CentOS Cluster-DRBD Setup
As part of a MySQL Cluster setup, I recently setup a 2-node web cluster using CentOS's native cluster software suite with a twist. The web root was mounted on a DRBD partition in place of periodic file...
View ArticleOpen source solutions for Houston businesses.
Pate Consulting, Inc. offers professional services including network design, database administration, and hardware/software support using products from Cisco, Red Hat, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Oracle, The...
View ArticleHow to perform a Cisco router password recovery without losing your...
Forgot your Cisco router password? Did you know you can change them without losing your configuration? In this brief how-to, I will walk you through it. In order to perform a password recovery, you...
View ArticleHouston Airport System selects Zenoss to monitor Cisco switches, routers, and...
I recently implemented the Zenoss Enterprise appliance for the City of Houston Airport System to monitor over 250 Cisco network devices located at George Bush Intercontinental (IAH), William P. Hobby...
View ArticleCombine multiple RSS Feeds using PHP.
Need to track and combine multiple RSS feeds? This script will allow you to add RSS feeds from multiple sites and integrate them into yours dynamically. Feel free to use and modify the code below for...
View ArticleLooperNG and NetCool saves Siemens money.
Siemens, a Global Fortune 500 company, will be saving $20,000 with Pate Consulting and a little open source project named LooperNG. LooperNG is specifically designed to replace NetCool NNM probes....
View ArticlePHP Database Object
I decided to help out other developers either getting into PHP or experienced ones that are just looking for a different way to make fairly easy and clean database connection and queries. read more
View ArticleAdding Pseudo-TTY Support in CentOS
Recently, I had a customer in the banking industry that needed legacy pseudo tty support on their servers. This article describes the process of adding pseudo tty support in the CentOS kernel. In...
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