Re: InDesign vs QuarkXPress vs ... (was: Why do we buy software?)

[Ben Scott]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Kurt Buff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> TeX/Lyx/MiKTeX/LateX/ProTeXt/DocBook perhaps?

  Heh.  Our marketing girl isn't dumb, but I think asking her to go
that route would be a bit much.  Besides, she's mostly doing marketing
copy, brochures and data sheets and the like, where WYSIWYG layout
actually makes a lot of sense.

  Now, if I could get people writing our internal documentation to
switch to DocBook, I would be overjoyed.  But that ain't too likely.
Some of these people have trouble with cut-and-paste...

-- Ben

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Re: InDesign vs QuarkXPress vs ... (was: Why do we buy software?)

[Kurt Buff]

TeX/Lyx/MiKTeX/LateX/ProTeXt/DocBook perhaps?

See, for instance, http://www.lyx.org/

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3/4/08, Mark Boersma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > So our marketing ladies just came in to talk about getting Adobe Indesign.
>
>   Heh, I had the exact same conversation with our marketing girl
>  today.  Well, minus the pirated software part.  She's not that dumb
>  (or dishonest).  She's agnostic to page layout software preference,
>  and I don't have any experience worth anything.  It seems like the
>  only major players these days are InDesign (Adobe) and QuarkXPress.
>  Anyone have any opinions/comments on them?  IT gotchas to be aware of?
>
>   I looked at the Free/Open Source "Scribus" a bit over the weekend.
>  It looked impressive to me, but I know nothing about page layout
>  software, so that's not saying much.  Ultimately, I decided it's
>  probabbly not for us, as it doesn't do much with importing propriatary
>  formats (like InDesign, Quark, MS Word, etc.) and we're likely to have
>  to deal with a lot of that stuff.
>
>  -- Ben
>
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InDesign vs QuarkXPress vs ... (was: Why do we buy software?)

[Ben Scott]

On 3/4/08, Mark Boersma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So our marketing ladies just came in to talk about getting Adobe Indesign.

  Heh, I had the exact same conversation with our marketing girl
today.  Well, minus the pirated software part.  She's not that dumb
(or dishonest).  She's agnostic to page layout software preference,
and I don't have any experience worth anything.  It seems like the
only major players these days are InDesign (Adobe) and QuarkXPress.
Anyone have any opinions/comments on them?  IT gotchas to be aware of?

  I looked at the Free/Open Source "Scribus" a bit over the weekend.
It looked impressive to me, but I know nothing about page layout
software, so that's not saying much.  Ultimately, I decided it's
probabbly not for us, as it doesn't do much with importing propriatary
formats (like InDesign, Quark, MS Word, etc.) and we're likely to have
to deal with a lot of that stuff.

-- Ben

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Re: Robocopy Brain Fart

[Rubens Almeida]

I'm not a GUI fan but sometimes you need a jump start, so here's my
little contribution to the folks looking for a easily way getting
familiar to Robocopy:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc160891.aspx
Hope that helps ;)

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Re: Thanks/Solved: BSD Filesystem Full?

[Kurt Buff]

There are daily/weekly/monthly/yearly jobs by default.

What you need is an MTA installed to take care of getting them off the
box. I use postfix, myself, as I find sendmail a horrendous mess,
though lots of people love that instead of postfix.

I highly recommend The Book Of Postfix to start with.

If you need some pointers, let me know.

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Sam Cayze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> This is builtin to freeBSD?  I did a little googling to no avail.
>
> How can this be setup?  I assume there is somewhere I need to specify a
> thresold, smtp server, and email address...
>
>  
>  From: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 5:42 PM
>
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Thanks/Solved: BSD Filesystem Full?
>
>
>
>
>
>
> FreeBSD should be sending out regular emails letting you know things like
> how full the file system is. I get some of this info on a daily or weekly
> basis depending on the info.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Mike Gill
>
>
>
>
>
>
> From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 2:50 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Thanks/Solved: BSD Filesystem Full?
>
>
>
> I'm back up and running,
>
> Thanks to all that helped me.
>
>
>
> -Sam
>
>
>
>
>
> From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:51 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: BSD Filesystem Full?
>
>
>
> Sam,
> Assuming the Cacti appliance doesn't offer the ability to age out old log
> files, can you SSH into it?  A df –h will show you usage on the different
> mount points, and a du –h redirected to a text file will give you the exact
> layout (starting from wherever you launch it, recursive by default)
>
>
> On 3/4/08 11:38 AM, "Sam Cayze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> I have a VM Appliance I installed about 2 years ago that runs Cacti, and
> does all the cute little RDP graphs for my server utilization, server room
> temp monitors, disk space, etc.
> http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/310
>
> It runs on BSD6.1 and is supposed to be a set and forget appliance.
> However, it is failing, and I suspect it just might have something to do
> with this error when I fire it up "Filesystem Full"
>
> Does anybody run BSD that might be able to give me a hand?
>
> Thanks in Advance.
>
> Sam
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -
> Salvador Manzo  [ 620 W. 35th St - Los Angeles, CA 90089  e. [EMAIL 
> PROTECTED] ]
> Auxiliary Services IT, Datacenter
> University of Southern California
> 818-612-5112
> "Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." -
> Robert A. Heinlein
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>
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>

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Re: Secure Internet Printing

[Kurt Buff]

Don't?

I think the term is an oxymoron, given the state of the IP stacks and
other software on all printers I've heard of.

See, for instance, this article

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Printers/Multifunction-Printers-The-Forgotten-Security-Risk/1/

And this:

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=135564&WT.svl=news1_2

Quote from the second link:

"Immunity only discloses the zero-day bugs it finds to its clients,
not to the vendors themselves. "We do a lot of research when we do a
pen-test... to find an '0-day' against your custom technology," he
says. "We'll analyze a random printer DLL you have installed, write an
exploit, and use that on your network," he says, to help companies
better secure their environments. "


Kurt

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Roger Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Any recommendations for secure Internet printing options?
>
>
>
> Roger Wright
>  Network Administrator
>  727.572.7076  x388
>  
>
> Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

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Re: Thanks/Solved: BSD Filesystem Full?

[Christopher Boggs]

I can't say for sure, but i assume its a part of the install, which of course 
doesn't apply when using a VMware appliance.


- Original Message -
From: Sam Cayze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: NT System Admin Issues 
Sent: Tue Mar 04 18:55:31 2008
Subject: RE: Thanks/Solved: BSD Filesystem Full?

This is builtin to freeBSD?  I did a little googling to no avail.
 
How can this be setup?  I assume there is somewhere I need to specify a 
thresold, smtp server, and email address...



From: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 5:42 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Thanks/Solved: BSD Filesystem Full?



FreeBSD should be sending out regular emails letting you know things like how 
full the file system is. I get some of this info on a daily or weekly basis 
depending on the info.

 

-- 
Mike Gill

 

From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 2:50 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Thanks/Solved: BSD Filesystem Full?

 

I’m back up and running,

Thanks to all that helped me.

 

-Sam

 

From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:51 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: BSD Filesystem Full?

 

Sam,
Assuming the Cacti appliance doesn’t offer the ability to age out old log 
files, can you SSH into it?  A df –h will show you usage on the different mount 
points, and a du –h redirected to a text file will give you the exact layout 
(starting from wherever you launch it, recursive by default)


On 3/4/08 11:38 AM, "Sam Cayze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hey all, 
 
I have a VM Appliance I installed about 2 years ago that runs Cacti, and does 
all the cute little RDP graphs for my server utilization, server room temp 
monitors, disk space, etc.
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/310
 
It runs on BSD6.1 and is supposed to be a set and forget appliance.  However, 
it is failing, and I suspect it just might have something to do with this error 
when I fire it up “Filesystem Full”
 
Does anybody run BSD that might be able to give me a hand?
 
Thanks in Advance.
 
Sam








- 
Salvador Manzo  [ 620 W. 35th St - Los Angeles, CA 90089  e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Auxiliary Services IT, Datacenter
University of Southern California
818-612-5112
"Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." - Robert 
A. Heinlein

 

 

 












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RE: Thanks/Solved: BSD Filesystem Full?

[Sam Cayze]

This is builtin to freeBSD?  I did a little googling to no avail.
 
How can this be setup?  I assume there is somewhere I need to specify a
thresold, smtp server, and email address...



From: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 5:42 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Thanks/Solved: BSD Filesystem Full?



FreeBSD should be sending out regular emails letting you know things
like how full the file system is. I get some of this info on a daily or
weekly basis depending on the info.

 

-- 
Mike Gill

 

From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 2:50 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Thanks/Solved: BSD Filesystem Full?

 

I'm back up and running,

Thanks to all that helped me.

 

-Sam

 

From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:51 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: BSD Filesystem Full?

 

Sam,
Assuming the Cacti appliance doesn't offer the ability to age out old
log files, can you SSH into it?  A df -h will show you usage on the
different mount points, and a du -h redirected to a text file will give
you the exact layout (starting from wherever you launch it, recursive by
default)


On 3/4/08 11:38 AM, "Sam Cayze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hey all, 
 
I have a VM Appliance I installed about 2 years ago that runs Cacti, and
does all the cute little RDP graphs for my server utilization, server
room temp monitors, disk space, etc.
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/310
 
It runs on BSD6.1 and is supposed to be a set and forget appliance.
However, it is failing, and I suspect it just might have something to do
with this error when I fire it up "Filesystem Full"
 
Does anybody run BSD that might be able to give me a hand?
 
Thanks in Advance.
 
Sam








- 
Salvador Manzo  [ 620 W. 35th St - Los Angeles, CA 90089  e.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Auxiliary Services IT, Datacenter
University of Southern California
818-612-5112
"Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." -
Robert A. Heinlein

 

 

 






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RE: FYI - MS to expand MOS to SMB's

[Amer Karim]

Not sure yet - trying to figure out how to adjust our business plan and
service offerings to incorporate this, as our target market is the SMB
sector.  For example, going forward is this going to complement/compete
against/negate products like SBS 2008 which, iirc, is due out in a few
months?

 

By 'signed up' - do you mean the beta program?

 

Regards,

Amer Karim

Nautilis Information Systems

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: March-04-08 6:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: FYI - MS to expand MOS to SMB's

 

The product itself is based on HMC and the WWHP version 4.5; so loads of
people have seen it. I've signed up for it, I don't have my T&Cs yet.

 

Do you have any more specific question? I'll try to help.

 

Regards,

 

Michael B. Smith

MCSE/Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 

From: Amer Karim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 6:07 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: FYI - MS to expand MOS to SMB's

 

http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/98471/microsoft-expands-mo
s-to-smaller-businesses.html

 

It will be interesting to see how effective this is going to be,
especially for those of us who cater to the SMB sector.  Anyone here
have any hands on experience with this in its current iteration, from
the perspective of an IT/IS consultant/service provider?

 

 

Regards,

Amer Karim

Nautilis Information Systems

 

 

 

 

 

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RE: Thanks/Solved: BSD Filesystem Full?

[Mike Gill]

FreeBSD should be sending out regular emails letting you know things like
how full the file system is. I get some of this info on a daily or weekly
basis depending on the info.

 

-- 
Mike Gill

 

From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 2:50 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Thanks/Solved: BSD Filesystem Full?

 

I'm back up and running,

Thanks to all that helped me.

 

-Sam

 

From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:51 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: BSD Filesystem Full?

 

Sam,
Assuming the Cacti appliance doesn't offer the ability to age out old log
files, can you SSH into it?  A df -h will show you usage on the different
mount points, and a du -h redirected to a text file will give you the exact
layout (starting from wherever you launch it, recursive by default)


On 3/4/08 11:38 AM, "Sam Cayze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hey all, 
 
I have a VM Appliance I installed about 2 years ago that runs Cacti, and
does all the cute little RDP graphs for my server utilization, server room
temp monitors, disk space, etc.
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/310
 
It runs on BSD6.1 and is supposed to be a set and forget appliance.
However, it is failing, and I suspect it just might have something to do
with this error when I fire it up "Filesystem Full"
 
Does anybody run BSD that might be able to give me a hand?
 
Thanks in Advance.
 
Sam








- 
Salvador Manzo  [ 620 W. 35th St - Los Angeles, CA 90089  e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Auxiliary Services IT, Datacenter
University of Southern California
818-612-5112
"Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." -
Robert A. Heinlein

 

 

 

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RE: FYI - MS to expand MOS to SMB's

[Michael B. Smith]

The product itself is based on HMC and the WWHP version 4.5; so loads of
people have seen it. I've signed up for it, I don't have my T&Cs yet.

 

Do you have any more specific question? I'll try to help.

 

Regards,

 

Michael B. Smith

MCSE/Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 

From: Amer Karim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 6:07 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: FYI - MS to expand MOS to SMB's

 

http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/98471/microsoft-expands-mos-to
-smaller-businesses.html

 

It will be interesting to see how effective this is going to be, especially
for those of us who cater to the SMB sector.  Anyone here have any hands on
experience with this in its current iteration, from the perspective of an
IT/IS consultant/service provider?

 

 

Regards,

Amer Karim

Nautilis Information Systems

 

 

 

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RE: Scheduling an exam scheduled for discontinuation

[Webster]

 

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Subject: Scheduling an exam scheduled for discontinuation

 

I need to take 70-296 to upgrade my 2000 MCSE to 2003. I know this is
retiring the end of this month. My question is, if I schedule it now, can I
schedule it past 3/31/08 say sometime in April and will it still be valid?
I've heard that you can do that, as long as you schedule it before 3/31/08.
Or do you actually have to pass the exam before 3/31/08? Does anyone here
know? 

>From https://mcp.microsoft.com/mcp/Default.mspx

Final Reminder: March 2008 Exam Retirements

As announced during the last year, 22 Microsoft Certification exams are
scheduled to retire on March 31, 2008. Included among these exams are the
Windows Server 2000 to 2003 upgrade exams (Exam 70-292 and Exam 70-296). You
can take these exams only while Prometric continues to list them as
available; there is no guarantee that the listed exams will be available
after March 31. 

Webster (Master Pro Test Taker)


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RE: BSD Filesystem Full?

[Mike Gill]

Rather than getting him trapped in an editor, I would just more the file,
which also works similar to a Windows cmd shell.

 

-- 
Mike Gill

 

From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:27 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: BSD Filesystem Full?

 

:) that's what the / in the name was for.  Since / has room, but /usr
doesn't, I had it drop the text file in /

cd /
ls DiskUse.txt

I'm not sure if pico or vi are installed with that cacti VM, but the syntax
to look through the file while keeping it on disk would just be

vi /DiskUse.txt
or
pico /DiskUse.txt



On 3/4/08 1:21 PM, "Sam Cayze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Cacti won't start, so I can't do any log management from that GUI.
 
So, I ran the dump that creates DiskUse.txt, but where does it get saved?  
 
I ran it from /usr
 


From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 3:10 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: BSD Filesystem Full?

Sam,
>From what you posted, this is something in /usr (probably
/usr/home/someaccountname).

Run the following in order
cd /usr
du -h  > /DiskUse.txt

Then copy off DiskUse.txt for review somewhere else.  You've got plenty of
TMP space, and any logs in /var are fine as well.  I expect you've got a lot
of old reports buried under /usr.  If Cacti allows you to delete old reports
from it's interface, attack it that way, otherwise, SCP or FTP them off.  I
don't suggest rm'ing them, just in case Cacti freaks out over stuff
disappearing.



On 3/4/08 12:20 PM, "Sam Cayze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Salvador to the rescue!  Thanks!
 
Alright, I can SSH into it, and I am at the [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# prompt.  
 
Here is my output.  Yep, I look pretty full!  So - I guess I will have to
play around and find some stuff to delete.  
 
Do you know any obvious locations for temp files in BSD?
Do you know of any good BSD training resources to get me familiar with file
system commands in BSD?
 
Sounds like now is a great time to make some use of VMware snapshot feature!
 
 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size   Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a496M   103M353M23%/
devfs 1.0K1.0K  0B  100%/dev
/dev/ad0s1e248M12K228M 0%/tmp
/dev/ad0s1f2.1G   2.0G   -101M   105%/usr
/dev/ad0s1d629M28M551M 5%/var

 
 
 
 
 

From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:51 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: BSD Filesystem Full?

Sam,
Assuming the Cacti appliance doesn't offer the ability to age out old log
files, can you SSH into it?  A df -h will show you usage on the different
mount points, and a du -h redirected to a text file will give you the exact
layout (starting from wherever you launch it, recursive by default)


On 3/4/08 11:38 AM, "Sam Cayze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey all, 
 
I have a VM Appliance I installed about 2 years ago that runs Cacti, and
does all the cute little RDP graphs for my server utilization, server room
temp monitors, disk space, etc.
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/310
 
It runs on BSD6.1 and is supposed to be a set and forget appliance.
However, it is failing, and I suspect it just might have something to do
with this error when I fire it up "Filesystem Full"
 
Does anybody run BSD that might be able to give me a hand?
 
Thanks in Advance.
 
Sam








- 
Salvador Manzo  [ 620 W. 35th St - Los Angeles, CA 90089  e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Auxiliary Services IT, Datacenter
University of Southern California
818-612-5112
"Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." -
Robert A. Heinlein









- 
Salvador Manzo  [ 620 W. 35th St - Los Angeles, CA 90089  e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Auxiliary Services IT, Datacenter
University of Southern California
818-612-5112
--- 
"Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with government of
himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we
found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this
question."
-- Thomas Jefferson (First Inaugural Address, 3/4 1801)










- 
Salvador Manzo  [ 620 W. 35th St - Los Angeles, CA 90089  e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Auxiliary Services IT, Datacenter
University of Southern California
818-612-5112
--- 
"Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with government of
himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we
found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this
question."
-- Thomas Jefferson (First Inaugural Address, 3/4 1801)

 

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RE: Scheduling an exam scheduled for discontinuation

[Joe Heaton]

You'd need to talk to the testing center, or Microsoft to figure that
one out.  There should be information on Microsoft's education site
about it.
 
Joe Heaton
 



From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 2:35 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Scheduling an exam scheduled for discontinuation



I need to take 70-296 to upgrade my 2000 MCSE to 2003. I know this is
retiring the end of this month. My question is, if I schedule it now,
can I schedule it past 3/31/08 say sometime in April and will it still
be valid? I've heard that you can do that, as long as you schedule it
before 3/31/08. Or do you actually have to pass the exam before 3/31/08?
Does anyone here know? 

Thank you,

Chris Bodnar

Sr. Windows Systems Engineer

Swiftwater, PA

X3522



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Quantum's Scalar tape libraries?

[Jon D]

Any comments on Quantum's Scalar tape libraries?  Reliabiliy, support,
ease of use, etc.?




Thanks in advance,
Jon






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FYI - MS to expand MOS to SMB's

[Amer Karim]

http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/98471/microsoft-expands-mo
s-to-smaller-businesses.html

 

It will be interesting to see how effective this is going to be,
especially for those of us who cater to the SMB sector.  Anyone here
have any hands on experience with this in its current iteration, from
the perspective of an IT/IS consultant/service provider?

 

 

Regards,

Amer Karim

Nautilis Information Systems

 


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RE: Why do we buy software?

[gsweers]

Yeah its truly amazing how many installs I go out too and I get handed a
CD with a hand written Adobe CS3 or Office 2007 Enterprise, Macromedia
Suite, etc.  This weird look comes across my face and they always ask,
"Whats wrong?"  One actually told me it was  backup of his Office 2007
Ent.  When I smiled and asked do you have a piece of paper  with
Microsoft's MSDN installer key?  He actually said, "Yes, I just seemed
to misplace that piece of paper that came with the software."  "I was
able to download a program that bypasses it since I lost it."  I almost
peed my pants I was holding it in so bad.  Oh yeah and he has a whopping
4 computers at this practice...Enterprise..cracked me up.  Told him I
don't install pirated software and that there was no such thing as a
MSDN installer key or that the Enterprise version was available to him.
After I explained the issues and the fines he signed up for 5 copies of
Office Pro Plus and actually showed me that all of his computers were
installed using a pirated version of XP Pro.  Funny thing they all came
with it OEMYou drink, I just bang my head against a wall.  Doesn't
hurt quite as much in the long run..

 

 

From: Mark Boersma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 5:07 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Why do we buy software?

 

So our marketing ladies just came in to talk about getting Adobe
Indesign.  I told them that it runs about $700/license.  Then they asked
"why do we buy software?".  "Our outside designer just downloads all of
his software".

 

This is why I drink folks.  I asked them if $250,000/infringement means
anything to them but they didn't seem to get it.

 

Mark

-

Two rules to success in life:

1. Never tell people everything you know.

 

Mark Boersma

IT Manager

Triangle Associates, Inc.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

 



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Thanks/Solved: BSD Filesystem Full?

[Sam Cayze]

I'm back up and running,

Thanks to all that helped me.

 

-Sam

 

From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:51 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: BSD Filesystem Full?

 

Sam,
Assuming the Cacti appliance doesn't offer the ability to age out old
log files, can you SSH into it?  A df -h will show you usage on the
different mount points, and a du -h redirected to a text file will give
you the exact layout (starting from wherever you launch it, recursive by
default)


On 3/4/08 11:38 AM, "Sam Cayze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hey all, 
 
I have a VM Appliance I installed about 2 years ago that runs Cacti, and
does all the cute little RDP graphs for my server utilization, server
room temp monitors, disk space, etc.
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/310
 
It runs on BSD6.1 and is supposed to be a set and forget appliance.
However, it is failing, and I suspect it just might have something to do
with this error when I fire it up "Filesystem Full"
 
Does anybody run BSD that might be able to give me a hand?
 
Thanks in Advance.
 
Sam









- 
Salvador Manzo  [ 620 W. 35th St - Los Angeles, CA 90089  e.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Auxiliary Services IT, Datacenter
University of Southern California
818-612-5112
"Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." -
Robert A. Heinlein

 

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Secure Internet Printing

[Roger Wright]

Any recommendations for secure Internet printing options?


Roger Wright 
Network Administrator 
727.572.7076  x388 
 
Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value. 
  
  

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Scheduling an exam scheduled for discontinuation

[Chris.Bodnar]

I need to take 70-296 to upgrade my 2000 MCSE to 2003. I know this is
retiring the end of this month. My question is, if I schedule it now,
can I schedule it past 3/31/08 say sometime in April and will it still
be valid? I've heard that you can do that, as long as you schedule it
before 3/31/08. Or do you actually have to pass the exam before 3/31/08?
Does anyone here know? 

Thank you,


Chris Bodnar
Sr. Windows Systems Engineer
Swiftwater, PA
X3522


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RE: BSD Filesystem Full?

[Sam Cayze]

This should be pretty safe to delete, right?

/usr/opt/mysql/var/cacti04.corp.rollouts.com.err (70MB)

 

 

/usr/opt/apache/htdocs/cacti/log/cacti.log (300MB) - I looked at this
one, nothing special except log.  Consider it gone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 3:28 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: BSD Filesystem Full?

 

Heh, don't worry about the shell used just yet. J I saw the other reply,
now go into /usr and do

 

du -sh ./*

 

This will show you how large the folders are and you will recognize
where to start looking to see what is eating the space. If you find one
large folder, then cd into that and run the command again. You should
find where the space is going pretty quick.

 

-- 
Mike Gill

 

From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 12:26 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: BSD Filesystem Full?

 

Thanks to you too Mike, yep, it's FreeBSD 6.1

I have been able to SSH into it.  Now I just need to dust of my brain
and remember how to work in this OS environment (is this BASH?)

 

 

 

From: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 2:18 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: BSD Filesystem Full?

 

What BSD? I'm going to guess it's FreeBSD. Do you know how to log into
it via command line? If so, log on and do:

 

df -h

 

That should show you all your file systems (partitions) and how full
they are. I'm not familiar with Cacti, but I would imagine it would show
you this. Also, it doesn't mention the file system that's full on
startup? Feel free to email me off-list if you want. I have a couple
meetings today though so my availability might not be great.

 

-- 
Mike Gill

 

From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:39 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: BSD Filesystem Full?

 

Hey all, 

 

I have a VM Appliance I installed about 2 years ago that runs Cacti, and
does all the cute little RDP graphs for my server utilization, server
room temp monitors, disk space, etc.

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/310

 

It runs on BSD6.1 and is supposed to be a set and forget appliance.
However, it is failing, and I suspect it just might have something to do
with this error when I fire it up "Filesystem Full"

 

Does anybody run BSD that might be able to give me a hand?

 

Thanks in Advance.

 

Sam

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Why do we buy software?

[Mark Boersma]

So our marketing ladies just came in to talk about getting Adobe
Indesign.  I told them that it runs about $700/license.  Then they asked
"why do we buy software?".  "Our outside designer just downloads all of
his software".

 

This is why I drink folks.  I asked them if $250,000/infringement means
anything to them but they didn't seem to get it.

 

Mark

-

Two rules to success in life:

1. Never tell people everything you know.

 

Mark Boersma

IT Manager

Triangle Associates, Inc.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]  

 



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Re: Symantec Endpoint Protection

[Micheal Espinola Jr]

Notes on SEP11:

Its an aptly acronym'd disaster.

The management app is a Java app.  It runs like crap, if its not
crashing just because you are trying to log in.  And I dont just mean
some .exe is failing.  The system service fails.

The Network Threat Protection client component is like the Windows
Firewall, but you have less control over it.  It does not play nice
with various types of network connections.

This is by far the biggest piece of absolute f*ck*ng sh*t I have ever
had the displeasure of using.

There's lost more, but its really not worth it.


On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 4:30 PM, David Mazzaccaro
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> Cool.
>
> Thanks for the update!
>
>
>
>
> 
>
>
> From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 4:26 PM
>
>
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection
>
>
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> VIPRE is actually done, it's shipping in current versions of CounterSpy.
> But that incarnation is way too basic to be relied on as a full AV product.
> The work over the past many months has been to increase the number of
> detections, add support for file infecting and macro viruses, email viruses,
> start lining up the certification, that kind of thing.
>
>
>
> It has been a very difficult (understatement) and very long task.  But we'll
> go into beta on the final product in January, and ship in March.
>
>
>
> Alex
>
>
>
>
>
> 
>
>
> From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 11:44 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection
>
>
>
> http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/evolving-antimalware-technology-model.html
>
>
>
> This blog is almost a year old (Jan 2007) and talks about VIPRE being
> "basically done":
>
>
>
> "But now VIPRE is basically done. What needs to happen is to get certified
> by the major certification bodies and to continue adding more viruses in
> order to roll it up into a full antvirus product. However, a major part of
> the VIPRE technology is actually shipping in CounterSpy 2.0, solely for the
> purpose of making CounterSpy 2.0 a more powerful antispyware product. We've
> taken the VIPRE "juice" and put it into CounterSpy, and I think you'll
> really notice the difference when you're dealing with spyware."
>
>
>
> Maybe we'll see it Q1 2008?
>
> Unfortunately, my Symantec needs to be either renewed (or preferably
> replaced) sooner than later.
>
>
>
>
> 
>
>
> From: Bob Fronk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 11:36 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection
>
>
>
>
>
> It is called VIPRE.
>
>
>
> I hope it comes soon as well.  I just purchased CounterSpy Enterprise and
> VIPRE will be an inexpensive upgrade to that if my understanding is correct.
>
>
>
>
> Bob Fronk
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 11:30 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection
>
>
>
>
>
> I didn't even know they (Sunbelt) had an antivirus product coming out?!?!
>
> How did I miss that?  Is there any ETA for it?
>
>
> 
>
>
> From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 11:21 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Symantec Endpoint Protection
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Personally I want to see Sunbelts new AV solution get out the door.  My
> contract is up soon and I do not want to wait until it is to look at it.
> That would just push me into a renewal not a fun place to be.  Either that
> or they take over Eset and do it right.  I understand they use it in house
> or did at some point.
>
>
>
>
>
> Jon
>
>
> On Dec 21, 2007 11:14 AM, Jon Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> Clients are all still at 2.7 I would have to look at the server to tell you
> which one but suspect the version before the current one.
>
>
>
>
>
> Jon
>
>
> On Dec 21, 2007 11:10 AM, David Mazzaccaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
> What version of NOD32 are you (happily) running?
>
>
> 
>
>
> From: Jon Harris [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 10:47 AM
>
>
>
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Symantec Endpoint Protection
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> I'll add my $0.02 on this NOD32 yes the doc's blow but once it is up and
> running it catches more than Symantec, has a much smaller foot print, and
> just plain runs.  I have it installed on a virtual server with only 512 MB
> of RAM, upgraded to 640 MB this last week.  As for Backups try UltraBac it
> works and is nearly as old a product as BUE.  I only wish Sunbelt did the
> support on this product!  It takes half a day before tech support responds.
> Sunbelt rarely has anywhere close to that kin

RE: BSD Filesystem Full?

[Mike Gill]

Heh, don't worry about the shell used just yet. J I saw the other reply, now
go into /usr and do

 

du -sh ./*

 

This will show you how large the folders are and you will recognize where to
start looking to see what is eating the space. If you find one large folder,
then cd into that and run the command again. You should find where the space
is going pretty quick.

 

-- 
Mike Gill

 

From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 12:26 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: BSD Filesystem Full?

 

Thanks to you too Mike, yep, it's FreeBSD 6.1

I have been able to SSH into it.  Now I just need to dust of my brain and
remember how to work in this OS environment (is this BASH?)

 

 

 

From: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 2:18 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: BSD Filesystem Full?

 

What BSD? I'm going to guess it's FreeBSD. Do you know how to log into it
via command line? If so, log on and do:

 

df -h

 

That should show you all your file systems (partitions) and how full they
are. I'm not familiar with Cacti, but I would imagine it would show you
this. Also, it doesn't mention the file system that's full on startup? Feel
free to email me off-list if you want. I have a couple meetings today though
so my availability might not be great.

 

-- 
Mike Gill

 

From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:39 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: BSD Filesystem Full?

 

Hey all, 

 

I have a VM Appliance I installed about 2 years ago that runs Cacti, and
does all the cute little RDP graphs for my server utilization, server room
temp monitors, disk space, etc.

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/310

 

It runs on BSD6.1 and is supposed to be a set and forget appliance.
However, it is failing, and I suspect it just might have something to do
with this error when I fire it up "Filesystem Full"

 

Does anybody run BSD that might be able to give me a hand?

 

Thanks in Advance.

 

Sam

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Re: BSD Filesystem Full?

[Salvador Manzo]

:) that¹s what the / in the name was for.  Since / has room, but /usr
doesn¹t, I had it drop the text file in /

cd /
ls DiskUse.txt

I¹m not sure if pico or vi are installed with that cacti VM, but the syntax
to look through the file while keeping it on disk would just be

vi /DiskUse.txt
or
pico /DiskUse.txt



On 3/4/08 1:21 PM, "Sam Cayze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Cacti won¹t start, so I can¹t do any log management from that GUI.
>  
> So, I ran the dump that creates DiskUse.txt, but where does it get saved?
>  
> I ran it from /usr
>  
>  
> 
> From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 3:10 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: BSD Filesystem Full?
>  
> Sam,
> From what you posted, this is something in /usr (probably
> /usr/home/someaccountname).
> 
> Run the following in order
> cd /usr
> du ­h  > /DiskUse.txt
> 
> Then copy off DiskUse.txt for review somewhere else.  You¹ve got plenty of TMP
> space, and any logs in /var are fine as well.  I expect you¹ve got a lot of
> old reports buried under /usr.  If Cacti allows you to delete old reports from
> it¹s interface, attack it that way, otherwise, SCP or FTP them off.  I don¹t
> suggest rm¹ing them, just in case Cacti freaks out over stuff disappearing.
> 
> 
> 
> On 3/4/08 12:20 PM, "Sam Cayze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Salvador to the rescue!  Thanks!
>  
> Alright, I can SSH into it, and I am at the [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# prompt.
>  
> Here is my output.  Yep, I look pretty full!  So ­ I guess I will have to play
> around and find some stuff to delete.
>  
> Do you know any obvious locations for temp files in BSD?
> Do you know of any good BSD training resources to get me familiar with file
> system commands in BSD?
>  
> Sounds like now is a great time to make some use of VMware snapshot feature!
>  
>  
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# df -h
> Filesystem Size   Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a496M   103M353M23%/
> devfs 1.0K1.0K  0B  100%/dev
> /dev/ad0s1e248M12K228M 0%/tmp
> /dev/ad0s1f2.1G   2.0G   -101M   105%/usr
> /dev/ad0s1d629M28M551M 5%/var
> 
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
> 
> From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:51 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: BSD Filesystem Full?
> 
> Sam,
> Assuming the Cacti appliance doesn¹t offer the ability to age out old log
> files, can you SSH into it?  A df ­h will show you usage on the different
> mount points, and a du ­h redirected to a text file will give you the exact
> layout (starting from wherever you launch it, recursive by default)
> 
> 
> On 3/4/08 11:38 AM, "Sam Cayze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey all, 
>  
> I have a VM Appliance I installed about 2 years ago that runs Cacti, and does
> all the cute little RDP graphs for my server utilization, server room temp
> monitors, disk space, etc.
> http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/310
>  
> It runs on BSD6.1 and is supposed to be a set and forget appliance.  However,
> it is failing, and I suspect it just might have something to do with this
> error when I fire it up ³Filesystem Full²
>  
> Does anybody run BSD that might be able to give me a hand?
>  
> Thanks in Advance.
>  
> Sam
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> - 
> Salvador Manzo  [ 620 W. 35th St - Los Angeles, CA 90089  e. [EMAIL 
> PROTECTED] ]
> Auxiliary Services IT, Datacenter
> University of Southern California
> 818-612-5112
> "Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." - Robert
> A. Heinlein
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> - 
> Salvador Manzo  [ 620 W. 35th St - Los Angeles, CA 90089  e. [EMAIL 
> PROTECTED] ]
> Auxiliary Services IT, Datacenter
> University of Southern California
> 818-612-5112
> --- 
> "Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with government of himself.
> Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found
> angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question."
> -- Thomas Jefferson (First Inaugural Address, 3/4 1801)
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> - 
> Salvador Manzo  [ 620 W. 35th St - Los Angeles, CA 90089  e. [EMAIL 
> PROTECTED] ]
> Auxiliary Services IT, Datacenter
> University of Southern California
> 818-612-5112
> --- 
> "Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with government of himself.
> Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found
> angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question."
> -- Thomas Jefferson (First Inaugural Address, 3/4 1801)


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RE: server options

[Sam Cayze]

Nevermind, I found it ;)

 

From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 3:20 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

 

Correct.  3i is just a subset aimed to make the entry to virtualization
easier for SMBs.

 

From: Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 3:15 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: server options

 

am I correct to state this new embedded Vmware will not contain VMotion?

Klint


Benjamin Zachary wrote: 

Well the big bonus here is going to be for non-standard devices like
driver/firmware updates, the vendor could build those into the image so
the user doesn't have to go searching for linux updated drivers and
such. Yah its on a usb device, but should be held on the mobo.

 

For those who have heard of DFI this is the same basic thing, DFI didn't
make it into Vista, but probably hit the next version of Windows. DFI is
basically the drivers installed on a chip on the mobo then any o/s just
calls the chip for the driver. I look at v3i as just ahead of the curve.

 



From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 2:16 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

 

It just started making news again.  Major vendors will be shipping
servers with 3i in April.

It looks very promising.

 

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/022608-embedded-virtualization-set
-to-lure.html

 

or http://tinyurl.com/yvvarj to avoid wrappage issues...

  

From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:07 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

 

That's where they are supposedly headed. 3i is supposed to be an
embedded distro straight preconfigured from the vendor dell/hp/ibm etc.
I didn't know it was downloadable ahha maybe that's where I got crossed
up. I skimmed through the press release and pdf files on it, and then
saw it was released so I put those together. Ill go back and logon to
the partner side and see what I can dig up. 

 



From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:33 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

 

Is that very recent Ben? I understood 3i was shipping but only as the
installable version atm.

 

From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:27 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

 

VI3i is already shipping I believe. This is basically a server with a
flash chip of VI3 installed on it and saves the config to a flash ram
just like a BIOS stores info. No HD's required, can boot from
fibre/iscsi not from NFS I believe. 

 



From: Louis, Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 9:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

 

The SAS drives on the DL might be a bit of overkill if you are looking
to save some money and are getting an Equallogic. ESX is going to a
light footprint and pretty soon (if not already) HP/DELL/etc will be
offering machines like DLs with no moveable drives with an ESX light
footprint on an internal USB. 

 



From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 7:48 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

An HP DL would handle that easily and is supported.
An easier way to figure what you should get is look at the very small
HCL for ESX J

jlc

 

From: Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 5:38 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: server options

 

I am pricing out hardware for a new venture and could use some feedback.

Basically I am coming up with a poor boys IT infrastructure, and a
fairly nice setup if our funding comes in.

I would like to go 64-bit now, and run 32-bit VM images if necessary;
hopefully all will be 64-bit.

what are my options for 

*   a 64-bit server 
*   6 NICs (2 onboard & a quad card) 
*   24 GB of RAM 
*   at least 2 processors 
*   4 SAS drives in RAID 5 

This will be a VMWare server with VMotion connected to an Equalogic
SAN. all of which needs to be purchased.

Thanks,

Klint

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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RE: BSD Filesystem Full?

[Sam Cayze]

Cacti won't start, so I can't do any log management from that GUI.

 

So, I ran the dump that creates DiskUse.txt, but where does it get
saved?  

 

I ran it from /usr

 

 

From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 3:10 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: BSD Filesystem Full?

 

Sam,
>From what you posted, this is something in /usr (probably
/usr/home/someaccountname).

Run the following in order
cd /usr
du -h  > /DiskUse.txt

Then copy off DiskUse.txt for review somewhere else.  You've got plenty
of TMP space, and any logs in /var are fine as well.  I expect you've
got a lot of old reports buried under /usr.  If Cacti allows you to
delete old reports from it's interface, attack it that way, otherwise,
SCP or FTP them off.  I don't suggest rm'ing them, just in case Cacti
freaks out over stuff disappearing.



On 3/4/08 12:20 PM, "Sam Cayze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Salvador to the rescue!  Thanks!
 
Alright, I can SSH into it, and I am at the [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# prompt.  
 
Here is my output.  Yep, I look pretty full!  So - I guess I will have
to play around and find some stuff to delete.  
 
Do you know any obvious locations for temp files in BSD?
Do you know of any good BSD training resources to get me familiar with
file system commands in BSD?
 
Sounds like now is a great time to make some use of VMware snapshot
feature!
 
 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size   Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a496M   103M353M23%/
devfs 1.0K1.0K  0B  100%/dev
/dev/ad0s1e248M12K228M 0%/tmp
/dev/ad0s1f2.1G   2.0G   -101M   105%/usr
/dev/ad0s1d629M28M551M 5%/var

 
 
 
 
 

From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:51 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: BSD Filesystem Full?

Sam,
Assuming the Cacti appliance doesn't offer the ability to age out old
log files, can you SSH into it?  A df -h will show you usage on the
different mount points, and a du -h redirected to a text file will give
you the exact layout (starting from wherever you launch it, recursive by
default)


On 3/4/08 11:38 AM, "Sam Cayze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey all, 
 
I have a VM Appliance I installed about 2 years ago that runs Cacti, and
does all the cute little RDP graphs for my server utilization, server
room temp monitors, disk space, etc.
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/310
 
It runs on BSD6.1 and is supposed to be a set and forget appliance.
However, it is failing, and I suspect it just might have something to do
with this error when I fire it up "Filesystem Full"
 
Does anybody run BSD that might be able to give me a hand?
 
Thanks in Advance.
 
Sam








- 
Salvador Manzo  [ 620 W. 35th St - Los Angeles, CA 90089  e.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Auxiliary Services IT, Datacenter
University of Southern California
818-612-5112
"Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." -
Robert A. Heinlein










- 
Salvador Manzo  [ 620 W. 35th St - Los Angeles, CA 90089  e.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Auxiliary Services IT, Datacenter
University of Southern California
818-612-5112
--- 
"Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with government of
himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have
we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer
this question."
-- Thomas Jefferson (First Inaugural Address, 3/4 1801)

 

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RE: server options

[Sam Cayze]

Correct.  3i is just a subset aimed to make the entry to virtualization
easier for SMBs.

 

From: Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 3:15 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: server options

 

am I correct to state this new embedded Vmware will not contain VMotion?

Klint


Benjamin Zachary wrote: 

Well the big bonus here is going to be for non-standard devices like
driver/firmware updates, the vendor could build those into the image so
the user doesn't have to go searching for linux updated drivers and
such. Yah its on a usb device, but should be held on the mobo.

 

For those who have heard of DFI this is the same basic thing, DFI didn't
make it into Vista, but probably hit the next version of Windows. DFI is
basically the drivers installed on a chip on the mobo then any o/s just
calls the chip for the driver. I look at v3i as just ahead of the curve.

 



From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 2:16 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

 

It just started making news again.  Major vendors will be shipping
servers with 3i in April.

It looks very promising.

 

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/022608-embedded-virtualization-set
-to-lure.html

 

or http://tinyurl.com/yvvarj to avoid wrappage issues...

  

From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:07 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

 

That's where they are supposedly headed. 3i is supposed to be an
embedded distro straight preconfigured from the vendor dell/hp/ibm etc.
I didn't know it was downloadable ahha maybe that's where I got crossed
up. I skimmed through the press release and pdf files on it, and then
saw it was released so I put those together. Ill go back and logon to
the partner side and see what I can dig up. 

 



From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:33 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

 

Is that very recent Ben? I understood 3i was shipping but only as the
installable version atm.

 

From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:27 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

 

VI3i is already shipping I believe. This is basically a server with a
flash chip of VI3 installed on it and saves the config to a flash ram
just like a BIOS stores info. No HD's required, can boot from
fibre/iscsi not from NFS I believe. 

 



From: Louis, Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 9:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

 

The SAS drives on the DL might be a bit of overkill if you are looking
to save some money and are getting an Equallogic. ESX is going to a
light footprint and pretty soon (if not already) HP/DELL/etc will be
offering machines like DLs with no moveable drives with an ESX light
footprint on an internal USB. 

 



From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 7:48 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

An HP DL would handle that easily and is supported.
An easier way to figure what you should get is look at the very small
HCL for ESX J

jlc

 

From: Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 5:38 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: server options

 

I am pricing out hardware for a new venture and could use some feedback.

Basically I am coming up with a poor boys IT infrastructure, and a
fairly nice setup if our funding comes in.

I would like to go 64-bit now, and run 32-bit VM images if necessary;
hopefully all will be 64-bit.

what are my options for 

*   a 64-bit server 
*   6 NICs (2 onboard & a quad card) 
*   24 GB of RAM 
*   at least 2 processors 
*   4 SAS drives in RAID 5 

This will be a VMWare server with VMotion connected to an Equalogic
SAN. all of which needs to be purchased.

Thanks,

Klint

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Re: server options

[Klint Price - ArizonaITPro]

am I correct to state this new embedded Vmware will not contain VMotion?

Klint


Benjamin Zachary wrote:
>
> Well the big bonus here is going to be for non-standard devices like 
> driver/firmware updates, the vendor could build those into the image 
> so the user doesn't have to go searching for linux updated drivers and 
> such. Yah its on a usb device, but should be held on the mobo.
>
>  
>
> For those who have heard of DFI this is the same basic thing, DFI 
> didn't make it into Vista, but probably hit the next version of 
> Windows. DFI is basically the drivers installed on a chip on the mobo 
> then any o/s just calls the chip for the driver. I look at v3i as just 
> ahead of the curve.
>
>  
>
> 
>
> *From:* Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 04, 2008 2:16 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: server options
>
>  
>
> It just started making news again.  Major vendors will be shipping 
> servers with 3i in April.
>
> It looks very promising.
>
>  
>
> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/022608-embedded-virtualization-set-to-lure.html
>
>  
>
> or *http://tinyurl.com/yvvarj to avoid wrappage issues...*
>
>  
>
> *From:* Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:07 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: server options
>
>  
>
> That's where they are supposedly headed. 3i is supposed to be an 
> embedded distro straight preconfigured from the vendor dell/hp/ibm 
> etc. I didn't know it was downloadable ahha maybe that's where I got 
> crossed up. I skimmed through the press release and pdf files on it, 
> and then saw it was released so I put those together. Ill go back and 
> logon to the partner side and see what I can dig up.
>
>  
>
> 
>
> *From:* Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:33 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: server options
>
>  
>
> Is that very recent Ben? I understood 3i was shipping but only as the 
> installable version atm.
>
>  
>
> *From:* Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:27 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: server options
>
>  
>
> VI3i is already shipping I believe. This is basically a server with a 
> flash chip of VI3 installed on it and saves the config to a flash ram 
> just like a BIOS stores info. No HD's required, can boot from 
> fibre/iscsi not from NFS I believe.
>
>  
>
> 
>
> *From:* Louis, Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 04, 2008 9:55 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: server options
>
>  
>
> The SAS drives on the DL might be a bit of overkill if you are looking 
> to save some money and are getting an Equallogic. ESX is going to a 
> light footprint and pretty soon (if not already) HP/DELL/etc will be 
> offering machines like DLs with no moveable drives with an ESX light 
> footprint on an internal USB.
>
>  
>
> 
>
> *From:* Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Monday, March 03, 2008 7:48 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: server options
>
> An HP DL would handle that easily and is supported.
> An easier way to figure what you should get is look at the very small 
> HCL for ESX J
>
> jlc
>
>  
>
> *From:* Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Monday, March 03, 2008 5:38 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* server options
>
>  
>
> I am pricing out hardware for a new venture and could use some feedback.
>
> Basically I am coming up with a poor boys IT infrastructure, and a 
> fairly nice setup if our funding comes in.
>
> I would like to go 64-bit now, and run 32-bit VM images if necessary; 
> hopefully all will be 64-bit.
>
> what are my options for
>
> * a 64-bit server
> * 6 NICs (2 onboard & a quad card)
> * 24 GB of RAM
> * at least 2 processors
> * 4 SAS drives in RAID 5
>
> This will be a VMWare server with VMotion connected to an Equalogic 
> SAN. all of which needs to be purchased.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Klint
>
>  
>
>  
>
>  
>  
>  
>
>  
>
>  
>
>  
>
>  
>
>  
>
>  
>
>  
>
>  
>
>  
>
>  
>


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Re: BSD Filesystem Full?

[Salvador Manzo]

Sam,
>From what you posted, this is something in /usr (probably
/usr/home/someaccountname).

Run the following in order
cd /usr
du ­h  > /DiskUse.txt

Then copy off DiskUse.txt for review somewhere else.  You¹ve got plenty of
TMP space, and any logs in /var are fine as well.  I expect you¹ve got a lot
of old reports buried under /usr.  If Cacti allows you to delete old reports
from it¹s interface, attack it that way, otherwise, SCP or FTP them off.  I
don¹t suggest rm¹ing them, just in case Cacti freaks out over stuff
disappearing.



On 3/4/08 12:20 PM, "Sam Cayze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Salvador to the rescue!  Thanks!
>  
> Alright, I can SSH into it, and I am at the [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# prompt.
>  
> Here is my output.  Yep, I look pretty full!  So ­ I guess I will have to play
> around and find some stuff to delete.
>  
> Do you know any obvious locations for temp files in BSD?
> Do you know of any good BSD training resources to get me familiar with file
> system commands in BSD?
>  
> Sounds like now is a great time to make some use of VMware snapshot feature!
>  
>  
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# df -h
> Filesystem Size   Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a496M   103M353M23%/
> devfs 1.0K1.0K  0B  100%/dev
> /dev/ad0s1e248M12K228M 0%/tmp
> /dev/ad0s1f2.1G   2.0G   -101M   105%/usr
> /dev/ad0s1d629M28M551M 5%/var
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
> 
> From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:51 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: BSD Filesystem Full?
>  
> Sam,
> Assuming the Cacti appliance doesn¹t offer the ability to age out old log
> files, can you SSH into it?  A df ­h will show you usage on the different
> mount points, and a du ­h redirected to a text file will give you the exact
> layout (starting from wherever you launch it, recursive by default)
> 
> 
> On 3/4/08 11:38 AM, "Sam Cayze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey all, 
>  
> I have a VM Appliance I installed about 2 years ago that runs Cacti, and does
> all the cute little RDP graphs for my server utilization, server room temp
> monitors, disk space, etc.
> http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/310
>  
> It runs on BSD6.1 and is supposed to be a set and forget appliance.  However,
> it is failing, and I suspect it just might have something to do with this
> error when I fire it up ³Filesystem Full²
>  
> Does anybody run BSD that might be able to give me a hand?
>  
> Thanks in Advance.
>  
> Sam
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> - 
> Salvador Manzo  [ 620 W. 35th St - Los Angeles, CA 90089  e. [EMAIL 
> PROTECTED] ]
> Auxiliary Services IT, Datacenter
> University of Southern California
> 818-612-5112
> "Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." - Robert
> A. Heinlein
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> - 
> Salvador Manzo  [ 620 W. 35th St - Los Angeles, CA 90089  e. [EMAIL 
> PROTECTED] ]
> Auxiliary Services IT, Datacenter
> University of Southern California
> 818-612-5112
> --- 
> "Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with government of himself.
> Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found
> angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question."
> -- Thomas Jefferson (First Inaugural Address, 3/4 1801)


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RE: server options

[Benjamin Zachary]

Well the big bonus here is going to be for non-standard devices like
driver/firmware updates, the vendor could build those into the image so the
user doesn't have to go searching for linux updated drivers and such. Yah
its on a usb device, but should be held on the mobo.

 

For those who have heard of DFI this is the same basic thing, DFI didn't
make it into Vista, but probably hit the next version of Windows. DFI is
basically the drivers installed on a chip on the mobo then any o/s just
calls the chip for the driver. I look at v3i as just ahead of the curve.

 

  _  

From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 2:16 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

 

It just started making news again.  Major vendors will be shipping servers
with 3i in April.

It looks very promising.

 

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/022608-embedded-virtualization-set-to-
lure.html

 

or http://tinyurl.com/yvvarj to avoid wrappage issues...

  

From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:07 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

 

That's where they are supposedly headed. 3i is supposed to be an embedded
distro straight preconfigured from the vendor dell/hp/ibm etc. I didn't know
it was downloadable ahha maybe that's where I got crossed up. I skimmed
through the press release and pdf files on it, and then saw it was released
so I put those together. Ill go back and logon to the partner side and see
what I can dig up. 

 

  _  

From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:33 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

 

Is that very recent Ben? I understood 3i was shipping but only as the
installable version atm.

 

From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:27 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

 

VI3i is already shipping I believe. This is basically a server with a flash
chip of VI3 installed on it and saves the config to a flash ram just like a
BIOS stores info. No HD's required, can boot from fibre/iscsi not from NFS I
believe. 

 

  _  

From: Louis, Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 9:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

 

The SAS drives on the DL might be a bit of overkill if you are looking to
save some money and are getting an Equallogic. ESX is going to a light
footprint and pretty soon (if not already) HP/DELL/etc will be offering
machines like DLs with no moveable drives with an ESX light footprint on an
internal USB. 

 

  _  

From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 7:48 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

An HP DL would handle that easily and is supported.
An easier way to figure what you should get is look at the very small HCL
for ESX :-)

jlc

 

From: Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 5:38 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: server options

 

I am pricing out hardware for a new venture and could use some feedback.

Basically I am coming up with a poor boys IT infrastructure, and a fairly
nice setup if our funding comes in.

I would like to go 64-bit now, and run 32-bit VM images if necessary;
hopefully all will be 64-bit.

what are my options for 

*   a 64-bit server 
*   6 NICs (2 onboard & a quad card) 
*   24 GB of RAM 
*   at least 2 processors 
*   4 SAS drives in RAID 5 

This will be a VMWare server with VMotion connected to an Equalogic SAN.
all of which needs to be purchased.

Thanks,

Klint

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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RE: BSD Filesystem Full?

[Sam Cayze]

Thanks to you too Mike, yep, it's FreeBSD 6.1

I have been able to SSH into it.  Now I just need to dust of my brain
and remember how to work in this OS environment (is this BASH?)

 

 

 

From: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 2:18 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: BSD Filesystem Full?

 

What BSD? I'm going to guess it's FreeBSD. Do you know how to log into
it via command line? If so, log on and do:

 

df -h

 

That should show you all your file systems (partitions) and how full
they are. I'm not familiar with Cacti, but I would imagine it would show
you this. Also, it doesn't mention the file system that's full on
startup? Feel free to email me off-list if you want. I have a couple
meetings today though so my availability might not be great.

 

-- 
Mike Gill

 

From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:39 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: BSD Filesystem Full?

 

Hey all, 

 

I have a VM Appliance I installed about 2 years ago that runs Cacti, and
does all the cute little RDP graphs for my server utilization, server
room temp monitors, disk space, etc.

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/310

 

It runs on BSD6.1 and is supposed to be a set and forget appliance.
However, it is failing, and I suspect it just might have something to do
with this error when I fire it up "Filesystem Full"

 

Does anybody run BSD that might be able to give me a hand?

 

Thanks in Advance.

 

Sam

 

 

 

 

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RE: BSD Filesystem Full?

[Kim Longenbaugh]

Logs will often live somewhere in here:

/dev/ad0s1e248M 12K228M 0%/tmp

 Or in here:

/dev/ad0s1d629M 28M551M 5%/var

 

You can do a "pwd" command to see where you are at in the file
structure.

You can do a "cd /" to navigate to the folder you want to
inspect

You can do a "ls -alt" to view a list of the folder contents sorted by
time, that includes all files.

If the list is too long and you can't scroll back to the top, do ""ls
-alt | more"

To delete a file, it's typically "rm 

 



From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 2:20 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: BSD Filesystem Full?

 

Salvador to the rescue!  Thanks!

 

Alright, I can SSH into it, and I am at the [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# prompt.  

 

Here is my output.  Yep, I look pretty full!  So - I guess I will have
to play around and find some stuff to delete.  

 

Do you know any obvious locations for temp files in BSD?

Do you know of any good BSD training resources to get me familiar with
file system commands in BSD?

 

Sounds like now is a great time to make some use of VMware snapshot
feature!

 

 

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# df -h

Filesystem SizeUsed   Avail Capacity  Mounted on

/dev/ad0s1a496M103M353M23%/

devfs  1.0K1.0K  0B   100%/dev

/dev/ad0s1e248M 12K228M 0%/tmp

/dev/ad0s1f2.1G2.0G   -101M   105%/usr

/dev/ad0s1d629M 28M551M 5%/var

 

 

 

 

 

 

From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:51 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: BSD Filesystem Full?

 

Sam,
Assuming the Cacti appliance doesn't offer the ability to age out old
log files, can you SSH into it?  A df -h will show you usage on the
different mount points, and a du -h redirected to a text file will give
you the exact layout (starting from wherever you launch it, recursive by
default)


On 3/4/08 11:38 AM, "Sam Cayze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hey all, 
 
I have a VM Appliance I installed about 2 years ago that runs Cacti, and
does all the cute little RDP graphs for my server utilization, server
room temp monitors, disk space, etc.
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/310
 
It runs on BSD6.1 and is supposed to be a set and forget appliance.
However, it is failing, and I suspect it just might have something to do
with this error when I fire it up "Filesystem Full"
 
Does anybody run BSD that might be able to give me a hand?
 
Thanks in Advance.
 
Sam








- 
Salvador Manzo  [ 620 W. 35th St - Los Angeles, CA 90089  e.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Auxiliary Services IT, Datacenter
University of Southern California
818-612-5112
"Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." -
Robert A. Heinlein

 

 

 

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RE: BSD Filesystem Full?

[Sam Cayze]

Salvador to the rescue!  Thanks!

 

Alright, I can SSH into it, and I am at the [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# prompt.  

 

Here is my output.  Yep, I look pretty full!  So - I guess I will have
to play around and find some stuff to delete.  

 

Do you know any obvious locations for temp files in BSD?

Do you know of any good BSD training resources to get me familiar with
file system commands in BSD?

 

Sounds like now is a great time to make some use of VMware snapshot
feature!

 

 

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# df -h

Filesystem SizeUsed   Avail Capacity  Mounted on

/dev/ad0s1a496M103M353M23%/

devfs  1.0K1.0K  0B   100%/dev

/dev/ad0s1e248M 12K228M 0%/tmp

/dev/ad0s1f2.1G2.0G   -101M   105%/usr

/dev/ad0s1d629M 28M551M 5%/var

 

 

 

 

 

 

From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:51 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: BSD Filesystem Full?

 

Sam,
Assuming the Cacti appliance doesn't offer the ability to age out old
log files, can you SSH into it?  A df -h will show you usage on the
different mount points, and a du -h redirected to a text file will give
you the exact layout (starting from wherever you launch it, recursive by
default)


On 3/4/08 11:38 AM, "Sam Cayze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hey all, 
 
I have a VM Appliance I installed about 2 years ago that runs Cacti, and
does all the cute little RDP graphs for my server utilization, server
room temp monitors, disk space, etc.
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/310
 
It runs on BSD6.1 and is supposed to be a set and forget appliance.
However, it is failing, and I suspect it just might have something to do
with this error when I fire it up "Filesystem Full"
 
Does anybody run BSD that might be able to give me a hand?
 
Thanks in Advance.
 
Sam









- 
Salvador Manzo  [ 620 W. 35th St - Los Angeles, CA 90089  e.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Auxiliary Services IT, Datacenter
University of Southern California
818-612-5112
"Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." -
Robert A. Heinlein

 

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RE: BSD Filesystem Full?

[Mike Gill]

What BSD? I'm going to guess it's FreeBSD. Do you know how to log into it
via command line? If so, log on and do:

 

df -h

 

That should show you all your file systems (partitions) and how full they
are. I'm not familiar with Cacti, but I would imagine it would show you
this. Also, it doesn't mention the file system that's full on startup? Feel
free to email me off-list if you want. I have a couple meetings today though
so my availability might not be great.

 

-- 
Mike Gill

 

From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:39 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: BSD Filesystem Full?

 

Hey all, 

 

I have a VM Appliance I installed about 2 years ago that runs Cacti, and
does all the cute little RDP graphs for my server utilization, server room
temp monitors, disk space, etc.

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/310

 

It runs on BSD6.1 and is supposed to be a set and forget appliance.
However, it is failing, and I suspect it just might have something to do
with this error when I fire it up "Filesystem Full"

 

Does anybody run BSD that might be able to give me a hand?

 

Thanks in Advance.

 

Sam

 

 

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Re: BSD Filesystem Full?

[Salvador Manzo]

Sam,
Assuming the Cacti appliance doesn¹t offer the ability to age out old log
files, can you SSH into it?  A df ­h will show you usage on the different
mount points, and a du ­h redirected to a text file will give you the exact
layout (starting from wherever you launch it, recursive by default)


On 3/4/08 11:38 AM, "Sam Cayze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hey all, 
>  
> I have a VM Appliance I installed about 2 years ago that runs Cacti, and does
> all the cute little RDP graphs for my server utilization, server room temp
> monitors, disk space, etc.
> http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/310
>  
> It runs on BSD6.1 and is supposed to be a set and forget appliance.  However,
> it is failing, and I suspect it just might have something to do with this
> error when I fire it up ³Filesystem Full²
>  
> Does anybody run BSD that might be able to give me a hand?
>  
> Thanks in Advance.
>  
> Sam
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> - 
> Salvador Manzo  [ 620 W. 35th St - Los Angeles, CA 90089  e. [EMAIL 
> PROTECTED] ]
> Auxiliary Services IT, Datacenter
> University of Southern California
> 818-612-5112
> "Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." - Robert
> A. Heinlein


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BSD Filesystem Full?

[Sam Cayze]

Hey all, 

 

I have a VM Appliance I installed about 2 years ago that runs Cacti, and
does all the cute little RDP graphs for my server utilization, server
room temp monitors, disk space, etc.

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/310

 

It runs on BSD6.1 and is supposed to be a set and forget appliance.
However, it is failing, and I suspect it just might have something to do
with this error when I fire it up "Filesystem Full"

 

Does anybody run BSD that might be able to give me a hand?

 

Thanks in Advance.

 

Sam


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RE: server options

[Sam Cayze]

It just started making news again.  Major vendors will be shipping
servers with 3i in April.

It looks very promising.

 

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/022608-embedded-virtualization-set
-to-lure.html

 

or http://tinyurl.com/yvvarj to avoid wrappage issues...

  

From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:07 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

 

That's where they are supposedly headed. 3i is supposed to be an
embedded distro straight preconfigured from the vendor dell/hp/ibm etc.
I didn't know it was downloadable ahha maybe that's where I got crossed
up. I skimmed through the press release and pdf files on it, and then
saw it was released so I put those together. Ill go back and logon to
the partner side and see what I can dig up. 

 



From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:33 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

 

Is that very recent Ben? I understood 3i was shipping but only as the
installable version atm.

 

From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:27 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

 

VI3i is already shipping I believe. This is basically a server with a
flash chip of VI3 installed on it and saves the config to a flash ram
just like a BIOS stores info. No HD's required, can boot from
fibre/iscsi not from NFS I believe. 

 



From: Louis, Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 9:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

 

The SAS drives on the DL might be a bit of overkill if you are looking
to save some money and are getting an Equallogic. ESX is going to a
light footprint and pretty soon (if not already) HP/DELL/etc will be
offering machines like DLs with no moveable drives with an ESX light
footprint on an internal USB. 

 



From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 7:48 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

An HP DL would handle that easily and is supported.
An easier way to figure what you should get is look at the very small
HCL for ESX J

jlc

 

From: Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 5:38 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: server options

 

I am pricing out hardware for a new venture and could use some feedback.

Basically I am coming up with a poor boys IT infrastructure, and a
fairly nice setup if our funding comes in.

I would like to go 64-bit now, and run 32-bit VM images if necessary;
hopefully all will be 64-bit.

what are my options for 

*   a 64-bit server 
*   6 NICs (2 onboard & a quad card) 
*   24 GB of RAM 
*   at least 2 processors 
*   4 SAS drives in RAID 5 

This will be a VMWare server with VMotion connected to an Equalogic
SAN. all of which needs to be purchased.

Thanks,

Klint

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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RE: server options

[Benjamin Zachary]

That's where they are supposedly headed. 3i is supposed to be an embedded
distro straight preconfigured from the vendor dell/hp/ibm etc. I didn't know
it was downloadable ahha maybe that's where I got crossed up. I skimmed
through the press release and pdf files on it, and then saw it was released
so I put those together. Ill go back and logon to the partner side and see
what I can dig up. 

 

  _  

From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:33 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

 

Is that very recent Ben? I understood 3i was shipping but only as the
installable version atm.

 

From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:27 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

 

VI3i is already shipping I believe. This is basically a server with a flash
chip of VI3 installed on it and saves the config to a flash ram just like a
BIOS stores info. No HD's required, can boot from fibre/iscsi not from NFS I
believe. 

 

  _  

From: Louis, Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 9:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

 

The SAS drives on the DL might be a bit of overkill if you are looking to
save some money and are getting an Equallogic. ESX is going to a light
footprint and pretty soon (if not already) HP/DELL/etc will be offering
machines like DLs with no moveable drives with an ESX light footprint on an
internal USB. 

 

  _  

From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 7:48 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

An HP DL would handle that easily and is supported.
An easier way to figure what you should get is look at the very small HCL
for ESX :-)

jlc

 

From: Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 5:38 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: server options

 

I am pricing out hardware for a new venture and could use some feedback.

Basically I am coming up with a poor boys IT infrastructure, and a fairly
nice setup if our funding comes in.

I would like to go 64-bit now, and run 32-bit VM images if necessary;
hopefully all will be 64-bit.

what are my options for 

*   a 64-bit server 
*   6 NICs (2 onboard & a quad card) 
*   24 GB of RAM 
*   at least 2 processors 
*   4 SAS drives in RAID 5 

This will be a VMWare server with VMotion connected to an Equalogic SAN.
all of which needs to be purchased.

Thanks,

Klint

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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RE: Office 2007 documents quarantined

[Neil Standley]

IIRC this happens when a file is created in an older version of Office then 
opened in an Office 07 application, when O7 opens the doc it converts the 
file(s) as a result it creates a bin file.


Neil


-Original Message-
From: Tim Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 9:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Office 2007 documents quarantined

This does not seem to be the default here. The only time I get a .BIN
file in the document is when it has an embedded object. It could be that
I missed it, but I don't even see an option anywhere to embed the print
driver in the document, not to mention that it seems pretty stupid if it
is an option. How do they handle different OS, or the destination print
not existing or on a different port, etc.


...Tim


> -Original Message-
> From: Jon D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 8:27 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Office 2007 documents quarantined
> 
> Is anyone else having a problem with Office 2007 documents being
> quarantined?
> It appears the problem may be with office 2007 putting print drivers
> into an embedded .bin file which causes anti-virus on exchange to
> quarantine it.
> 
> Anyone else have this issue?
> Is this a bug that MS is going to fix, or are we stuck with allowing
> .bin files now?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Jon
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> .
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RE: server options

[Joseph L. Casale]

Is that very recent Ben? I understood 3i was shipping but only as the 
installable version atm.

From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:27 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

VI3i is already shipping I believe. This is basically a server with a flash 
chip of VI3 installed on it and saves the config to a flash ram just like a 
BIOS stores info. No HD's required, can boot from fibre/iscsi not from NFS I 
believe.


From: Louis, Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 9:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

The SAS drives on the DL might be a bit of overkill if you are looking to save 
some money and are getting an Equallogic. ESX is going to a light footprint and 
pretty soon (if not already) HP/DELL/etc will be offering machines like DLs 
with no moveable drives with an ESX light footprint on an internal USB.


From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 7:48 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options
An HP DL would handle that easily and is supported.
An easier way to figure what you should get is look at the very small HCL for 
ESX :)

jlc

From: Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 5:38 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: server options

I am pricing out hardware for a new venture and could use some feedback.

Basically I am coming up with a poor boys IT infrastructure, and a fairly nice 
setup if our funding comes in.

I would like to go 64-bit now, and run 32-bit VM images if necessary; hopefully 
all will be 64-bit.

what are my options for

 *   a 64-bit server
 *   6 NICs (2 onboard & a quad card)
 *   24 GB of RAM
 *   at least 2 processors
 *   4 SAS drives in RAID 5
This will be a VMWare server with VMotion connected to an Equalogic SAN. 
all of which needs to be purchased.

Thanks,

Klint
















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RE: General GPO Q

[Damien Solodow]

Create a group for each set of servers, add the appropriate servers to
that group.
Then link both GPOs to the Servers OU, and set the permissions on the
GPO so that each GPO applies only to its group.

-Original Message-
From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:29 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: General GPO Q

I have two GPO's and two sets of systems I want them applied to. GPO1
goes to ServerGroup1 and GPO2 goes to ServerGroup2. In my case they
handle WSUS and when the servers reboot, some at 5:00 others at 6:00

Do I make two unique OU's for these along the lines of:
Servers OU
> WSUS 5pm   
> WSUS 6pm

Alternately I could put the 5pm WSUS GPO at the servers OU and create a
6pm OU and apply the 6pm GPO but that seems messy to make one go over
the other.

Comments?

Dave Lum  - Systems Engineer 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025
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General GPO Q

[David Lum]

I have two GPO's and two sets of systems I want them applied to. GPO1
goes to ServerGroup1 and GPO2 goes to ServerGroup2. In my case they
handle WSUS and when the servers reboot, some at 5:00 others at 6:00

Do I make two unique OU's for these along the lines of:
Servers OU
> WSUS 5pm   
> WSUS 6pm

Alternately I could put the 5pm WSUS GPO at the servers OU and create a
6pm OU and apply the 6pm GPO but that seems messy to make one go over
the other.

Comments?

Dave Lum  - Systems Engineer 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025
"When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands" 




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Re: dns reports

[Ben Scott]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Benjamin Zachary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone have a site besides dnsreport.com ?

  I generally just use the "dig" tool that comes with ISC BIND (free).
 It's available for Win32, too.

  If you prefer web GUI thingies, I've been impressed by ZoneCheck
(http://www.zonecheck.fr/) in the past.  Run from their server, or
install your own.

-- Ben

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RE: server options

[Benjamin Zachary]

VI3i is already shipping I believe. This is basically a server with a flash
chip of VI3 installed on it and saves the config to a flash ram just like a
BIOS stores info. No HD's required, can boot from fibre/iscsi not from NFS I
believe. 

 

  _  

From: Louis, Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 9:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

 

The SAS drives on the DL might be a bit of overkill if you are looking to
save some money and are getting an Equallogic. ESX is going to a light
footprint and pretty soon (if not already) HP/DELL/etc will be offering
machines like DLs with no moveable drives with an ESX light footprint on an
internal USB. 

 

  _  

From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 7:48 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options

An HP DL would handle that easily and is supported.
An easier way to figure what you should get is look at the very small HCL
for ESX :-)

jlc

 

From: Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 5:38 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: server options

 

I am pricing out hardware for a new venture and could use some feedback.

Basically I am coming up with a poor boys IT infrastructure, and a fairly
nice setup if our funding comes in.

I would like to go 64-bit now, and run 32-bit VM images if necessary;
hopefully all will be 64-bit.

what are my options for 

*   a 64-bit server 
*   6 NICs (2 onboard & a quad card) 
*   24 GB of RAM 
*   at least 2 processors 
*   4 SAS drives in RAID 5 

This will be a VMWare server with VMotion connected to an Equalogic SAN.
all of which needs to be purchased.

Thanks,

Klint



 

 

 
 
 

 

 

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RE: Gig ports - copper or fiber?

[Eric E Eskam]

"Joe Heaton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/04/2008 10:28:13 AM:

> Sorry for delay in response, I was off yesterday.  Yes, it's a 
> bottleneck.  But now, it's a Gig bottleneck, as opposed to a 
> 100Mb bottleneck :P  I didn't design the infrastructure, I've 
> inherited it. 

Gotcha.  We have a similar legacy situation and it drives me crazy... good 
luck!

Eric Eskam
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RE: server options

[Eric E Eskam]

"Louis, Joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/04/2008 09:54:47 AM:

> The SAS drives on the DL might be a bit of overkill if you are 
> looking to save some money and are getting an Equallogic.

Why even have disks in the servers?  Just boot from SAN...

Eric Eskam
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Re: Event error 333

[Candee Vaglica]

Interesting.
Let us know what it turns out to be.

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:22 AM, David W. McSpadden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I sent that on to the MS support team that is working with me.
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Candee Vaglica" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "NT System Admin Issues" 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 10:57 AM
> Subject: Re: Event error 333
>
>
> > Have you checked eventid.net?
> > Looks like there's some good info regarding that error there.
> > http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=333&eventno=5757&source=Application%20Popup&phase=1
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:25 AM, David W. McSpadden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I keep getting this error on my Production server.  Microsoft support
> >> runs a
> >> checkreg tool and fixes the registry but hasn't determined the source of
> >> the
> >> corruption.  Have any of you seen this error and or the cause of it??
> >>
> >>
> >>
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RE: chkdsk says no problems, but lots of files are missing

[Mike Gill]

Nah, I just formatted it. I wanted to get the drive in operation sooner than
I had the kind of time Spinrite needs anyway. I've just never seen a drive
with these symptoms that chkdsk couldn't correct.

-- 
Mike Gill

> -Original Message-
> From: René de Haas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 5:46 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: chkdsk says no problems, but lots of files are missing
> 
> I don't think spinrite is meant for USB-sticks.
> I'd say look at some recovery programs. Like ontrack and others.


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RE: DriveImageXML, perhaps OT?

[Joe Heaton]

We use Ghost here, which has an application called Ghostwalker, which
changes the SID on the new machine for you. 


Joe Heaton

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 8:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: DriveImageXML, perhaps OT?

Greetings!

I have a stack of new boxed desktop systems with identical hardware...

Once I set one of them up (adding a second video card, installing
software, etc), I know I can clone it using DriveImageXLM...

I'm sure this has come up numerous times, but how does one keep any
"restores" (used to complete the other identical boxes) from having the
same SID?
--
Richard McClary, Systems Administrator
ASPCA Knowledge Management
1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL  61802
217-337-9761
http://www.aspca.org


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RE: DriveImageXML, perhaps OT?

[Sam Cayze]

I prefer a little Sysprep/Reseal and use the wizard to create an answer
file that will automatically join the machine to the domain and prompt
for a machine name on the first boot after you deployed the image.

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 10:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: DriveImageXML, perhaps OT?

Greetings!

I have a stack of new boxed desktop systems with identical hardware...

Once I set one of them up (adding a second video card, installing 
software, etc), I know I can clone it using DriveImageXLM...

I'm sure this has come up numerous times, but how does one keep any 
"restores" (used to complete the other identical boxes) from having the 
same SID?
--
Richard McClary, Systems Administrator
ASPCA Knowledge Management
1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL  61802
217-337-9761
http://www.aspca.org


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RE: DriveImageXML, perhaps OT?

[Benjamin Zachary]

Newsid 

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: DriveImageXML, perhaps OT?

Greetings!

I have a stack of new boxed desktop systems with identical hardware...

Once I set one of them up (adding a second video card, installing 
software, etc), I know I can clone it using DriveImageXLM...

I'm sure this has come up numerous times, but how does one keep any 
"restores" (used to complete the other identical boxes) from having the 
same SID?
--
Richard McClary, Systems Administrator
ASPCA Knowledge Management
1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL  61802
217-337-9761
http://www.aspca.org


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RE: DriveImageXML, perhaps OT?

[Damien Solodow]

After you setup the first machine, run sysprep then build create your
image with DriveImageXML.

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: DriveImageXML, perhaps OT?

Greetings!

I have a stack of new boxed desktop systems with identical hardware...

Once I set one of them up (adding a second video card, installing 
software, etc), I know I can clone it using DriveImageXLM...

I'm sure this has come up numerous times, but how does one keep any 
"restores" (used to complete the other identical boxes) from having the 
same SID?
--
Richard McClary, Systems Administrator
ASPCA Knowledge Management
1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL  61802
217-337-9761
http://www.aspca.org


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DriveImageXML, perhaps OT?

[RichardMcClary]

Greetings!

I have a stack of new boxed desktop systems with identical hardware...

Once I set one of them up (adding a second video card, installing 
software, etc), I know I can clone it using DriveImageXLM...

I'm sure this has come up numerous times, but how does one keep any 
"restores" (used to complete the other identical boxes) from having the 
same SID?
--
Richard McClary, Systems Administrator
ASPCA Knowledge Management
1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL  61802
217-337-9761
http://www.aspca.org


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Re: Event error 333

[David W. McSpadden]

I sent that on to the MS support team that is working with me.

- Original Message - 
From: "Candee Vaglica" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "NT System Admin Issues" 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: Event error 333



Have you checked eventid.net?
Looks like there's some good info regarding that error there.
http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=333&eventno=5757&source=Application%20Popup&phase=1


On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:25 AM, David W. McSpadden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:


I keep getting this error on my Production server.  Microsoft support 
runs a
checkreg tool and fixes the registry but hasn't determined the source of 
the

corruption.  Have any of you seen this error and or the cause of it??












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Re: Cannot install updates

[Candee Vaglica]

I've seen this a couple of times; you might need to manually update
the Windows installer.


On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 5:15 PM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I updated a Windows 2000 operating system to Windows XP Pro
> The activation code is good.
> I went to Microsoft  and downloaded the updates for Windows XP Pro.
> There were 94 updates and it took  one hour and five minutes to download.
> The install appeared to start and the a list of all of the updates appeared 
> and a message that those "failed to install"
> I tried to downl;oad the the three hardware updates.  Failed to install
> I selected just one of the ninety four updated.  Failed to install
> I do not know what to do.
> The machine works just fine, the programs from the Windows 200 are working on 
> the Xp Pro.  I just cannot install updates from Microsoft
>
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Re: Event error 333

[Candee Vaglica]

Have you checked eventid.net?
Looks like there's some good info regarding that error there.
http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=333&eventno=5757&source=Application%20Popup&phase=1


On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:25 AM, David W. McSpadden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I keep getting this error on my Production server.  Microsoft support runs a
> checkreg tool and fixes the registry but hasn't determined the source of the
> corruption.  Have any of you seen this error and or the cause of it??
>
>
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RE: Gig ports - copper or fiber?

[David Lum]

Ben, take things literal? That's BS!

Dave

-Original Message-
From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 7:32 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Gig ports - copper or fiber?

Thank you Ben, for your "serious" comments.  Yes, I know they are
physically different;  Yes, I know that setting fiber to 1000T is
nonsensical.  My question, which I believe has been answered to my
satisfaction was more of a performance question, for a 4-5 foot run.
Since it's such a short run, the consensus was that it shouldn't matter
if the cable was copper or fiber, as long as it is a quality CAT5e/CAT6
cable if going copper.

And no, I didn't take offence to your responses, as you were simply
replying to what I said literally, not to what I meant ;) 


Joe Heaton

-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 4:10 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Gig ports - copper or fiber?

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Joe Heaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there any real difference, if I use a copper RJ-45 port, or a fiber
port ...

  Well, one's fiber, one's copper.  That's a pretty real difference.
The cables for one don't fit in the ports for another, for example.
;-)

  Fiber can go longer distances, and isn't susceptible to EM/RF
interference.  Copper cables are more durable than fiber -- if you kink
a fiber cable, it will often snap, and a spec of dust can ruin your day.
Fiber costs more.

> if both are set to 1000T?

  The "T" in "1000BASE-T" stands for "twisted pair".  So setting a fiber
port to "1000T" is nonsensical.  I suspect you're looking at an option
that only applies to copper ports.

-- Ben

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RE: Gig ports - copper or fiber?

[Joe Heaton]

Thank you Ben, for your "serious" comments.  Yes, I know they are
physically different;  Yes, I know that setting fiber to 1000T is
nonsensical.  My question, which I believe has been answered to my
satisfaction was more of a performance question, for a 4-5 foot run.
Since it's such a short run, the consensus was that it shouldn't matter
if the cable was copper or fiber, as long as it is a quality CAT5e/CAT6
cable if going copper.

And no, I didn't take offence to your responses, as you were simply
replying to what I said literally, not to what I meant ;) 


Joe Heaton

-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 4:10 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Gig ports - copper or fiber?

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Joe Heaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there any real difference, if I use a copper RJ-45 port, or a fiber
port ...

  Well, one's fiber, one's copper.  That's a pretty real difference.
The cables for one don't fit in the ports for another, for example.
;-)

  Fiber can go longer distances, and isn't susceptible to EM/RF
interference.  Copper cables are more durable than fiber -- if you kink
a fiber cable, it will often snap, and a spec of dust can ruin your day.
Fiber costs more.

> if both are set to 1000T?

  The "T" in "1000BASE-T" stands for "twisted pair".  So setting a fiber
port to "1000T" is nonsensical.  I suspect you're looking at an option
that only applies to copper ports.

-- Ben

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RE: Gig ports - copper or fiber?

[Joe Heaton]

Sorry for delay in response, I was off yesterday.  Yes, it's a
bottleneck.  But now, it's a Gig bottleneck, as opposed to a 100Mb
bottleneck :P  I didn't design the infrastructure, I've inherited it.
We're in the process now of redesigning it, to try to ease the
bottlenecks we have.  The Cisco 3560 is the first step.  We're planning
on moving the servers onto this switch, so that traffic would come in
through the HP, go to the 3560, go directly to the server in question,
then come back through to the workstation.  I'm hoping to see a huge
easing of bottleneck, and hopefully a gain in performance, though I
don't know that we're moving a whole lot of data back and forth to begin
with.  I'm going to be doing some bandwidth analysis on the port
connecting the Cisco and HP this week.
 
Joe Heaton
 



From: Eric E Eskam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 2:43 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Gig ports - copper or fiber?



"Joe Heaton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/29/2008 07:09:02 PM:

> The connection is between an HP 4108gl chassis, which 
> all our users are plugged into, and a Cisco 3560 layer 3 
> switch, which is doing the routing between the VLANs on the HP.
> So all traffic outside the subnet the servers are on, comes in 
> the HP, goes over to the Cisco, then comes back to the HP to 
> hit the servers.  Then does the reverse to get back to the 
> workstations... 

So all your server/workstation traffic is being shuffled - twice -
across one gigabit port? 

Isn't that the classic definition of a bottleneck? 

Eric Eskam
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RE: server options

[Louis, Joe]

The SAS drives on the DL might be a bit of overkill if you are looking to
save some money and are getting an Equallogic. ESX is going to a light
footprint and pretty soon (if not already) HP/DELL/etc will be offering
machines like DLs with no moveable drives with an ESX light footprint on an
internal USB. 

  _  

From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 7:48 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: server options



An HP DL would handle that easily and is supported.
An easier way to figure what you should get is look at the very small HCL
for ESX J

jlc

 

From: Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 5:38 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: server options

 

I am pricing out hardware for a new venture and could use some feedback.

Basically I am coming up with a poor boys IT infrastructure, and a fairly
nice setup if our funding comes in.

I would like to go 64-bit now, and run 32-bit VM images if necessary;
hopefully all will be 64-bit.

what are my options for 

*   a 64-bit server 

*   6 NICs (2 onboard & a quad card) 

*   24 GB of RAM 

*   at least 2 processors 

*   4 SAS drives in RAID 5 

This will be a VMWare server with VMotion connected to an Equalogic SAN.
all of which needs to be purchased.

Thanks,

Klint




 










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RE: dns reports

[James Winzenz]

I have used Sam Spade in the past, works pretty well (and is free)

 

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Network-Tools/Network-Tools-Suites/Sam-Spad
e.shtml (link may wrap)

 

James Winzenz

Infrastructure Engineer - Security

Pulte Homes Information Services

 



From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Posted At: Monday, March 03, 2008 8:35 PM
Posted To: NTSysadmin
Conversation: dns reports
Subject: RE: dns reports
  

Yeah, well who else can convert 15 servers in a weekend? :-). I thought
you got off cheap I even took naps on the office floor haha

 

I looked at dnsreport/dnsstuff today and they wanted 80 bux for the dns
lookup tool. 40 bux I would pay. I just don't have time to deal with
poking around I just wanted to buy it and forget it already. I think Ill
go buy a product I can install on my box. 

 

Anyone check out packetrap? Looks like a decent util

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 9:54 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: dns reports

 

Ben,

 

I thought you had all kinds of time..refer to earlier
post..hehehe..Remind me to negotiate your rate next time you do a
conversion project for me down there

"Funny, on a Sat night when Im in the middle of a project converting 15
boxes to vm's at 100/hr to go point/click, point/click.  Oh yah all from
home"

 

 

From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 5:14 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: dns reports

 

I found checkdns.net wasn't too bad about 10 mins after I posted it. I
was thinking of getting a tool to do stuff like visual trace route and
such, bah who has  time. 

 



From: Blake R. Fowkes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 5:01 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: dns reports

 

Used this one the other day.

 

http://network-tools.com/

 



From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 3:59 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: dns reports

Anyone have a site besides dnsreport.com ? they moved their single use
ip lookup tool to pay only which would be fine but they want 80 bux a
year for the professional toolkit. I just need something similar to the
dnsreport's lookup feature . For something I use about once every few
weeks I don't mind paying a little but 80/yr seems a little much. Im
sure there are downloadable toolkits to do the same thing. Like maybe
Sam Spade and stuff?

 

Thx 

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Event error 333

[David W. McSpadden]

I keep getting this error on my Production server.  Microsoft support runs a 
checkreg tool and fixes the registry but hasn't determined the source of the 
corruption.  Have any of you seen this error and or the cause of it??
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RE: new hard drives in proliant

[David Mazzaccaro]

Great!

Thank you.

 

 



From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 9:18 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: new hard drives in proliant

 

I don't remember the process taking very long in the Dell boxes we did,
but to each their own.  I would not expect it to take more than a few
hours.  The diskpart of it is near instant.  A few CPU cycles and some
HDD activity and its done.

 

From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 8:40 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: new hard drives in proliant

 

Thank you very much for confirming.

I will have the previous night's backup tape to recover from in the even
that I need to.

Any idea how long it can take to expand the array?

Each 300GB drive I installed took 30 minutes to rebuild the array to
include the new drive.

Which I thought was very quick.  

- Dave

 

 



From: Greg Olson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 10:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: new hard drives in proliant

 

Agreed. I've done it on HP hardware this way for many years (Solid
backup is also key to have ready, just in case).

After replacing each disk one at a time, in the end you'll have your
disks exactly as you described. Run the disk expansion utility in the HP
software, and after it completes, you'll have a nice big volume. Then in
Windows you run the diskpart command as Sean stated below and it will
expand the volume to fill the free space, giving you the extra room you
need. 

 

Keep a solid backup though just in case. 

 

-Greg 

 

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 5:28 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: new hard drives in proliant

 

I am sorry, but if the card supports expansion that is a perfectly legit
way to expand a raid card.   I have done it in the neighborhood of 20 or
30 times..  Now if the card doesn't support it..Well like you said,
"This is where the counsel of solid backups is key :o)"

 

On a side not, better make sure your counsel is good before you try any
raid based operations.

 

Greg

 

From: Louis, Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 10:37 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: new hard drives in proliant

 

If it's just data and no program files or services, what has worked for
me is pulling the data RAID all at once when the server is off.
Rebuilding the data array with the Proliant disc. And restoring the data
on the new array with larger drives. The array is already built and
matched on the card. You're not going to be able to expand the array by
replacing one drive at a time. YMMV

 

This is where the counsel of solid backups is key :o) 

 



From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 8:27 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: new hard drives in proliant

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, I had (4) 72GB drives in a RAID5, I replaced one at a time with
300GB drives.

The array doesn't change, so it is only using 72GB of each drive.

This array only contains data.  

There is a separate RAID1 which Windows 2003 server is installed on.

 

 



From: Louis, Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 5:47 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: new hard drives in proliant

 

David, I'm not sure that what you are planning is going to work. I could
be all wet, but I think the Proliant software will expand if you have
free space on the volume. Your array sounds like it was already maxed
when it was originally built on the old drives. 

 

If I am understanding what you are saying, you replaced raid members
that were 72gb with 300gb drives? When you added the 300gb drive (one at
a time) and the array rebuilt it, it did so as though it was a 72gb
drive. That isn't going to give you more space. 

 

Does this array also hold the OS? 

 



From: Sean Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 5:31 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: new hard drives in proliant

It's been awhile since I've worked with HP/Compaq Hardware, but yes,
that sounds about right. 

 

Once the array has been expanded you'll want to use diskpart to expand
the volume.

 

cmd

diskpart

list volume

select volume x (x = the number of the volume you want to expand)

expand

exit

 

- Sean

 

On 2/29/08, David Mazzaccaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

I (successfully) replaced all 4 (72GB) hard drives in a proliant server
w/ 4 (300GB) drives.

I replaced one drive at a time over the course of a week.

Everything is working great, the Raid 5 array is only using them as 72GB
drives.

I realize this is exactly as design.

So, Now I would like to utilize the extra 200GB on each drive.  I
believe this is called expanding the array?

Not s

RE: new hard drives in proliant

[gsweers]

I don't remember the process taking very long in the Dell boxes we did,
but to each their own.  I would not expect it to take more than a few
hours.  The diskpart of it is near instant.  A few CPU cycles and some
HDD activity and its done.

 

From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 8:40 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: new hard drives in proliant

 

Thank you very much for confirming.

I will have the previous night's backup tape to recover from in the even
that I need to.

Any idea how long it can take to expand the array?

Each 300GB drive I installed took 30 minutes to rebuild the array to
include the new drive.

Which I thought was very quick.  

- Dave

 

 



From: Greg Olson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 10:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: new hard drives in proliant

 

Agreed. I've done it on HP hardware this way for many years (Solid
backup is also key to have ready, just in case).

After replacing each disk one at a time, in the end you'll have your
disks exactly as you described. Run the disk expansion utility in the HP
software, and after it completes, you'll have a nice big volume. Then in
Windows you run the diskpart command as Sean stated below and it will
expand the volume to fill the free space, giving you the extra room you
need. 

 

Keep a solid backup though just in case. 

 

-Greg 

 

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 5:28 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: new hard drives in proliant

 

I am sorry, but if the card supports expansion that is a perfectly legit
way to expand a raid card.   I have done it in the neighborhood of 20 or
30 times..  Now if the card doesn't support it..Well like you said,
"This is where the counsel of solid backups is key :o)"

 

On a side not, better make sure your counsel is good before you try any
raid based operations.

 

Greg

 

From: Louis, Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 10:37 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: new hard drives in proliant

 

If it's just data and no program files or services, what has worked for
me is pulling the data RAID all at once when the server is off.
Rebuilding the data array with the Proliant disc. And restoring the data
on the new array with larger drives. The array is already built and
matched on the card. You're not going to be able to expand the array by
replacing one drive at a time. YMMV

 

This is where the counsel of solid backups is key :o) 

 



From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 8:27 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: new hard drives in proliant

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, I had (4) 72GB drives in a RAID5, I replaced one at a time with
300GB drives.

The array doesn't change, so it is only using 72GB of each drive.

This array only contains data.  

There is a separate RAID1 which Windows 2003 server is installed on.

 

 



From: Louis, Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 5:47 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: new hard drives in proliant

 

David, I'm not sure that what you are planning is going to work. I could
be all wet, but I think the Proliant software will expand if you have
free space on the volume. Your array sounds like it was already maxed
when it was originally built on the old drives. 

 

If I am understanding what you are saying, you replaced raid members
that were 72gb with 300gb drives? When you added the 300gb drive (one at
a time) and the array rebuilt it, it did so as though it was a 72gb
drive. That isn't going to give you more space. 

 

Does this array also hold the OS? 

 



From: Sean Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 5:31 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: new hard drives in proliant

It's been awhile since I've worked with HP/Compaq Hardware, but yes,
that sounds about right. 

 

Once the array has been expanded you'll want to use diskpart to expand
the volume.

 

cmd

diskpart

list volume

select volume x (x = the number of the volume you want to expand)

expand

exit

 

- Sean

 

On 2/29/08, David Mazzaccaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

I (successfully) replaced all 4 (72GB) hard drives in a proliant server
w/ 4 (300GB) drives.

I replaced one drive at a time over the course of a week.

Everything is working great, the Raid 5 array is only using them as 72GB
drives.

I realize this is exactly as design.

So, Now I would like to utilize the extra 200GB on each drive.  I
believe this is called expanding the array?

Not sure where to go from here...

The array configuration utility has an option to do this, so that
shouldn't be a problem?

After that, I assume I have to expand the logical drive to utilize the
new space, and then somehow t

RE: Scan for DST

[David Lum]

If anyone cares, I answered my own question. Using a CSV of server names
and Excel to expedite creating a batch file, the command I used was a
follows:

PSEXEC \\ -u  -p  w32tm /tz >>
I:\

 

That's really down and dirty but I scanned 100 systems in about 3
minutes after 15 mins of making the .CMD file. While this creates a lot
of files (one for each server), you can combine them into one file
however you want (just dumping to one file off that bat gives you no
server name to match to scan result). Since I had only a few dozen
systems, I simply enabled the taskbar option "group similar icons",
opened 50 at a whack, and when I came across a non-conformist system I
did "Save As" and dumped the file into another folder which, when done,
contains all the exceptions.

 

The beauty is it bypasses all the DST patch checking and tells you the
*actual* server settings.

 

I'm sure a little tweaking and you can get a single .CSV (echo the
server name into the file before running the w32tm check, add in a 
for readability) and save even more time, but I digress...

 

Dave

PS If you don't test the credentials first and the password is
incorrect, you'll lock out the account in the batch file...

 



From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 4:04 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Scan for DST

 

Anyone know how to scan a network for systems not handling the DST
correctly? Something like w32tm /tz against a list of systems? Since MS
has released numerous DST patches (Febraury '07 was 931836, Aug was
933360, Dec was 942763) a scan for 931836 or later should also work. I'm
sure 98% of my systems are compliant, but I'll get hammered for those
other 2% if I don't make a concerted effort here..

 

Dave Lum  - Systems Engineer 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025
"When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands" 

 

 

 

 

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RE: chkdsk says no problems, but lots of files are missing

[René de Haas]

I don't think spinrite is meant for USB-sticks.
I'd say look at some recovery programs. Like ontrack and others.

-Original Message-
From: Rubens Almeida [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 9:09 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: chkdsk says no problems, but lots of files are missing

I think you can give SpinRite a try: http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm
Usually it resolve all my filesystem problems.

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RE: new hard drives in proliant

[David Mazzaccaro]

Thank you very much for confirming.

I will have the previous night's backup tape to recover from in the even
that I need to.

Any idea how long it can take to expand the array?

Each 300GB drive I installed took 30 minutes to rebuild the array to
include the new drive.

Which I thought was very quick.  

- Dave

 

 



From: Greg Olson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 10:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: new hard drives in proliant

 

Agreed. I've done it on HP hardware this way for many years (Solid
backup is also key to have ready, just in case).

After replacing each disk one at a time, in the end you'll have your
disks exactly as you described. Run the disk expansion utility in the HP
software, and after it completes, you'll have a nice big volume. Then in
Windows you run the diskpart command as Sean stated below and it will
expand the volume to fill the free space, giving you the extra room you
need. 

 

Keep a solid backup though just in case. 

 

-Greg 

 

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 5:28 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: new hard drives in proliant

 

I am sorry, but if the card supports expansion that is a perfectly legit
way to expand a raid card.   I have done it in the neighborhood of 20 or
30 times..  Now if the card doesn't support it..Well like you said,
"This is where the counsel of solid backups is key :o)"

 

On a side not, better make sure your counsel is good before you try any
raid based operations.

 

Greg

 

From: Louis, Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 10:37 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: new hard drives in proliant

 

If it's just data and no program files or services, what has worked for
me is pulling the data RAID all at once when the server is off.
Rebuilding the data array with the Proliant disc. And restoring the data
on the new array with larger drives. The array is already built and
matched on the card. You're not going to be able to expand the array by
replacing one drive at a time. YMMV

 

This is where the counsel of solid backups is key :o) 

 



From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 8:27 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: new hard drives in proliant

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, I had (4) 72GB drives in a RAID5, I replaced one at a time with
300GB drives.

The array doesn't change, so it is only using 72GB of each drive.

This array only contains data.  

There is a separate RAID1 which Windows 2003 server is installed on.

 

 



From: Louis, Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 5:47 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: new hard drives in proliant

 

David, I'm not sure that what you are planning is going to work. I could
be all wet, but I think the Proliant software will expand if you have
free space on the volume. Your array sounds like it was already maxed
when it was originally built on the old drives. 

 

If I am understanding what you are saying, you replaced raid members
that were 72gb with 300gb drives? When you added the 300gb drive (one at
a time) and the array rebuilt it, it did so as though it was a 72gb
drive. That isn't going to give you more space. 

 

Does this array also hold the OS? 

 



From: Sean Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 5:31 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: new hard drives in proliant

It's been awhile since I've worked with HP/Compaq Hardware, but yes,
that sounds about right. 

 

Once the array has been expanded you'll want to use diskpart to expand
the volume.

 

cmd

diskpart

list volume

select volume x (x = the number of the volume you want to expand)

expand

exit

 

- Sean

 

On 2/29/08, David Mazzaccaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

I (successfully) replaced all 4 (72GB) hard drives in a proliant server
w/ 4 (300GB) drives.

I replaced one drive at a time over the course of a week.

Everything is working great, the Raid 5 array is only using them as 72GB
drives.

I realize this is exactly as design.

So, Now I would like to utilize the extra 200GB on each drive.  I
believe this is called expanding the array?

Not sure where to go from here...

The array configuration utility has an option to do this, so that
shouldn't be a problem?

After that, I assume I have to expand the logical drive to utilize the
new space, and then somehow tell Windows to expand drive?

Thanks.

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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RE: Robocopy Brain Fart

[Ziots, Edward]

Usually use

Robocopy Original path destination path /E /SECFIX (this is key to do
the security from one to the other) /NP /XO (if you want to do a diff)
/R:1 /W:1 /Log+C:\somedumb.log

Z

Edward E. Ziots
Netwok Engineer
Lifespan Organization
MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA
Phone: 401-639-3505

-Original Message-
From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 10:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Robocopy Brain Fart

UtilitySpotlight download

When in doubt you can't go without

-Original Message-
From: Steve Kelsay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 9:45 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Robocopy Brain Fart

I am having a Monday morning breakdown. 
What is the command line for robocopying a folder structure only with
security? 

I am reading the .DOC, but it looks all changed to me. Must be a Monday.

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Re: Response from GoExchange, Lucid8 Support

[WL]

I think my hair needs an offline defrag.

Actually you got someone from lucid8 here, so that was good.

I realize just now what you meant asking me where my reply was.


On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Tom Strader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> God in Heaven, what did I start here
>
> Signed,
> Tom, (a "non-real" Exchange Admin going on as long as Don, and I have had to
> use ESEutil and Isinteg several times in Exchange 5.5)
>
> 
>
> From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 4:08 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Response from GoExchange, Lucid8 Support
>
> Oh I wish I could be a conslutant too...

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Re: Response from GoExchange, Lucid8 Support

[WL]

I assume WL is me... I don't remember that far back.  I don't have a
clue what I said.

And you're right. I don't know enough about the product. I have no
idea what it does.  Your documentation doesn't tell me.  It does tell
me it makes things all better.  I didn't read the customer
testimonials because it asked me to register to do so (bugmenot.com
actually had a lucid8.com listing, but it didn't work).  I suspect
they don't tell me either.  Even when I tried GoExchange (used my real
name for the trial and everything) I could not return any value at
all.  No performance gains.  No improvement.  Negative ROI, really.
This was back a year or more and was tested on Exchange 2003 with two
4GB stores that were about a year old.

Fear mongering as a marketing strategy only deserves snide comments.
My anti-product comment stands... I bet. And I have yet to see any
technical documentation on how GoExchange really helps.  I have run
it.  I have gone through the output reports (a lot of emphasis on
recovering white space made the rest of it less valuable) from
GoExchange.  Your documentation suggests people are seeing whitespace
of 17% and even up to 35% in their databases.  While they may see that
the first time, some event, like layoffs, lowering of mailbox quota or
something, is going to be needed to trigger that much deletion.  That
may not be what it is trying to say, but there is excessive focus on
that.  There is little or no value in eliminating a few MB of
whitespace forcing the database to claim more from the OS again.

It almost doesn't even matter if GoExchange helps.  I just don't have
customers that can afford the scheduled downtime.  Uptime has a value
to some an order of magnitude greater than the cost of running
GoExchange.  What is the most common Exchange corruption error?  -1018
errors?  If I set the store to diagnostic level of Expert (formerly
'Field Engineering'), I will see a lot to scare me into considering
GoExchange.  But then I look a little closer.  Exchange 2003 sp1 made
improvements on managing the potential for -1018 errors. Some -1018
errors are generated not because the database is corrupt, but because
the storage system is not returning page requests correctly.  The
database may be fine.  What value does GoExchange return then?
Mostly, -1018 errors are hardware related.  Issues that can and would
arise between the periods where I tell my users that they can't access
their email for a few hours every 6-8 weeks while I run GoExchange.
-1019 errors are similar.  I can get those when I flip a few bits on
the database with a Hex editor.  Again it is often hardware related.
How about -1022 errors?  I haven't seen one since before 2000.  I
don't even know what I would do initially anymore.

GoExchange is supposedly a preventitive maintenance operation.  But it
comes at a cost - software, administration, and downtime. Downtime as
a result of Exchange database corruption is really not that common;
however, nobody wants it to happen to them. And sometimes it does. I
mean, it is not like going to the dentist.  My teeth need to last me a
lifetime.  My Exchange database will be probably be gone in 3-4 years
- mailboxes moved to a new version with new hardware.

A good disaster recovery plan is not that difficult and may not ever
be needed. And even if it was, the downtime may equate to one or two
runs of GoExchange. An online version of GoExchange may hold some
value.  I mean, it is not like the hurricane Katrina disaster, where
the simple solution is to move away from the area where your house is
situated below sea level protected by a water levy that is going to
inevitably fail. If the condition (exchange) is going to fail so
easily, obviously, and fatally, then move to a different place
(product).

You say your customers say it all... well, if they said anything other
than 'GoExchange worked for us!' I might appreciate it more.  These
are the same customers for whom you developed the product, right?  You
know, the people who "were using the utilities incorrectly". Dane,
articles like this
http://www.informationweek.com/software/messaging/166403975 read as
marketing crap.  The company seemed shocked that their database size
didn't shrink automatically when data was extracted.  The more I read
you and Troy W and others, the more I appreciate Don's post...
GoExchange may well be for the 'lazy administrator'.

I do preventitive maintenance.  It's called an online backup (oops, it
misses the -1019 errors) and online maintenance. I have insurance.
It's call test restores and backup validation and if necessary, though
very rarely, eseutil and isinteg.  Now in addition, with Exchange 2007
sp1, I have SCR/LCR/CCR.  How much insurance do I need beyond that?
How well do I sleep at night?  How many vacations can I take with
money I could have spent on GoExchange? It's a matter of risk. I have
no doubt your engineers know more about .edb files than I do. Even if
GoExchange does a bang up job every few w