Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 10th, 2007
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 ...
Posted in MQ, Backup, Analysis, Testing | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
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 ...
Posted in Win2K3, IIS, Logs, Analysis | No Comments »
Monday, August 6th, 2007
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 ...
Posted in Perl, Backup | No Comments »
Monday, August 6th, 2007
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 ...
Posted in Perl, Win2K3, Security, Analysis | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
I've been having a lot of problems with my Apple mighty mouse lately. Particularly with the scroll wheel which would scroll up but not down. I think eating chips and surfing the web was getting things too greasy. Apple lend us some advice here on how to clean your wheel ...
Posted in General, Hardware | No Comments »
