Dec
19
2008
As you have probably read on many websites. OpenSuse 11.1 is released. You can download it over here.
You probably know that OpenSuse 11.1 is the fundamental of the next to come SLES 11.
I have the beta of SLES 11. So if you want to test with this beta. Give me a sign!
I’m upgrading my workstation at home this Christmas.
Dec
18
2008
I just got the message that Brainshare 2009 in Salt Lake City is canceled. The reason Novell gives is the economic environment and that many customers don’t wanne come because of that environment. Novell want to compensate through online session or local sessions.
I don’t think this is a good singal to customers or partners through the world. Brainshare isn’t only follwing session. It’s also about meeting other same minded people. This can be at Brainshare self or late in the evening in the pub.
Why not do a small Brainshare? Without all the extra stuff like Star Buck or a lounge room. Just the sessions. Sure everybody pay’s enough to make that cost-covering!
Dec
18
2008
A customer of mine has multiple eDirectory servers. We noticed that the load of the servers various. The problem is that we did not know howmany connections are made to the particular server. So I wrote a simple scipt. If you put this script in /usr/local/bin and put it in your Cron for example of every 5 min you will get a pretty good overview.
#!/bin/bash
# Date: 18-12-2008
# Author: Michael Wilmsen
# Purpose: To display the amount of TCP connections and NCP connections
# Output: Date,Hostname,TotalConnections
echo “$(date ‘+%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S’),$HOSTNAME,$(netstat -na | wc -l),$(netstat -an | grep “:524″ | wc -l),$(cat /proc/loadavg)”
The output is like this:
12/18/08 12:40:04,edirall201,3522,3253,4.50 3.49 3.80 5/412 24008
date time,hostname,#TCPConnections,#NCPConnections,load average
Dec
17
2008
Many people ask me the question how you can remove a OES2 Linux server from a eDirectory tree.
With Netware you go to NWCONFIG, Directory Options, Remove Directory Service from this Server.
But how can we do this on OES Linux? Simple just give the command
ndsconfig rm -a cn=admin.o=org
Give the admin password and eDirectory will be removed. Don’t forget to cleanup you eDirectory. The following object will still exist after removing eDirectory:
- Volume object(s) (As a unknow object, because it’s missing a mandatory property)
- SAS object
- SSL Certificate objects
- Unix Workstation object
Dec
17
2008
Just to let you know (and that I don’t forget it) how you can disable broadcast messages in OES2 Linux.
Go into NCPCON and give the command:
set disable_broadcast=1
