Centralized and unsecure logging with syslogd
Get syslog to do your bidding and send logs to a remote machine. A quick run-through on how to make syslogd be promiscuous and take logs from strangers.
Year: 2005
MacEnterprise.org Streaming Solutions Webcast
The MacEnterprise.org group will be presenting a Webcast on Enterprise Streaming Solutions on Tuesday, March 15 at 1:00 pm EDT. George Cook, a Consulting Engineer at Apple and Stephen Tonna, QuickTime Streaming Product Manager at Apple, will be presenting.
Resetting PCI RAID
If you are having trouble with 'megaraid -destroyconfig' run 'megaraid -showdevices' first to see drive status - stop rebuild processes with 'megaraid -rebuild pd -stop' (This only applies to situations where the RAID has failed so badly that rebuilding (which can take 8 or mor hours) is not an option.
rsync Backups on OS X
Clones across the network With a little bit of work you can have rsync cloning a primary server to a backup server.
Apple Enterprise Backup Solutions
Overview of OS X backup options. The most frequent question that I am asked is how someone can protect all of the data that they store on their Xserves and Xserve RAIDs. It's a good question, too! Most of us may have other platforms on our networks as well, so how are all of these servers and clients going to play together?
MacEnterprise.org Backup Solutions Webcast
The MacEnterprise.org group will be presenting a Webcast on Mac OS X Backup Solutions on Tuesday, February 15 at 1:00 pm EDT. In this webcast, Thomas Weyer, a Senior Consulting Engineer at Apple, will show you how to look at your storage requirements and build a complete storage solution including tiered storage integrated into a SAN using Xsan.
Get Yer Updates!
Today, Apple released version 10.3.8 of its famed Panther platform, for both the Server and Client versions.
Preventing Login Window burn-in
Keep your monitors happy and ghost free We have a number of machines here with colour calibrated monitors, and to keep this colour as constant as we can it means that power to the monitor can never be turned off.
A better fix for the QuickTime Installer Dialog
Ed. Note: This is a rather clever way of defeating the dreaded QuickTime registration dialog. However it does require access to the package before deployment. It also is a good example of some of the things that pre and post-install scripts do within packages.
GeoCenter’s Xserve Cluster Setup Guide
GeoCenter has deployed a new 100 node Xserve G5 cluster that will be used for running distributed processing applications from GeoCenter's SeisUP� seismic processing system.