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F5 BIG-IP LTM VE Default Login, BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager Virtual Edition Console Login

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Recently I have started working a lot more with various F5 hardware including BIG-IP LTM’s or BIG-IP Local Traffic Managers. F5 provides a VMware image so you can have a test environment running as a virtual machine. This is a great place to complete testing, example configurations, etc. Once you start the F5 BIG-IP LTM VE virtual machine you will need to login with the default username and password which is noted below along with screenshots so you can ensure you are logging in via the correct console prompt.

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List Enabled Yum Repos On CentOS Linux Server

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Earlier today while responding to a comment in an older article I requested that the person leaving the comment provide information to show what repositories were enabled in YUM. I figured printing out the configured YUM repositories could be useful to others so below is an example command and example output to display what YUM repos are configured on a CentOS Linux server.

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Amazon Machine Tags WordPress Plugin Not Working, Easy Switch To Amazon Product In A Post Plugin

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I have been using the Amazon Machine Tags WordPress plugin on numerous sites for a long time and have been happy with the results up until the last couple of months. I believe that Amazon has made some changes to their API over the last year or so and it has caused a lot of issues with the Amazon Machine Tags plugin. I even wrote this article in mid February discussing a work around that would allow the Amazon Machine Tags plugin to continue working until the developer was able to make some changes. Since that time I have been monitoring my posts to see if the Amazon products are always displaying and unfortunately even with the fix mentioned in the February article items were still not displaying at all times. Below I noted an alternative that provides solid functionality.