Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 (RHEV) comes with a great API that makes it easy to write Python scripts or Java programs for administrative tasks. The full documentation is available here : https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.3/html/Developer_Guide/index.html A classical need is to automate the creation of virtual machine cold backups on an export domain. This can be easily done […]
Debugging through the steps of an RHN Satellite or Spacewalk PXE boot and Kickstart is a pretty complicated task. This article shows the steps that are involved in such a boot process. Hopefully, this will clear up a little bit and help debugging the process: Phase 1 – Installation from RHN Satellite / Spacewalk POST […]
Let’s say you’re in /var/log and you want to find the last modified file. You’d type ls -lrt but this is not sufficient to find out which logfile was modified last, because that logifle might be hidden somewhere in a subdirectory. How do you find it easily ? The following Bash code will help you […]