Since the early days, OS X Server has supported performing the serveradmin commands through a web interface. This interface was accessible at the address of the server followed by a colon and then 311 in a web browser. This feature was disabled by default in Mountain Lion. But fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true, so we’re going to turn it back on. To enable, use the following command: sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.servermgrd requireUserAgent -bool false Once done, open https://127.0.0.1:311 in a web browser, or replace 127.0.0.1 with the address of the server if accessing from another location. This is stimulating, but we’re out of…
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NetApp Failovers
Each controller of a NetApp FAS will typically have two network interfaces. Provided I have two storage controllers (and I usually do) I typically prefer to setup a NetApp in an automated failover scenario. A NetApp active/active configuration consists of two storage nodes) whose controllers are connected to each other either directly or through switches. The nodes are connected through a cluster adapter or an NVRAM adapter, which allows one node to serve data to the disks of its failed partner node. Each node continually monitors its partner, mirroring the data for each other’s nonvolatile RAM (NVRAM). Before configuring the filers for an active/active clustered failover, first verify that the…