Enterprise IT

Warning: CentOS/RedHat 7.4 installs FreeRADIUS 3 with breaking changes

When you run yum upgrade on a CentOS/RedHat 7 instance, you will be upgraded to 7.4. If you have a FreeRADIUS server, you will be upgraded from version 2 to 3, and your server will likely stop authenticating! Good times! Fortunately, the solution was not complicated for us, because we had good documentation. Symptoms Your …

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Managing persistent disks on Google Compute Engine

It can confusing when you have multiple persistent disks on an instance running on Google Compute Engine. For example, a server may have separate disks for the filesystem root, MySQL data, logs, and /tmp. Once you’ve created the Compute Engine disks and attached each one to the instance, how do you know which Compute Engine …

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Is there a “Primary Domain Controller” in Active Directory?

The Historical Answer With Windows NT, prior to the advent of Active Directory, there was one Primary Domain Controller (DC) per domain, and every other DC was a Backup. The Modern Answer When Active Directory was introduced with Windows 2000, domain controllers became fully multi-master. There is no primary domain controller. However, there are two …

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Monitoring with SNMP, Part 2: Command-line tools for active SNMP

In Part 1, I summarized the basic concepts of SNMP and defined the terms and acronyms used in this post. Now, I will show how to use SNMP to monitor actual devices. As an example, I will monitor an enterprise-grade uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and power distribution unit (PDUs) from Tripp-Lite. These devices have an …

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