In Linux, ensuring persistent device names for storage volumes is crucial, especially in environments where device names can change across reboots or when new devices are added. This persisting mapping become more crucial if you want to provision raw storage volume for Oracle ASM disks. There are two common methods to achieve this persistence either…
Category: SLES
How to clear memory cache and buffer in Linux
Linux, like other operating systems, has an efficient and affective memory management for managing memory hungry Application or database. RAM as you know is a vital part for Operating systems for storing code and data, in Linux it uses memory cache and buffer for improving the system performance. If I talk bit more about memory…
What are Ansible Host and Group Variables
Variables or Vars are used to store the data which is further used by ansible playbook. These variables can either take input from user or it can also be stored in YAML or INI file as well like main.yml or inventory. Variables stored in either playbook or in separate YAML or INI format file can…
How to mitigate Linux OpenSSH vulnerability CVE-2023-38408
The PKCS#11 feature in ssh-agent in OpenSSH before 9.3p2 has an insufficiently trustworthy search path, leading to remote code execution if an agent is forwarded to an attacker-controlled system. (Code in /usr/lib is not necessarily safe for loading into ssh-agent.) NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-10009. Source Definition: CVE-2023-38408 at…
How to Fix High Swap Usage in SAP HANA Server Using SAPCONF5
In this post I will guide you how to upgrade and manage SAPCONF5 tool and also, how to address High Swapping issue in Suse Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Application 12 (SLES for SAP Application 12) based SAP HANA server with the help of SAPCONF5 tool SAPCONF5 tool is an upgraded version of SAPCONF4 tool….
How to tune SLES 12 for SAP Application SP3 for optimizing SAP HANA system performance
I am working as a Linux Administrator and supporting customer environment which have SAP BW Application and HANA DB services hosted on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 for SAP Application SP3. One day I got a request from my customer SAP application team to tune the OS that is SLES 12 for SAP Application…
How to disable Transparent Huge Pages in Linux
Transparent Huge Pages (THP) is a feature available in mostly Linux distributions or distro which optimizes large memory of the systems as now days systems (computer systems) are coming with large memory. THP can enhance system performance by mapping memory with large physical pages this can be useful in case system is computing multiple processes,…