Most modern switches include the ability to use SSH as a remote communications protocol. Here we will enable that functionality and disable telnet on the Dell Powerconnect 5548 switches. Enable SSH In order to enable SSH we need to generate the keys which will be used by SSH to encrypt…
Dell Powerconnect 6200: Enable SSH and Disable Telnet
Most modern switches include the ability to use SSH as a remote communications protocol. Here we will enable that functionality and disable telnet on the Dell Powerconnect 6248 switches. Enable SSH In order to enable SSH we need to generate the keys which will be used by SSH to encrypt…
Oracle VM 3: Connecting to MySQL Backend
Starting in Oracle VM 3.2.1 the built in database of the Oracle VM Manager was MySQL. I had hoped that this change would also signal a change in the database schema. In prior versions of OVM 3.x all data was populated in the database in a completely useless longblob form.…
Solaris 11: Installing MySQL
Recently I have been spending some time learning about database technologies (Oracle Databases at Keste as well as MySQL on my own). Part of this I have decided to carry over into my existing work with Solaris, and go through the installation process using the Image Packaging System which is…
MySQL: Describe All Tables
In MySQL if you want to find out what columns are in a given table, you can describe the table and it will show you the columns and the data types associated with that column. However if you need to do this for a large number of tables, it can…