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
/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
Identifying filesystem/LV information
JetAdmin commands
Kernel creation - command line
Kernel information
Kernel parameters documentation
Lbolt decyphering
Logical Volume Recovery
ia64 lanboot
Ignite UX FAQ
IDing HP Model Numbers
Integrity Virtual Machines
HP Library commands
Mirroring boot disks
Mounting HP CDs on other OSs
Moving HP printers between systems
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
SDUX: Permission denied
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 System Documentor
HP Sysinfo script
Performance monitoring
HP Modems
MC ServiceGuard Info
Linux
Adding users in batch
Single user mode
RPM Kernel updates
VI mode command line editing
Redhat Linux & cable modems
Linux FAQ
Linux HOWTOs
Enterprise Linux Magazine
Why a penguin?
PAM documentation
SysAdmin: Linux Rookery
Linux Gazette
Linux Documentation Project
Linux Admin's Security Guide
IPCHAINS Log info
Misc
Autosys CLI
Area code locations
Cable pinouts
Systems management
Converting man pages to ascii
XTerm titles
HTML Status Codes/Phrases
Emailing attachments
Performance tuning information
3Com/Us Robotics Modem cmds
Sendmail FAQ
Syslog daemon configuration
SNMP faq
ssh: Sudo vs ssh/pka
ssh: Users' guide
ssh and clusters
Subnet calculator
vi cheat sheet
Openssl Certificate Authority
stunnel/sqlnet configuration
Oracle
Oracle 10g docs
10g Admin guide
Archivelog mode info
Oracle backup information
Block change tracking
ONS: Naming methods
Oracle problem/resolution checklist
Oracle recovery options
Data types
ID DBID
Kevin Loney's Freebies
Selecting first N records as ordered
Useful scripts.
OCP training notes
Old oracle info
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
Disabling automatic user registration
EMC & SUN integration
Generic installation checklist
Mirroring OS w/Disksuite
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 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
Creating striped volumes via Veritas
Creating rootdg w/o using vxinstall
Evacuating disks
ID free space in DG
Removing disks from Veritas control
Removing Veritas disk groups
Removing Veritas disks from disk groups
Removing Veritas volumes
Renaming VM disks
Veritas & privte area length
Veritas & device ownership
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