How to configure static IP address on Ubuntu Server

If theĀ Ubuntu Server installer has set your server to use DHCP, you will want to change it to a static IP address so that people…

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How to install Infoblox free IPAM Express on CentOS7

IP address management is one of annoying thing need to be done by network admin. Especially, small network or decent size of lab environment. Here…

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Splunk install and Tips on CentOS7

Add data to Splunk A. Splunk server 1. Click “Add data“2. Click “A file or directory of files”3. “Consume any file on this Splunk server”,…

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How to setup squid proxy/caching server on CentOS 7

Here is steps to complete install   1. First, clean-up yum Squid-CentOS7# yum clean all   2. Update server for any missing package Squid-CentOS7# yum…

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Extending hdd volume in a VM running CentOS 6.5

Here is stelps to exptend HDD volume in VM running CentOS 6.5   * Backup VM is always recommended   1. Power off VM 2….

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How to enable SNMP on Linux CentOS6.5 or REDHAT

How to enable SNMP on Linux CentOS6.5 or REDHAT   1. Install – Login as root [root@CentOS-Linux]# yum install net-snmp [root@CentOS-Linux]# yum install net-snmp-utils  …

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How to add RPMforge repository to CentOS6

Use RPMforge repository for extra 5000 packages for CentOS 6. Full list of packages : http://packages.sw.be/ Here is Howto.   1. Download *.RPM [root@nTOP ntp]# wget…

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How to install Apache Traffic Server as forward proxy

There are nice open source proxy servers out there. After quick researching, picked Apache Traffic Server as my proxy server projects, forward proxy and reverse…

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MintLinux – How to install FFMultiConverter

1. Sync to repository sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ffmulticonverter/stable * Make sure firewall is open to key exchange   2. Update package sudo apt-get update   3….

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Slow network booting on Ubuntu server12.10

New Ubuntu Server12.10 on Virtualbox is slow to boot up. Seems like netwrok portion is holding up. Here is quick resolution.   1. Install ‘ifplugd’…

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Failed to login Ubuntu GUI, but ssh.

After updating all patches(*.*), lost GUI access as user(admin), but not ssh. Here is what you could try to resolve the issue.   chris@ubuntu_server:~$ ls…

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Showing CPU and Memory stat on Ubuntu top menu

To show CPU, Memory, Network status on Ubuntu’s top menu bar, just install below package thru Ubuntu Software Center. "System Load Indicator" That’s it.

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