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Month: September 2013

How To Reset a Brocade FC Switch To Factory Default

To reset a brocade switch back to the factory default configDefault Now that the switch is default, set a new IP address Switch:admin> ipAddrShow Ethernet IP Address: 10.77.77.77 Ethernet Subnetmask: 255.0.0.0 Gateway Address: 10.77.77.1 Once I checked the existing settings, I ran the ipAddrSet command to update the network settings: Switch:admin> ipAddrSet Ethernet IP Address …

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Linux – Using systool To Easily Get HBA Info

Getting HBA detail information in Linux by using systool Lets get into the details with a few worked examples. First of, a command to show basic Fiber Channel info (actually quite useful when you’re getting the hang of what’s on a system). systool -c fc_host -v which, on my test system (unconnected to a SAN …

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Xsigo OEL linux driver installtion

First check if the PCI card is visble to the system lspci |grep Mellanox 06:00.0 Network controller: Mellanox Technologies MT27500 Family [ConnectX-3] 09:00.0 InfiniBand: Mellanox Technologies MT26428 [ConnectX VPI PCIe 2.0 5GT/s – IB QDR / 10GigE] (rev b0) Then install the Xsigo burn utiltiy rpm ivh xsigo-hca-firmware-4.0.3.r177.XGBOOT-1.i386.rpm Then make sure to burin the Xsigo …

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RDP rdesktop with remote sound support

To use RDP or rdesktop with remote sound support, it will only work if used with -r disk… full syntax below user_pass=`env |grep http_proxy |awk -F\: ‘{print $3}’|awk -F\@ ‘{print $1}’` rdesktop -u domain\\user -g 1280×960 -a 16 -0 -r clipboard:CLIPBOARD -r sound:local:oss -r disk:tmp=/tmp -p $user_pass -5 $1

Free Alternative to Splunk Using Fluentd and ElasticSearch

Splunk is a great tool for searching logs, but its high cost makes it prohibitive for many teams. In this article, we present a free and open source alternative to Splunk by combining three open source projects: ElasticSearch, Kibana, and Fluentd. http://docs.fluentd.org/articles/free-alternative-to-splunk-by-fluentd

Solaris IPFilter optimization

The default settings are quite conservative, and should be increased. user@opensolaris:~# ipfstat | grep lost fragment state(in): kept 0 lost 0 not fragmented 0 fragment state(out): kept 0 lost 0 not fragmented 0 packet state(in): kept 798 lost 100 packet state(out): kept 612 lost 234 The default settings are quite conservative. user@opensolaris:~# ipf -T list …

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