Posted on Tuesday, 30th June 2009 by Balazs
Premise
Setting up VPN with IPsec using public / private key authentication between two networks using OpenBSD firewalls.
Concept
Each VPN concentrator will have the public key fo the other machine, and one of the VPN concentrators will be designated as the active requester. The other will be set up in a passive role, to accept the [...]
Tags: isakmp, VPN
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Posted on Monday, 8th June 2009 by Balazs
IBM Systems Director is a very powerful management tool that comes free with PowerVM (that is: free to anyone that purchases a Power System). I have gathered here the different steps. Most of the information comes from the official documentation: Installing IBM Systems Director on the management server. In this guide I [...]
Tags: AIX 6.1, DB2 9.5, IBM, IBM Systems Director, ISD, LinkedIn
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Posted on Sunday, 7th June 2009 by Balazs
To mount a CD or DVD in an LPAR, first you need to use the media library to assign one of the CDs in the library to the LPAR. For example, using the ivm inteface:
Click on the lpar name in the “View/Modify Partitions” section
Select the optical devices tab
Create a virtual optical device if there [...]
Tags: AIX 6.1, IBM
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Posted on Sunday, 7th June 2009 by Balazs
In case an application such as the IBM Systems Director needs the DB2 client to be installed, the process has a couple of pitfalls. Here are steps that make the installation very simple.
Download the DB2 client from IBM: http://www.ibm.com/software/data/db2/9/download.html
Create a directory and unpack the tarball in that directory, and install the client:
wget ‘https://www6.software.ibm.com/sdfdl/v2/regs2/smkane/dsclients/IBM_DATA_SERVER_CLIENT/Xa.2/Xb.YZomhqTjd0WgkJqNENbocjIpCoqHi4eEhNMEPXE/Xc.v9.5_aix64_client.tar.gz/Xd./Xf.LPr.D1vk/Xg.4962564/Xi.swg-idsc11/XY.regsrvs/XZ.JOzao7W3aaunX0L_IE0SvHPww1I/v9.5_aix64_client.tar.gz’
mkdir db2
cd [...]
Tags: AIX 6.1, Client, DB2 9.5, IBM, Install
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