Archive for March, 2008

IXOS HDSK Migration

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

MNX Solutions works on many UNIX based systems, one of which is IXOS (now called OpenText).

We needed to migrate from WORM (9.1GB) media to a hard disk based configuration for performance, scalability and disaster recovery purposes. Below is the high level procedure I used during the migration to migrate from WORM to HDSK, on IXOS EconServer 5.5C..

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Zimbra - Pop before smtp authentication howto

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

We had a client with 3000+ named users, and each of them were configured without authentication for smtp relaying, the qmail/vpopmail system they were migrating from had “pop before smtp” authentication. Well, we wanted to have as little disruption as possible for the migration so we needed to enable this same feature in Zimbra.

It is still planned to cutover the clients to SMTP Authentication, but this allows for a somewhat smoother transition.

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Retrieve Ensim MySQL root password

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

You can display the current root password for mysql (if the host is running ensim), by using the following command.

# ensim-python -c "import sys;sys.path.append(\"/usr/lib/opcenter/mysql\");import mysqlbe;print mysqlbe.read_mysqlpass()"