Category Archives: Dedicated Servers

Installing a Secure Certificate on IBM Smart Business Server (VERDE)

Posted on 2011/05/23 by Balazs

At the time of this writing, the IBM Smart Business Server’s control panel doesn’t allow importing a secure certificate (SSL cert). Never-the-less it is possible to install a valid (CA signed) secure certificate from the command line. This article assumes … Continue reading →

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cPanel quota fix

Posted on 2011/05/18 by Pete

cPanel has an array of fairly impressive scripts located in /scripts . When having disk quota issues, running /scripts/fixquota allows to return the cPanel server to a state allowing to alter the hosting plans and disk space quotas.

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Sametime 8.5.1 Deployment

Posted on 2011/05/13 by Bill

To deploy a Sametime environment with multiple levels of licensing, multiple Sametime servers with each respective license versions needed (Entry, Standard, etc.). The Sametime wiki has a number of useful resources to plan out a complex Sametime deployment: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/stwiki.nsf/page.xsp?documentId=6F6353B28F5FB51185257775007AC431&action=openDocument http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/stwiki.nsf/dx/1.3_Lotus_Sametime_product_family … Continue reading →

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Domino 8.5.2 Addling Email Aliases

Posted on 2011/04/10 by Bill

Often times people need to receive email for multiple valid variation of their email addresses. On most email systems, these are called email aliases. IBM Domino has a slightly unusual way of allowing system administrators to define aliases: Open the … Continue reading →

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Domino 8.5 SSL Key Import Into Keyring File

Posted on 2011/04/09 by Bill

Domino Server SSL Key Import By default, the SSL key order process in the Domino Administrator assumes that only single domain certificates are used. Hence, when you have a multi domain UCC or a wildcard certificate, it has to be … Continue reading →

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Linux Kernel Hangs During Boot

Posted on 2011/04/05 by Balazs

While rebooting a machine for example to apply a kernel update, it hangs. You try older kernels, and it hangs too. Not necessarily at the same spot. Here are some examples: … io scheduler cfq registered (default) … Real Time … Continue reading →

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Domino Server Crash Debug Data Collection

Posted on 2011/03/23 by Bill

Even though Domino servers tend to be very stable, it may happen that every now and then there is a crash. In that case it is good to be able to provide appropriate details to IBM. Here are some recommendations … Continue reading →

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NewPush featured in StorageNewsletter.com

Posted on 2011/03/16 by Balazs

StorageNewsletter.com is carrying and article about our new SAN infrastructure choice around IBM N series and Zerowait SimpleStor products. Here is an excerpt: Zerowait Corporation, provider of independent NetApp support and off- lease systems, announced that NewPush, a global application … Continue reading →

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Migrate ProxMox KVM Storage from local to NFS on netapp

Posted on 2011/03/14 by Balazs

Proxmox KVM storage migration from local to NFS In order to be able to use the live partition migration in Proxmox, the KVM partition needs to be on NFS or iSCSI. Here is the process for an NFS storage. – … Continue reading →

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Verifying SSL Certificates

Posted on 2010/12/30 by Pete

Problem You have a few SSL cert files on your server, but you are not sure which one is the newest, or the right cert to use. Solution Look at the contents of a CSR openssl req -noout -text -in … Continue reading →

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