Archive for June 2010

Ping-per-second / Notify Script

Posted on June 21, 2010, 1:45 am, by Jeremy Pavlov, under intermediate, linuxGeneral.

As a sysadmin (probably like you), sometimes I need to whip up special-purpose mini-scripts to do simple monitoring tasks that I don’t want to bother our main monitoring system with… This is one of them… I needed to monitor a network device (an appliance, actually) constantly and rapidly, to see if the interface was flapping [...]

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How can I remotely upgrade from OES2-SP1 to OES2-SP2?

Posted on June 7, 2010, 2:12 am, by Jeremy Pavlov, under advanced, oes2sp1, oes2sp2, rug.

This is just a simplified adaptation of a community post by author sakila here: http://www.novell.com/communities/node/9298/patching-and-upgrading-oes2-sp1-oes2-sp2 …all due credit (and thanks) to the author for putting that together!!  Please read that doc first to get a feel for what I’m after here, and take in all the warnings and caveats.  Maybe even post a comment, and [...]

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