Articles from ADMIN Issue 04
If you use free software, you will likely need to manage multiple software repositories and keep all the information up to date. Pulp gives you a centralized approach to repository management.
Univention is one of the most interesting, preconfigured Linux-based products in the corporate server race.
The Opsi tool lets administrators manage Windows clients from a Linux server. Version 4.0.1 added a number of new features.
If you manage many identical computers on a server farm, you don't want to patch every single machine separately just to install a security update. Citrix Provisioning Services 5.0 offers a convenient alternative.
We look at two tools for Windows network monitoring – PRTG Network Monitor and NetCrunch – that allow you to monitor servers at work or on the road.
With the right plugins, Nagios can monitor the underlying server hardware, as well as services. The author of the IPMI plugin shows how.
Ethan Galstad visited Sao Paulo Brazil in April for the Nagios Latin America Conference. In his first visit to the country and Latin America, Ethan gave an exclusive interview to our the Linux Magazine Brazilian edition and told us a bit about the history of Nagios – perhaps one of the most successful stories in open source network software.
Web-based, enterprise-capable applications often rely on the vendor-independent Java Platform, Enterprise Edition. We provide an introduction to Java EE based on the JBoss application server.
With its intelligent functionality, PAC can bring order to active SSH connections.
We take an in-depth look at three important scripting players: grep, awk, and sed.
