And now for a closer look at the configuration of SQL MAs. The config details that are common to all MA types are covered in this post, so I won’t repeat them here. The SQL-specific options probably apply equally to the Oracle and DB2 MAs, but I’ve never used ’em myself. We’ll start on the…
Month: February 2008
Configuration of the Active Directory MA
I’ve already posted about the configuration options that are common to all MAs, so this post is about the options specific to the Active Directory MA, though much of it will also apply to the other LDAP-types – Sun and Netscape, Netware, ADAM, IBM Directory Server and openLDAP.
Creating a Management Agent
Continuing in my newbie series of posts, today I am going to step through the creation of a Management Agent. Configuration options differ depending on the type of MA, so in this post I will just look at the options that are common to all.
Learning ILM
ILM is tricky to learn whichever way you approach it. If you’re from a sys admin background, like me, then the dawning realisation that you have to code may come as rather a shock.
Back to first principals – What is ILM for?
I started this blog as a way to help other people like myself (ie system administrators) who were just starting out with ILM (then MIIS), and finding it heavy going. Even so I made assumptions about the level of reader knowledge, and now I plan to address that by starting from the very beginning with…