So I needed to automate some configuration tasks on a Cisco ASA firewall, and thought it will be an easy task since it has an SSH interface. But after a couple of failed tries and some searching on the web, I realized that I could not use the standard SSH command mode to access the […]
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Administering the LAMP Stack for Effective Web Hosting Solutions
Defining a set of best practices to be used as the foundation for hosting websites can be challenging when the volume of new sites is high and the range of requirements disparate. As effective administration can often depend on finding commonality among diversity, it is important to understand where website requirements overlap to be able […]
Creating custom tasks in System Center Service Manager (SCSM) to send email notifications
Sending email notifications regarding a working item in System Center Service Manager is a common requirement that doesn’t really exist out of the box. Travis had published, a while ago, a plug-in called “SCSM SendEmail”. This plug-in though filling that gap, still was missing some of the common requirements:
Carbon60 & Akamai bring End-to-End Hosting Solutions to Canada
There are very few hosting providers in Canada, if any, that take responsibility for the quality of service delivered to real-world end users. This is because hosting providers, even the ones that claim to offer fully managed services, don’t embrace the entire hosting solution stack (see diagram below). In particular, they tend to ignore the […]
Send Email Notification – Custom Activity for Service Manager
The Problem: There are many blog posts and discussions about sending email notifications from Service Manager. Although Out-of-the-box, Service Manager has strong capabilities for notifications such as: