Problem solving in general and MQ 2195 reason codes

So I spent the best part of a day assisting our sys admin and developer resolve MQ errors that a COBOL client was throwing when opening more than one concurrent connection to a clustered queue manager.

Because the architecture had recently changed to a cluster, and my load harness was no longer getting the desired response [...]

Using Microsoft’s log parser to analyse web server traffic

IIS logs if setup properly can be an extremely useful source of information during load testing and for other activities such as capacity planning. Another load tester sings its praise here and provides good justification of why you should use it.

The log parser comes for free with the IIS resource pack but you can also [...]

Using perl to get, put and delete on Amazon S3 storage

Amazon web services development domain have provided some neat perl code here such that you can simply put, get or delete objects inside an Amazon S3 storage bucket with something like this:

./s3curl.pl –id=[aws-access-key-id] –key=[aws-secret-access-key] — http://s3.amazonaws.com/[bucket-name]/[key-name]

I modified the author’s code to make it a bit more win32 friendly, as it is no surprise that [...]

Using perl to read your win32 event log

I often use a combination of cygwin with ssh to remotely manage windows servers, as I find this to be a quicker (and hopefully safer) method of access to my windows boxes. To that end, I often need to check windows application event logs. Typically you’d use the mmc, but all I want to do [...]