What are site codes ? In most organizations we highly recommend the use of site codes as even single-site companies often ends up with remote offices, disaster recovery sites, or additional data center locations over time. The goal with site codes is to choose an identifier that people both from the site in question and other far away can easily identify as being related to a given location. We have struggled with this in the early stages of growing our business, as there was lots of potential for confusion and overlap. Choosing a Site Code Convention There are a few ways to go about ...

So I often log into CentOS/RHEL servers and discover that there are tons of custom RPMs installed that were just downloaded from random places. While I understand that sometimes you just need to get things done, please just create your yum repo somewhere and install from there. You’ll thank me later when you need to update said packages on 20+ servers. Here’s the basic gist. On what you plan to be your yum repo server: 1. Copy all your custom/cool RPMs over to some web accessible directory on a server. (optional: maybe create some cool vhost in Apache or whatever to have a name ...