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I’m not just “Your Linux Guy”… I’m “Your ZCM Guy”, too… As a Novell Partner, I was very fortunate to have attended the ZENworks Configuration Management 11 (ZCM 11) “First Class” training session last week. This is where the outstanding…
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Sub-Title: “Escaping commas in LDAP(S) queries to AD” This is part 3 in a series of 5 posts on this subject; please also see part 1, part 2, part 4, and part 5. If the username in your query has…
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Sub-Title: “An easier way to export a MS AD CA root cert…” After the popularity of my first post on this subject, I’ve decided to write a couple follow-ups to add some more tips around this subject. As a result,…
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Post-publish follow-up: I have now turned this into a multi-part series with additional tips and tricks. Please see part 2, part 3, part 4, and part 5. Active Directory (AD) is a fact of life. There, I said it. And…
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One of the very first posts I wrote on this blog when I started in early 2007 is a tutorial on how to quickly set up Tripwire on “Suse Linux” (before they called it “Opensuse”). But the problem with that…
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UPDATE (post-publish), 20100806: Though this post was originally tested entirely on 32-bit Opensuse 11.1, thanks to the prompt by Philip (see comments below), I have set up and tested this config on 64-bit Opensuse 11.3 with the 64-bit eDirectory 8.8sp5. …
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I’ll spare you all of what you can read all over the Internet about the specifics of the latest Opensuse 11.3 release (and there are some good ones, like All About Linux, and OStatic to name a couple) … And…
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As you might have noted in my previous posts, I do not like to visit server consoles for upgrades. So I want to thank Novell for having outlined a handy little instruction sheet here: How to upgrade to SLES/SLED 11…
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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…
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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…
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