Restoring an IBM HMC using FTP

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Restoring an RS/6000 P Series HMC is something you might have to do in the event of hardware failure of your IBM HMC. If your machine has failed and you have received a replacement HMC unit from your vendor or IBM it would be in a factory default state (no configuration useful for your site). […]

Create an NFS share with Microsoft Services for UNIX 3.5

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As unlikely as it sounds to a UNIX die hard there are times when you require a Windows Server to share out an NFS folder. This document explains how to setup a simple scenario which will create a NFS disk resource on a Windows box which is mountable from a Unix client (a Sun Solaris […]

Automatically Backing Up Remote Servers with Qnap 109

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Introduction If you run an important server such as web server you should of course take regular off site backups. Now everyone knows that backups are a total pain to do manually and more often than not get forgotten. However, using linux cron you can automate this task easily and be more confident of your […]

Editing Cisco Access Lists

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Note: This is an old post recovered from a previous blog Introduction Once upon a time Cisco Access Lists were very very clunky and crude. They were a pig to manipulate and something to be avoided. Things have improved over the years and they are not so bad as they once were. For example there […]

How to Enable SSH as the transport for Cisco IOS devices

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Note this is an old post I moved from an old blog.  It seemed a shame to let the post die as some people may find it useful on older IOS devices. Introduction If you administer networks or unix based servers it most likely won’t have escaped your attention that the commonly used remote admin […]

Building AWS EC2 instances with Puppet Enterprise

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Building aws ec2 with puppet Puppet Enterprise has a useful system called Cloud provisioner which will manage the creation, deletion and puppet classification of virtual machines or “instances”.  This cloud provisioner system supports three well known virtualization / cloud systems;  Amazon Web Services, Google Compute Engine and VMware.  This document is going to cover the […]