The ramblings of a computer geek
Tristan Self 
I’ve found that managing your time is the most important and most effective thing you can do in your day to maintain productivity. If you’re like me having endless unnecessary interruptions means you can’t get into “the zone” and have periods of deep concentration required to actually do useful work. Endless flipping from task to … Read more
We were conducting a data centre relocation which involved moving an HPE Nimble Storage array, changing the array name and group is straight forward enough, this can be done from the GUI within the “Hardware” section. However once changed clients still see the old group name which included the old name of the array. Resolving … Read more
Nagvis by default will show the header at the top of any NagVis maps, which is fine for when you’re editing, but perhaps you have screens that display maps for information within a OC, NOC or SOC, on the later versions of the NagVis rather than appending the URL with: you now need to use … Read more
To explore how DKIM validation works first got an email in .eml format as an example email which was a known good email where the DKIM validation is OK. Meaning that both the header and the body are unchanged from when the email was first DKIM signed. There is a little tool called “dkimpy”, which … Read more
Just like the testing of SMTP using Telnet, you can also perform the same steps if the target server is using TLS, however because telnet won’t do the job here, you can use OpenSSL instead. Here’s a simple example:
Although I’ve covered this before if you want to add some headers into a test email, this can be done by just adding the required header into the “DATA” section. In the example below I’m adding in a header called “List-Id”. You would telnet into your mail server then type in the following:
When performing a VMware vCenter Upgrade for example from version 7 to version 8, you use the upgrade tool, this essentially works in two stages. Stage 1 deploy a new vCenter appliance on a temporary IP address, then Stage 2 copy all the configuration and data from the old vCenter appliance and then take over … Read more
At the time of writing (29/03/2024) the recommended EXOS (SwitchEngine) version for the X450-g2, X460-g2 and 5420 (as well as other hardware) is EXOS 31.7.2.28-patch1-75. We recently purchased some new 5420 switches and are upgrading some existing X450-g2 and X460-g2 to the latest recommended software versions. However we have identified an issue that currently at … Read more
A trial licence is fine for testing some stuff, but if you need to remove it, for example when it causes you issues in a stack when the master thinks it on perimeter, but the backup is not. Remove Licence (Option 1) https://extreme-networks.my.site.com/ExtrArticleDetail?n=000001267 Remove Licence (Option 2) https://extreme-networks.my.site.com/ExtrArticleDetail?an=000092952 Verify Current Licence Removing Stacking Licence Level
You may need to limit bandwidth, perhaps for a customer, or for an area of your network to avoid issues that occur when they saturate links, knowingly or unknowingly. In this example we’ll create a 20MBit Limit with a 250Kb burst, and we’ll make the switch drop anything that exceeds that limit. So in effect … Read more