Dec 20, 2015 Posted by newlife007

Managing Your RDP with Remote Desktop Manager

Introduction Remote Desktop Manager (RDM) is an efficient solution for launching connections or conveniently viewing entries that have been centralized in your data source (database), In this case we are looking at managing RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) connections. It also saves all of your remote connections, passwords and credentials in a single, secure platform. With RDM, you can quickly and easily... read more

Dec 13, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How to Upgrade Avamar Client on Solaris

Introduction This post explains how to upgrade an existing Avamar client installation on Solaris. It covers removal and installation of the client on Sparc and x86 for Solaris 8, 9 & 10. This shown using an older package version but the process is the same. Process Copy the updated package on the server in the /tmp directory on the target server. For Solaris 8 & 9 use the Solaris 8 package and... read more

Dec 7, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Create Ftp Yum Repository On Fedora

Introduction There comes a time when you cannot connect to the internet to your favorite repository for installation of packages. Thankfully we can create our own YUM repositories to have them available locally on our networks. YUM stands for  Yellow Dog Modifier and is the Red Hat package manager that is able to query for information about available packages, fetch packages from repositories, install and... read more

Dec 2, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Remove SAN Attached LUNs from RHEL 5 Servers Using powermt

Introduction It is one of those rare occasions where you get to reclaim SAN attached storage instead of giving more. From the EMC side of it you would think no problem. Remove the host from the storage group and un-mount and re-scan on the host and all is good, right? Well no, up rises device in use or not found and powermt check command won’t work. So how do we do it? Read on and see. Steps Several... read more

Nov 30, 2015 Posted by newlife007

Managing Your Collections with DataCrow Server

Introduction Let’s face it, we collect things, many different things. One issue we have is keeping track of them, but with technology and many computers we have options at our disposal. One of many programs is DataCrow. I have written about this program years back and feel it needs revisited with improvements. DataCrow can be run in several different ways, portable, standalone and also as a client /... read more