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September 2010

The significant new AIX 7 capabilities for virtualization

The IBM AIX operating system provides a highly scalable IT infrastructure for client workloads. Learn about the latest version, AIX 7.1, an open standards-based UNIX operating system, that includes significant new capabilities for virtualization, security features, availability features, and manageability.

August 2010

Introduction to PowerHA

PowerHA for AIX is the new name for HACMP (High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing). HACMP is an application that makes system fault resilient and reduces downtime of applications. This article introduces PowerHA and provides a detailed explanation of how to configure a two node cluster. This document is very useful for understanding PowerHA and setting up a two node cluster.

Bazaar: A Powerful, next-generation source control system

Bazaar is used to produce the Ubuntu Linux distribution, which is an enormous software project with thousands of components. If you're using a UNIX or Linux system, chances are that your distribution offers a pre-built Bazaar package. Bazaar is flexible enough to accommodate Subversion - a centralized system and Git - a decentralized system. This article introduces you to Bazaar's many appealing features.

The Power of the UNIX Command-Line

One of the most novel and differentiating features of a UNIX system is its command line. With just a few keystrokes, including a bit of "glue", you can use the command line to combine the finite set of UNIX utilities into innumerable, impromptu data transforms. These articles will teach you the basics of the UNIX shell and discover how you can use the command line:

June 2010

Deep-protocol analysis of UNIX networks

Some UNIX protocols need investigation to understand what they are doing and what information they are exchanging. In this article, we will take a look at techniques for performing detailed analysis of the protocols in use on your UNIX network.

May 2010

The best-kept secrets of UNIX power users

You don't have to break into a Watergate office to uncover the secrets of UNIX power users. There's an informant, and he's spilling the beans. Learn why Environment Variables, the dot file, and the Secure Shell (SSH)are very important.

April 2010

Porting open source projects to z/OS UNIX

This article describes a real-word software port, with examples of how various porting challenges are resolved. If you are a software developer porting software to UNIX, you will find these techniques invaluable in avoiding common pitfalls, resolving bugs, and improving your productivity.

February 2010

Using gnuplot to display data in your Web pages

Use gnuplot to dynamically generate Web pages from your system using raw data to provide graphic images. This raw data typically contains MIS-related information, on system performance, storage, or database growth.

January 2010

A comparison of virtualization features of HP-UX, Solaris, and AIX

Most AIX administrators understand the virtualization features available to them on their System p platform through PowerVM, which is also available on the System p for Linux. What about the other UNIX hardware platforms? find out what HP-UX, Solaris have to offer and how do some of their features compare to PowerVM.

December 2009

Essential tips and tricks for the Emacs editing environment

Master the rich features of the Emacs editor. It's unlike any other program you're likely to have encountered. Delve into the depths of its most advanced editing commands that have made it famous.

UNIX turns 40

The systems world will shortly be celebrating a major anniversary milestone. UNIX is turning 40 years old! Most of us know the story of how UNIX was born, but what about why? Was it born strictly because its founders wanted to play a computer game on a different platform? And why does UNIX continue to thrive 15 years after an (in)famous Byte Magazine article that asked: Is UNIX dead?

November 2009

AIX tips for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Admins

Are you broadening your skills as a Linux systems administrator into various flavors of UNIX? Get a rundown of the differences and similarities between Red Hat Enterprise Linux and AIX so that you can perform day-to-day activities with ease.

Pipe Viewer adds a heartbeat to the soul of the machine

Pipe Viewer is one of those little-known gems that once you find it, you can't recall how you lived without it. Find oodles of uses for it in your automation scripts. You can now insert a probe to give you real-time feedback of whats happening in your pipes.

September 2009

IBM and HP virtualization

Learn about the virtualization capabilities of both HP-UX and AIX. The intent of this article is to educate you and also to help you make informed decisions as to which platform works best for you, from a feature and functionality standpoint and for your long-term strategic goals.

Learn the Advanced applications of rsync

Keeping multiple machines synced can be challenging. Fortunately, a powerful tool is available to make the task easier: rsync, an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. An important feature of rsync not found in most similar programs/protocols is that the mirroring takes place with only one transmission in each direction.

UNIX network performance analysis

Do you know what to do when the performance of your UNIX network and the speed at which you can transfer files or connect to services suddenly comes to a stop? How do you diagnose the issues and work out where in your network the problems lie? This article looks at some quick methods for finding and identifying performance issues and the steps to start resolving them.

August 2009

Learn Linux, 101: Text streams and filters

There's a lot more to text manipulation than cut and paste, particularly when you aren't using a GUI. This article introduces you to text manipulation on Linux using filters from the GNU textutils package. By the end of this article, you will be manipulating text like an expert.

Active Memory Sharing on POWER6

Active Memory Sharing (AMS) is an enhancement to IBM's PowerVM virtualization technology available on the POWER6 platform. This article describes how to configured Active Memory Sharing on AIX. It also touches on performance considerations with AMS and gives you a better understand of how AMS interacts with the virtual memory.

May 2009

Comparing UNIX inovation

This article compares and contrasts some of the innovations of the latest releases of AIX 6.1, Solaris 10, and HP-UX. Learn the differences on how to work with certain tasks, such as networking and performance tuning. Also, see at a high level some of the virtualization differences among these big three. You decide what you prefer best.

April 2009

Correcting Java OutOfMemoryErrors on AIX

Running out of Java heap isn't the only cause of a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError. If native memory runs out, OutOfMemoryErrors that your normal debugging techniques won't be able to solve can occur. This article explains what native memory is, how the Java runtime uses it, what running out of it looks like, and how to debug a native OutOfMemoryError on AIX.

AIX secure flavor of FTP based on OpenSSL using TLS

AIX V6.1 has introduced a secure flavor of FTP (and ftpd) based on OpenSSL, using Transport Layer Security (TLS) to encrypt both the command and the data channels of file transfer. This article coveres the various aspects of the secure FTP setup, which includes the complete FTP service configuration on the server side, as well as the client side.

February 2009

Manage blogs on AIX with open source CMS tools

By combining open source Web Content Management System (CMS) and AIX you get a complete, highly secure, scalable, and ready-to-use content management tool with extensive support from the open source community. This article introduces the best open source CMS solutions for AIX available, and helps readers understand the important differences among them. The article also provides a guideline for system architects and developers to help them choose the CMS that best fits their needs.