LimeSurvey (formerly PHPSurveyor) is a Webapplication that interacts with MySQL, MSSQL, orPostgres to develop surveys, publish surveys, andcollect responses to surveys.

Once a survey has been created, data can be inserted into the survey either by a “pretty” public screen which presents each question one at a time, or by a quick and nasty data entry screen. It includes the capacity to generate individualized “tokens”, so that invitation can be issued to participants. It also has the capacity to set conditions on whether questions will display (branching), numerous question types, and a basic statistics function. Changes: A Malay translation was added, several minor bugs were fixed, and translations were updated.

There’s this 2 new Wordpress plugin here in Sysadmindayph dot com (the newest that I installed at least). I just want to share this one for the readers of this blog who is also Wordpress user.

The two new plugins here are:

• SEO Smart Link
• Broken Link Checker

SEO Smart Link – SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog.

Broken Link Checker – This plugin will monitor your blog looking for broken links and let you know if any are found.

Veritas Volume Manager VxVM Basics Commands Cheats.. The authority site for this topic, the VXVM on VXFS, if you do a Google search for any tutorial or command cheat sheet is Cuddletech.

I want to post… say, borrowing, the content of that page to this post for my own personal reference… Love your own page right? And since I am more likely to open SysadminPH that cuddletech, I thought we not copy the Veritas tutorial page here for my ease of access?

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SVM: Determine Free Space on Soft Partition , we use the metastat -c command…

[root@localhost] /work/users> metastat -c d103
d103 p 32GB d100
d100 m 68GB d101 d102
d101 s 68GB c1t2d0s0
d102 s 68GB c1t3d0s0

[root@localhost] /work/users> metastat -p d103
d103 -p d100 -o 32 -b 58720256 -o 127926432 -b 8388608
d100 -m d101 d102 1
d101 1 1 c1t2d0s0
d102 1 1 c1t3d0s0

So from the first metastat -c d103.. that’s a mirrored 68G partition, d100 and a 32G soft partition d103.. We still have around 35G of space.

update: — someone comment please.. this information is incomplete!

Facebook is almost equivalent to cash nowadays. I read somewhere that Facebook is positive cash! Everyone wants to take advantage on how popular Facebook is. Many are making money (tons of money) with “Facebook” additional services like Facebook games (Farmville), Facebook proxies and other related application for Facebook.

There is a downside of Facebook’s popularity though. It is a large enough site that it is worthwhile for phishers to target users on this site. Facebook phishing website looks almost idential to Facebook real website.

Face book Login

From Facebook Login to Facebook proxy, we’ll be updating this page for any related and relevant news about Facebook! Since everyone is doing post about the most popular social networking site in the internet this is our own way of contributing to the fans.
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Here’s some tips in bouncing off NBU client daemon. BMC Netbackup (formerly with Veritas apparently) may have a number of ways to accomplish this (specially if you’re not the backup admin) and depending on the version of the Netbackup software.

The following general guidelines can be used to determine if a restart of NetBackup is required after making changes to the /usr/openv/netbackup/bp.conf file on a system.

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Guilty! Putting all those Metastat keywords on one subject, that’s me! ANyway, I don’t want to stale this blog so once in a while I’m going to be posting some bits and pieces of Unix tools/tips.. and here’s a new one about SVM… Responding to Disk Errors courtesy of BigAdmin!

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From our last post about XSCF Cheat sheet, we put there some commands on an XSCF management interface card. I thought that was the most common one, but we forgot to put in how to send ‘break’ to the host console!

Here’s how:

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Here are a couple of commands for the XSCF console specifics for the M-series servers of Sun. There are ’stolen’ from Review Ninja plus more! Thanks Jon!

To Connect to a domain
XSCF> console -d

To Show status of a domain
XSCF> showdomainstatus -d


XSCF> showdomainstatus
Invalid parameter.
usage : showdomainstatus -a
showdomainstatus -d domain_id
showdomainstatus -h
XSCF> showdomainstatus -a
DID Domain Status
00 Running
01 Running
02 Running
03 Running
04 -

To displays the domain information specified for a system board.
XSCF> showdevices

To displays the temperature, humidity, voltage, and fan rotation speed.
XSCF> showenvironment

To lists degraded components.
XSCF> showstatus

To displays users who login to the XSCF.
XSCF> who

To reset domain there are 3 modes for reset command

* por: Domain system reset
* request: Domain panic instruction
* xir: Domain CPU reset

XSCF> reset -d domainhere por

To power on/off all domain or sepcified domain
XSCF> poweron
XSCF> poweroff

Remember you can always use –help on every command to see what are teh available switched and options for it.

To logout of XSCF> type exit
To return to XSCF from a domain terminal type #.

Hope this help.

More command from Sun:

http://docs.sun.com/source/819-6202-15/21ch5p.html#50643019_96753

Notes on ZFS quotas, reservations and others.. like adding up disk for the pool and creating pool altogether.

First, create a pool using ‘zpool‘. Then use ‘zfs‘ to make the filesystems.

Creating Pool with zpool

Create a pool called pool1. The -m is optional. If given, it specifies a mount point for zfs filesystems created from the specified pool. The mount point should be empty or nonexistant. If the -m argument is omitted, mount point is “/”.

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