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Debugging Bash scripts automatically

Bug Hunting free

We look at various extension frameworks that make the life of developers and administrators easier when debugging a script.
Administration , automation , Bash , scripting
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VTP for VLAN management

Mod Comms free

Cisco's VLAN Trunking Protocol for Virtual LAN management in medium to large computer networks can make a network administrator's life easier.
Administration , network , tools , Virtualization
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Just-in-time administration in Active Directory

Time Is Running Out free

Just-in-time administration affords admins the ways and means of enforcing the validity period for extended privileges.
admin tools , Administration , privilege escal...
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Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

Geographically Diverse Failover in the Cloud free

With the Terraform configuration management tools and the Amazon Route 53 DNS service, you can configure AWS to provide geographically diverse failover between two web servers.
Amazon AWS , AWS , Configuration M... , DevOps , failover , Route 53 , Terraform
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Analyzing tricky database problems

Set Theory free

Database administrators at the Swiss foundation Switch were increasingly encountering corrupt data, which prompted a painstaking bug hunt. The solution they found increased performance by a factor of six.
Administration , Databases , optimization
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Take your pick from a variety of AWS databases

Choose Carefully free

We look at the variety of databases available in Amazon Web Services – from relational, to NoSQL, to data warehouses for petabyte data volumes.
amazon , AWS , Cloud Computing , Databases
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Stat-like command-line tools for admins

ASCII tools can be life savers when they provide the only access you have to a misbehaving server. However, once you're on the node what do you do? In this article, we look at stat-like tools: vmstat, dstat, and mpstat.

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Controlling Amazon Cloud with Boto

The Boto Python module helps admins manage resources in the Amazon Cloud. We introduce you to the tool.

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Test Lab

Fedora is a trend-setting distribution that sets the pace for future developments of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Administrators, regardless of whether they use Fedora, are well advised to look at the newest innovations of the Fedora distribution.

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Windows Server 2012 Administration

Get Ready: Windows Server 2012, formerly known as Windows Server 8, is on its way.

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