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Testing RAID

How does one fully evaluate a RAID configuration? Pulling drives is one thing, but are there tools and techniques for more? I've considered putting a nail through a running drive (powder actuated nailgun) to see what would happen, or simulating…
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What tools are available to simulate certain network conditions on Ubuntu?

In order to test our deployment I want to simulate certain network events like connection losses, timeout, limited bandwidths etc. I already googled for this but haven't found something that really suited my needs. ipfw seems to be what I need but I…
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How can I automate a GUI App?

I need to automate a small GUI Windows app. It needs to be run twice a week to synchronise two databases, but with no operator intelligence behind it. Literally, it's launch the app, and perform two button clicks, and forget. I've seen ClickOK, but…
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Check Drives Before Installation: Is Badblocks Good Enough?

I wanted to know what people do to test drives before installing them in a RAID. I saw badblocks. Would write-mode, prior to installing the filesystem be sufficient in your minds?
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What is a free active directory simulator tool for testing remote single-sign-on auth requests?

Need to test if an application has correctly implemented active directory remote authentication single-sign-on requests? If you don't know of a tool, what would be a checklist of items to confirm are in place?
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command line http load testing tool that supports gzip / deflate

We use apache as our web server and it has mod_deflate enabled. We have been using httperf to test it for load but we've not been able to get it to talk to the webserver with gzip/deflate encoding enabled in httperf. I tried…
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How can I test if LVM works on Ubuntu Lucid?

I got LVM2 installed on Ubuntu Lucid. I have a volume group on /dev/fluid with free space (150Gb). I need to know if LVM is installed and working properly. How can I test that LVM is working properly? Thanks Edit: I am probably looking for a way to…
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SQL database testing: How to capture state of my database for rollback

I have a SQL server (MS SQL 2005) in my development environment. I have a suite of unit tests for some .net code that will connect to the database and perform some operations. If the code under test works correctly, then the database should be in…
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Storage product testing

I know this is out of place (being an active member here I am coming for the help from seniors), but I need some information regarding storage testing, testing of RAID arrays, SCSI, SAS, SATA and also test carried out on fabric manager (Cisco MDS…
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Different Operating Systems in the same PC for testing a windows application

My company needs to test a windows application across different operating systems. So we would like to have different operating systems that resides in a single machine. Among those VMs, I have heard about Virtual PC by Microsoft VMware…
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Setting up a Develop, Acceptance, Production for a single person business

My wife is a graphic designer who is starting her own business in the field of designing templates for wordpress other php based systems. I'm going to setup the servers (VMware with CentOS) so she has a good spot for development and showing the…
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Prove that software works via SOCKS

Intro I have ruby software that utilizes a network during its execution. Recently I got feedback from a user who works behind a firewall and use SOCKS, this software doesn't work for him So I need to simulate this situation to check which part of my…
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Saving multiple hibernate states on Windows

This question is related to this one: Automated windows restart testing In order to automate testing in Windows, it could be useful to save multiple hibernate states and running them to see whether a new version of some software behaves…
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SELinux Regression Test Failing

I have cloned the selinux-testsuite regression tests from: https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux-testsuite I am running the tests in a CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core) VM. Which I don't believe to be relevant. SELinux is enforcing using the…
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Powershell - test http with specific adapter - multiple nics

Do you know a way to test if an HTTP server is reachable with a specific nic ? My scenario is the following : our company is using laptop for all our employees. To use the network we can either use the wired Ethernet LAN or the WiFi. So all…
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