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Brief Introduction to IBM Cognos Analytics – Part 2

Ways of Accessing the Contents of IBM Cognos Analytics My Content – sliding pane with consumer’s personal content My Inbox My Home – consumer’s start page, can be set to any page to which the consumer has permission Team Content – public (team’s) content Search – lightweight and scalable search engine searching for content within …

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Introduction to Cognos Analytics

IBM Cognos Analytics is an enterprise analytics and business intelligence (BI) solution. It is web based and allows users to gather data from multiple heterogeneous data sources for analysis and reporting purposes. This environment can be used at all levels of business and offers a unified user experience across the web, the mobile devices as …

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Linux System Administration – Part 3

How to monitor the loaded kernel modules A Linux system administrator may be required to watching the loaded kernel modules. The command that help to achieve this is “lsmod”. Example :

Another way to list all currently loaded kernel modules is to use “cat /proc/modules”. Example :

Getting information about files The “ls …

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Powershell – A brief technical introduction: 1

Windows Powershell is a great tool for writing Windows based administration scripts. It is getting popular day-by-day due to its object oriented capabilities. Also the administrators find it very handy for writing scripts  in a Windows platform much similar to the Unix based shell scripting. How to Install PowerShell ISE and Enable PowerShell Scripts PowerShell 2.0 …

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Docker : Brief Introduction – Part 2

Initially, Docker was used as a  Linux containerization tool. Support for other environments such as Windows and MacOS was added later. In this post, let us take a look at how to install Docker in the Linux platform and how to create the Docker images. Installation of Docker at Linux (Ubuntu or similar) machine Installation …

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Linux System Administration – Part 2

In this post, we are continuing with the commands that are used for Linux system administration. How to change the hostname 1) [For RedHat and Centos] Using a text editor open the file /etc/sysconfig/network and Modify the HOSTNAME= value to  match your server’s new name

Sample entry after editing:

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Linux Commands for System Administration – Part 1

Linux System Administration involves procedures and tasks that are required to keep a computer system up and running and in usable order. Usually, it includes : installing new programs creating / deleting user accounts ensuring file system is not corrupted taking backups and restoring the backup when required monitor system resources, users, status of critical …

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Docker : Brief Introduction – Part 1

Docker has gained popularity among DevOps teams recently due to its efficient and straightforward usage of containerization technology. Let us take a brief look at Docker in this post. There will be few additional posts in continuation of this, where we will discuss few additional details. What is Docker ? Docker is a tool that automates …

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