RE: 17 Patches coming out from Microsoft this month.

[Brian Desmond]

I can never figure this out. What's the difference to you whether they ship 2 
patches or 17? This seems like just your basic sensational headline to me. It's 
the same deployment effort. I doubt you're fully qualifying each patch 
individually and communally in a full test environment where you'd see 
substantial increase in test overhead. 

Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com

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-Original Message-
From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] 
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 3:35 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: 17 Patches coming out from Microsoft this month.

Cross post from Susan Bradley on the Patch Management List. Strap on your 
seat-belts folks its going to be a bumpy ride this month. 

Advance Notification Service for the April 2011 Bulletin Release - MSRC
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http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2011/04/07/advance-notification-
service-for-the-april-2011-bulletin-release.aspx

My name is Pete Voss, and I'm a senior response communications manager with 
Microsoft Trustworthy Computing. I'll be joining the rest of the team on the 
MSRC blog  and @MSFTSecResponse 
 Twitter handle to help provide you 
with the latest information and guidance for Microsoft security.

Today, we're providing advanced notification 
 on the 
release of 17 security bulletins, nine rated Critical and eight rated 
Important. This month's bulletin release will address 64 vulnerabilities across 
Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, Visual Studio, .NET 
Framework and GDI+.

This month we'll be closing some issues that Microsoft has already previously 
spoken to, including the SMB Browser (Critical) issue publicly disclosed Feb. 
15. Microsoft assessed the situation and reported 

that although the vulnerability could theoretically allow Remote Code 
Execution, that was extremely unlikely. To this day, we have seen no evidence 
of attacks.

We are also planning a fix for the MHTML vulnerability in Windows, rated 
Important. We alerted people to this issue with Security Advisory
2501696

(including a Fix-It that fully protected customers once downloaded) back in 
late January. In March, we updated the advisory to let people know we were 
aware of limited, targeted attacks.

The bulletin release scheduled for the second Tuesday of the month, April 12, 
at approximately 10 a.m. PDT. Come back to this blog then for our official risk 
and impact analysis, as well as deployment guidance and a brief video overview 
of the month's highlights. Meanwhile, customers are encouraged to review 
Microsoft's advanced notification 
 and assess 
it for their particular environment. Additionally, we recommend that 
administrators reference our Security Update Guide 
 for help 
preparing for the bulletin release.

The monthly technical webcast is scheduled for Wednesday, April 13, hosted by 
Jerry Bryant and Jonathan Ness. I invite you to tune in and learn more about 
the security bulletins. The webcast is scheduled for Wednesday, April 13, 2011 
at 11 a.m. PDT, and the registration can be found here
.

For all the latest information, you can also follow the MSRC team on Twitter at 
@MSFTSecResponse .


Edward E. Ziots
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Network Engineer
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Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

[Jon Harris]

When you do replace the system add a couple of drives for spares but gloss
over that detail unless really questioned on it.  Your new machine would
then have 2 hot spares.  I usually would also bundle in the full 5 year
service contract on replacement servers for this reason as well when working
for the state.  Don't lie but don't highlight the upgrades.  This usually
will not get the bosses upset and  make yours and their lives a little
easier down the road when you go asking for something.

Jon

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:12 PM, John Cook  wrote:

>  It's out of warranty which is why I hung on to an identical machine for
> parts. It's the same old non profit "we don't have the money for that" until
> they lose something mentality, I'd wager I can talk them into replacing it
> in the near future!
> John W. Cook
> Systems Administrator
> Partnership for Strong Families
>
>  --
> *From*: richardmccl...@aspca.org 
> *To*: NT System Admin Issues 
> *Sent*: Thu Apr 07 13:07:32 2011
>
> *Subject*: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5
>
>
> What does Dell Server Support say?  I can't remember the details, but a
> firmware and OpenManage upgrade later, my "failed drive" was back up and
> running.  I can't remember the details because it was 2-3 years ago.  This
> was a 2550 which whose service contract had run out like 3 years previously.
>
> Despite the bad press Dell sometimes gets in this forum, the techs are only
> concerned with whether or not they can get your server back up and running,
> not whether or not you have a valid support contract.  (Parts, however,
> would be a different matter...)
>
> Then again, a firmware upgrade would involve another trip back to the
> remote site...
> --
> richard
>
> John Cook  wrote on 04/07/2011 11:58:01 AM:
>
>  > So I have a Dell 2850 with 6 drives in raid 5 and one completely
> > failed and another is predicted to according to the OpenManage
> > software. I replaced the failed one and it's rebuilding but I was
> > wondering if anyone has an opinion on whether or not I can replace
> > the suspect drive before the other one completes it's rebuild as
> > this is a remote office and I really don't want to drive back out
> > here just to swap a drive out.
> > John W. Cook
> > Systems Administrator
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Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

[Jon Harris]

+100 don't touch the failing until the first rebuild is done.

Jon

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Steven M. Caesare wrote:

> If you don't have a hot spare then NO!
>
> If you do have a hot spare, then it should have kicked in when the
> previous drive failed, and you would currently not be seeing any
> rebuilds with the drive you already replaced...
>
> I'd recommend against it.
>
> -sc
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 12:58 PM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5
> >
> > So I have a Dell 2850 with 6 drives in raid 5 and one completely
> failed and
> > another is predicted to according to the OpenManage software. I
> replaced
> > the failed one and it's rebuilding but I was wondering if anyone has
> an
> > opinion on whether or not I can replace the suspect drive before the
> other
> > one completes it's rebuild as this is a remote office and I really
> don't want to
> > drive back out here just to swap a drive out.
> > John W. Cook
> > Systems Administrator
> > Partnership for Strong Families
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RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

[Erik Goldoff]

+1
Don't add to your risk, let it rebuild completely, even if it means waiting
a week for the second drive to be replaced.

Erik Goldoff
IT  Consultant
Systems, Networks, & Security 

'  Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! '



-Original Message-
From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:02 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

If you don't have a hot spare then NO!

If you do have a hot spare, then it should have kicked in when the
previous drive failed, and you would currently not be seeing any
rebuilds with the drive you already replaced...

I'd recommend against it.

-sc

> -Original Message-
> From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 12:58 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5
> 
> So I have a Dell 2850 with 6 drives in raid 5 and one completely
failed and
> another is predicted to according to the OpenManage software. I
replaced
> the failed one and it's rebuilding but I was wondering if anyone has
an
> opinion on whether or not I can replace the suspect drive before the
other
> one completes it's rebuild as this is a remote office and I really
don't want to
> drive back out here just to swap a drive out.
> John W. Cook
> Systems Administrator
> Partnership for Strong Families
> 
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17 Patches coming out from Microsoft this month.

[Ziots, Edward]

Cross post from Susan Bradley on the Patch Management List. Strap on
your seat-belts folks its going to be a bumpy ride this month. 

Advance Notification Service for the April 2011 Bulletin Release - MSRC
- Site Home - TechNet Blogs:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2011/04/07/advance-notification-
service-for-the-april-2011-bulletin-release.aspx

My name is Pete Voss, and I'm a senior response communications manager
with Microsoft Trustworthy Computing. I'll be joining the rest of the
team on the MSRC blog  and
@MSFTSecResponse  Twitter
handle to help provide you with the latest information and guidance for
Microsoft security.

Today, we're providing advanced notification
 on
the release of 17 security bulletins, nine rated Critical and eight
rated Important. This month's bulletin release will address 64
vulnerabilities across Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Internet
Explorer, Visual Studio, .NET Framework and GDI+.

This month we'll be closing some issues that Microsoft has already
previously spoken to, including the SMB Browser (Critical) issue
publicly disclosed Feb. 15. Microsoft assessed the situation and
reported

that although the vulnerability could theoretically allow Remote Code
Execution, that was extremely unlikely. To this day, we have seen no
evidence of attacks.

We are also planning a fix for the MHTML vulnerability in Windows, rated
Important. We alerted people to this issue with Security Advisory
2501696

(including a Fix-It that fully protected customers once downloaded) back
in late January. In March, we updated the advisory to let people know we
were aware of limited, targeted attacks.

The bulletin release scheduled for the second Tuesday of the month,
April 12, at approximately 10 a.m. PDT. Come back to this blog then for
our official risk and impact analysis, as well as deployment guidance
and a brief video overview of the month's highlights. Meanwhile,
customers are encouraged to review Microsoft's advanced notification
 and
assess it for their particular environment. Additionally, we recommend
that administrators reference our Security Update Guide
 for
help preparing for the bulletin release.

The monthly technical webcast is scheduled for Wednesday, April 13,
hosted by Jerry Bryant and Jonathan Ness. I invite you to tune in and
learn more about the security bulletins. The webcast is scheduled for
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 11 a.m. PDT, and the registration can be
found here
.

For all the latest information, you can also follow the MSRC team on
Twitter at @MSFTSecResponse .


Edward E. Ziots
CISSP, Network +, Security +
Network Engineer
Lifespan Organization
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Re: ?? on Field service reps / Mileage expense

[Bill Humphries]

And on the opposite end, I drive my own car, don't have any policy 
regarding expensing miles and claim the mileage deductions on my taxes 
every year.   G.


Bill


Jeff Brown wrote:
This may not be very helpful, but as an EMPLOYEE one of my all-time 
favorite perks was a company vehicle that I was allowed to drive to 
and from home when working as a consultant.  I'll always remember that 
boss fondly.


On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Michael B. Smith 
mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote:


Consult your accountant or tax advisor.

 


In the USA, the IRS has fairly strict rules about what counts as
business mileage. Most businesses that I have worked for follow
those rules. This limits both exposure and liability to a company
if you follow the same rules.

 


In general, I believe a fairly accurate one sentence summary would
be to say that whatever mileage exceeds the round-trip from home
to office, driven for business purposes, would be reimbursable.
There are exceptions.

 


Note that you aren’t required to pay mileage expenses. The IRS
allows people to deduct vehicle expenses (or a portion thereof),
or if you reimburse less than the IRS allotment they can deduct
the difference between what you reimbursed and what the IRS
allows. Anything over the IRS allotment must be treated as income,
by both you and the employee.

 


Regards,

 


Michael B. Smith

Consultant and Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 


*From:* Cesare' A. Ramos [mailto:cra...@idfllc.com
]
*Sent:* Thursday, April 07, 2011 3:16 PM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* ?? on Field service reps / Mileage expense

 


Hellos.

 


Trying to figure some things out and thought I would ask the
peanut gallery for opinions.

 


We are a service company and have service reps on the field
visiting clients.  With the increase of fuel and such, I am
considering a formal policy on either mileage reimbursement or
monthly gas allowance.

 


What are your thoughts?  Should or would you set daily minimums
(i.e. only reimburse over 15 miles)? 

 


Just looking for general thoughts.

 


Thanks.

 


CAR

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Re: ?? on Field service reps / Mileage expense

[Jeff Brown]

This may not be very helpful, but as an EMPLOYEE one of my all-time favorite
perks was a company vehicle that I was allowed to drive to and from home
when working as a consultant.  I'll always remember that boss fondly.

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote:

>  Consult your accountant or tax advisor.
>
>
>
> In the USA, the IRS has fairly strict rules about what counts as business
> mileage. Most businesses that I have worked for follow those rules. This
> limits both exposure and liability to a company if you follow the same
> rules.
>
>
>
> In general, I believe a fairly accurate one sentence summary would be to
> say that whatever mileage exceeds the round-trip from home to office, driven
> for business purposes, would be reimbursable. There are exceptions.
>
>
>
> Note that you aren’t required to pay mileage expenses. The IRS allows
> people to deduct vehicle expenses (or a portion thereof), or if you
> reimburse less than the IRS allotment they can deduct the difference between
> what you reimbursed and what the IRS allows. Anything over the IRS allotment
> must be treated as income, by both you and the employee.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Michael B. Smith
>
> Consultant and Exchange MVP
>
> http://TheEssentialExchange.com
>
>
>
> *From:* Cesare' A. Ramos [mailto:cra...@idfllc.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 07, 2011 3:16 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* ?? on Field service reps / Mileage expense
>
>
>
> Hellos.
>
>
>
> Trying to figure some things out and thought I would ask the peanut gallery
> for opinions.
>
>
>
> We are a service company and have service reps on the field visiting
> clients.  With the increase of fuel and such, I am considering a formal
> policy on either mileage reimbursement or monthly gas allowance.
>
>
>
> What are your thoughts?  Should or would you set daily minimums (i.e. only
> reimburse over 15 miles)?
>
>
>
> Just looking for general thoughts.
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> CAR
>
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RE: ?? on Field service reps / Mileage expense

[Michael B. Smith]

Consult your accountant or tax advisor.

In the USA, the IRS has fairly strict rules about what counts as business 
mileage. Most businesses that I have worked for follow those rules. This limits 
both exposure and liability to a company if you follow the same rules.

In general, I believe a fairly accurate one sentence summary would be to say 
that whatever mileage exceeds the round-trip from home to office, driven for 
business purposes, would be reimbursable. There are exceptions.

Note that you aren't required to pay mileage expenses. The IRS allows people to 
deduct vehicle expenses (or a portion thereof), or if you reimburse less than 
the IRS allotment they can deduct the difference between what you reimbursed 
and what the IRS allows. Anything over the IRS allotment must be treated as 
income, by both you and the employee.

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: Cesare' A. Ramos [mailto:cra...@idfllc.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 3:16 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: ?? on Field service reps / Mileage expense

Hellos.

Trying to figure some things out and thought I would ask the peanut gallery for 
opinions.

We are a service company and have service reps on the field visiting clients.  
With the increase of fuel and such, I am considering a formal policy on either 
mileage reimbursement or monthly gas allowance.

What are your thoughts?  Should or would you set daily minimums (i.e. only 
reimburse over 15 miles)?

Just looking for general thoughts.

Thanks.

CAR
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Re: ?? on Field service reps / Mileage expense

[Sean Martin]

You can look to the Gov for reimbursement amounts.

http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/100715

As far as policy goes, I think it's pretty typical to only reimburse for
travel above and beyond the employee's normal commute. I wouldn't set such a
strict policy (monthly allowance) that would prevent your reps from
providing customer service, but that's just me.

- Sean

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Cesare' A. Ramos  wrote:

>  Hellos.
>
>
>
> Trying to figure some things out and thought I would ask the peanut gallery
> for opinions.
>
>
>
> We are a service company and have service reps on the field visiting
> clients.  With the increase of fuel and such, I am considering a formal
> policy on either mileage reimbursement or monthly gas allowance.
>
>
>
> What are your thoughts?  Should or would you set daily minimums (i.e. only
> reimburse over 15 miles)?
>
>
>
> Just looking for general thoughts.
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
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Re: ?? on Field service reps / Mileage expense

[Daniel Rodriguez]

I think the norm is as follows;

Mileage is counted from office to customer site. Rate of mileage
reimbursement normally is around $.48 per mile, or what the IRS allows.
(Some companies pay less, but you can deduct the difference on your Federal
Taxes.)
If the Field Rep goes from house to customer site, subtract 10 miles, (some
subtract 30 miles) from their daily mileage. Some companies do not allow you
to include the mileage from home to first customer site. Just site to site.

I have never worked for a company that provided a Monthly Gas Allowance.
Some companies are a bit leery about providing that, as the amount they
provide may not fully cover the amount of gas that you really use for
business purposes. From what I have encountered, though, a Monthly Gas
Allowance is an option normally given to the sales force of a company, as
they may 'see' clients, and perspective clients on a day to day basis.
Whereas the service force will do more mileage based upon the amount of
calls that they do per day and where they have to go to perform service.

Hope that helps. Others?

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Cesare' A. Ramos  wrote:

>  Hellos.
>
>
>
> Trying to figure some things out and thought I would ask the peanut gallery
> for opinions.
>
>
>
> We are a service company and have service reps on the field visiting
> clients.  With the increase of fuel and such, I am considering a formal
> policy on either mileage reimbursement or monthly gas allowance.
>
>
>
> What are your thoughts?  Should or would you set daily minimums (i.e. only
> reimburse over 15 miles)?
>
>
>
> Just looking for general thoughts.
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
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Re: Troubleshooting Event ID 2019, using memsnap

[Mike Leone]

On 4/7/2011 2:09 PM, Ziots, Edward wrote:
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ntdebugging/archive/2006/12/18/understanding-poo
> l-consumption-and-event-id_3a00_--2020-or-2019.aspx

Great! Thanks.

> 
> MmSt
> 
> So if we see MmSt as the top tag for instance consuming far and away the
> largest amount, we can look at pooltag.txt and know that it's the memory
> manager and also using that tag in a search engine query we might get
> the more popular KB304101 which may resolve the issue!
> 
> You can also use Ken's Article
> http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2006/07/10/Using-PoolMo
> n-_2800_Pool-Monitor_2900_-to-debug-kernel-memory-leaks.aspx
> 
> findstr /l /m Sbap*.sys
> 
> From this article it looks like Kaspersky AV filter which is the SBAP
> Poolmon tag. 
> http://forum.kaspersky.com/lofiversion/index.php/t152765.html

Does not surprise me. We've had a couple servers blue screen, and the
memory dump pointed to KLIF.SYS in one of them.

> Note that the SbAp module is occupying 165577272 bytes of nonpaged
> memory.
> Performing a string search inside the WINDIR\system32\drivers\ folder
> shows that its the klif driver.

My Kaspersky guy tells me that (for this specific system, at least) we
are a bit behind on revision patches. I'll have him check the other ones
we've seen go 2019 recently.

Thanks!

> 
> HTH
> Z
> 
> 
> Edward E. Ziots
> CISSP, Network +, Security +
> Network Engineer
> Lifespan Organization
> Email:ezi...@lifespan.org
> Cell:401-639-3505
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Mike Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:54 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Troubleshooting Event ID 2019, using memsnap
> 
> Lately, we;ve had a number of systems exhibit event ID 2019, "server was
> unable to allocate from the system non-paged pool because the pool was
> empty". The system eventually becomes unresponsive, and I have to
> reboot, to clear it. Something is causing a memory leak, but I'm having
> trouble figuring out what.
> 
> I ran "memsnap -p memsnp.txt", to capture kernel pool information.
> Later, I went back and ran it again, and then did a "memsnap -a", to
> analyze. And the lines with the biggest change are something with a tag
> of "MmSt", with a change of ~2M bytes, and "SbAp" with a change of
> almost 9M.
> 
> But what am I to make of this info? Where do I look to figure out what
> "MmSt: and "SbAp" are? And what program/process they belong to, so I can
> track down the culprit?
> 
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RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

[Steven M. Caesare]

IF your controller supports it, ADG (RAID6) is even better than RAID5 +
spare, IMO.

-sc

-Original Message-
From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] 
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 2:43 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

I've gotten so paranoid about this kind of situation happening here that
I have two hotspares in my servers.



John Hornbuckle
MIS Department
Taylor County School District
www.taylor.k12.fl.us




-Original Message-
From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:03 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

No hot spare.
John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership for Strong Families

- Original Message -
From: Steven M. Caesare 
To: NT System Admin Issues 
Sent: Thu Apr 07 13:01:32 2011
Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

If you don't have a hot spare then NO!

If you do have a hot spare, then it should have kicked in when the
previous drive failed, and you would currently not be seeing any
rebuilds with the drive you already replaced...

I'd recommend against it.

-sc

> -Original Message-
> From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 12:58 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5
>
> So I have a Dell 2850 with 6 drives in raid 5 and one completely
failed and
> another is predicted to according to the OpenManage software. I
replaced
> the failed one and it's rebuilding but I was wondering if anyone has
an
> opinion on whether or not I can replace the suspect drive before the
other
> one completes it's rebuild as this is a remote office and I really
don't want to
> drive back out here just to swap a drive out.
> John W. Cook
> Systems Administrator
> Partnership for Strong Families


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Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

[Anders Blomgren]

Wouldn't you be better served by running raid6 with a single hot spare?
Running raid5 with data drives at 1tb or larger is a nightmare no
matter how many hot spares you have...

-Anders

Sent from my iPhone

On 7 apr 2011, at 20:43, John Hornbuckle
 wrote:

> I've gotten so paranoid about this kind of situation happening here that I 
> have two hotspares in my servers.
>
>
>
> John Hornbuckle
> MIS Department
> Taylor County School District
> www.taylor.k12.fl.us
>
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:03 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5
>
> No hot spare.
> John W. Cook
> Systems Administrator
> Partnership for Strong Families
>
> - Original Message -
> From: Steven M. Caesare 
> To: NT System Admin Issues 
> Sent: Thu Apr 07 13:01:32 2011
> Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5
>
> If you don't have a hot spare then NO!
>
> If you do have a hot spare, then it should have kicked in when the previous 
> drive failed, and you would currently not be seeing any rebuilds with the 
> drive you already replaced...
>
> I'd recommend against it.
>
> -sc
>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
>> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 12:58 PM
>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>> Subject: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5
>>
>> So I have a Dell 2850 with 6 drives in raid 5 and one completely
> failed and
>> another is predicted to according to the OpenManage software. I
> replaced
>> the failed one and it's rebuilding but I was wondering if anyone has
> an
>> opinion on whether or not I can replace the suspect drive before the
> other
>> one completes it's rebuild as this is a remote office and I really
> don't want to
>> drive back out here just to swap a drive out.
>> John W. Cook
>> Systems Administrator
>> Partnership for Strong Families
>
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RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

[John Hornbuckle]

I've gotten so paranoid about this kind of situation happening here that I have 
two hotspares in my servers.



John Hornbuckle
MIS Department
Taylor County School District
www.taylor.k12.fl.us




-Original Message-
From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] 
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:03 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

No hot spare.
John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership for Strong Families

- Original Message -
From: Steven M. Caesare 
To: NT System Admin Issues 
Sent: Thu Apr 07 13:01:32 2011
Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

If you don't have a hot spare then NO!

If you do have a hot spare, then it should have kicked in when the previous 
drive failed, and you would currently not be seeing any rebuilds with the drive 
you already replaced...

I'd recommend against it.

-sc

> -Original Message-
> From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 12:58 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5
>
> So I have a Dell 2850 with 6 drives in raid 5 and one completely
failed and
> another is predicted to according to the OpenManage software. I
replaced
> the failed one and it's rebuilding but I was wondering if anyone has
an
> opinion on whether or not I can replace the suspect drive before the
other
> one completes it's rebuild as this is a remote office and I really
don't want to
> drive back out here just to swap a drive out.
> John W. Cook
> Systems Administrator
> Partnership for Strong Families


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RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

[Kennedy, Jim]

Nice to hear someone else doing that. When I go out of town for training or 
conferences I also take my bike. 

-Original Message-
From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] 
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:43 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

Well at $.52 a mile I may just ride the motorcycle to work and enjoy the day!


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RE: Troubleshooting Event ID 2019, using memsnap

[Ziots, Edward]

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ntdebugging/archive/2006/12/18/understanding-poo
l-consumption-and-event-id_3a00_--2020-or-2019.aspx

MmSt

So if we see MmSt as the top tag for instance consuming far and away the
largest amount, we can look at pooltag.txt and know that it's the memory
manager and also using that tag in a search engine query we might get
the more popular KB304101 which may resolve the issue!

You can also use Ken's Article
http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2006/07/10/Using-PoolMo
n-_2800_Pool-Monitor_2900_-to-debug-kernel-memory-leaks.aspx

findstr /l /m Sbap*.sys

>From this article it looks like Kaspersky AV filter which is the SBAP
Poolmon tag. 
http://forum.kaspersky.com/lofiversion/index.php/t152765.html

Note that the SbAp module is occupying 165577272 bytes of nonpaged
memory.
Performing a string search inside the WINDIR\system32\drivers\ folder
shows that its the klif driver.

HTH
Z


Edward E. Ziots
CISSP, Network +, Security +
Network Engineer
Lifespan Organization
Email:ezi...@lifespan.org
Cell:401-639-3505

-Original Message-
From: Mike Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:54 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Troubleshooting Event ID 2019, using memsnap

Lately, we;ve had a number of systems exhibit event ID 2019, "server was
unable to allocate from the system non-paged pool because the pool was
empty". The system eventually becomes unresponsive, and I have to
reboot, to clear it. Something is causing a memory leak, but I'm having
trouble figuring out what.

I ran "memsnap -p memsnp.txt", to capture kernel pool information.
Later, I went back and ran it again, and then did a "memsnap -a", to
analyze. And the lines with the biggest change are something with a tag
of "MmSt", with a change of ~2M bytes, and "SbAp" with a change of
almost 9M.

But what am I to make of this info? Where do I look to figure out what
"MmSt: and "SbAp" are? And what program/process they belong to, so I can
track down the culprit?


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Troubleshooting Event ID 2019, using memsnap

[Mike Leone]

Lately, we;ve had a number of systems exhibit event ID 2019, "server was
unable to allocate from the system non-paged pool because the pool was
empty". The system eventually becomes unresponsive, and I have to
reboot, to clear it. Something is causing a memory leak, but I'm having
trouble figuring out what.

I ran "memsnap -p memsnp.txt", to capture kernel pool information.
Later, I went back and ran it again, and then did a "memsnap -a", to
analyze. And the lines with the biggest change are something with a tag
of "MmSt", with a change of ~2M bytes, and "SbAp" with a change of
almost 9M.

But what am I to make of this info? Where do I look to figure out what
"MmSt: and "SbAp" are? And what program/process they belong to, so I can
track down the culprit?


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Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

[John Cook]

Well at $.52 a mile I may just ride the motorcycle to work and enjoy the day!
John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership for Strong Families

- Original Message -
From: Joseph Heaton 
To: NT System Admin Issues 
Sent: Thu Apr 07 13:31:45 2011
Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

Guess you'll have to break out the cot, John :)

>>> John Cook  4/7/2011 10:20 AM >>>
That's great info, thanks! Unfortunately there's the little detail of
physically swapping the drive out.
John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership for Strong Families


From: Miguel Gonzalez 
To: NT System Admin Issues 
Sent: Thu Apr 07 13:12:21 2011
Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

There is a CentOS live CD from Dell called OMSA that can be used for
certain models to run updates, BIOS upgrades and certain firmware
updates. It also has the dset and online diags on it but you can
configure a network interface and SSH the system, so you can run things
remotely.

Miguel

--- El jue, 7/4/11, richardmccl...@aspca.org 
escribió:

De: richardmccl...@aspca.org 
Asunto: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5
Para: "NT System Admin Issues" 
Fecha: jueves, 7 de abril, 2011 13:07


What does Dell Server Support say?  I can't remember the details, but a
firmware and OpenManage upgrade later, my "failed drive" was back up and
running.  I can't remember the details because it was 2-3 years ago.
This was a 2550 which whose service contract had run out like 3 years
previously.

Despite the bad press Dell sometimes gets in this forum, the techs are
only concerned with whether or not they can get your server back up and
running, not whether or not you have a valid support contract.  (Parts,
however, would be a different matter...)

Then again, a firmware upgrade would involve another trip back to the
remote site...
--
richard

John Cook  wrote on 04/07/2011 11:58:01 AM:

> So I have a Dell 2850 with 6 drives in raid 5 and one completely
> failed and another is predicted to according to the OpenManage
> software. I replaced the failed one and it's rebuilding but I was
> wondering if anyone has an opinion on whether or not I can replace
> the suspect drive before the other one completes it's rebuild as
> this is a remote office and I really don't want to drive back out
> here just to swap a drive out.
> John W. Cook
> Systems Administrator
> Partnership for Strong Families
>
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Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

[Joseph Heaton]

Guess you'll have to break out the cot, John :)

>>> John Cook  4/7/2011 10:20 AM >>>
That's great info, thanks! Unfortunately there's the little detail of
physically swapping the drive out.
John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership for Strong Families


From: Miguel Gonzalez 
To: NT System Admin Issues 
Sent: Thu Apr 07 13:12:21 2011
Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

There is a CentOS live CD from Dell called OMSA that can be used for
certain models to run updates, BIOS upgrades and certain firmware
updates. It also has the dset and online diags on it but you can
configure a network interface and SSH the system, so you can run things
remotely.

Miguel

--- El jue, 7/4/11, richardmccl...@aspca.org 
escribió:

De: richardmccl...@aspca.org 
Asunto: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5
Para: "NT System Admin Issues" 
Fecha: jueves, 7 de abril, 2011 13:07


What does Dell Server Support say?  I can't remember the details, but a
firmware and OpenManage upgrade later, my "failed drive" was back up and
running.  I can't remember the details because it was 2-3 years ago. 
This was a 2550 which whose service contract had run out like 3 years
previously.

Despite the bad press Dell sometimes gets in this forum, the techs are
only concerned with whether or not they can get your server back up and
running, not whether or not you have a valid support contract.  (Parts,
however, would be a different matter...)

Then again, a firmware upgrade would involve another trip back to the
remote site...
--
richard

John Cook  wrote on 04/07/2011 11:58:01 AM:

> So I have a Dell 2850 with 6 drives in raid 5 and one completely
> failed and another is predicted to according to the OpenManage
> software. I replaced the failed one and it's rebuilding but I was
> wondering if anyone has an opinion on whether or not I can replace
> the suspect drive before the other one completes it's rebuild as
> this is a remote office and I really don't want to drive back out
> here just to swap a drive out.
> John W. Cook
> Systems Administrator
> Partnership for Strong Families
>
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Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

[John Cook]

That's great info, thanks! Unfortunately there's the little detail of 
physically swapping the drive out.
John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership for Strong Families


From: Miguel Gonzalez 
To: NT System Admin Issues 
Sent: Thu Apr 07 13:12:21 2011
Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

There is a CentOS live CD from Dell called OMSA that can be used for certain 
models to run updates, BIOS upgrades and certain firmware updates. It also has 
the dset and online diags on it but you can configure a network interface and 
SSH the system, so you can run things remotely.

Miguel

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De: richardmccl...@aspca.org 
Asunto: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5
Para: "NT System Admin Issues" 
Fecha: jueves, 7 de abril, 2011 13:07


What does Dell Server Support say?  I can't remember the details, but a 
firmware and OpenManage upgrade later, my "failed drive" was back up and 
running.  I can't remember the details because it was 2-3 years ago.  This was 
a 2550 which whose service contract had run out like 3 years previously.

Despite the bad press Dell sometimes gets in this forum, the techs are only 
concerned with whether or not they can get your server back up and running, not 
whether or not you have a valid support contract.  (Parts, however, would be a 
different matter...)

Then again, a firmware upgrade would involve another trip back to the remote 
site...
--
richard

John Cook  wrote on 04/07/2011 11:58:01 AM:

> So I have a Dell 2850 with 6 drives in raid 5 and one completely
> failed and another is predicted to according to the OpenManage
> software. I replaced the failed one and it's rebuilding but I was
> wondering if anyone has an opinion on whether or not I can replace
> the suspect drive before the other one completes it's rebuild as
> this is a remote office and I really don't want to drive back out
> here just to swap a drive out.
> John W. Cook
> Systems Administrator
> Partnership for Strong Families
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Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

[Miguel Gonzalez]

There is a CentOS live CD from Dell called OMSA that can be used for certain 
models to run updates, BIOS upgrades and certain firmware updates. It also has 
the dset and online diags on it but you can configure a network interface and 
SSH the system, so you can run things remotely.

Miguel

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De: richardmccl...@aspca.org 
Asunto: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5
Para: "NT System Admin Issues" 
Fecha: jueves, 7 de abril, 2011 13:07



What does Dell Server Support say?  I
can't remember the details, but a firmware and OpenManage upgrade later,
my "failed drive" was back up and running.  I can't remember
the details because it was 2-3 years ago.  This was a 2550 which whose
service contract had run out like 3 years previously.



Despite the bad press Dell sometimes
gets in this forum, the techs are only concerned with whether or not they
can get your server back up and running, not whether or not you have a
valid support contract.  (Parts, however, would be a different matter...)



Then again, a firmware upgrade would
involve another trip back to the remote site...

--

richard



John Cook  wrote on 04/07/2011
11:58:01 AM:



> So I have a Dell 2850 with 6 drives in raid 5 and one completely 

> failed and another is predicted to according to the OpenManage 

> software. I replaced the failed one and it's rebuilding but I was


> wondering if anyone has an opinion on whether or not I can replace


> the suspect drive before the other one completes it's rebuild as 

> this is a remote office and I really don't want to drive back out


> here just to swap a drive out.

> John W. Cook

> Systems Administrator

> Partnership for Strong Families

> 

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Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

[John Cook]

It's out of warranty which is why I hung on to an identical machine for parts. 
It's the same old non profit "we don't have the money for that" until they lose 
something mentality, I'd wager I can talk them into replacing it in the near 
future!
John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership for Strong Families


From: richardmccl...@aspca.org 
To: NT System Admin Issues 
Sent: Thu Apr 07 13:07:32 2011
Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5


What does Dell Server Support say?  I can't remember the details, but a 
firmware and OpenManage upgrade later, my "failed drive" was back up and 
running.  I can't remember the details because it was 2-3 years ago.  This was 
a 2550 which whose service contract had run out like 3 years previously.

Despite the bad press Dell sometimes gets in this forum, the techs are only 
concerned with whether or not they can get your server back up and running, not 
whether or not you have a valid support contract.  (Parts, however, would be a 
different matter...)

Then again, a firmware upgrade would involve another trip back to the remote 
site...
--
richard

John Cook  wrote on 04/07/2011 11:58:01 AM:

> So I have a Dell 2850 with 6 drives in raid 5 and one completely
> failed and another is predicted to according to the OpenManage
> software. I replaced the failed one and it's rebuilding but I was
> wondering if anyone has an opinion on whether or not I can replace
> the suspect drive before the other one completes it's rebuild as
> this is a remote office and I really don't want to drive back out
> here just to swap a drive out.
> John W. Cook
> Systems Administrator
> Partnership for Strong Families
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Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

[John Cook]

Pretty much what I figured but I needed a consensus.
John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership for Strong Families


From: Bob Hartung 
To: NT System Admin Issues 
Sent: Thu Apr 07 13:04:58 2011
Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

I think you'll hose the RAID entirely if you do that. The rebuilding of the 
single replaced drive relies on all the remaining drives for the restoring the 
data.

--

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Wisco Industries, Inc.
736 Janesville St.
Oregon, WI 53575
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Fax: (608) 835-7399
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From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com]
Sent: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:58:01 -0500
Subject: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

So I have a Dell 2850 with 6 drives in raid 5 and one completely failed and 
another is predicted to according to the OpenManage software. I replaced the 
failed one and it's rebuilding but I was wondering if anyone has an opinion on 
whether or not I can replace the suspect drive before the other one completes 
it's rebuild as this is a remote office and I really don't want to drive back 
out here just to swap a drive out.
John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership for Strong Families

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Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

[RichardMcClary]

What does Dell Server Support say?  I can't remember the details, but a 
firmware and OpenManage upgrade later, my "failed drive" was back up and 
running.  I can't remember the details because it was 2-3 years ago.  This 
was a 2550 which whose service contract had run out like 3 years 
previously.

Despite the bad press Dell sometimes gets in this forum, the techs are 
only concerned with whether or not they can get your server back up and 
running, not whether or not you have a valid support contract.  (Parts, 
however, would be a different matter...)

Then again, a firmware upgrade would involve another trip back to the 
remote site...
--
richard

John Cook  wrote on 04/07/2011 11:58:01 AM:

> So I have a Dell 2850 with 6 drives in raid 5 and one completely 
> failed and another is predicted to according to the OpenManage 
> software. I replaced the failed one and it's rebuilding but I was 
> wondering if anyone has an opinion on whether or not I can replace 
> the suspect drive before the other one completes it's rebuild as 
> this is a remote office and I really don't want to drive back out 
> here just to swap a drive out.
> John W. Cook
> Systems Administrator
> Partnership for Strong Families
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Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

[Bob Hartung]

I think you'll hose the RAID entirely if you do that. The rebuilding of the 
single replaced drive relies on all the remaining drives for the restoring the 
data.

--

Bob Hartung
Wisco Industries, Inc.
736 Janesville St.
Oregon, WI 53575
Tel: (608) 835-3106 x215
Fax: (608) 835-7399
e-mail: bhartung(at)wiscoind.com
  _  

From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com]
Sent: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:58:01 -0500
Subject: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

So I have a Dell 2850 with 6 drives in raid 5 and one completely failed and 
another is predicted to according to the OpenManage software. I replaced the 
failed one and it's rebuilding but I was wondering if anyone has an opinion on 
whether or not I can replace the suspect drive before the other one completes 
it's rebuild as this is a remote office and I really don't want to drive back 
out here just to swap a drive out.
  John W. Cook
  Systems Administrator
  Partnership for Strong Families
  
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RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

[Kennedy, Jim]

Then do NOT fail a second drive before the first is finished rebuilding.

-Original Message-
From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] 
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:03 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

No hot spare.
John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership for Strong Families

- Original Message -
From: Steven M. Caesare 
To: NT System Admin Issues 
Sent: Thu Apr 07 13:01:32 2011
Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

If you don't have a hot spare then NO!

If you do have a hot spare, then it should have kicked in when the previous 
drive failed, and you would currently not be seeing any rebuilds with the drive 
you already replaced...

I'd recommend against it.

-sc

> -Original Message-
> From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 12:58 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5
>
> So I have a Dell 2850 with 6 drives in raid 5 and one completely
failed and
> another is predicted to according to the OpenManage software. I
replaced
> the failed one and it's rebuilding but I was wondering if anyone has
an
> opinion on whether or not I can replace the suspect drive before the
other
> one completes it's rebuild as this is a remote office and I really
don't want to
> drive back out here just to swap a drive out.
> John W. Cook
> Systems Administrator
> Partnership for Strong Families
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RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

[Kennedy, Jim]

+ 1 billion

-Original Message-
From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:02 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

If you don't have a hot spare then NO!

If you do have a hot spare, then it should have kicked in when the previous 
drive failed, and you would currently not be seeing any rebuilds with the drive 
you already replaced...

I'd recommend against it.

-sc

> -Original Message-
> From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 12:58 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5
> 
> So I have a Dell 2850 with 6 drives in raid 5 and one completely
failed and
> another is predicted to according to the OpenManage software. I
replaced
> the failed one and it's rebuilding but I was wondering if anyone has
an
> opinion on whether or not I can replace the suspect drive before the
other
> one completes it's rebuild as this is a remote office and I really
don't want to
> drive back out here just to swap a drive out.
> John W. Cook
> Systems Administrator
> Partnership for Strong Families
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Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

[John Cook]

No hot spare.
John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership for Strong Families

- Original Message -
From: Steven M. Caesare 
To: NT System Admin Issues 
Sent: Thu Apr 07 13:01:32 2011
Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

If you don't have a hot spare then NO!

If you do have a hot spare, then it should have kicked in when the
previous drive failed, and you would currently not be seeing any
rebuilds with the drive you already replaced...

I'd recommend against it.

-sc

> -Original Message-
> From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 12:58 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5
>
> So I have a Dell 2850 with 6 drives in raid 5 and one completely
failed and
> another is predicted to according to the OpenManage software. I
replaced
> the failed one and it's rebuilding but I was wondering if anyone has
an
> opinion on whether or not I can replace the suspect drive before the
other
> one completes it's rebuild as this is a remote office and I really
don't want to
> drive back out here just to swap a drive out.
> John W. Cook
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RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

[Steven M. Caesare]

If you don't have a hot spare then NO!

If you do have a hot spare, then it should have kicked in when the
previous drive failed, and you would currently not be seeing any
rebuilds with the drive you already replaced...

I'd recommend against it.

-sc

> -Original Message-
> From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 12:58 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5
> 
> So I have a Dell 2850 with 6 drives in raid 5 and one completely
failed and
> another is predicted to according to the OpenManage software. I
replaced
> the failed one and it's rebuilding but I was wondering if anyone has
an
> opinion on whether or not I can replace the suspect drive before the
other
> one completes it's rebuild as this is a remote office and I really
don't want to
> drive back out here just to swap a drive out.
> John W. Cook
> Systems Administrator
> Partnership for Strong Families
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Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

[John Cook]

So I have a Dell 2850 with 6 drives in raid 5 and one completely failed and 
another is predicted to according to the OpenManage software. I replaced the 
failed one and it's rebuilding but I was wondering if anyone has an opinion on 
whether or not I can replace the suspect drive before the other one completes 
it's rebuild as this is a remote office and I really don't want to drive back 
out here just to swap a drive out.
John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership for Strong Families

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RE: Need help with DFS

[Free, Bob]

In my mind, that is not necessarily an error, more of a condition.  As in "my 
sysvol is in journal wrap state" 

Google journal wrap.

Basic description-

The USN journal is a log of fixed size that records all changes that take place 
on NTFS 5.0-formatted partitions. NTFRS monitors the NTFS USN journal file for 
closed files in FRS replicated directories as long as FRS is running.

Journal wrap errors occur if a sufficient number of changes take place while 
FRS is turned off such that the last USN change that FRS recorded during 
shutdown no longer exists in the USN journal during startup. The risk is that 
changes to files and folders for FRS replicated trees may have taken place 
while the service was turned off, and no record of the change exists in the USN 
journal. To guard against data inconsistency, FRS asserts into a journal wrap 
state.

-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 7:26 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Need help with DFS

Well, it's saying that there's an error in the "jrnl_wrap" for NTFRS. I've got 
a call in to a consultant to help with this, but he's not going to be available 
until about 2:30. :-( That being said, one of the servers was down for awhile 
Tuesday night, which might also have contributed to the problem (power 
outage...the server was shut down automatically by the PowerChute
software.) Realistically, I think it was likely the "unsafe" shutdown that 
occurred when I tried to force the second server to come back up before the UPS 
was ready.



From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 10:14 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Need help with DFS

And nothing is in the eventlogs of either server detailing the reasons for 
replication failing?


 
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:05 AM, John Aldrich 
wrote:
Ok, I apparently accidentally broke DFS replication yesterday testing my UPS
-- it shut down one of the two servers unexpectedly and now DFS won't 
replicate. I have followed the instructions here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753479(WS.10).aspx and tried to 
restart the replication, but it isn't replicating.

Any ideas? Windows 2003 R2, fully updated.

HELP!!!





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RE: Need help with DFS

[John Aldrich]

Well, it appears to be rebuilding... I'll keep an eye on it. 




-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 10:26 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Need help with DFS

Well, it's saying that there's an error in the "jrnl_wrap" for NTFRS. I've
got a call in to a consultant to help with this, but he's not going to be
available until about 2:30. :-( That being said, one of the servers was down
for awhile Tuesday night, which might also have contributed to the problem
(power outage...the server was shut down automatically by the PowerChute
software.) Realistically, I think it was likely the "unsafe" shutdown that
occurred when I tried to force the second server to come back up before the
UPS was ready.



From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 10:14 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Need help with DFS

And nothing is in the eventlogs of either server detailing the reasons for
replication failing?


 
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:05 AM, John Aldrich 
wrote:
Ok, I apparently accidentally broke DFS replication yesterday testing my UPS
-- it shut down one of the two servers unexpectedly and now DFS won't
replicate. I have followed the instructions here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753479(WS.10).aspx and tried to
restart the replication, but it isn't replicating.

Any ideas? Windows 2003 R2, fully updated.

HELP!!!





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RE: Need help with DFS

[Phil Garven]

You may need to do the following
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290762

On the server with the issue setting the global BurFlags registry key to D2 
should tell that server to recreate its replica from any available source (the 
other server that is working)

In the rare case that all replicas are in the same state you then need to use 
the value of D4 on one server to set it to be authorative then use the D2 
setting on the other servers to get them to update from that one.

I've only had to do this once so I'm far from an expert in the area

When I did it, it made copies of the old data before recreating the new replica 
so watch out for disk space issues

Regards,
 
Phil Garven
-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 10:26 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Need help with DFS

Well, it's saying that there's an error in the "jrnl_wrap" for NTFRS. I've
got a call in to a consultant to help with this, but he's not going to be
available until about 2:30. :-( That being said, one of the servers was down
for awhile Tuesday night, which might also have contributed to the problem
(power outage...the server was shut down automatically by the PowerChute
software.) Realistically, I think it was likely the "unsafe" shutdown that
occurred when I tried to force the second server to come back up before the
UPS was ready.



From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 10:14 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Need help with DFS

And nothing is in the eventlogs of either server detailing the reasons for
replication failing?


 
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:05 AM, John Aldrich 
wrote:
Ok, I apparently accidentally broke DFS replication yesterday testing my UPS
-- it shut down one of the two servers unexpectedly and now DFS won't
replicate. I have followed the instructions here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753479(WS.10).aspx and tried to
restart the replication, but it isn't replicating.

Any ideas? Windows 2003 R2, fully updated.

HELP!!!





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Re: Need help with DFS

[Jonathan Link]

What's the EventID?



On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:26 AM, John Aldrich
wrote:

> Well, it's saying that there's an error in the "jrnl_wrap" for NTFRS. I've
> got a call in to a consultant to help with this, but he's not going to be
> available until about 2:30. :-( That being said, one of the servers was
> down
> for awhile Tuesday night, which might also have contributed to the problem
> (power outage...the server was shut down automatically by the PowerChute
> software.) Realistically, I think it was likely the "unsafe" shutdown that
> occurred when I tried to force the second server to come back up before the
> UPS was ready.
>
>
>
> From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 10:14 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Need help with DFS
>
> And nothing is in the eventlogs of either server detailing the reasons for
> replication failing?
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:05 AM, John Aldrich <
> jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>
> wrote:
>  Ok, I apparently accidentally broke DFS replication yesterday testing my
> UPS
> -- it shut down one of the two servers unexpectedly and now DFS won't
> replicate. I have followed the instructions here:
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753479(WS.10).aspx and tried
> to
> restart the replication, but it isn't replicating.
>
> Any ideas? Windows 2003 R2, fully updated.
>
> HELP!!!
>
>
>
>
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RE: Need help with DFS

[John Aldrich]

Well, it's saying that there's an error in the "jrnl_wrap" for NTFRS. I've
got a call in to a consultant to help with this, but he's not going to be
available until about 2:30. :-( That being said, one of the servers was down
for awhile Tuesday night, which might also have contributed to the problem
(power outage...the server was shut down automatically by the PowerChute
software.) Realistically, I think it was likely the "unsafe" shutdown that
occurred when I tried to force the second server to come back up before the
UPS was ready.



From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 10:14 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Need help with DFS

And nothing is in the eventlogs of either server detailing the reasons for
replication failing?


 
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:05 AM, John Aldrich 
wrote:
Ok, I apparently accidentally broke DFS replication yesterday testing my UPS
-- it shut down one of the two servers unexpectedly and now DFS won't
replicate. I have followed the instructions here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753479(WS.10).aspx and tried to
restart the replication, but it isn't replicating.

Any ideas? Windows 2003 R2, fully updated.

HELP!!!





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Re: Need help with DFS

[Joseph Heaton]

Well, at least you know that your UPS is not working well...

As to your problem:

Try this link:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732802.aspx 



>>> John Aldrich  4/7/2011 7:05 AM >>>
Ok, I apparently accidentally broke DFS replication yesterday testing my UPS
-- it shut down one of the two servers unexpectedly and now DFS won't
replicate. I have followed the instructions here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753479(WS.10).aspx and tried to
restart the replication, but it isn't replicating.

Any ideas? Windows 2003 R2, fully updated.

HELP!!!





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Re: Need help with DFS

[Jonathan Link]

And nothing is in the eventlogs of either server detailing the reasons for
replication failing?



On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:05 AM, John Aldrich
wrote:

> Ok, I apparently accidentally broke DFS replication yesterday testing my
> UPS
> -- it shut down one of the two servers unexpectedly and now DFS won't
> replicate. I have followed the instructions here:
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753479(WS.10).aspx and tried
> to
> restart the replication, but it isn't replicating.
>
> Any ideas? Windows 2003 R2, fully updated.
>
> HELP!!!
>
>
>
>
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Need help with DFS

[John Aldrich]

Ok, I apparently accidentally broke DFS replication yesterday testing my UPS
-- it shut down one of the two servers unexpectedly and now DFS won't
replicate. I have followed the instructions here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753479(WS.10).aspx and tried to
restart the replication, but it isn't replicating.

Any ideas? Windows 2003 R2, fully updated.

HELP!!!





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Re: Export documents from SharePoint?

[Eric Brouwer]

I'd like to export them to the file system only.  Some of these documents
only exist in SharePoint currently.

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Ken Schaefer  wrote:

>  Do you want to move the docs to a newer version of SharePoint? Or
> actually export them all to a file system only?
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Ken
>
>
>
> *From:* Eric Brouwer [mailto:ithelp.e...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, 7 April 2011 2:05 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Export documents from SharePoint?
>
>
>
> Greetings,
>
>
>
> I inherited a SharePoint 3.0 installation, and I'm looking to decommision
> it.  Problem is, a lot of the documentation only exists in SharePoint, which
> in turns resides in SQL.  Is there any way to export all stored documents
> into the file system as their original file types?  I'm finding solutions
> for SP 2007 & 2010, but nothing going back this far.
>
>
>
> Thank you!
>
>
>
> Eric
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RE: Laptop Backup Software?

[Steven M. Caesare]

I have a buddy/colleague who's using CrashPlan... if you have questions
I can pass them on...

 

-sc

 

 

From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] 
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 8:33 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Laptop Backup Software?

 

It is supposed to be a good product, similar to Druva from what I saw,
and more costly which is an issue as we grow.

 

Paul

From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 06 April 2011 16:10
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Laptop Backup Software?

 

Check out CrashPlan Pro.  Just came across it but haven't utilized it
yet - I probably will test it out soon.

You can do cloud based or host it yourself.  

I currently use Mozy Business for remote users, and a home brew backup
solution for local users, but I might switch everyone to CrashPlan.

http://www.crashplan.com/business/how.html

 

Sam

 

From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 8:20 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Laptop Backup Software?

 

We currently use Druva Insync to back up our laptop fleet.  As the
license is up for renewal I'm looking at what the options are.

 

I'm looking for something that is transparent to the end user in so much
as once installed they don't need to ever do anything beyond connect to
the network/vpn once in a blue moon.

 

Cloud is out, we want it hosted on our servers, and we want something
that is centrally managed and will email/alert us (and possibly the
user) automatically if a user doesn't backup for X days.

 

I wondered what those of you that do this are using and how you find it?



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RE: Laptop Backup Software?

[Paul Hutchings]

It is supposed to be a good product, similar to Druva from what I saw,
and more costly which is an issue as we grow.

 

Paul



From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 06 April 2011 16:10
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Laptop Backup Software?

 

Check out CrashPlan Pro.  Just came across it but haven't utilized it
yet - I probably will test it out soon.

You can do cloud based or host it yourself.  

I currently use Mozy Business for remote users, and a home brew backup
solution for local users, but I might switch everyone to CrashPlan.

http://www.crashplan.com/business/how.html

 

Sam

 

From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 8:20 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Laptop Backup Software?

 

We currently use Druva Insync to back up our laptop fleet.  As the
license is up for renewal I'm looking at what the options are.

 

I'm looking for something that is transparent to the end user in so much
as once installed they don't need to ever do anything beyond connect to
the network/vpn once in a blue moon.

 

Cloud is out, we want it hosted on our servers, and we want something
that is centrally managed and will email/alert us (and possibly the
user) automatically if a user doesn't backup for X days.

 

I wondered what those of you that do this are using and how you find it?



MIRA Ltd

 

Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England

Registered in England and Wales No. 402570

VAT Registration  GB 100 1464 84

 

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RE: Laptop Backup Software?

[Paul Hutchings]

Possibly as a standalone product, but I don't think that has any central 
management.

 

Paul

 

From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] 
Sent: 06 April 2011 17:08
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: R: Laptop Backup Software?

 

Shadow Protect is not the same (or even better)?

 

GuidoElia

HELPPC

 

 



Da: Miguel Gonzalez [mailto:miguel_3_gonza...@yahoo.es] 
Inviato: mercoledì 6 aprile 2011 15.28
A: NT System Admin Issues
Oggetto: Re: Laptop Backup Software?

We have tested backup exec system recovery 2010 and it works like a champ. It's 
only meant to be for Windows machines. 

Full backups are quite well compressed and take not much time. you can 
configure it once and forget (you can rotate old backups). It can back up on an 
external USB disk or on a CIFS share.

The impressive feature was that full backups can be used as a disaster recovery 
backup with a CD Symantec provides (an extra that you have to pay with a 
different licencing but it's worth it). The most impressive thing of the DR 
option is that you can even restore it on a different hardware (I tried from a 
Dell to a HP) and apart of installing new drivers, it works smoothly.

Regards,

Miguel

--- El mié, 6/4/11, Paul Hutchings  escribió:


De: Paul Hutchings 
Asunto: Laptop Backup Software?
Para: "NT System Admin Issues" 
Fecha: miércoles, 6 de abril, 2011 09:20

We currently use Druva Insync to back up our laptop fleet.  As the license is 
up for renewal I'm looking at what the options are.

 

I'm looking for something that is transparent to the end user in so much as 
once installed they don't need to ever do anything beyond connect to the 
network/vpn once in a blue moon.

 

Cloud is out, we want it hosted on our servers, and we want something that is 
centrally managed and will email/alert us (and possibly the user) automatically 
if a user doesn't backup for X days.

 

I wondered what those of you that do this are using and how you find it?



MIRA Ltd

 

Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England

Registered in England and Wales No. 402570

VAT Registration  GB 100 1464 84

 

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RE: VMware disk latency

[Ryan, Randy]

I'll toss out what we just recently discovered on an IBM 3500 SAN.

After much log generating and reviewing counters showing excessive disk latency 
in VMware, IBM Hardware Tech support reviewing logs and finally getting to LSI 
to have them look at the controller info, LSI discovered 1 of the disks had an 
issue with writing to the disk cache.  Nobody noticed it and the counters 
didn't seem big enough to make a difference.  After all, it was just one drive 
out of 12 in a Raid 5 array, what difference would that make?  Well, replaced 
the drive and it dropped the latency from above 300ms for the array down to 5 
to 10 ms.

Long story short, check your drive diagnostics for any issues before you lay 
the blame on your other hardware.

rr


From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 8:33 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware disk latency

Yes, and that is why I asked. HP has several low end controllers for those 
boxes and they are mind boggling POS's.
Toss in a good battery backed (cache enabled) controller and see the difference.

Said while staring at a 350 G5 and G6 running esxi after having been through 
this...

jlc

From: Bill Songstad [mailto:bsongs...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 5:17 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: VMware disk latency

Joseph, I can't find the build info for that box, but it looks to be a built in 
SATA controller. (SmartArray E200i)

Does that sound like a viable option?

Thanks,
Bill

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Joseph L. Casale 
mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com>> wrote:
Which controller on the ML?

From: Bill Songstad [mailto:bsongs...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 1:20 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: VMware disk latency

I have an ESXi4 setup on a HP ML350 G5 running a RAID5 array of sata drives for 
the primary datastore and a drobo iscsi array for the secondary datastore.  2 
VMs on each datastore.  4 VMs total.  All w2k8.

When I do a large file copy to any of the VMs from a share on a different 
physical machine there is huge latency, and not just on the machines hosted on 
the drobo.  Okay, not the fastest disk arrays in the world, but I wonder if my 
bottleneck is elsewhere though.  Durring the file copy, latency on the physical 
disks shoots up to 200-500 Milliseconds.  But on the Virtual disks, the latency 
is literally 10 times that, with the other machine on that datastore 
essentially mirroring the physical disk.  Subsequently, the machines 
effectively stop responding.

Durring a file copy to vm1 the latencies look like this:

Physical DAS latency 300 ms
vm1 vdisk on DAS latency 3,000 ms
vm2 vdisk on DAS latency 300 ms
Physical iSCSI latency 0 ms
vm3 vdisk latency 0 ms
vm4 vdisk latency 0 ms

Is this to be expected?  Why the ten-fold discrepancy between the actual disk 
and the virtual disk?

Any insights would be appreciated,

-Bill


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RE: Deleting messages older than 60 days

[Michael B. Smith]

Retention policies will do what you want. However, frankly, I wouldn't do it 
for just one user; unless we are talking about the person who signs the 
paychecks. :-)

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com


-Original Message-
From: James Hill [mailto:j.h...@coffeeclub.com.au] 
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 2:20 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Deleting messages older than 60 days

I have a user that wants to have emails in their Inbox(only) automatically 
deleted after 60 days.



Outlook archive doesn't seem to let me select just the inbox.



Any suggestions?



Environment is Outlook 2010 and Exchange 2010.



James.

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