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Many proprietary high-availability (HA) software providers require users to pay
extra for system-management capabilities. Bucking this convention and driving down
costs is LINBIT, whose DRBD HA software solution, part of the Linux kernel since
2009, powers thousands of digital enterprises.
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In a previous article, I explained the process
for setting up Cacti, which is a
great program for graphing just about anything.
One of the main things I
graph is my internet usage. And, it’s great information to have, until there
is internet activity you can’t explain. more>>

This is the fourth in a series of articles on systems administrator
fundamentals. These days, DevOps has made even the job title “systems
administrator” seems a bit archaic like the “systems
analyst” title it
replaced. more>>

This is the third in a series of articles on system administrator
fundamentals where I focus
on some lessons I’ve learned
through the years that might be obvious to longtime sysadmins, but news
to someone just coming into this position.
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The Linux Foundation Certified Engineer (LFCE) certification is for administrators
seeking to increase their breadth and depth of knowledge beyond the Linux
Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS) level. more>>

With Linux, it’s fairy easy to find the large files on your system by doing
something like this:

du -ahx / | sort -rh | head -20

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At last abandoning WINE and launching native Linux support, TeamViewer announced
the availability of a new preview version of its Linux Host with native Linux
support. more>>

This is the second in a series of articles on systems administrator
fundamentals. These days, DevOps has made even the job title “systems
administrator” seem a bit archaic, much like the “systems
analyst” title it
replaced. These DevOps positions are rather different from sysadmin jobs in
the past. more>>

In a previous article, “Provisioning Docker with Puppet”, in the December
2016 issue, I covered one of the ways
you can install the Docker service onto a new system with Puppet. By
contrast, this article focuses on how to manage Docker images and
containers with Puppet.
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The contemporary data center is typified by an ever-increasing amount of traffic
occurring between servers, observes Applied Expert Systems, Inc. (AES), sagely.
Fulfilling the logical need to facilitate improved server-to-server
communications, AES created CleverView for TCP/IP on Linux, now at v2.7.
CleverView provides IT staff access to current and more>>