When monitoring Windows Servers you have one monitoring tool that every System Administrator should master. This is of course is Windows Event Viewer. From personal experience this tool has been useful for monitoring outages when you are not hosting the hardware on site. In this article I shall share the particular steps I use in doing this.
Ever wondered how to update Plex properly on Ubuntu? They release them often and sometimes they’re required to continue using parts of their web service.
Plug-ins on Plex can enhance the user experience by providing extra features straight to your home theater. Installing these plug-ins can be a 5 second job but is worth noting the procedure as some plug-ins require updates that will need you to follow this process every now and then.
SRV records can be the more indepth record you will ever need to add to a domain. It has many parts that need to follow strict guidlines.
This article will break down each part to allow you to create your own.
Changing the default message of the day can be quite important to systems that require warnings or messages fed back to the user on login or attempted login. This short article will show you exactly what to do to get these messages applied to Red Hat operating systems.
When running a Plex Media Server you occasionally find that some issues do creep up on you without any warning. For example in this particular case I had users reporting that they were unable to play content via my server. They reported that they either got the error “Media not found” or that the content simply hanged and did nothing.
Configuring DNS always differs depending on the operating system you are using. On CentOS, Fedora or other Red Hat distributions you will find that the easiest way of amending this is via the ifcfg-eth0 file.
