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Rex

Just as subjects must obey their king, all the computers and servers in an organization should follow the administrator’s commands. With Rex, you don’t even need to leave your admin throne.

Routing with Quagga

Cisco and Juniper have implemented routing protocols to help your router find the optimum path. On Linux, you can use software like Quagga, with its Zebra daemon, to help automate this process.

Guacamole: Remote Desktop

HTML5 offers a range of new features, such as audio and video support, without needing plugins like Flash or Java. This opens up completely new options in terms of content delivery via the web – and for mobile access to applications on the LAN.

Law of Averages – Load Averaging

Load averaging can be a source of confusion for admins. We provide a look at some basic considerations.

Assigning Privileges with sudo and PolicyKit

If you give users who are usually supervised more scope to help themselves, they will need additional privileges. The sudo tool and the PolicyKit authorization service can control who does what on Linux.

Managing Virtual Infrastructures

Version 3.1 of the oVirt management platform for virtual infrastructures has recently become available. On Fedora 17, the new release is easy to install and deploy.

Linux with Windows 8

Microsoft is not known for its tireless commitment to Linux interoperability, but you can still get Windows to work with Linux – if you have the tools and know the tricks.

Building Virtual Images with BoxGrinder and VMBuilder

Creating a virtual machine manually is straightforward but too time consuming if you regularly need to set up many virtual machines. The BoxGrinder and VMBuilder programs let you automate this process.

Understanding Autodiscovery

A lack of information about your infrastructure can result in faulty system configuration and other difficulties. Automatic discovery of all hosts and services would seem to be the best solution – but can it also prove itself in practice?

Refurbished: Windows 2012 Active Directory

Microsoft’s Windows Server 2012 offers numerous improvements in Active Directory, as well as better and easier management.

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