Articles from ADMIN Issue 43
Red Hat continues to improve the OpenShift Kubernetes distribution.
How can LibreOffice be used in a corporate environment and what difficulties have to be considered? In particular, you cannot underestimate acceptance by your employees.
Encrypting hard disk partitions during the installation of an operating system is standard procedure. When booting the computer, you then need to enter a matching passphrase to unlock the hard drive. We show you how to automate this process and link it to a policy.
In Windows Server 2016, software-defined storage lets you combine several volumes to create a central storage pool; then, you can use a combination of HDD, SSD, and NVMe SSD storage media to divide the pool into different volumes.
Microsoft continues to integrate Windows Server with the Azure cloud. With Cloud Witness and the RDS Connection Broker, you can operate distributed environments more reliably and efficiently, and SQL databases migrate sensibly into the cloud.
Huginn collects information and data from websites and processes and mails it to a user. Huginn also executes predefined actions automatically for certain events; however, setting up the small IFTTT alternative requires some work.
Offers for identity management as a service (IDaaS) are entering the market and promising simplicity. However, many lack functionality, adaptability, and in-depth integration with existing systems. We look at how IT managers should consider IDaaS in their strategy.
To be a good HPC system administrator for today's environment, you need to be a lumberjack.
If you compile software on an expensive supercomputer, it's a good idea to select the languages and compilers with particular care. We report on the tried-and-proved tools used on SuperMUC, a supercomputer at the Leibniz Supercomputing Center in Germany.
The handy auditd package can help track down weaknesses in your system before, during, or after an attack.
