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Test Lab  

Fedora 16 comes with some desktop improvements, but for admins, the real story is about virtualization.

Engine Room toBridge  

With the command-line tool virsh, a part of the libvirt library, you can query virtual machines to discover their state of health, launch or shut down virtual machines, and perform other tasks – all of which can be conveniently scripted.

Personal Agent  

Admins who want to leverage the powers of Pacemaker rely on OCF resource agents to monitor the cluster. If you don't have an agent for a specific application, try writing your own.

Power to the Shell  

Windows administrators, like Unix or Linux administrators, look for ways to perform their duties with ease and elegance through automation, which makes PowerShell a Windows administrator's best friend.

Moonrise  

Lua is a small, lean, and fast scripting language – ideal for working with web servers. Version 2.4 of the Apache web server is the first to offer a matching module that has a few quirks – and pitfalls, if you dig more deeply.

Classic Chat  

Running an IRC server might seem almost anachronistic, but the classic service from the early 1990s offers a huge amount of functionality with very little in the line of resources. In the daily grind at the office, IRC supports simple communications at a distance.