We have posted another article on Xsanity. This one is on managing Fibre Channel settings from the command line. The following is an excerpt from the article:

Once upon a time there was Fibre Channel Utility. Then there was a System Preference pane. But the command line utility, fibreconfig, is the quickest, most verbose way of obtaining information and setting various parameters for your Apple branded cards.

To get started with fibreconfig, it’s easiest to start with just asking the fibreconfig binary to simply display all the information available on the fibre channel environment. This can be done by using the –l option as follows:

View the full article here.

We have published another article on Xsanity. This one on using removable media with Xsan. More importantly this article shows how to label a LUN using the command line tool cvlabel. An excerpt is as follows:

Sometimes you just need a small SAN for testing… Times when you don’t have fiber channel and you don’t need to provide access to multiple clients, like maybe if you’re writing an article for Xsanity on an airplane. Now this volume is not going to be supported (or supportable) by anyone and nor should it be (so don’t use it for real data), but you can use USB and FireWire drives for a small test Xsan…

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Rumpus 6.0

Maxum has come up with a new Release of their famous FTP server software. Rumpus is an internet file transfer server for OS X that allows for quick easy, secure file transfers. If you were luck to purchase Rumpus 5.x after January 1, 2007 a free upgrade is ready for download.  A $99 upgrade is for older upgrades.

The latest version of Rumpus has many new features that might entice users to upgrade listed below.

We wrote an article on using cvadmin to manage Xsan from the command line. It’s available on Xsanity here.