Archive for the ‘Shell Scripting’ Category
TSM: Lost Tapes
We had an issue not long ago were Tivoli Storage Manager was losing track of tapes. The issue ended up being how TSM manages database snapshots which are sent offsite using DRM (Bug in TSM which has been around for a while according to a colleague of mine).
I needed to find out quickly which tapes [...]
Monitor AIX filesystems V2
I updated this script a while back and made it a lot easier to maintain. It now checks for usage on all mounted filesystems, except for those listed in the $SKIPFS variable.
Monitor AIX filesystems
If you’re looking for something cheap and nasty to monitor your filesystem usage while you’re setting up something more robust, here is a cheap and very nasty script to do just that.
Split and Reassemble files
I wrote this a few years back for LinuxQuestions.org. It was around 2004 from memory, and majority of the mail servers in Internet land only allowed for 2MB file attachments. This has now change, but I thought I’d post the article anyway.
There always comes a time, where you wish that file was only a few [...]
Sending files to multiple Windows hosts
A few months ago at work, I needed to send a number of files to a little over 100 Windows workstations. I had administrator rights on all these workstations, and luckily for me, they all had the same administrator password.
I had access to a Red Hat AS4 server, so I wrote a shell script to [...]