Managing multiple servers

Not sure what i am looking for at the moment but we have 6 * solaris 9 servers, 5 * solaris 10, about 30 zones and it's only going to get bigger.
it's become a real pain to manage(add,remove,keep track) users across multiple server/zones. How do other people go about managing multiple servers i for one don't want to log into each box/ zone and create a user accout which is currently what we do.
Guess what i am looking for is some way of managing all of our boxes from a central point.

Using a directory service like NIS or LDAP will allow user accounts for many hosts to be created and managed centrally. LDAP is what Active Directory is based on. Sun's implementation is called iPlanet. Sun One Directory Server, or Java Directory service, depending on the phases of the moon.
For spotting problems on servers (disk full, host down, &c), we use nagios. It's fantastic.
My employer also spent a good deal of money on opsware, but shall we say the benefits of it are not yet obvious.

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The following standard query works great for showing failed jobs on servers. Executing this in Central Management Registered Servers works as expected, but the Host Server results are not listed, and the same query needs to be executed against the host server
too.
e.g.
Registered Servers are defined on Server A
Results are displayed from servers B, C, D & E - but results are not displayed for Server A.
How do we receive results from Server A without having to execute a separate query ?
DECLARE @PreviousDate datetime
DECLARE @Year VARCHAR(4)
DECLARE @Month VARCHAR(2)
DECLARE @MonthPre VARCHAR(2)
DECLARE @Day VARCHAR(2)
DECLARE @DayPre VARCHAR(2)
DECLARE @FinalDate INT
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SET @PreviousDate = DATEADD(dd, -7, GETDATE()) -- Last 7 days
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SELECT @MonthPre = CONVERT(VARCHAR(2), DATEPART(mm, @PreviousDate))
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SELECT @DayPre = CONVERT(VARCHAR(2), DATEPART(dd, @PreviousDate))
SELECT @Day = RIGHT(CONVERT(VARCHAR, (@DayPre + 1000000000)),2)
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SELECT j.[name],
s.step_name,
h.step_id,
h.step_name,
h.run_date,
h.run_time,
h.sql_severity,
h.message,
h.server
FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobhistory h
INNER JOIN msdb.dbo.sysjobs j
ON h.job_id = j.job_id
INNER JOIN msdb.dbo.sysjobsteps s
ON j.job_id = s.job_id
AND h.step_id = s.step_id
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ORDER BY h.instance_id DESC
John

Hi vsla,
According to your description, I do a test. When I designate a Central Management Servers and create server groups, then execute statements against
multiple configuration targets simultaneously, it
indeed only contains the results of server groups, you need to execute again on the host server (Central Management Servers) then display the results of Central Management Servers, because the Central Management Server cannot be a member
of a group that it maintains.
If you want to get all servers results by executing the statement one time. I recommend you use Local Server Groups, create new register server and add all servers to the Local Server Groups, then right click “new query
“, execute the statements, it will display all results about all servers. There are more details about administering multiple servers using Central Management Servers, you can review the following article.http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb895144
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb964743
Regards,
Sofiya Li
Sofiya Li
TechNet Community Support

Selective IP filtering for multiple servers in a domain?

Is it possible to have IP filtering on for certain servers in a
domain, and not for others?
This is the situation:
I am deploying two servers in mydomain, so let's call it serverA
and serverB. I want serverA to accept all connections while
serverB accepts connections only from certain IPs. I know you
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console, but this turns on IP filtering for BOTH serverA and
serverB! How do I turn it on for one, and not the other? Any
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Leon

Hi,
Yes you can have muliple servers in a domain. You can create as many managed
servers as your hardware can handle. When you added the server, did you use the
startManagedWebLogic.sh (or .cmd) script to start the server. Once you do that,
you should see the server as running.
Hope this helps,
pat
"MS" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
Hello All,
Is it possible to have multiple servers in a domain?
When I add a new server, the State is reported in the weblogic console
as "UNKNOWN".
What does this mean?
rgds
MS

Collecting Notifications from multiple servers and applications

Hi,
I'm researching JMX technology for our Enterprise-wide monitoring needs.
I've got a good understanding of how to create jmx connections and instrument resources for monitoring in a 1-to-1 jmx client to application scenario.
However, I need to manage (and collect notification alerts) from multiple servers/applications.
Any ideas where to start learning how to do this?
Thanks,
Jon

Hi Gavin,
So, you're looking into JMX monitoring solutions too. great! I've collected some good links and examples.
You can email me privately at jcolby550 "at" hotmail "dot" com, maybe we can share ideas.

Multiple Servers with same Remote Interface?

Is it possible to declare the same remote interface on multiple RMI servers? Secondly, is it possible to pick which RMI server will manage a particular request?
In other words, imagine if multiple servers could service a particular request that has the same signature, but the client wants to specify which server to send the invocation. An example would be the following:
public String getPhoneNumber(String pLastName) ;But the client should decide that server A should manage requests of last names starting with A-G, server B should handle H-P, and server C should handle Q-Z. The remote method invocation is the same, but the server upon which is should be invoked needs to be determined at runtime.
I realize this can be done multiple ways, with an interim proxy server that designates the server. However, I'm most interested in the ability within the RMI and/or JNDI standard to select and invoke methods on a particular server.
Thanks for any help.

"Server" is a little bit vague in this context.
My assumption is that you want separate RMI servers running on separate hosts. (Otherwise, why bother with multiple "servers"?)
That being said, it's not clear to me how you would expect RMI to sort out something as application-specific as you suggest. It sounds to me like you need your own registry/redirector. This is going to either be an rmiregistry rewrite by you, or - as was suggested by another poster - a proxy.

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I thought I read somewhere that in the file I could do something like this:
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There is not a mechansim as you describe built into ThinInstaller. There are, however, various ways you can invoke Thin Installer which might accommodate your end goal.
Usually people that have this need have some kind of data value on the target device that lets them know which repository they should be pulling from. Sometimes a network share is used and that share is established earlier in the deployment process to point to a local server. Sometimes an environment variable is used. The command line of ThinInstaller allows for you to specify the path to the repository at execution time. The calling of ThinInstaller can be performed by a script or cmd file that determines the correct repository path to pass to ThinInstaller.
You can find more details on controlling ThinInstaller in this document: http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/thinkvantage_en/tvsu4_mst_en.pdf
Without knowing a lot more details about your environment I'm not sure how to better guide you. You might try posting in the Enterprise / IT Management forum and see if any of the folks there have done this already.

Managing multiple Postfix instances on a single host

We have quite a few sites on our Xserve. Each site should be able to relay email out the respective unique IP on a single host; however, by default email goes out the default website of the server or which IP is the current gateway.
NOTE: this is not a Postfix Virtual Domain Hosting > mail forwarding domains issue. Mail routes just fine to the correct email boxes. This is and issue where email going out to other mail servers originates from the box and not the respective domains and IP space.
The solution for this is Multiple PostFix Instances. One for each website (each website has a respective IP due to SSL and DNS is correct along with MX records).
For the outbound mail relay for our corporate network it seems there are no fields to enable a new postfix instance for each hosted or virtually hosted domain. Nor is there a way to enable SMTP to relay outgoing mail through another host unless you use a generic setting for every website on the server.
So for a enterprise level business how do we Managing multiple Postfix instances on a single host?

Fully on the same page with you. 110%
Here is why I am under the impression of why each domain name needs to be as if it needs its own MTA (mail transfer agent). No matter how big or small the business.
Just like a domain using SSL in Apache needs a dedicated IP when doing the packets . . .
Yahoo the big dog (for small to medium online businesses 70% of their customers make purchases with Yahoo emails; which most of them are temp emails or known as aliases.) states:
From: help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/basics/postmaster-02.html
Many mail providers follow the same guidelines:
{quote}Segregate your lists to different IP addresses. If you maintain several lists (or clients, especially for an ASP), you may want to segregate your lists to ensure that users are marking each list on its own merits. If user sees both spam and legitimate mail from the same IP, their notifications to us will be hazy and will likely result in the spam overiding the legitimate mail.{quote}
So why not segregate websites to email out their own dedicated IPs?
Understandably sites that share IP space can go out the default MTA or better yet the MTA of that IP.
This way host providers can segment groups of clients and further prevent issues with out going email.
When email goes out a single MTA there are checks and rate limitations not just on the hops involved but from the "originating" IP address. So if site "A" has one IP and site "B" has another . . . well they both send email out the same default gateway. Take 100's of domains going out the same IP and customers (websites) start having issues getting customer communications delivered.
{quote}Maintain accurate reverse-DNS information for your mail servers. Yahoo! Mail makes extensive DNS checks for each connection, and an accurate reverse DNS will ensure prompt processing of your connection and email.{quote}
One mistake by one client out of 1,000 sites (or now Apple letting tens of thousands of sites able to be hosted) can get all 1,000 websites deferred and have what is called "reputation" issues.
In the past, as companies grow, sure they get more boxes or can cluster mail servers. With economic times beyond using Parallels . . . a single Mac Xserve can handle tens of thousands of websites doing a few thousand emails a day or more. It is more of a software/setting/configuration issue than just capability.
I remember Intel board meetings in the 90's where I (as a customer) stated put two nic cards on the mother board, standardize those rails, put twisted pair on those hard drive cables. Some things just take practical experience to see yes there is a real need and the business people are not getting it because they are focussing on the business or chasing their tail.
Also Note the IP address has to be STATIC:
From: help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/errors/550-bl21.html;ylt=AsNxnjlX971dwy743e7j.olJHdG
{quote}In our continuing efforts to protect our users from unsolicited email, Yahoo! Mail does not accept SMTP connections from dynamic or residential IP addresses . . .{quote}
From: help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/basics/postmaster-15.html
{quote}Segregate your mail streams by IP addresses, domains and/or DKIM selectors since Yahoo! Mail keeps reputation data about each IP address and domain you send from. For example, by segmenting the mail stream that delivers marketing mail from another that sends transactional messages, you make it easier for Yahoo! Mail to determine and assign each mail stream's reputation. {quote}
{quote} Use common-sense settings. While we have not published guidelines for numbers of connections you can concurrently use, we ask that you treat our resources with respect. The more you take, the fewer there are for others, which may force us to defer your connections. {quote}
From: help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster//basics/postmaster-38.html
{quote}To facilitate the smooth flow of messages between legitimate senders and Yahoo! Mail, we offer the following recommendations:
Limit the messages you send per connection
Yahoo! Mail accepts a maximum of 5 messages per SMTP connection. We encourage you to cap the number of messages you send to Yahoo! Mail to fall within this per-connection limit.
When this limit is reached, no further messages will be accepted for delivery as our server automatically terminates the connection (without giving an error code). If you are sending messages to a significant number of Yahoo! Mail users, the suggestions below will help ensure uninterrupted delivery for your messages.
Reestablish connections if you do not get an error code
When our server terminates your connection after 5 messages have been accepted, you may try to reconnect to our MX servers immediately thereafter.
Open concurrent connections
You may open concurrent connections from the same server to facilitate efficient transmission of your messages. However, while we do not publish specific guidelines for the numbers of connections you can concurrently use, we ask that you treat our resources with respect. The more you take, the fewer there are for others, which may force us to deprioritize connections from your server(s).{quote}
In the Server Admin under General one can enable IMAP with a maximum number of connections. However, for normal SMTP there is no connections cap. Unless I am wrong here.
Domain throttling by domain is another way, but the real solution is just dedicated IPs for each website or each website to have a separate MTA. In the past this has meant a dedicated server or a physical gateway.
Technically there should be a Virtual solution. If I can virtually host many sites and many incoming emails on dedicated IP space respective to each domain. There should be virtual MTAs on dedicated or the same respective IP space as the incoming; hence, why I gave the example of how SSL works in Apache with web servers.
Totally get what you are saying on how currently mail works just out the default gateway since there is only one "default" MTA for the "xserve".
Everything is good coming in, but did something somewhere miss the mark on the outgoing? Should be one for one.
Yahoo is the big player putting the foot down or the glass half full people would say setting the mark on how outgoing mail should work when they are accepting emails.
I am not trying to innovate, but rather just follow the rules.
Sure mail out one MTA works no matter how many website you put on the box and it is "good enough for government work" or "looks good from my house".
There are many people struggling with corporate communications (even the concept of corporate communications and marketing) and I think Apple could step up to the plate and help follow the standard of best practices.
I have done research for 10 years and over the past two tested what I know to be true. Then spoke with many businesses that did not understand but had the same issue. . .
Yahoo customers not getting their email communications and email simply not being as good as the old fashion phone call.
So back to your question (fabulous question since every tech asks me the same thing):
{quote}So my question to you is this: why can't you run all your domains on a single server/IP address?{quote}
Because it is no longer 1996 and I want Apple stock to triple!
. . . and that it no longer works for sites conducting a profitable business. We are really underachieving what America could do!
Yahoo! is clearly saying to each business to do business communications or even marketing on separate IPs. Gmail, Hotmail, and the list goes on and on. They all follow the same thing. Yahoo! just happens to be more aggressive and has more good consumers (buyers) using their free email service. Gmail started aliases and could gain market share of buyers.
I need to get Xserve to have one dedicated IP in and out for each independent website whether it is an Apache transaction on port 80 (443 SSL) or an email going out the postfix MTA on port 25 SMTP or any other standard alternative port (587 or 465 SSL) for that matter.
So far everything works as expected, but the SMTP MTA out. One big default gateway per hardware.
We missed the 1% mark. That club that gets it! I would like to see every business owner that buys an Xserve to be in that one percent club out of the box!
Why Rob? Well because it works! Dedicated IPs work. Think about this, if you gave the postman your address and did not include your suite number more than likely your lucky if you get your mail. WORKS the same way for email.
If your business grows you can get a few more until something once again gets abused and they start tracking MAC addresses. By then will have virtual MAC addresses like most routers can already do.
To prevent SPAM you just set the MTA defaults to one IP per website. Let's keep it simple. This way you keep a clean reputation and one reputation per website or business. Most businesses just need one IP and cannot afford a whole server for each website/business. THINK GREEN!!! The email filtering systems (RBLs and filtering rules) already out there will weed abusers out. Let's not hurt the small to medium businesses in the process.
Your not going to get RDNS and dedicated IP space anyhow unless your a real business.

Single RTMP Link for multiple servers

Hi,
can i use a single RTMP link included on FMLE with multiple servers, means, that RTMP link will do the redirection to the other RTMP links.
with hight number of simultanous users, that feature will manage the use of servers
Regards,
Morsi

As I understand you want to publish single stream to multiple server, so that you can load balance the subscribers..
So the answer is .. that this is possible with FMS.. FMS provides ways to scale you infrastructure.. So you might use "Multi-point publishing feature" of the FMS. This feature allows you to forward your RTMP streams from one FMS server to another FMS server..
You may find the useful link here : http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashMediaServer/3.5_Deving/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d11a0773d5 6e-7ffb.html
There is another way to publish the same stream to two server.. From FMLE, you can publish the same stream to at most 2 server.. In FMS you can simultaneously connect to at max two servers.. There are two connection URL edit boxes " FMS URL, and Backup URL" You may provide both for two different FMS servers..
Let me know does the information help.. It would be really good if you can elaborate your use case.. because just for the purpose of scaling.. there are multiple options, like edge-origin server topology, DVRCast or live cast set-up, multipoint-point publishing etc.. But what to use actually depends upon the use case...

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How to set up Planning on Multiple Servers

Hi,
1) I am trying to install a Finance Planning application so that it runs on one Planning Web Server and the other operations Planning application on another Planning 9.3.1 web server. Is that possilbe?
2) May be unrelated question:
HP_Windows_Install.pdf has only a few lines explaining how to set up Planning on Multiple Servers. Is it as simple as that?
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Tomcat.
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My wife and I both want to organize and edit our digital photos with PSE10. Up until now, I have managed all of our photos by myself, and I have synchronized all data on both of our computers (and backed up all of our data to an external harddrive). Now that my wife also wants to organize and edit our photos on her computer, I am finding it difficult to synchronize the PSE Catalogs and photos on our two computers. So, I am looking for a better procedure.
Should I (and can I) keep my PSE Catalog & Photos on:
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(2) on a Home Network location where both users could access the photos for organizing and editing (with a "lockout" for photos which are being edited by the other computer user)?
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My wife's computer is running Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit.

Thank all of you for your replies.
Re SOFTWARE CHOICES:
I decided that my wife and I will each use different software on our different computers.
I decided NOT to upgrade my wife's software from "Windows Live Photo Gallery" (WLPG) to "Adobe Photoshop Elements 10" (PSE). After a detailed discussion of my wife's wishes, I discovered that she only wants to (1) move our pictures into folders, (2) cull the pix, and (3) create "Album" folders (with only our most memorable pix) to be printed as 8.5" x 11" pages for the Albums. She wants me to crop, edit, add captions, and print the Album pages. See the image at the bottom for our current Photo Mgmt Plan.
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I decided that we both can use the same picture files. I use "GoodSync" to sychronize files between my computer and my wife's computer (and between my computer and my backup HDD).
My wife's "WLPG" does NOT appear to use a database. My changes (including "Keyword" edits or adds) show up in her "WLPG" program, when picture files have been changed by myself in "Lr" and sychronized with her computer.
After my wife adds folders and/or changes the folder contents, I sync her computer with mine. I open her folders (which are now also on my computer) in "Lr", and "Import" any of her new and duplicate pictures into "Lr". Surpisingly and thankfully, the pictures that have been moved to a new folder by my wife do NOT show up in "Lr" in the previous folder (i.e. I do NOT have to find and delete any "Missing" images which were in the previous folder location).
Re MULTIPLE USERS OF A DATABASE:
I do not need to use this now, but I read that "Lr" is designed to work with the "Lr" database (and pictures) on an external HDD.
Thank all of you again for your very helpful replies.

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