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Installing BMC Patrol Agent 9.5

This topic describes how to perform a first-time installation of the BMC patrol agent, which includes the system collectors and service daemon.

Setting up BMC event log file and size

When the cache becomes full, events are removed from it and placed in the repository file, which uses the following naming convention

Event log for BMC Patrol 9.5

As new events are created, older events are written to a log file called the PEM log.

Sun Serial number locations

A simple table which provides a listing of where to locate the serial number on various Sun related products.

Turn On/Off Apache Directory Listing

To enable the directory browsing in Apache server, we need to add the directory option in apache configuration file.

GIT vs SVN

This is a simple post which lists the basic equivalent commands for both git and svn version control systems.

Virtualisation products compared

The 3 major players, at the moment, in the virtualisation market are VMware, Microsoft and Citrix.