Join a RHEL system to Active Directory
Join a RHEL system to Active Directory

It was recently requested by a customer, that all of his (mostly) RHEL servers to be integrated with their AD Forest, in order to be able to control all users accessing these systems, as a security enhancement. So, in order to be able to join a Red Hat System to Active Directory, we’ll start assuming... » read more

Install and Configure Tivoli Monitoring Agent in Linux
Install and Configure Tivoli Monitoring Agent in Linux

This guide has been written by a fellow IBMer, John Kyriazis (Kudos to him for his detailed document), in order to help us deploy Tivoli Monitoring Agents to several dozens of Linux VMs within a customer’s vInfrastructure.  Before you begin to install any agent in RedHat Environment in a corporate environment you must first make... » read more

Convert CentOS to RHEL7 using convert2rhel
Convert CentOS to RHEL7 using convert2rhel

Recently, I joined a migration task of moving several VMs of various Linux distros to RHEL7. There was the time consuming option to create new VMs and reconfigure everything from the beginning, adding each one of the custom packages, or converting to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), using the convert2rhel utility. The most interesting this by using... » read more

Deploy MS SQL Server 2019 on Mac
Deploy MS SQL Server 2019 on Mac

Starting from Edition 2017, Microsoft SQL Server is available for deployment on Linux systems. This short guide lists the steps for installing SQL Server 2019 on a Mac. I will be setting this up on the following system: Beginning with it, it is necessary to install Docker for Mac. You can download it from this... » read more