The ramblings of a computer geek
I came into work this morning to a downed Exchange storage group and mail store. In the event log just after the backup ran i saw these string of events in the event log on the Exchange server. <em>Event Type: Error Event Source: ESE Event Category: General Event ID: 482 Date: 27/10/2010 Time: 21:00:34 User: […]
More...I’m still trying to get VMWare 3.5 installed completely and servers virtualised. But utlimately it would be nice to use vSphere4 in the end. Heres a good PDF showing the new features and how the licencing works (which has been made a bit more complicated! http://www.boche.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/VsphereData.pdf
More...Find and replace with VI on a pathname is a bit tricky you ned to use escape characters. In this case /bin/mail should be replaced with /usr/bin/mail The command below would do it:
More...With Nagios using check_icmp is the way to go, it better and faster, below is an example configuration directive for setting the check-host-alive command which will be used by each host check.
More...Here is an example of find and replace with VI, this will replace every instance of the “findthistext” string in the file with “replacewithtext”. Neat saves lots of typing!
More...This is what would be needed in your hosts configuration to monitor using check_icmp rather than check_ping. This makes the assumption its going to do two pings, otherwise turn “-p 2” into $ARG3$ instead!
More...http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Network-Protocols/HTTP/check_ssl_cert_alternative/details Downloaded the file and stuck it in: /usr/local/share/nagios/libexec Make it executable: Change the owner: Change the group: Rename it so I don’t need to stick the .pl on the end: Do a test run: Seems to be okay we see: “servername.domain.name:443 68 Days left” In the example below, that needs to be added to […]
More...So for each of the services above, one with spaces in it the other containing a dollar sign the following is needed: ReportServer$DPMDB2010 -> ReportServer”$$”DPMDB2010 Mondas RADIO Server -> “Mondas RADIO Server”
More...After a power cut, (before the UPS was installed!), on booting back up the DPM 2007 server, the server showed loads of replica disks saying “Volume Missing”, before i crying, it tried the following to get DPM to pick them back up and it appeared to work ok: Run the command below to enable auto-detect […]
More...PROBLEM: The operation failed because of a protection agent failure. (ID 998 Details: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host (0x80072746)) SYMPTOMS: Had this problem occouring when trying backup to tape. The majority of the tape backup jobs worked fine, then on two of the disks on two of the servers it […]
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