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Deploying highly available Oracle databases with Sun Cluster 3.2
While preparing for my Sun cluster 3.2 exam, I got a chance to play with a number of the Sun Cluster 3.2 data services. One of my favorite data services was the Oracle HA data service, which allows Sun cluster to monitor and failover databases in response to system and application failures. Configuring the Oracle HA data service is amazingly easy, and it took me all of about 5 minutes (plus two hours reading through the Oracle data service documentation, installing Oracle and creating a database). Here are the steps I used to configure Sun Cluster 3.2 to failover an Oracle 10G database between two nodes: Step 1…
$ read more →Monitoring PF firewalls for health and performance article
I just posted my article monitoring PF firewalls for health and performance to my website. If your interested in learning more about PF, pfctl, pftop, pfstat and fwanalog, you might be interested in the article.
$ read more →Debugging web applications article
I just posted my article debugging web applications to my website. If your interested in learning more about curl, chaosreader and HTTP live headers, you might be interested in the article.
$ read more →Concert review Tool
Over the past two years, I have grown to enjoy the music from the band Tool. Their music was truly revolutionary when they originally hit the music scene, and they are known for putting on one of the best live shows. A few weeks back I got a chance to see Tool live for the first time. Tool came on stage around 9:20pm, and opened the show with "Jambi." This is a wicked cool tune, and like each song they played, it sounded absolutely amazing…
$ read more →Debugging SSL communications article
I just posted my article debugging SSL communications to my website. If your interested in learning more about openssl and ssldump, you might be interested in the article.
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