Here are simple instructions on how to configure network interface bonding on Red Hat based distros. The thing I always forget. There’s also a little script which will create a bonding interface bond0 between eth0 and eth1 and migrate existing IP settings from eth0. You can find it in the bottom of this post.
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IBM Websphere Application Server 5.1 init script for Linux
WAS does not seem to install any default init scripts, so I created one. You can configure it to start and stop multiple application servers by listing them all in the APPSERVERS variable (separated by spaces).
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IBM SDD driver troubleshooting on Linux
The Subsystem Device Driver [SDD] is a pseudo device driver designed to support the multipath configuration environments in the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server, the IBM TotalStorage DS family, the IBM SystemStorage SAN Volume Controller. It resides in a host system with the native disk device driver and provides the following functions:
– Enhanced data availability
– Dynamic I/O load-balancing across multiple paths
– Automatic path failover protection
– Concurrent download of licensed internal code
– Path-selection policies for the host system
Starting and stopping IBM Websphere MQ on a Redhat Enterprise Linux box
Here’s a little script I made for starting and stopping Websphere MQ on a RHEL 4. It is useful for a simple configuration with one Queue Manager and listener. Just put your queue manager name in the QMGR variable and the listener port to the PORT variable, and save the script to your /etc/init.d.
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