LinuxSystem Details: This installation has been done on following environment. This can be replicated on RedHat server as well.OS: CentOS release 5.5Perl: Perl, v5.8.8Web Server: Apache/2.2.3 (installed in "/etc/httpd")1. Download Awstats:Download the awstats tarball and untar the file into /usr/local/ directory (you may have your own choice).Steps:# cd /usr/local# wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/awstats/awstats-7.0.tar.gz# tar -xzvf awstats-7.0.tar.gz# mv awstats-7.0.tar.gz /tmp# mv awstats-7.0/ awstats# cd awstats2. Configure...

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Ever need to create a more detailed log for Windows 2008 failover clustering? Well, it became much easier for you. Just run the following command and then go into the directory C:\Windows\Cluster\Reports to get the cluster.log file: cluster log /g /level:5For more information, please read the link below:http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2008/09/24/8962934.aspx ...

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his applies to all the version of tomcat and this feature enabled for NimsoftSD and helped a lot to improve their application performance.What is GZIP?It is a compression format created by Jean-Loup Gailly and Mark Adler. Version 0.1 was first publicly released on October 31, 1992.GZIP is based on the DEFLATE algorithm, which is a combination of LZ77 and Huffman coding. DEFLATE was...

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The short answer is "yes" however its not recommended nor supported. If you choose to perform this option, you have to go in and just like any standalone Windows box first unjoin it and then rejoin the cluster nodes to the Active Directory domain you are looking for. The short answer is "yes" however its not recommended nor supported. If you choose to...

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The following settings can be used for a general cluster configuration. Do note that you want to be EXTREMELY careful in setting high values here so as to not cause a non-detection event where the cluster does not failover as expected: Likewise, turning up the sensitivity may cause false failover events to happen when not needed:If any nodes are currently paused, unpause them...

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Fixing 'too many open files' errorOnce in a while we stumble upon 'too many open files' error in log files especially for java application servers. What this means is that you have hit a limit on number of open file descriptors (fd)/file handles assigned for the process or user the application server is running as.Let's use tomcat for our example.So to get the...

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Steps to create a new user:Login into the target server that has access to modify Active Directory Shared AD Environment => Login into the appropriate admin station Dedicated AD Environment => Login into the customers domain controller Click on the start button and navigate to Programs | Administrative Tools and click on Active Directory Users and ComputersIn the left-hand pane of the console...

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The firewall ports that are used by an installation of Active directory can be found below: The firewall ports that are used by an installation of Active directory can be found below: ...

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RHEL5 rhcs cluster nodes will try to fence each other if they lose multicast cluster communications between nodes.In these types of problems the culprit is almost always a failure or configuration issue with multicast at the network switch.EnvironmentRed Hat Cluster SuiteDiagnosing the problem1. On all cluster nodes enable recognition of icmp broadcasts:echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts2. On all cluster nodes run "cman_tool status" and note:A....

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A tale of two serversThe Apache httpd web server and the Apache Tomcat server are two very popular products in use for delivering web content.About the Apache httpd serverThe Apache httpd web server grew out of the NCSA web server. At its core, httpd implements the HTTP protocol specification. It was primarily designed to serve static files to browsers. Over the years, many...

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