Monthly Archives: June 2009

Fast and Secure VPN setup with OpenBSD 4.5

Premise Setting up VPN with IPsec using public / private key authentication between two networks using OpenBSD firewalls. Concept Each VPN concentrator will have the public key fo the other machine, and one of the VPN concentrators will be designated … Continue reading

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Installing IBM Systems Director on an AIX 6.1 LPAR with a DB2 back-end

IBM Systems Director is a very powerful management tool that comes free with PowerVM (that is: free to anyone that purchases a Power System). I have gathered here the different steps. Most of the information comes from the official documentation: … Continue reading

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Mount CD/DVD in an AIX or Linux LPAR

To mount a CD or DVD in an LPAR, first you need to use the media library to assign one of the CDs in the library to the LPAR. For example, using the ivm inteface: Click on the lpar name … Continue reading

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Installing the DB2 9.5 Client on AIX 6.1

In case an application such as the IBM Systems Director needs the DB2 client to be installed, the process has a couple of pitfalls. Here are steps that make the installation very simple. Download the DB2 client from IBM: http://www.ibm.com/software/data/db2/9/download.html … Continue reading

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