Introduction IBM AIX 7.2 is the latest release of IBM’s enterprise-grade UNIX operating system, running on IBM Power Systems hardware. Known for its reliability, security, and performance in mission-critical environments, AIX 7.2 introduces enhanced virtualization, security hardening, and cloud integration features. This guide covers how to configure virtual memory with rmss on ibm aix 7.2 […]
Introduction This guide explains how to Install SQLite on FreeBSD 12 on FreeBSD 12. FreeBSD uses the pkg(8) binary package manager, rc.conf(5) for service startup configuration, and pf(4) as its primary packet filter. There is no SELinux or AppArmor — instead, FreeBSD provides the MAC (Mandatory Access Control) framework and Capsicum for fine-grained privilege separation. […]
Introduction to System Center Operations Manager System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is Microsoft’s enterprise monitoring platform designed for large-scale Windows environments. It uses management packs — extensible plug-ins — to provide out-of-the-box monitoring intelligence for Windows Server operating systems, SQL Server, IIS, Active Directory, Hyper-V, and hundreds of third-party applications. SCOM uses agents deployed to […]
How to Monitor Windows Server 2012 R2 with Performance Monitor Performance Monitor (PerfMon) is the built-in diagnostic tool in Windows Server 2012 R2 for collecting, analysing, and logging performance data from the operating system, hardware, and applications. It provides real-time graphing of hundreds of performance counters covering CPU, memory, disk, network, and application-specific metrics. When […]
How to Set Up a LEMP Stack on RHEL 7 A LEMP stack — Linux, Nginx, MySQL, and PHP — is one of the most common foundations for modern dynamic web applications. On RHEL 7 the individual components are available from a combination of the base repositories, the EPEL community repository, the official MySQL community […]
How to Configure Windows Server 2019 RDMA Networking Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) networking allows data to be transferred directly between application memory on different servers, bypassing the CPU and operating system kernel for data movement. This dramatically reduces CPU utilization, latency, and memory bandwidth consumption for high-throughput workloads. Windows Server 2019 supports RDMA through […]
Introduction This tutorial covers How to Configure Kubernetes RBAC on SLES 12 on SLES 12. SLES 12 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16) is SUSE’s enterprise-grade Linux distribution. It uses the zypper package manager, AppArmor for mandatory access control, and systemctl for service management. Step 1 — Disable Swap swapoff -a sed -i ‘/ swap / […]
Introduction How to Set Up Snort Network Intrusion Detection on Debian 9 is a fundamental operation for any administrator maintaining a Debian 9 Stretch server. Debian 9 Stretch ships with the Linux 6.12 kernel, updated toolchains, and a fully refreshed package archive — meaning version numbers, configuration file paths, and some dependency chains differ from […]
How to Set Up Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V is Microsoft’s Type-1 hypervisor, shipping as a role in Windows Server 2012 R2. It enables hardware virtualisation directly on the server, allowing you to run multiple virtual machines (VMs) with different operating systems on the same physical hardware. Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V includes […]
How to Set Up Windows Server 2016 with Grafana Grafana is an open-source observability and visualization platform that creates rich, interactive dashboards from diverse data sources including Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, and many others. While Grafana itself is not a monitoring agent, it serves as the visualization and alerting layer when combined with a metrics collection […]
