12 articles tagged Infrastructure.
I’ve been waiting a couple of years to write this post. In November, 2015, I bought a Synology RS815 NAS appliance to replace the DIY solution that I had been using for years before that. A month ago, that NAS appliance turned ten years old. It’s been in daily use for the past decade. At the six…
Read article: My NAS Appliance Just Turned Ten Years OldThis post outlines how to setup an Azure Active Directory tenant with a Pay-As-You-Go or Free subscription (which only lasts for 30 days). This post is an ancillary post that gives the AAD configuration details needed for the Apigee and Azure Active Directory Integration — A JWT Story post to…
Read article: Azure Active Directory Setup for API ActorsThe primary administration automation mechanism on IBM WebSphere DataPower appliances is the XML Management Interface. The XMI interface allows one to make SOMA (SOAP Configuration Management, assuming SOMA = SOap MAnagement) calls to perform various administration tasks. How to perform these…
Read article: Datapower SOMA CallsI generally recommend to clients that DataPower RBM (Role-Based Management) be configured to perform authentication and authorization of DataPower administrators and developers with LDAP. In particular, whatever respository serves as the central repository of user information should be used (of…
Read article: RBM–Administrative Access & Security for DataPowerThe definition of the word ownership has varying meanings across organizations, but there is always a group that retains control of the technology. It’s typically the group that sponsored the adoption of the technology and owns day-to-day support of it. But, sometimes, the technology initiative…
Read article: Who Owns DataPower Within An Organization?DataPower has a serial port console that is used during initial bootstrap of the appliance, recovering from problems, and certain configuration changes. Having access to the serial console is the only feasible approach to resolving certain issues that arise with any appliance (or piece of network…
Read article: DataPower and Terminal Servers…DataPower is a weird (but, wonderful) beast. It has a tendency to break some of the traditional IT silos that develop within infrastructure groups. That can lead to a lot of friction and amusing arguments in which everyone is simply talking past one another. In this post, I want to describe the…
Read article: WebSphere DataPower Roles and Responsibilities…This article describes how to setup an OpenLdap server and add inetperson user objects. However, the article didn’t describe how to add groups to OpenLdap and add users to the groups.
Read article: Adding Groups To OpenLdapThis article explains how to install and start the JBoss “default” server.
Read article: JBoss 4.3.X SetupI always forget the quantity prefixes above “tera”. Even more interestingly, one rarely thinks about the numbers’ names. For example, consider the number
Read article: Computer Measurement Prefixes and Number Naming Conventions
