to develop in Linux, with an [...]

Answer Question   |  December 15, 2004  12:00 PM
Career development, Certifications, Development, Linux

WALLDATA RUMBA File Transfer Function
After upgrading from NT to XP or Win2000, the File Transfer function no longer works. Arpeggio is fine but the File Transfer application error is:[Wall Data][Rumba Data Access]No data source specified; dialog prohibited. SQLDriverConnect…. Maybe there are registry entries missing? How do you connect a data source to File Transfer?

Answer Question   |  December 8, 2004  9:31 AM
Data center operations, DataCenter, DB2, Desktop management applications, Desktops, Development, Graphical User Interfaces, Hardware, i5, Installation, Integration/Connectivity, iSeries, Microsoft Systems Management Server, OS/400, PC/Windows Connectivity, Registry, Servers, Software distribution, Sun, Tech support, Thin clients, Third-party services, UDB for client/server, UDB for iSeries/i5, Unix, Vendor support, Windows, Windows 2000 desktop, Windows client administration and maintenance

hi i am a student from india doing it engineering ..i would be very thankful if you help me with this query related to ping wrt linux .
we just started working on linux as an operating system thats the redhat version . i have tried giving following command in colon on the command line and get the following output which i quite donot understand ….so if you could explain what the output implies that would be nice … “”"[it020934@IBM1 it020934]$ ping google.com [...]

Answer Question   |  October 27, 2004  1:13 AM
Linux, Networking

SuSE Linux ckuid/ckgid command equivalents
I’m looking for commands equivalent to the ckuid/ckgid in Solaris or getuic/getuid in UnixWare. The Linux “id” command can possibly substitute for ckuid but that still leaves ckgid. These commands also need to work in a NIS environment. Any ideas? Thanks!

Answer Question   |  September 29, 2004  11:08 AM
Linux, Linux Distributions, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Unix shell script help ?
I wrote a shell script and defined the function in the begining, but calling function somewhere in the middle of the code. The problem is function is getting executed before the function call, immmediatly when i execute the script from the command. Please help any body….. here is my code function create_dat_file { filename=”$fname” # [...]

Answer Question   |  September 21, 2004  2:47 PM
Unix

SuSE SLES8 Media Kit
I’m looking for the SuSE SLES8 Media Kit for an upgrade from SLES7. We have a valid premium support contract for the enterprise server but didn’t succeed in downloading the appropriate software from SuSE’s support database via ftp (permission problem, though I had successfully entered the support portal). Does someone know where I can get [...]

Answer Question   |  October 11, 2004  2:29 AM
Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Solaris Threads
Can someone please let me know how one can increase the number of threads in a Solaris box for nfsd performance?

Answer Question   |  September 7, 2004  2:11 PM
Unix

KILLING OLD UNIX PROCESSES
# I want to be able to extract all the oracleprod processes which are 3 days old and kill them. Are there other date functions or methods can I use? I can make a list of processes but how do I compare the date to kill those processes more than 3 days old. This problem [...]

Answer Question   |  May 20, 2010  10:39 AM
Awk, Bash, Bison, Bourne, CSH, Grep, KSH, nroff, Procmail, sed, Solaris, Unix, Unix Servers, Unix tools, Unix versions, xargs

Linux clustering versus supercomputing
In an article on SearchEnterpriseLinux.com, Cray Canada CTO Paul Terry said: “Cluster vendors would have you believe that their performance is the linear sum of each of their respective GFLOPS [Giga Floating Point Operations Per Second]. Most cluster [experts] know now that users are fortunate to get more than 8% of the peak performance in [...]

Answer Question   |  June 3, 2004  8:32 PM
Linux, Servers

XML in UDB Version 8
I am looking for some help in using the UDB XML Extenders. We have a need to store and then recreate some XML. Has anyone used this feature?

Answer Question   |  June 22, 2004  6:21 PM
DB2 Universal Database, Sun, UDB for client/server, Unix, Windows

How to modify external environment variable from 2nd shell script
There are two shell scripts. First one creates variable as: “export VAR1=init_value;” OR “declare -x; VAR1=init_value;” Second script can read this variable and modifies the variable’s value but after exiting the variable still keep original value. What is wrong?

Answer Question   |  May 13, 2004  11:18 PM
Bash, Bourne, KSH

nt/2000 oracle experience to install on linux
Do you happen to know of any good resources to help a windows Oracle dba very quickly appreciate the linux environment for an install there. It would be great to have a resource that can explain the similar (or not so similar) constructs in a windows environment to that of a linux one. Thanks, Laura

Answer Question   |  May 12, 2004  2:24 PM
Linux, Oracle

Linux Server Distro
Which Linux Server distrobution is best suited for the Enterprise?

Answer Question   |  January 4, 2010  11:14 AM
Linux, Servers