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🇬🇧 Monitoring Performance LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer

Visualize

"The Matrix" ruined it a little bit for all of us. Outsiders have sometimes the impression that admins can find errors on their servers just by staring at the...

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🇬🇧 Networking LessonsLearned OnceUponATimeAServer

Zebras, anchors, bottlenecks and link aggregation

Diagnosing problems with computers has a lot to do with diagnosing illnesses (that's the reason why I'm working on an article about patching and vaccination...

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🇬🇧 Solaris personal

Rest in peace, Joerg Schilling

Just saw the notification that Joerg Schilling, the creator of the cdrtools and Schillix (and many other tools), passed away this Sunday. He was one of the...

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🇬🇧 Solaris Security Admin

Changing passwords as a role

Of course the privilege to change other people's passwords can be encapsulated into a role, so you have an additional authentication by using the role password...

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🇬🇧 Solaris Zones Admin

Additional information for your zone configuration

Sometimes it's useful to enrich your zone configuration with some additional data, so someone can look into the zone config and know for example who is...

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🇬🇧 Solaris Security Admin

Changing passwords - re-revisited

There was an interesting question on Twitter after I published my blog entry about assigning the authorization to change passwords to regular users: "Can you...

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