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Have you ever wanted to have a larger root EBS volume on an EC2 Ubuntu instance?  With these steps it’s easily accomplished with minimal down time.  (Some of these steps were gleaned from this post at alestic.com.) I’m setting up a new “base” image for some servers I’m starting in Amazon’s us-west-1 region.  I started […]

How to check the version of Ubuntu you are running from the command prompt / terminal (remotely using something like PuTTY or locally…). Simply run the command: lsb_release -a This will display the description, release and Ubuntu codename, which you can cross reference at Ubuntu Release Versions.

I recently picked up a couple ProCurve 2910al-48G-PoE switches.  Since it had been a while since is setup time on a switch I had to research a bit.  Here are the settings I used. First, you can view the switches current time, timezone, etc. with the show time command. Next go into config mode (configure terminal) […]

Today I had to make similar changes to 10 Windows servers.  The changes consisted of copying a couple specialized programs from a source location and updating the Windows path.  I couldn’t remember how to update the Windows path variable from the command prompt (other than for the current command prompt of course) so I tooled […]

Last month our finance guy came to me in a bit of a panic to point out that our Amazon Web Services (AWS) bill was way higher than expected – by several thousand dollars.  After the initial shock wore off I started digging to figure out just what was going on. From Amazon’s bill I […]

I have a server that is continuously filling it’s drive with temporary files left over from a video encoding process we use.  Every week or so I have to manually delete the old files to prevent the drive from filling.  Finally today I headed on a journey to figure out a way to programmatically clean […]

I recently had to enable some of my mobile Mac clients with Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client for Mac.  Then, of course since the ASA only included 2 SSL VPN licenses and that’s what the AnyConnect VPN Client uses I had to purchase some additional licenses.  I purchased the licenses through a reseller & a couple […]

Recently some of our mobile users needed to connect to one of our networks that’s protected by a pair of Cisco ASA firewalls.  It was no problem for the Windows users as I already had what I needed in place, however it was a different story for our Mac users.  Since it had been a […]

If you’re like me you don’t allocate all disks to a SAN out of the gate.  I like to keep a little in reserve so I can add capacity when needed.  Then, once all the disks are added I’ll usually pickup a couple more disks and keep those in reserve.  In either case once it […]

A few months ago I got a new work computer.  Since it was a good opportunity to start fresh I didn’t transfer all the programs from my old one to the new.  And one of them I neglected to transfer was ASDM.  I wasn’t too worried about it since I often manage my ASA firewalls […]