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		<title>Short post: Most important command I always forget</title>
		<link>http://intriguingproblems.net/2009/12/30/short-post-most-important-command-i-always-forget/</link>
		<comments>http://intriguingproblems.net/2009/12/30/short-post-most-important-command-i-always-forget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Fraser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Systems Administration]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://intriguingproblems.net/?p=185</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Often times in the heat of a critical server restart the system decides to FSCK a very large filesystem. If I let it take its natural course it could be a day before its back (for 12TB file systems using ext3). So to stop it from fscking follow this procedure. 1) Restart system 2) When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RANCID and MultiContext Firewalls</title>
		<link>http://intriguingproblems.net/2009/09/01/rancid-and-multicontext-firewalls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Fraser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Network Administration]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://intriguingproblems.net/?p=148</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have deployed RANCID, a popular open-source network device config backup utility, in our environment. It works great especially when configured to svnsync to a master repository. The recent trouble I have found is RANCID doesnt support multi-context firewalls. There is no way to configure RANCID to detect multi-context mode, go to each context and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cisco Console Server</title>
		<link>http://intriguingproblems.net/2009/05/24/cisco-console-server/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 18:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Fraser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Network Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cisco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Systems Administration]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://intriguingproblems.net/?p=134</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an effort to provide a more secure way to access our network equipment in the event of an outage we setup a console server. We didnt purchase anything from a vendor but built a Cisco Console server. There is little documentation for creating this online so I am going to go through the steps of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busy Life, New Project</title>
		<link>http://intriguingproblems.net/2009/04/06/busy-life-new-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Fraser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Network Administration]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://intriguingproblems.net/?p=128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t posted in awhile as life is pretty busy. I am almost done with the DataCenter Migration and we are greatly busy with looking for a Condo in the Bay Area (Perfect time to Buy). We found one condo that we are really interested in but it already has a few offers on it. So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Post &#8211; DataCenter Pics</title>
		<link>http://intriguingproblems.net/2009/02/25/quick-post-datacenter-pics/</link>
		<comments>http://intriguingproblems.net/2009/02/25/quick-post-datacenter-pics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Fraser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Systems Administration]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://intriguingproblems.net/?p=124</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We have been working on building/migrating to a new DC for the past few months and this week the work has really started. I dont have pics of the latest systems I have racked, but the below photos are from earlier this month. I will be posting more photos as the building goes on. Currently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change Java Heap Size on a Mac</title>
		<link>http://intriguingproblems.net/2009/02/13/change-java-heap-size-on-a-mac/</link>
		<comments>http://intriguingproblems.net/2009/02/13/change-java-heap-size-on-a-mac/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Fraser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Systems Administration]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://intriguingproblems.net/?p=109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I do a lot of work with the Cisco ASA (Adaptive Security Appliance). The GUI interface relies on Java for any non-windows hosts. If you by chance have an ASA with an IPS module installed you will receive a Java Heap Size is too small error. To fix this error I have found no way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Network Design</title>
		<link>http://intriguingproblems.net/2009/02/11/network-design/</link>
		<comments>http://intriguingproblems.net/2009/02/11/network-design/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Fraser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Network Administration]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://intriguingproblems.net/?p=87</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Part of my tasks for the Data center Move is to rack, build, config the networking equipment. We have racked 99% of the network equipment and are now configuring everything. Part of the problem is the network hasn&#8217;t been accurately planned and the Firewall rules are for the most part incomplete. We have a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just an update</title>
		<link>http://intriguingproblems.net/2009/02/03/just-an-update/</link>
		<comments>http://intriguingproblems.net/2009/02/03/just-an-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Fraser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Systems Administration]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://intriguingproblems.net/?p=86</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The company I work for is building out a cage for our equipment and I am heading off much of the planning and foot work. Thus I am unable to post as often since I have little to no free time. I will be posting images of the Datacenter changes soon.]]></description>
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		<title>MSExchangeIS #8217</title>
		<link>http://intriguingproblems.net/2008/12/17/msexchangeis-8217/</link>
		<comments>http://intriguingproblems.net/2008/12/17/msexchangeis-8217/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Fraser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Windows Administration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Systems Administration]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://intriguingproblems.net/?p=63</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently our Sr. Director of IT sent out a Calendar invite to the team for meetings to plan our major project. He sent this meeting to a few select developers and the Operations group. But when he sent to the Operations group, he didn&#8217;t expand the group and add each user. He added the Security [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ESXi password changing Part #2</title>
		<link>http://intriguingproblems.net/2008/12/15/esxi-password-changing-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://intriguingproblems.net/2008/12/15/esxi-password-changing-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Fraser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vmware Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PowerEdge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VMware Adminisrtation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://intriguingproblems.net/?p=56</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After finding all the recommendations online to not work. I was forced to completely rebuild the system. This means since its a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with PERC6/i, I had to delete all RAID Virtual Disks. The reason for this was a glitch I had found when first installing the box some 5 months ago. If [...]]]></description>
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