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Objective: Move a VM from VMware Server to ESX or ESXi Prequisits: root access via ssh to the ESXi or ESX server (read more about how to get ssh access to ESXi) Make a folder with the name of your host (I used “ventoux” in the example) on your ESX VMFS partition to hold the…

Tools required to do the job: At least 1G USB flash drive Virtual CD mounting tool, i.e. MagicDisk WinImage to build the image to USB storage. Steps to make the bootable ESX Server 3i USB flash drive: Download ESXi Installable ISO For 4.0 extract INSTALL.TGZ from the root directory of the ISO image using WINIMAGE…

Extending the Net-SNMP agent A great functionnality of Net-SNMP is that you can “extend” it. Let’s run the /tmp/foo.sh script : Code: $ /tmp/foo.sh -arg1123 Now put this in snmpd.conf : Code: exec foo /bin/sh /tmp/foo.sh -arg1 The result of your script will be accessible under the ucdavis.extTable.extEntry tree : output of the script :…

Prequisitsw2003 resourcekit tools installed Install the serviceC:\>sc.exe create T3NawUp dateService binPath= “C:\Program Files\Infotrom\Trodis3\MT\Binaries\T3NawUpdateService.exe – /L2” obj= “elisabeth\sa_trodis” password= “paszzworrd”[SC] CreateService SUCCESS Logon as a service right on the server when yourun the service on a specific windows accountStart > Run – Enter the gpedit.msc command and run.Select the Computer configuration setting from the appearing window…

Belangrijke levensvraagstukken: Beach Rally topscore op de Nokia 6021.. kan het beter dan dit? Ik denk het wel maar ben het niet tegengekomen op internet. Die magische 4 minuten grens heb ik nog steeds niet kunnen doorbreken. Beach Rally II: 4:00.47 -> 4:00.46 -> de magische 4 minuten grens doorbroken 3:59.93 -> 3:59.71 -> 3:59.67…

Apply the following registry change to the file server to which you installed the hotfix. To do so: a. Start Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe). b. Locate and click the following key in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters c. On the Edit menu, click Add Value, and then add the following registry value: Value name: DisableStrictNameChecking Data type: REG_DWORD…

Introduction   Disk drive performance and databases are directly tied to each other with backups. A full backup, by definition, will start at the beginning of a database and read all the way through to the end. In the process, it can generate a large amount of disk IO. If you have a slow disk…

Introduction   There are several common metrics that people use to look for performance bottlenecks. They are usually:   –Disk queue length –Disk latency/transfer times –MB/sec –IO/sec   For the rest of this note, I’ll focus on the top two.

yum -y update vi /etc/inittabshutdown -r 0 yum -y install gcc perl-Config-IniFiles net-snmp net-snmp-perl net-snmp-utils perl-Net-SNMP net-snmp-libs gd gd-devel libpng libpng-devel libjpg libjpg-devel cd /tmp/wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/nagiosplug/nagios-plugins-1.4.9.tar.gz?modtime=1180952247&big_mirror=0wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/nagiosplug/nagios-plugins-1.4.9.tar.gz?modtime=1180952247&big_mirror=0tar xvzf nagios-2.9.tar.gzrm nagios-2.9.tar*cd nagios-2.9adduser nagiosmkdir /usr/local/nagioschown nagios:nagios /usr/local/nagiosgrep “^User” /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf/usr/sbin/groupadd nagcmd/usr/sbin/usermod -G nagcmd apache/usr/sbin/usermod -G nagcmd nagios ../configure –prefix=/usr/local/nagios –with-command-group=nagcmdmake allmake installmake install-initchkconfig –add nagiosservice nagios statuscd /usr/local/nagios/chown…

Centos 5.5 add repo to get RedHat packages echo "[dag] name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el\$releasever/en/\$basearch/dag gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt enabled=1" > /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo And you are off...   This is what I did on my Fedora 7 box: Disable SELINUX —————————————- nagios update 2.9 to 3.0.3 —————————————- tar xvzf nagios-3.0.3.tar.gz cd nagios-3.0.3 ./configure –with-gd-lib=/usr/lib…

1         Inleiding   Klein beetje uitleg over commando’s en configuratie instellingen (hoofdlettergevoelig!).       2         Config   ELITIL2 : /usr/openv/netbackup : # cat bp.conf SERVER = ezhbackup01 SERVER = ezhbackup02 CLIENT_NAME = ELITIL2 EMMSERVER = ezhbackup01 MEDIA_SERVER = ezhbackup02 MEDIA_SERVER = ELITIL2 SERVER_SENDS_MAIL = YES USE_VXSS = PROHIBITED   ELITIL2 : /usr/openv/netbackup : #…

Connect a virtual switch to an adapter:# esxcfg-vswitch -L vmnic2 vSwitch0