Server / Network Documentation with SYSID

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 [...]

[ More ] May 19th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Servers |

Know the service running in a port – Linux

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 [...]

[ More ] April 21st, 2010 | 2 Comments | Posted in Security, Servers |

Find which application/service is running in a port – Windows

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 [...]

[ More ] April 20th, 2010 | 8 Comments | Posted in Servers, Softwares |

Syslog server installation / configuration – Debian

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.

[ More ] April 6th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Networking, Servers |

Use Microsoft SQL Server Express 2008 It is free

Microsoft SQL Server Express Is a freely downloadable and distributable product from Microsoft. It is a light weight version of SQL server. SQL Server Express includes powerful features such as SQL Server Management Studio Express, for easily managing a database.
It is mainly for developers, embedded and smaller-scale applications,  You can Create databases up to 4 [...]

[ More ] December 26th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Misc, Programming, Servers, Softwares |