Windows Audit logging and reporting

Hi chaps, I have a client that's dealing with an increasing number of blue chip firms and they are being asked, almost daily, to complete IT surveys about how they handle and do certain things internally. The main thing that has come up from this is that they really need to be able to show that

RE: P2V SBS aka two DC's

Thanks guys. A brainstorm I had tonight was to demote the non SBS DC so I am effectively P2V-ing a one DC environment, and if all looks good then re-DCPROMO the former DC back to it's former glory. if P2V blows up I have the physical SBS machine still. I hate not having a solid back-out plan. O

RE: P2V SBS aka two DC's

We did that here with our SBS 2003 setup and a few old boxes that were actually as GC's etc. The SBS box was creaking along and blue screening so we P2V'd that and then went nuts and did the other old boxes. We just P2V'd it in the same way you described, leaving the SBS physical box off after

RE: Windows Audit logging and reporting

Have you checked the kiwi site. Although I got an email yesterday from SolarWinds that they have bought Kiwi and all of their products. dave From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 1:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows Audit

Active Directory attribute query

Hi all, Happy New Year, etc. For some reason the default printer for our users is set via an Active Directory attribute (don't ask why, before my time). I was wondering if there is any easy way to be able to change this, preferably through ADUC? At the minute I can only do it via Adsiedit.msc, whi

RE: Active Directory attribute query

Dsquery/dsmod; perhaps in an HTA wrapper - or a CMD/BAT wrapper would be easier. Similar idea for adfind/admod. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php

Re: Active Directory attribute query

Hmmm, yeah, I could probably dust off my old batch skills and come up with something along those lines. I will have a look-see Cheers, 2009/1/7 Michael B. Smith > Dsquery/dsmod; perhaps in an HTA wrapper – or a CMD/BAT wrapper would be > easier. > > > > Similar idea for adfind/admod. > > > >

Re: OT : Anti-Phishing training game

I tried this link and can't seem to get to any sites at cups.cs.cmu.edu. Is this site no longer functional. I even googled for it and the links show up but still I only get page not found. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Erik Goldoff wrote: > Cute, if slow, game for teaching regular folks how

Re: A little OT: Cisco VPN Concentrator

I am doing one now (during my free time). Pretty painless but I did notice changes to the the VPN setup when I enabled our new security license extending out VPN options to allow for clientless and more clients to connect. I am stuck at the moment trying to make sure the settings I need are corre

Server OS Reinstall

I've got a server (Server 2003 R2) that conked out on me over the Christmas holidays. I'm not quite sure what went wrong--the hardware seems to be okay. But there was some sort of corruption in the RAID array and the OS gives a stop 0x0024 every time it goes to boot. A fresh OS install won'

Windows 2008 Terminal Server, Citrix, or both?

Hi Folks, I currently have a Citrix Presentation Server (or whatever it's called this week) for all remote users, and some internal users. I also use the Citrix Access Gateway appliance for external users, which I really like. I am going to stand up a new Terminal Server/Citrix farm in the n

RE: Server OS Reinstall

I never reuse a DC name, even if I removed it gracefully. That may be a bit overkill, but I would strongly advise against reusing a name on a failed DC. You can clean it out of AD, and you will need to but I still wouldn't reuse the name. I have always done a manual removal with the info in thi

RE: Server OS Reinstall

I believe you can use the Network ID instead of Join Domain after your install and select/choose the old name from AD Thanks, Jake Gardner TTC Network Administrator Ext. 246 -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, January 07

RE: OT : Anti-Phishing training game

still comes up functional for me Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security _ From: vbs [mailto:dvant...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 8:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT : Anti-Phishing training game I tried this link and can

RE: Server OS Reinstall

I have done this many times with no ill affects. Here is the MS documentation on the process: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216498 I personally have never had an issue with using this procedure and using the same name. YMMV Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Serv

Re: OT : Anti-Phishing training game

You could try and use it at the publisher's web site, here: http://wombatsecurity.com/antiphishing_phil/index.html -- ME2 On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Erik Goldoff wrote: > still comes up functional for me > > Erik Goldoff > > IT Consultant > > Systems, Networks, & Security > > >

RE: Server OS Reinstall

Usually the C24 Stop error is registry corruption, I have seen this a few times, if you have a backup of your Software Hive you can problem boot to a new partition and replace the old one, with the backup and point back to affected system and boot successful. If you don't want to go through that pa

RE: Server OS Reinstall

This looks promising. Although I'm worried about the warning: "The administrator must also make sure that replication has occurred since the demotion before manually removing the NTDS Settings object for any server. Using the Ntdsutil utility incorrectly may result in partial or complete loss o

RE: Server OS Reinstall

This sounds easiest. But can anyone confirm if it actually works? -Original Message- From: Jake Gardner [mailto:jgard...@ttcdas.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 9:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Server OS Reinstall I believe you can use the Network ID instead of Joi

RE: Server OS Reinstall

It's weird... I had tried booting from a Windows CD to do a repair, but setup said it couldn't recognize the C: partition and wanted to format it. This is strange for two reasons: 1. Setup could recognize the D: partition just fine (and both C: and D: are partitions in the same hardware RAID 5

Re: OT : Anti-Phishing training game

I meant to add, I also can't get to the CUPS site. -- ME2 On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr wrote: > You could try and use it at the publisher's web site, here: > > http://wombatsecurity.com/antiphishing_phil/index.html > > -- > ME2 > > > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:39 AM, E

Re: OT : Anti-Phishing training game

This works ok... I checked my firewall for the other domain and for some reason packets are being dropped. Thanks On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr < michealespin...@gmail.com> wrote: > You could try and use it at the publisher's web site, here: > > http://wombatsecurity.com/

RE: Server OS Reinstall

Sorry, I wasn't paying attention. I would only do this for member servers and workstations. Messing with a DC is a whole 'nuther ball game. I'd go with Chris's suggestion and follow the MS article. Thanks, Jake Gardner TTC Network Administrator Ext. 246 -Original Message- From: Joh

Opinion wanted: W2K8 network items

Working on a standard Windows Server 2008 build. Anyone though abut disabling the following: IPv6 Link-Layer Topology Discovery Mapper I/O Driver Link-Layer Topology Discovery Responder Looking for any things I might run into if I disable them. Thanks, Chris Bodnar,

Re: Opinion wanted: W2K8 network items

I know you will need to get the IPv6 turned off before you use WSUS to get reliable communication with Windows 2008 servers. Either that or make sure your Default web site is set to use IPv4 first. Once it is in you can't make changes and not see WSUS work. Personally I left it on and just had m

RE: Server OS Reinstall

Hey Z what is this tape thing you speak of??? TVK -Original Message- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 8:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Server OS Reinstall Usually the C24 Stop error is registry corruption, I have seen this

Auditing Everything

I have a request from my CEO to audit everything that happens on our network. When users open files, when they change files, delete files, use any programs, go to any websites (we use ie7, firefox), etc etc etc. Do any of you have a good solution you can recommend for that? I can google all I wan

Re: Windows 2008 Terminal Server, Citrix, or both?

I'm using the published apps with TS08 and it works really well. Easy to use, the end users love it. On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Tom Miller wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I currently have a Citrix Presentation Server (or whatever it's called this > week) for all remote users, and some internal use

Re: Auditing Everything

I hope you have enormous event log files and a ton of disk space overhead, if you want to do this using Event Viewer. Turning on file and folder auditing for all files is a bit bonkers in my opinion though. In the past I have done event log collection and parsing using dumpel and a bit of batch scr

RE: Auditing Everything

Turn on the auditing you want on the server(s) and use Logparser and elsave to grab your event logs and clean them up then dump them since they will get HUGE. SBS I believe comes with ISA which you can use to monitor web traffic regardless of browser. Just point the pc's default gateways to ISA a

Re: Windows 2008 Terminal Server, Citrix, or both?

I have Citrix MPS 4.5 but 2008 Terminal Services seems to be (finally) a viable alternative to this. However it will depend entirely on the speed to my remote sites, and how well it fits in with my future projects (VDI) whether I take the plunge and bin Citrix altogether. I do have to say though t

Re: Auditing Everything

GFI EventSentry. On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Alex Carroll wrote: > I have a request from my CEO to audit everything that happens on our > network. When users open files, when they change files, delete files, use > any programs, go to any websites (we use ie7, firefox), etc etc etc. Do an

Re: Auditing Everything

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Alex Carroll wrote: > I have a request from my CEO to audit everything that happens on our > network. When users open files, when they change files, delete files, use > any programs, go to any websites (we use ie7, firefox), etc etc etc. Do any > of you have a goo

Upgrading DCs to 64 bit

Has anyone upgraded their 2003 domain from 32 bit DCs to 64 bit DCs? Our security team wants to move to 64 bit to take advantage of the larger event logs - anyone done it? Were there any issues running some DCs 32 bit and some 64 bit? Anyone run a mixed environment long term? I'm planning on doin

RE: Opinion wanted: W2K8 network items

I disable these in some 2008 web servers running IIS and ColdFusion. I have no issue. Does disabling them gain some performance.. I do not know From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 7:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Opini

RE: Server OS Reinstall

I reuse DC names every time I do HW refresh and have renamed newly promoted DC's back to the name of the one that was removed when I had to run a site in parallel during HW refresh. The thing you need to insure is that the metadata is cleaned up no matter and said cleanup is replicated whether y

RE: Auditing Everything

I would look at the suite of products from ScriptLogic/Quest. I am fairly certain that you will find 1 or 2 products there that can be used to achieve the desired results. TVK -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 9:36 AM To: N

RE: Auditing Everything

I think what the CEO is asking for will cost as much, if not more as they have invested already in IT, based upon your size. You need a proxy server for web surfing to log websites, so ISA for example. Servers need all the auditing logging turned up and then that will generate massive log files

RE: Upgrading DCs to 64 bit

I have a mix of 64-bit Server 2008 DCs and 32-bit Server 2003 DCs. No problems here. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us From: Webb, Brian (Corp) [mailto:brian.w...@teldta.com]

RE: Upgrading DCs to 64 bit

I have been running a mix of 32 and 64-bit DCs for over a year with no ill effects at all. I prefer the performance gains I receive from running 64-bit, but not all MS management tools (GPMC in particular) would run on 64-bit prior to Server 2008's release, so I had to keep at least 1 32-bit ser

RE: Auditing Everything

And how many people does he plan to hire to review and report on all this data? You'll probably need to add storage and another server to accommodate it. Take a look at Adventnet's Eventlog Analyzer... http://manageengine.adventnet.com/products/eventlog/index.html Roger Wri

Re: Windows 2008 Terminal Server, Citrix, or both?

How do you provide secure remote access? I'm using the published apps with TS08 and it works really well. Easy to use, the end users love it. On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Tom Miller wrote: Hi Folks, I currently have a Citrix Presentation Server (or whatever it's called this week)

RE: Auditing Everything

Make sure you email the CEO the logs every night. By Friday, he will ask you to turn off auditing. From: Alex Carroll [mailto:acarr...@crabco.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 7:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Auditing Everything I have a request from my CEO to audit eve

Re: Auditing Everything

Christ you all. It doesn't have to be this hard. If they have a Sonicwall, buy the Viewpoint module. If they don't have a Sonicwall, then get them one. There are equivalent products for Cisco and Watchguard. For AD, just turn on appropriate auditing and use GFI EventSentry to gather and report

Re: Windows 2008 Terminal Server, Citrix, or both?

VPN for now... On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Tom Miller wrote: > How do you provide secure remote access? > > > I'm using the published apps with TS08 and it works really well. Easy to > use, the end users love it. > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Tom Miller wrote: > >> Hi Folks, >> >>

RE: Upgrading DCs to 64 bit

We added a 64 bit DC to our existing domain with no issues whatsoever early last year to add some horsepower to a site allegedly being hammered by Exchange and to test all our processes, documentation, 3rd party agents, services etc in preparation for the next HW refresh. We did it in the lab as we

RE: Auditing Everything

For internet auditing I like St Bernard iPrism. Hardware appliance (1U rack mount form factor) that sits between your users and your internet connection. Setup is typically less than 1 hour. As for file monitoring... that sounds very unrealistic given your size. _

RE: Upgrading DCs to 64 bit

We have been using 64 bit 2003 servers and 32 bit servers for a few years now on 2003, last year we moved most of our DC's to 64 bit servers and we are having zero problems with it. -Original Message- From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 9:56 AM To:

RE: Windows 2008 Terminal Server, Citrix, or both?

From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Subject: Re: Windows 2008 Terminal Server, Citrix, or both? How do you provide secure remote access? You would use the TS Gateway Role Service. I would highly recommend the TS 2008 Resource Kit. Excellent book with a lot of the info you are lo

SecurID and TS Gateway.

Has anyone setup the TS Gateway to use SecurID? We are trying to set that up in a test Lab and so far we find it is not supported on Server 2008? If you have done it, do you have any Sites or documentation you can point me to for help? So far from our scouring of the RSA site we cannot find a

RE: Auditing Everything

There will be a performance hit. I would ask what he's trying to accomplish...what are his goals? Licensing? Misuse? Malware protection? Information theft? He's suggested a solution to an unknown problem. It's the CEO's job to tell the IT guy what he needs, it's the IT guys job to figure out ho

RE: Server OS Reinstall

Good point... This server was also a GC. Not sure if that affects the cleanup process in any way... -Original Message- From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 10:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Server OS Reinstall I reuse DC names every ti

Re: Auditing Everything

The performance hit is minor for a network of that size and not worth worrying about. And, for any and all of those solutions, the Audit log is the solution. What is the problem that would NOT involve gathering and reporting on Audit logs? That's just standard practice. -- Durf On Wed, Jan 7, 2

Re: File name is too long

Don't worry, I am sure that someday soon, you too will be part of the Vista OS. Maybe in a future service pack release? On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > Yeah, unlike me... > > Heh. > > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Michael B. Smith > wrote: >> It's part of the OS with Vista

RE: Auditing Everything

True, it may not be too difficult to capture all the information, but it could be very resource-intensive to actually make use of it. The secret is to capture only what you need, not "everything that happens", so it's easier discern what's really going on. For a small office environment there

Re: Auditing Everything

Watch out setting the server's event log bigger than 300MB. CHeck this out: http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/Windows2003/AdminTips/Admin/MaximumsizeforEventlogs.html You are gonna have to use something other than windoze file auditing due to this limit. Something designed for

Re: Auditing Everything

No, you really just need a couple of tools. Why are you making this more complicated than it has to be? Have you implemented this before? Audit Logging settings for the top four events, and GFI EventSentry. What else, specifically, are you saying they need? Please be specific. -- Durf On Wed,

Re: Auditing Everything

No, not really. GFI EventSentry's whole purpose is to handle this. You run reports out of it and set alert conditions. The *entire idea* is to use that software to handle the complexity for you. Do you have another recommendation? -- Durf On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Roger Wright wrote:

Re: File name is too long

LOL! I was speaking more to the respectability part of that remark... On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Steven Peck wrote: > Don't worry, I am sure that someday soon, you too will be part of the > Vista OS. Maybe in a future service pack release? > > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Kurt Buff wro

RE: Auditing Everything

Log files don't need to be big if you know what you're looking for. It goes back to the "I *can* audit everything, but what are you looking for"? I, for example, have monitoring software and I look for application installs on all PC's for a 50-user company by simply having it look for Event ID

Re: Auditing Everything

Not, that's not it, and he won't be done. Someone still has to review the logs, and understand what's happening. The order is to "audit everything that happens on our network. When users open files, when they change files, delete files, use any programs, go to any websites (we use ie7, firefox),

RE: File name is too long

> -Original Message- > From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] > Subject: Re: File name is too long > > Don't worry, I am sure that someday soon, you too will be part of the > Vista OS. Maybe in a future service pack release? That would make for an extremely HHUUGGEE service pack! W

Re: Auditing Everything

Okay guys I suppose you are partially right. The need was stated to carte blanche audit everything. The built in windows audit *has a limit*. It can be overwritten when full. You can loose events. That doesn't fill this need. The need needs to be clarified -- maybe "audit file changes on X dr

Re: Auditing Everything

We aren't partially right - we are entirely right. The whole point of GFI EventSentry is to *gather the events from Windows and store them in SQL*. So I can safely disregard your whole first paragraph as frankly ignorant of the possibilities. If you have any clients who have compliance needs, suc

Re: File name is too long

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Webster wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] >> Subject: Re: File name is too long >> >> Don't worry, I am sure that someday soon, you too will be part of the >> Vista OS. Maybe in a future service pack release? > > Th

Re: Auditing Everything

Durf: He needs a better definition of the need. You say I am wrong and then go on to speak of defined needs with legistation mentioned. I totally agree (didnt I just say that)? The windows event log alone won't do it. If you go over 300MB on a 2003 server you will have perfomance issues. You t

Re: Auditing Everything

Gathering data is not sufficient - it will not accomplish the stated goals, by itself, even though, as you say, tools exist that can do what he wants. That's because the audit function is not mere data collection. The task also requires evaluation/interpretation of the gathered data. That is the r

RE: Auditing Everything

Can you all clarify something? I cannot find "GFI EventSentry", I can find "GFI EventsManager http://www.gfi.com/eventsmanager/ " and "netikus ltd. EventSentry http://www.eventsentry.com/ ". So I am just wondering which one is the product people are using? Gene Giannamore Abide International

OT: Gotta Get Me Some o' Dat!

Perfect for the home office: http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/jvcs-worlds-largest-tv-110-inches-and -728-pounds-of-hd/ Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource ho

Re: OT: Gotta Get Me Some o' Dat!

It's not the size of your TV, it's how you use it. On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Roger Wright wrote: > Perfect for the home office: > > > > > http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/jvcs-worlds-largest-tv-110-inches-and-728-pounds-of-hd/ > > > > > > > > Roger Wright > > Network Administrator > > E

Re: OT: Gotta Get Me Some o' Dat!

How else would you use it? Atari baby! On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Jonathan Link wrote: > It's not the size of your TV, it's how you use it. > > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Roger Wright wrote: > >> Perfect for the home office: >> >> >> >> >> http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/jvcs-wo

Re: OT: Gotta Get Me Some o' Dat!

i bet it looks horrible. -- ME2 On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Roger Wright wrote: > Perfect for the home office: > > > > http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/jvcs-worlds-largest-tv-110-inches-and-728-pounds-of-hd/ > > > > > > > > Roger Wright > > Network Administrator > > Evatone, Inc. > > 727

RE: OT: Gotta Get Me Some o' Dat!

Keep telling yourself that... From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 1:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Gotta Get Me Some o' Dat! This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are proper

RE: Auditing Everything

EventManager from GFI is what I wrote and what we have. I think the others typo'd or something :) > -Original Message- > From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 1:51 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Auditing

Re: OT: Gotta Get Me Some o' Dat!

Time to break out the Intellivision! Imagine over 100 inches of everyone's favorite 4 bit system. On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Rob Bonfiglio wrote: > How else would you use it? Atari baby! > > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Jonathan Link wrote: > >> It's not the size of your TV, it's how

RE: OT: Gotta Get Me Some o' Dat!

Pong Parties! From: Rob Bonfiglio [mailto:robbonfig...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 10:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Gotta Get Me Some o' Dat! How else would you use it? Atari baby! On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Jonathan Link wrote: It's not the si

New DL380 G5

Ok, I'm getting ready for my VMware install, I would like to make sure my two new servers have the latest firmware before I install anything. What's the best way? Do I just insert the SmartStart and it will ask me for the latest ProLiant Support Pack? I need to install the second processor and ap

W2K8 SAV 10.2 client not getting updates from Parent server

Just installed the 10.2 client on a few test W2K8 32-bit boxes and none of them are getting the updates from the parent server. I don't see anything in the logs to indicate why. I am familiar with the process of setting up this type of configuration and have dropped the correct GRC.DAT file on

Re: New DL380 G5

Yes Smartstart will guide you through a ROM update. I've never done the update before installing the second proc though. Never have heard or read anything about that. On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Stefan Jafs wrote: > Ok, I'm getting ready for my VMware install, I would like to make sure my

feeling quite dumb today - could use some help

I'm trying to setup a simple lab and something just isn't working. I could use some help. Server A - 2003 AD DC with DNS - connects to internet just great using local DNS server which forwards requests to ISP. Server B - part of 2003 AD Domain - using DNS Server on Server A and using gateway that

RE: feeling quite dumb today - could use some help

Server B should use the same gateway that Server A is using. From: Bryan Garmon [mailto:bryan.gar...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 1:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: feeling quite dumb today - could use some help ~ Finally, po

Cisco Catalyst command question

I need to enable SNMP on my Catalyst. I've found 3 SNMP commands, and need to know which/how to use them: Snmp-server enable traps - Is this the command to enable SNMP? How do I use this generically, to simply turn snmp on so that my network monitoring tool can identify the box, and monitor t

Re: feeling quite dumb today - could use some help

Thank you -that fixed that issue. Second pressing problem - In this simple setup - from Server B - I type "nslookup" and get "Can't find server name for address W.X.Y.Z: Non-existent domain. Default Server: Unknown Address: W.Z.Y.Z. thoughts? On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Kim Longenbaugh wrote

RE: New DL380 G5

Use the latest firmware CD from HP.com, not smartstart. - John Barsodi From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:sj...@amico.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 11:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: New DL380 G5 Ok, I'm getting ready for my VMware install, I would like to make sure my two new servers

RE: New DL380 G5

Don't know how you figure that? If you buy a server at some date when revision X of firmware is out, how do you make it dual procced? Next month revision X+1 is out? Not logical... Toss the firmware cd in, or mount the iso via ilo and give'er. jlc From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:sj...@amico.com] Sen

RE: Gotta Get Me Some o' Dat!

110? But mine goes to 150! http://www.switched.com/2007/12/27/worlds-largest-tv-measures-in-at-150- inches/ Thanks, Jake Gardner TTC Network Administrator Ext. 246 From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 1:51 PM To

RE: New DL380 G5

Perfect that's what I was looking for, Thanks ___ Stefan Jafs From: Barsodi.John [mailto:john.bars...@igt.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 2:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: New DL380 G5 Use the latest firmware CD from HP.com, not sma

RE: feeling quite dumb today - could use some help

Is there a reverse lookup zone setup for the domain? Is there a PTR record for server A? Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610

Re: Gotta Get Me Some o' Dat!

I'd prefer the cosplay girl next to it thanks. - Original Message - From: Jake Gardner To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 2:42 PM Subject: RE: Gotta Get Me Some o' Dat! 110? But mine goes to 150! http://www.switched.com/2007/12/27/worlds-larges

Re: feeling quite dumb today - could use some help

Yes, I added a reverse lookup zone for the domain. DNS shows an SOA record, a NS record, and 3 Host (A) records - all of which point to the 2 servers in question. On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Christopher Bodnar < christopher_bod...@glic.com> wrote: > > > Is there a reverse lookup zone setup

RE: feeling quite dumb today - could use some help

But is there a PTR record in the reverse lookup zone? Can you do an nslookup on the IP address of server A? Nslookup 10.x.x.x Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christo

RE: Cisco Catalyst command question

"snmp-server enable traps" just enables the switch/router to begin sending trap events as they occur to the host that you provided in the "snmp-server host" command. Once you turn it on... issue the "show run" command and you'll see that the switch actually enabled a bunch more automatically for y

Re: Cisco Catalyst command question

It depends on what exactly you're going to do snmp-wise. "snmp-server enable traps" enables the sending of SNMP traps, and "snmp-server host" sets the host to send them to. If you are going to generate bandwidth graphs with Cacti, MRTG or something similar all you need to do is set the SNMP commu

Re: feeling quite dumb today - could use some help

In the reverse lookup zone there is a SOA record for the DC (Server A) and also a NS record for the DC (Server A) And no - when I try nslookup on IP of server A it returns "unknown - can't find IP: Non-existent domain" On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Christopher Bodnar < christopher_bod...@glic

RE: Cisco Catalyst command question

Perfect. Thanks Phil, and Aaron. Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Cisco Catalyst command question It depends on what exactly you'r

Re: feeling quite dumb today - could use some help

Okay - I get it now - sorry - I now have PTR records in the reverse lookup name for both Server A and Server B and NSlookup is now working as expected. Thanks for the help. On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Bryan Garmon wrote: > In the reverse lookup zone there is a SOA record for the DC (Server

File names that are too long - Can they be stopped?

Every year about this time I have to archive off data to media such as DVD or CD and every year I run into problems because some of my users create files that have names as long as a sentence or they are so far buried in a folder structure that file copies fail, I cannot burn the files to CD, etc.

OT: Wednesday Funny

BWAHAhahahahahah http://www.flixxy.com/computer-history-ctrl-alt-del.htm Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php ~ Finally, powerful endpoint secur

Re: OT: Wednesday Funny

Reminds me of when I first saw NT, my first thought was how am I going to warm boot this thing when it hangs. On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Michael B. Smith < mich...@theessentialexchange.com> wrote: >BWAHAhahahahahah > > > > http://www.flixxy.com/computer-history-ctrl-alt-del.htm > > > > R

Re: OT: Gotta Get Me Some o' Dat!

(sic) -- ME2 On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Jacob wrote: > Pong Parties! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

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