Howtos for Administrators at ISG

… and possibly helpful for others, too.

• Troubleshooting Hints: NTP, NIS
• Testing Hardware
• Maintaining www.phys and Zope
• Debugging USB storage devices
• Packaging software for Debian
• How to add a Live-CD to our Netboot Setup
• How to add tests to our Hobbit/Xymon Monitoring Server
• Fixing Berkeley DB Backends: OpenLDAP BDB Maintenance and Subversion BDB Maintenance

• PXE-Boot
• ISO to UTF-8 migration notes
• Locales Basics
• Application Cache Files
• Astro SAN
• Berufsbildung Modul IT
• DokuWiki OpenID Plugin
• LVMchart - generate LVM usage charts
• Notes on LTSP clients
• Notes about static IPs in Non-HPx Docking Networks

• Compiling iFolder packages on Debian/Ubuntu
• How to setup Bonding (Link Aggregation, IEEE 802.3ad)
• Setting up a X server for diskless clients (X -query)
• Setting up an LTSP server for diskless clients
• How to create partitions over 2TB on Linux
• How to loopthrough a PCI network card into a Xen DomU

• Linux-HA cluster setup
• How to fix a broken Xen DomU (Tips & Tricks)
• How to setup the serial console

• How to setup a D-PHYS Xen Dom0
• How to setup a D-PHYS Xen DomU
• Configuring a Printer
• Setting up a (new) D-PHYS6 Linux Workstation (Squeeze)
• Setting up a (new) D-PHYS-Ubuntu 1204 Linux Workstation (Precise)
• Installing a new D-PHYS Debian Server
• Installing a new D-PHYS Ubuntu Server on Ultra Sparc 5
• Manage MAC-Addrs
• Manage DNS at ETH D-PHYS, VLANs, 192.168.42.0, 192.168.127.0, Netmasks
• Manage UTP Connections
• How to add static IPs to non-HPx Docking Networks

• Periodic Tasks
• Miscellaneous Tasks

Possibly outdated notes which may be still useful to others.

• What to do if Windows Vista gets the wrong DNS servers via DHCPINFORM answers
• Fixing dhcpd.conf for upgrade from ISC DHCP 3.0 to 3.1
• How to build a stratum 1 NTP server with GPS time reference
• How to edit the userParameters binary blob in Active directory
• How to upgrade Request Tracker from 3.6 to 3.8
• How to install additional serial port boards
• Migrating a single user from MBX to Maildir
• How to install Debian Etch on disks over 2TB on Linux
• Migrate IP-Ranges at ETH Zurich
• Using dovecot pre-authenticated besides another IMAPd

• Serversubnet

Candidates for removal

• Physics Accounts Infrastructure (or merge into Serversubnet or Linux-HA Cluster Setup)
• Restore a System from Backup