Lessons Learned
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AIX
Adding Inet services
Creating Logical Volumes and Filesystems
AIX ver of
dmesg
AIX 4.3 Documentation
AIX Freeware sites
AIX: Mirroring rootvg
Paging space information
AIX: Creating Physical volumes
AIX & sendmail
System Resource Controller
Virtual Memory Manager
vmstat: Can't read from device or file
smit cursor commands
EMC
EMC Architecture
EMC Symmetrix Power requirements
EMC & SUN integration
EMC & HP interaction
EMC Control Center password locations
EMC Control Center commands
EMC Fabric Topology math
EMC: Merging Fibre Channel fabrics
EMC: Fibre Zone operations
EMC Serial number translation
EMC SRDF Modes
EMC SRDF Operations
EMC Timefinder operations
EMC Volume Logix database location
Using split BCVs
EMC WWPN format
ECM Volume Logix operations
EMC Zoning options
HP
HP: 32 -> 64 bit conversion
Which boot disk?
/usr/bin/test fix
Collision rate detection
Crash analysis procedures
Creating volume groups
Creating logical volumes
Creating filesystems
Creating patch depots
Diaglogd & excessive CPU usage
Email character set
Extending vxfs filesystems
Generic HP installation checklist
HP: PV/LV timeouts
Identifying filesystem/LV information
Identifying alternate & unused disks
Ignite UX FAQ
Identifying boot strings (lifcp)
Identifying slots & H/W addresses
JetAdmin commands
Kernel creation - command line
Kernel information
Kernel parameters documentation
Lbolt decyphering
Logical Volume Recovery
Mirroring HP Systems
IDing HP Model Numbers
HP Library commands
Mounting HP CDs on other OSs
Moving HP printers between systems
Moving volume groups
n/vParts and Virtual partitions
Omniback related links
Portable Filesystem exporting
Portable filesystem Mounting
HPUX Freeware site
Reverting from trusted systems
HP RAID Array information
HP Routing
SDUX commands
SD through firewalls
Single User mode
Subnet mask problems
System diagnostic log files
Unlocking user accounts
Alternate method unlock users
V2200 Information
HP Documentation
Moving the root volume group
HP Security Patch check
HP System Documentor
HP Sysinfo script
Performance monitoring
HP Modems
MC ServiceGuard Info
Linux
Adding users in batch
Enterprise Linux Magazine
IPCHAINS Log info
Linux Admin's Security Guide
Linux Documentation Project
Linux FAQ
Linux Gazette
Linux HOWTOs
PAM documentation
Redhat Linux & cable modems
Redhat RPM info
RPM Kernel updates
Single user mode
SysAdmin: Linux Rookery
VI mode command line editing
Why a penguin?
Misc
Autosys CLI
Area code locations
Cable pinouts
CIDR Table
Converting man pages to ascii
XTerm titles
HTML Status Codes/Phrases
Emailing attachments
MRTG Manual
MRTG Configuration
MRTF Official FAQ
More involved MRTG faq
Openssl Info
Performance tuning information
3Com/Us Robotics Modem cmds
Sendmail FAQ
CIFS/Samba info
SSH & Clusters
Syslog daemon configuration
SNMP faq
Subnet calculator
vi cheat sheet
X11: Turning off screen savers
Oracle
Oracle structures
Minimum database implenentation
Oracle problem/resolution checklist
Adding control files
Creating users
Oracle Daily tasks
Data types
Instance creation checklist
Starting/stopping databases
Oracle 8i Dictionary views
Physical dba_ views
User dba_ views
Logical dba_views
Static instance v$ views
Dynamic instance v$ views
Identifying database files
Kevin Loney's Freebies
Modifying MAXDATAFILES
Moving indexes
Monitoring Oracle databases
Moving Oracle files
Oracle documentation
Oracle Flexible Architecture
Oracle Performance tuning
Physical layout goals
Physical I/O Wts & Msrs
Renaming Oracle databases
Selecting first N records as ordered
SQL*Plus init scripts
Useful scripts.
Security
Security tools
Hacks & attacks
O'Reilly's snort notes
Snort notes
TCP/IP header diagrams
TCPDUMP filters
Who's who in security
What's
that
port??
SGI
Backup/restore
Booting off cdrom
Configuring disks
Configuring volume groups
Creating filesystems
Generic Administration
Growing filesystems
mknod
Mpadmin shit
Online documentation
Partitioning disks
Patches
Philips Tape drives
Updating the max number of XLVs
SUN
E10K related links
32/64 default kernel boots
Sun Architecture listings
Bad boot block
SUN/Oracle Best practices
Blueprints: Online magazine
Circumventing max groups per user
SUN Crash Analysis procedures
Disabling automatic user registration
EMC & SUN integration
Generic installation checklist
ID'ing which pkg owns a file
Mirroring OS w/Disksuite
Disk suite: booting w/o quorum
Safely removing keyboards
ksh & ~ shortcuts
lp reprints queued jobs
Full or half duplex network?
Open Boot Prom commands
Solaris FAQ
SUN Freeware site
Jen Vockler's Solaris tuning guide
SUN CPU information
SUN Priority paging
SUN performance information
SUN: Restoring file permissions
SUN Tunable Parameters Reference Manual
Solaris 2.[56] on fast cpus
Veritas Cluster Server
Cluster Building Blocks
VCS Commands
VCS Communications
Configuruation files
Resource Dependency Example
Troubleshooting VCS
Veritas Netbackup
Netbackup Admin utilities
Creating nonroot backup admins
Netbackup related daemons
Netbackup log files
List of commands
Volumes/Pools/Groups
Netbackup directory structure
Check processes
Direct tape access
Display class information
Expiring images
Veritas Volume Manager
Veritas definitions
Veritas command examples
Adding disks to Veritas
Creating new disk groups
DG Creation script
Creating striped volumes via Veritas
Evacuating disks
ID free space in DG
Importing disk groups
Recoverying disabled/stale plexes
Removing disks from Veritas control
Removing Veritas disk groups
Removing Veritas disks from disk groups
Removing Veritas volumes
Renaming VM disks
Veritas & device ownership
Veritas & privte area length
Splitting a mirror
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