Mar 27, 2017 Posted by newlife007

How To Build RPMS on CentOS 7

Introduction Building RPMS brings fear to new Linux system administrators. The uncertainty of setting up the build environment and the SPEC file definitions and usage can be daunting. In this post we will hope to alleviate those fears and show how you can create RPMS for applications and other items on CentOS / RHEL 7. The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command line driven package management... 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 8, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Install and Config PowerPath on RHEL

Introduction PowerPath is EMC licensed software for managing SAN attached storage on your systems. In this post we will cover how to install, license and scan for newly attached storage. Prerequisites Download the PowerPath software from EMC powerlink website. If you’ve purchased EMC support, you should have access to powerlink. For RHEL 4 EMCpower.LINUX-5.3.0.00.00-185.rhel.x86_64.rpm... read more

Nov 2, 2015 Posted by newlife007

Retrieving EMC and Qlogic Fiber WWN on RHEL

Introduction So you need to add storage to a RHEL (RedHat Enterprise Linux) server and the storage guy has asked you for the WWN.  The question next is how do I get the WWN off my server? So how do we get QLogic and EMC WWN’s on RHEL. It is a lot easier than one might think. Let’s move forward and get the WWN information we need! Qlogic First identify your installed or recognized, this is... read more

Nov 11, 2014 Posted by newlife007

How To Install Microsoft SQL drivers and unixODBC 2.3.0 on RHEL 6 64 bit

How To Install Microsoft SQL drivers and unixODBC 2.3.0 on RHEL 6 64 bit Microsoft’s SQL drivers can not use the 2.2.14 unixODBC installed with RedHat 6. It requires 2.3.0 which requires compiling and installing from source. First download the latest unixODBC from http://www.unixodbc.org/ . Put tarball in /tmp and extract. Extract the tar ball # tar xvzf unixODBC-2.3.0.tar.gz Change to the unixODBC-2.3.0... read more