Articles

Over the years I’ve written a number of articles to help out my fellow technology peeps:

• Building chroot jails with the Linux yum utility
• Creating highly available zookeeper clusters
• Debugging Apache web server problems
• Debugging SSL communications
• Debugging web applications
• Decoding PCI data and lspci output on Linux hosts
• Deploying highly available virtual interfaces with Keepalived
• Dynamic DNS with ez-ipupdate
• Dynamically growing a Clariion LUN with Solaris
• Filtering network traffic with Solaris 10 and IP Filter
• Getting to know the Solaris iSCSI stack
• Installing, configuring and debugging the ISC DHCP Server
• LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not the answer
• Managing packages with Yum
• Managing Solaris Volume Manager and Disksuite hot spares
• Monitoring and managing Linux Software RAID
• Monitoring OpenLDAP server performance
• Monitoring PF firewalls for health and performance
• Observing I/O behavior with the DTraceToolkit
• Out SMART your hard drive
• OpenBSD FTP installations
• Patching the OpenBSD Kernel
• Proactively handling certificate expiration with ssl-cert-check
• Real world uses for OpenSSL
• Streaming audio traffic reliability with OpenBSD’s ALTQ
• Stress testing used hard drives
• Top ten DTrace scripts
• Updating applications on OpenBSD hosts
• Updating and managing the OpenBSD ports collection
• Using DTrace to understand mpstat and vmstat output
• Using The Veritas Volume Manager relayout feature
• Using Truecrypt to encrypt data on Linux, OS X and Windows desktops and servers
• Veritas Volume Manager recovery features