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Add New Compute Node to Existing OpenStack using Packstack

OpenStack is quite reliable Cloud solution, that provides extensibility and scalability. That means, if the Cloud is running out of resources for new tenants and instances, it can be easily extended with new Hypervisors (Compute nodes) practically on-line.

In this tutorial we will extend existing OpenStack installation (Controller node, Compute node) with new Compute0 node on-line, without shutting down existing nodes. The easiest and fastest way to extend existing Openstack Cloud on-line is to use Packstack, the automated installer script.

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How to Configure Yum with Proxy

If the server is placed in network behind firewall and outgoing traffic is blocked by firewall, the only chance to install new packages from remote repo is through proxy (if that exists).
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How to Display Banners in Linux Command Line

Do you want to display cool or funny banners in your Linux console?
Try two commands, which generate banners: banner or figlet.
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How to Create LVM Volume Group and Logical Volume

Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is a device mapper target that provides logical volume management for the Linux kernel. LVM allows to create Logical Volumes from underlying Physical Hard Disks (Physiacal Volumes). Logical Volumes can be easily extended and shrunk according to the file system capacity demands.

LVM Objects:
Physical Volume (PV): underlying physical storage for LVM. These are most often physical hard disks, but also can be: partitions, RAID volumes, etc…
Volume Group (VG): storage pool, created from one or more Physical Volumes.
Physical Extent: small chunk of Physical Volume, used during Volume Group creation.
Logical Extent: mapped to Physical Extent, acting as front-end chunk for Logical Volumes.
Logical Volume: group of Logical Extents, used by the system as hard drive partition.
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Detect Intrusion and Check Linux File System Integrity with AIDE

If you suspect that your system was compromised and files and/or their permissions were modified by the intruder, you can use AIDE to check your file system against some modifications.

AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is a file integrity checker and intrusion detection program. AIDE is used to scan the system when it’s in known good state – it collects information about files and their permissions in the file system and writes gathered information to the database. Once the database is initialized it can be used to verify the integrity of the files in case of some compromise is suspected. All of the usual file attributes can be checked for inconsistencies.

In this tutorial we will show you how to install and deploy AIDE on CentOS/Fedora/RedHat.
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Display Hardware Topology in Linux

Sometimes we need to know what is our system configuration (CPU, RAM, network interfaces, etc…), but we don’t want to open computer case to look what’s inside or even don’t have such possibility, especially when we are connected to remote server.

We can use lstopo command in Linux command line to quickly display system architecture.
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