– Server 2003 – 2 physical NICs (first for cluster, second for LAN) – NLB installed – Both NICs cabled with CAT5 to the network (Mine were vLAN’d to the DMZ due to it being a web server) Configure one of the NICs as a your regular IP for network traffic. The following will only…
Seizing FSMO rolls
The five FSMO roles are: Schema master – Forest-wide and one per forest. Domain naming master – Forest-wide and one per forest. RID master – Domain-specific and one for each domain. PDC – PDC Emulator is domain-specific and one for each domain. Infrastructure master – Domain-specific and one for each domain. Best practice shows to…
Import NetBackup images via the command prompt
– NetBackup 7, Server 2008 R2 Ran into an issue where our old backup server was no longer operational and we had to create a new NetBackup server along with upgrading the version. Had to recall all our tapes to import them into the catalog. Here is what needed to be done for each tape…
Changing a Tapes media type
– Performed on NetBackup 7 with Server 2008 R2 The other day we had some dlt tapes sent from our site to import into our local enviornment. We had trouble with the import because the media type recorded for the images was (HCART3) and the local enviornment uses (HCART). You can manually go into the…
Expire & Delete tapes
– Ran on NetBackup 7 on Server 2008 R2 First you need to make sure that there are no valid images on the tape that you want: NetBackupbinadmincmdbpimmedia -mediaid -L If there are no images that you need, expire the tape: NetBackupbinadmincmdbpexpdate -m -d 0 -host -force This expires the images in the media database…
BGInfo not showing correct IP info on Server 2008R2 Physical boxes
There is an apparent issue with BGinfo, everyones favorite sys internals tool for physical Server 2008 R2 boxes. This issue is that no network information shows up for IP, DNS, Gateway, and Subnet. I haven’t tested this issue with non-teamed NICs.
ONTAP simulator v7.3.4 setup on Ubuntu v10.04
Requirements: VM with Ubuntu (I used v10.04) VMtools ISO of OnTap (I used v7.3.4) 1. (optional) In a terminal session type in “sudo visudo“, edit the last line from %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL to %admin ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL
Zimbra v5.0.18, Hidden commands & Services
Google couldn’t help with this one. Everywhere I searched, I came with I don’t want to say wrong but not applicable to my environment. To make a long story short, I needed to reboot “zmcontrol”. Everything I found kept directing me to the command being in the root directory. Come to find out the commands…
BES & MDS connection service
OS: Server 2003 R2 BES: 4.1.4 One of today’s major issue revolved around an error a user was receiving when accessing any website or the weather bug application within a Blackberry. The error was “Unable to connect to the selected Mobile Data Service, Please try again later. If the problem persists please contact your administrator”. …
Bug in NetApp sim 7.3.1 when used in Ubuntu
Apparently there is a bug in the NetApp sim 7.3.1 when used within Ubuntu. Regardless if using VM workstation. The prompt for OnTap will constantly shows the error “Unable to open function name/address mapping file : No such file or directory”. http://communities.netapp.com/thread/5576