Basic Administration

These pages document some of the things we want to do frequently, like how to make sure the backup worked.

• Add a new user
• Passwords - Changing passwords, what to do when passwords expire.
• Burn a CD
• Cacti server monitoring/graphing software
• Fail2ban Install and configure fail2ban
• Logical Volume Management
• Grub
• How to mount disk images
• NPG backup on Lentil
• Client Configuration
• Recipe for getting a client machine up and running
• Push updates through the RedHat Network
• Skype info
• Disk monitoring with SMARTD
• Splunk IT search engine. Setup is NOT "basic" sysadmin stuff.
• Setting up sudoers with LDAP
• Administration for Perl (adding modules etc)
• Adding/editing Printer Settings
• Modifying Default Applications
• Package Management with yum and rpm
• Modifying system Services
• Printing
• HTTPS Redirection
• VMWare
• Webalizer
• SSH Forwarding (Tunneling)
• Creating New Account Access change
• Infiniband Speed Test
• NVidia - Making sure CUDA works.