The ramblings of a computer geek
This assumes you have a APC Smart-UPS UPS with a Network Management Card, that you have already configured to allow SNMP connections and you’ve configured the community string. This is tested using MRTG running on Ubuntu with an AP9619 network management card in the UPSes. This took ages to find the correct metrics OIDs from … Read more
You may want to change the default behavour of the Lync client so that it appears to automatically start, so people know its there and want to use it. The other key thing is to automatically populate the username box on Lync so that users for the first time don’t need to know their name … Read more
An odd one, you need to configure SQL Reporting Services first with the correct FROM: email address, email server and port. Once you have done that you won’t get the error message about reporting services not be configured, however you are likely then to get this error. DPM 2010 Administrator Console->Management->Options->Notifications Entering a valid email … Read more
I’ve been wrestling with a course restore problem on Moodle 2.4.2 and Moodle 2.5. Basically you can take a course backup fine, but when trying to restore it, it will timeout, and fail to restore the course at all or may only restore a small segment of it. Of course it fails, with no entries … Read more
I’m not a huge fan of Moodle, its basically a unsupportable mess. However the price: Free, is very appealing in the times of no money and so we are stuck with using it. One of the nice features is that of SSO using NTLM authentication. We use Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 with IIS 7.5 and … Read more
I was setting up an SSL certificate for secure administration on a Barracuda Networks Load Balancer appliance. Normally Barracuda’s products are very easy to everything, but the Secure Administration certificate install was a bit of a head scratcher. The documentation on their support site seems to miss out a key step of the install, it … Read more
Something I’ve done recently, the switch has been in for over a year, but was put in, in a hurry, and we’d never got round to finishing off the configuration fully until now. It has two processor supervisor blades, but its always been running in RPR mode, as we now run VMware ISCSI traffic through … Read more
I’m only going to show the juicy bits of the config. I.e. the bits that refer to the routing, EIGRP or IP SLA stuff. A user at Site A in normal use should see two default routes to the Internet, one being their local default route, and then the Site B default route, with a … Read more
Wake on LAN packets do not traverse routers (normally) so you need to configure your network to do this. There are some security implications you need to be aware of first, Cisco’s document on it is a good read:http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/switches/catalyst-3750-series-switches/91672-catl3-wol-vlans.html Also download Solarwinds Free Wake On LAN tool, its a good one to use to test … Read more
Tapes are basically sticky tape and rust, therefore they are liable to break especially your weekly rotation ones, just because they get wear and tear. When this happens and the tape is no longer able to be used, we need to remove it from DPM to stop it appearing the in the tape request reports. … Read more