Archive for May, 2008

Preparing server for bare metal restore using R1Soft Live Rescue CD

Posted on 28. May, 2008 by .

Tweet Follow these steps to prepare a Linux or Windows server backup system, prodced by R1Soft,   for a bare metal restore. 1. Put the R1Soft Live Rescue CD into the machine you are going to restore to, and boot. Press enter at the splash screen. 2. Once you are logged in, type netconfig

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Installing Cacti

Posted on 20. May, 2008 by .

Tweet Server monitoring is one of the most important aspects of managing a network. Cacti is a free PHP/MySQL script which can monitor everything from process counts to bandwidth, and is fairly easy to setup and use. If you have multiple clients you can even delegate specific access levels so that they can only view [...]

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Installing Webmin

Posted on 16. May, 2008 by .

Tweet While the big control panel suites you can install, like cPanel or Plesk, are excellent for large scale deployments or easy system administration, sometimes you just want an interface to quickly carry out complex tasks, which doesn’t require a package as large as cPanel/Plesk. Webmin, a free and powerful control panel, it easy to [...]

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