Category: Technical
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Best Practices for Configuring Linux Containers
By Des Nnochiri Within a Linux network or development system, launching a limited set of applications or services (often known as microservices) in a self-sustaining container or sandboxed environment is sometimes necessary. A container enables administrators to decouple a specific set of software applications from the operating system and have them run within a […]
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Number of Exceptions Thrown Counters
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Updating Django OSQA to use reCaptcha 2
Our support site is built on OSQA which in turn is built on Django. It was still using reCaptcha (version 1) which was taken over by Google, and discontinued. So it was time to roll up our sleeves and update to reCaptcha 2. The main idea is the reCaptcha is a field based on a widget. […]
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File Sight Reported Files Read? What Happened?
We sometimes get requests from customers asking for help understanding a File Sight report. It often involves some user account is shown as having read 100’s of files very quickly. This post is to help explain what might have happened. From the server (where PA File Sight runs), it’s hard to know for sure. […]
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Monitor IIS Application Pools
We’ve had a number of customers asking how they can monitor their IIS application pools’ status. It turns out there is a handy performance counter that can do that. Note that a value of 3 is ‘Running’. So you just need to create a Performance Monitor to watch the counter for your instance and […]
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PA Server Monitor on Chromebook
A clever customer in Florida sent us a screenshot of the PA Server Monitor Console running on his Chromebook: For anyone that would like to do the same thing, directions are available at: https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/crossover/forum/pa-server-monitor-console?msg=186135 Thanks Darrell!
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A Windows Authentication Primer
Authentication. It sounds easy enough, in principle: You have a system, a procedure which anyone that tries to gain access to it has to follow, and a set of checks to ensure that recognized users are actually who they claim to be. But every system has its individual quirks – commercial operating systems, especially. […]
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Performance Characteristics To Watch On IIS
Internet Information Services (IIS, which was formerly known as Internet Information Server) is a flexible, general-purpose web server originally created by Microsoft for its Windows NT family of network operating systems. IIS supports a number of web protocols, including HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SMTP and NNTP. IIS is used on Windows systems to provide […]
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How to use Wireshark to diagnose network problems
Wireshark is distributed as a free open source packet analyzer. The utility provides a detailed report on the traffic flowing through your Network Interface Card (NIC), and may be used in benchmarking network performance and troubleshooting network issues. Here are some tips and best practices, describing how. First Steps If you haven’t done so already, […]
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Modern Cooling Strategies For Data Centers
With cooling requirements accounting for some 40% of the power consumed by an average data center, optimizing the strategies and technologies used for temperature control makes sound economic and operational sense. But many data centers still rely on outdated methodologies and management techniques, for environmental control. The materials, technology, and strategies for data center […]