Documentation is always tedious task for system administrators, especially there are 50’s and 100’s of servers. Recently I planned to document all my servers. After a long search I reached SYSID site, it is an open source, nice VB Script and python script for creating  decent looking documents,   It is very nice to document windows [...]

SQL Server Express is now available with 10 GB Storage support. Earlier it was supported only 4GB. Now most SOHO users can use Microsoft SQL Express for their applications. It is ideal for websites and web based applications. It is coming along with a SQL management tool, reporting capabilities, full-text search, and spatial support. Compatible [...]

Copssh is an ssh server for windows operating systems, this application is based on Openssh and cygwin. OpenSSH is a free solution for SSH server. And Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows, cygwin1.dll is giving the functionality of Linux. By implementing copssh we can access our windows servers in a secure way.

In a Guest OS with NAT network, out going traffic will show the host IP address. we use this mainly for access something form the guest OS. But some times we want to access the guest OS from the network. Normal case this is not possible and will reach only up to the Host server.
It [...]

GlassFish is an application/web server for deploying Java based web application. To obtain best performance in production environment, some modification has to be made to the default GlassFish installation.
Tip 1:  Java Version
Typically, many performance optimizations are always being incorporated in newer releases of Java SE.  Whenever possible, it is a good idea to upgrade to  [...]

In our previous article we explained the steps for windows. Here you can find the steps to identify the service running in a port on linux . Here we used commands “fuser” and “PS”. I am using apache2 web server  on port 80. Replace your port number with 80 (my example with port 80 )
Run [...]

Most of the applications are using standard ports, some cases user or application will assign different ports for the application. For example Port 80 is the default port for IIS, if you are trying to start a different web applications it will say error message like “port 80 already in use” . Or you start [...]

To setup SSL in different java based web servers like Apache, Tomcat, Glassfish, we generally use the keytool command line to create certificate, generate CSR etc…,  which is a bit complicated and confusing if you are not well versed with the keytool command line, We can make our life much more easier, by using Keytool [...]

Here is the step by step Installation procedure of a Syslog Server.  Here I Used Debian platform.  If you are in a different platform please check your file names and path.

Have you ever thought of sending delayed tweets ? . Wished you could tweet 24×7 ? AutoTweeter is your answer.AutoTweeter is a simple desktop application to post delayed updates to your twitter account.Just queue up as many tweets as you want and then set a time interval for it.Start the AutoTweeter and simply leave it [...]