The ramblings of a computer geek
If you have a webserver that you want to check, but it requires authentication, you can still perform a check without seeing an error code. So for example, if you had a webserver where you wanted to check that the web server was responding on port 80, but didn’t want to have the plugin login … Read more
The VCSA appliance deployment has changed to be a Microsoft Windows only affair. Unless you perform a few steps first you could end up with the issues below. PROBLEM: During the deployment of the VCSA appliance you get the following error messages displayed: Failed to set the time via NTP. Details: Internal Error. Code 1 … Read more
If you need to determine the IOPS that are being used of the storage by the Virtual Machines you can run a PowerCLI script to connect to the vCenter and then collect the IOPS statistics. The script collects the read/write average IOPS and the read/write maximum IOPS for each virtual machine, because of this the … Read more
If you occasionally need to reboot a Linux box as a one off one evening you can perform the following commands using the at command. Note if you set a time that has just past it will perform the reboot the following day. So lets say its 16:15 and you want to schedule a reboot … Read more