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Linux: Headless Ubuntu Torrent Home Server

2011-09-11 8 min read Linux Other System Administration Ubuntu Zachary Loeber

So it got to that time of the year where I feel the itch to upgrade my aging home server. I assessed the situation and realized that, for what it does, my current server does not need any kind of hardware upgrade. So I just decided to rebuild it with Ubuntu 11.04 64 bit and change up the server software a bit to be more accessible to my wife as well as to be a bit more modern (torrentflux and derivatives have been dead for a while now).

Big-IP: Custom IIS SOAP Monitor

2011-01-22 2 min read BIG-IP IIS Linux Microsoft Networking System Administration Zachary Loeber

In working on a production issue with my company’s flagship SaaS product I worked with some of the brilliant F5 engineers to isolate one web server in the load balanced pool which was intermittently failing. The F5 engineer recommended a health monitor that does more than just poll for a static page. He suggested we implement some kind of soap call to make the application pool do some work and return a result (I guess in case the IIS application pool is misbehaving but not down). So I worked with one of our developers to do just that but ran into some caveats which required yet another custom health monitor.

Big-IP: Sharepoint 2010 Monitor

2011-01-21 1 min read Active Directory BIG-IP Linux Microsoft Networking Sharepoint System Administration Zachary Loeber

While specing out a Sharepoint 2007 to 2010 migration I discovered that the default monitor created by the application template on our big-ip LTM load balancers does not work. In seeking a solution I ran across this gentleman’s blog with a custom external monitor but found that it didn’t really work. The solution to make it work was simple (as I explained on his blog in a comment). I went ahead and extended it to be more environment generic.

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