Avinash C. Pillai

Whether in fact a person is born a leader or develops skills and abilities to become a leader is open for debate. There are some clear characteristics that are found in good leaders. These qualities can be developed or may be naturally part of their personality. Let us explore them further. Seven Personal Qualities Found In A Good Leader: 1. A good leader has an exemplary character. It is of utmost importance that a leader is trustworthy to lead others. A leader needs to be trusted and be known to live their life with honestly and integrity. A good leader “walks the talk” and in doing so earns the right to have responsibility for others. True authority is born from respect for the good character and trustworthiness of the person who leads.   2.A good leader is enthusiastic about their work or cause and also about their role as leader. People will respond more openly to a person of passion and dedication. Leaders need to be able to be a source of inspiration, and be a

Being a manager in any industry can be a fulfilling job, but it can also be a difficult one. You will need to find the right balance of friendliness and authority. You will need to create a good team atmosphere whilst achieving the bigger goals. So how do you strike that balance? 1. Do Your Job First and foremost do your own job. Managing people isn’t an excuse to let them do the work whilst you look on. Of course, sometimes your job may involve being more strategic but your staff will respect you for doing what needs to be done and being willing to pitch in like everyone else at times. Many of us have had managers who use their role as an excuse to do less or attend more meetings. Get the balance right and earn respect from your staff. 2. Acknowledge The Positive See the positives in your staff and their work. Don’t be one of those bosses who only sees what’s missing rather than what’s been achieved. It is demoralizing for staff to have someone only see what they

                                                         Various Types of Hunt Groups         * Sequential Hunt Groups    * Peer Hunt Groups   * Longest-Idle Hunt Groups   * Parallel Hunt Groups (Call Blast) Sequential Hunt Groups In a sequential hunt group, extensions always ring in the order in which they are listed, left to right, when the hunt group is defined. The first number in the list is always the first number to be tried when the pilot number is called. Maximum number of hops is not a configurable parameter for sequential hunt groups. Peer Hunt Groups In a peer hunt group, extensions ring in a round-robin order. The first extension to ring is the number in the list to the right of the last extension to ring when the pilot number was last called. Ringing proceeds in a circular manner, left to right, for the number of hops specified when the hunt group was defined. Below figure llustrates a peer hunt group. Longest-Idle Hunt Groups

SIP phones support Voice Hunt Groups. SCCP phones support Ephone Hunt Groups, and in Cisco Unified CME 4.3 and later versions, SCCP phones also support Voice Hunt Groups.  Table 69  compares the features of Ephone Hunt Groups and Voice Hunt Groups. Table 69 Feature Comparison of Ephone Hunt Groups and Voice Hunt Groups Feature Ephone Hunt Voice Hunt Group Endpoints Supported SCCP only SIP, SCCP, PSTN, and FXS Parallel Hunt Groups (Call Blast) No (for alternative, see the  "Shared-Line Overlays" section ) Yes Hunt Statistics Support Yes No B-ACD Support Yes No Features such as present-call and login/logout Yes No Thanks & Regards Avinash Pillai URL :  http://avinashpillai.blogspot.com Email: avinashp25[AT]gmail[DOT]com

OMSA is a web based application to manage DELL PowerEdge Servers. Using OMSA you can perform proactive system monitoring, system diagnosis, troubleshoot hardware issues and configure RAID etc., You can also view and manage hardware’s embedded system management (ESM) log using OMSA. This is an jumpstart guide that explains how to install Dell OMSA on Linux. I have also provided few screenshots of DELL OMSA web application. 1. Download DELL OMSA Go to DELL support website -> click on “Drivers & Downloads” -> choose your server model (in my case, I selected PowerEdge 2850) -> choose the operating system -> scroll-down and expand ‘Systems Management’ -> Click on ‘OpenManage Server Administrator Managed Node’ -> Click on OM_5.5.0_ManNode_A00.tar.gz to download it. You can directly download it to your Linux server as shown below. # mkdir -p /usr/local/omsa # cd /usr/local/omsa # wget http://ftp.us.dell.com/sysman/OM_5.5.0_ManNode_A00.tar.gz 2.

Redhat enterprise Linux comes with two nice commands ntsysv   - simple TUI (text based interface) interface for configuring runlevels.   chkconfig   - chkconfig provides a simple command-line tool for maintaining the /etc/rc[0-6].d directory hierarchy by relieving system administrators of the task of directly manipulating the numerous symbolic links in those directories. Turn on sshd service on boot Code: chkconfig sshd on Turn on MySQL service on boot Code: chkconfig mysqld on Turn on Apache / httpd service on boot Code: chkconfig httpd on Turn OFF Apache / httpd service on boot Code: chkconfig httpd off List if service is on of off on boot Use --list option which lists all of the services which chkconfig knows about, and whether they are stopped or started in each runlevel: Code: /sbin/chkconfig --list Sample O/p of above command Code: ipmi            0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off rawdevices      0: