Yum Configuration Hi Friends, we all have faced problems while configuring yum in RedHat, Fedora and Centos. Please find the below mention steps to use all the RPM packages come along with your distribution. Yum configuration will allow you to use them with proper dependency resolution. To configure yum you must have two packages, 1. yum 2. createrepo To obtain the same do the below mention just after you have mounted you disk. There could be two conditions a.) You have the distribution disk i.e. DVD. Please follow the below mention instructions to manage the same. Your system mush have the greater or equal space of DVD. # df -ah User the partition which has the space and create a directory. In my case /mnt has the space. # mount /dev/dvdwriter /mnt # cd /mnt/Packages/ # rpm -ivh yum-* --nodeps –force # rpm -ivh vsftps* -y # rpm -ivh createrepo* --nodeps --force # cp -rpvf /mnt/* /var/ftp/pub It will create the dump on /var/ftp/pub now we need to unmount the disk. # umount /mnt b.)...
Many of us have struggle with concept of L1, and L2 support and maintenance which can be very expensive and transitioning is a living hell. What we wish is the ability for both of them to work together and make a smooth transition. So I have started to think it would be cool to make this happen for a organization which runs 1200+ servers and have teams to support product and infra both. The Idea was to start with collaboration between teams which can be extended to request and support basis. To extend it further we discovered that product team works for 24x7 and infra team is 18x7. Now it is important to design it in a way that product team can manage it 24x7 with minimum and no help from infra team(L2). Solution: Solution was to use a collaboration tool which supports API for our tools to maintain alert level. For that please refer my previous blog describing configuration of Icinga and Hipchat. Next logical step is to configure hipchat to support robot system ...