Articles from ADMIN Issue 59
System administrators are your front-line soldiers: the eyes, ears, and hands of the company.
The CentOS community edition from the sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is described as a "stable, predictable, manageable, and reproducible platform".
In the news:Nextcloud Hub now supports end-to-end encryption, Three major threats to Linux discovered, Linux Kernel 5.8 is now available, BootHole patched for CentOS
Measured values and status information can be collected and retrieved, messages received, and configurations changed remotely by SNMP, but if you want to do this for your own hardware or software, you need your own Management Information Base module.
Ceph is powerful and efficient, but wrong settings or faulty hardware can cause the decentralized object store to stumble.
A number of techniques applied in PowerShell or other management tools can run Windows servers more effectively, harden them, and improve their performance.
Not every backup tool is useful for backing up entire data media. Rescuezilla makes perfect bit-level copies of mass media in a matter of minutes, so you can completely reconstruct the system if disaster strikes.
We compare seven free blocking filters for advertisements and look at how they integrate into the network.
We compare three popular packages that are designed to simplify teamwork: EGroupware, Group Office, and Kopano.
Calico chooses an unusual approach for software-defined networking, relying on open standards like BGP. We look at the distinctions and advantages of Calico.
