It feels like it's been forever since the site has even crossed my mine. I was browsing around on Amazon.com just a minute ago and the SRR blog popped into my head. I thought I was brush off the dust and make a quick and pointless post.
Nothing much going on with me. I'm still trying to kickstart some things with myself and figure out my own workflow for getting things done. It's coming along slowly but that's better than nothing. I picked up a Moleskin and started keeping a To-Do list of the simplest things. You know like "Wipe butt after going #2" or "Remember to pee in the shower while water...
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You may have noticed some changes to sirrobbierob.com. It's that time of year where I get bored of things and need to change something up.
The biggest change is the site design. I got tired of looking at the maroon vomit of the last theme. Since I'm not really in the mood to work on a theme from the ground up I decided to use one from WooThemes. I put together a simple logo and poof...finished. Nice and simple I think.
The other change was getting rid of Entrecard. For the past couple weeks my interest in the application has been dying off. As much as I like having people reading the random crap...
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I wanted to take a minute and thank all of the readers that come by my site. I get so caught up with things that I haven't been showing any love to you guys and gals. A BIG thank you to all of you.
I also want to send a HUGE thank you out to the entrecarders that have written recommendations for the site. Every time I get a recommendation I get giddy like a little kid. If my mom lived closer I would probably show them to her like I would when I got an A on a report card...Yeah I'm guessing on that one. I don't remembering getting any A's. te he.
I know it's not a lot but I want to share the recommendations...
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A random thought popped into my head that I want to share with you. I've been using the men's restroom for quite a long time (It's been 10 years since the gender reassignment operation) and I'm noticing some disturbing things. A large percentage of guys don't wash their hands. They go to the urinal, unzip, and pull out their little buddy. After finishing up they quickly head for the door hoping no one notices. We do.
Big deal, everyone knows that, you might be saying to yourself. If you think about it, it's a pretty big deal. A big disgusting deal. Let's go through an example of why it's a big deal.
Bob...
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To view a list of open connections against your IBM Tivoli Directory Server (LDAP) you can use netstat.
netstat –an |grep 389
It won’t give you a ton of information, really just the IP address of the machine requesting information. If you want to get more specific information about the LDAP connections, run a base scope query on the monitoring service.
ldapsearch –D cn=root –w password –s base –b “cn=connections,cn=monitors” objectclass=*
output:
connection=71116 : 192.168.55.171 : 2009-02-18 23:50:00 GMT : 0 : 1 : UID=WPSBIND,OU=robscomputergarage,c=us : :
connection=73411...
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IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager's web console, by default, uses port 9080. There was an environment I was working in that required the port to be changed to meet security guidelines.
Here are the steps I took to change the port the Websphere application used.
1. Login to the Websphere admin console:
https://localhost:9080/admin
2. Navigate to Servers -> Application Servers, choose "server1", then "Web Container", then HTTP Transport
Choose the entry with port 9080. A configuration page will display, change the port here and save.
3. Then navigate to Environment -> Virtual Hosts, choose...
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There may be cases when you're trying to write data, delete entries, or read entries on your IBM Tivoli Directory Server (ITDS) and you encounter a "Insufficient Access" error message. It many cases this is due to the access control lists (ACL) limiting the users ability to perform these actions. You can check how your ACLs are setup with the following information.
ITDS 5.2 & 6.0
ldapsearch -D cn=root -w <password> -b "BaseDN" -s base "objectclass=*" aclentry aclpropagate aclsource entryowner ownerpropagate ownersource ibm-filterAclEntry ibm-filterAclInherit ibm-effectiveAcl
default...
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I want to share some general troubleshooting information for DB2 in regards to IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager 3.1 environments. 90% of the problems I've encountered can be solved by these steps and having a general understanding of how ITPM's handles it's data.
Starting DB2
When you start ITPM it will fail if DB2 isn't already running. For whatever reasons, they didn't include an autostart of DB2 that exists in other products, like ITDS.
Unix
$db2start
You should see the following output if successfully started
11/28/2008 08:32:56 0 0 SQL1063N DB2START processing was successful.
SQL1063N...
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IBM Tivoli Directory Server (ITDS) is IBM's LDAP server. If you have any IBM applications (Websphere, Lotus, Tivoli, Rational, etc) in your environment there is a good chance you're running this. It's part of IBM's middleware stack (Websphere Application Server, ITDS, and DB2) and they leave very little room for compatibility with other brands.
In 6.0 of ITDS, they introduced a proxy server. The main feature of the proxy server is scalability. It does this by distributing directory entries over a set of directory servers, instead of a single server.
I get a lot of requests for setting up proxy...
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I don't consider myself a web developer by any means. But I do have multiple web sites and I like to play around with the latest web applications (Wordpress, Concrete5, Drupal, etc) that come out. I have learned over the years not to use my live servers for testing or playing around. So I have setup a test environment on my local Mac OSX system. I want to show you how I setup Apache, PHP, and Mysql on my Mac (Some refer to it as MOXAMP or MAMP) for handling the development of my websites.
One of my favorite features in Mac OSX Leopard is the inclusion of Apache and PHP. It helps in getting a environment...
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