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PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS PAGE AS A REFERENCE TO YOUR WINDOWS 7 CUSTOMIZATION With the introduction of Windows 7 I had the need to customize Windows 7 to my needs, as in with fewer functions, faster, my preferences etc. nLite what I used for Windows XP, and vLite what can be used for Windows Vista are both not capable of customizing Windows 7. vLite could be used for it, I even got it working but eventually only the unattended installation worked, and only without … text/html 2010-08-18T16:17:57+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/adanonymousldapbind If you have to enable anonymous binds in AD, you can do so like this: * Start Adsiedit.msc * Go to Action and select 'Connect To' * Select the 'Select a well known Naming Context' radio button and select Configuration from the drop down menu. * Expand the Configuration container, then Services an then Windows NT. * Right-click 'CN=Directory Service' and select Properties. * Double-click the dSHeuristics attribute. * If the value is currently <Not Set>, set it to 0000002. If it isn't cu… text/html 2011-12-15T11:00:17+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/adauthenticationcrystalreports This manual describes the steps necessary to enable windows AD authentication for Crystal Reports Server 2008 and Business Objects XI 3.0. Active Directory Preparation In Active Directory a user who will serve as a service account must be created. Also, there will have to be made one or more groups for users to inhabit. The groups will allow BO to see which usernames to import. Finally, a service principle name needs to be created. * Create an AD group or multiple groups for BO users and make… text/html 2010-08-17T09:20:10+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/adinstall This is an installation report of a basic installation of Microsoft's Active Directory through the tool dcpromo. The settings are based on a small AD domain design and should be set to your own settings when installing in a production environment. Although this page is created for a 2003 AD, it also applies to a 2008 AD. Screens look different though, and the dcpromo wizard skips or adds a few screens. If you pick the basic installation (not the advanced) you'll be fine with this article. If so… text/html 2010-08-17T13:32:44+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/adldapforlinux The goal in this article is to enable Linux (SLES 11 SP1) boxes to use the Active Directory (2008) as the central directory for authentication. Identity Management For Unix After installing the Windows Server 2008 and installing Active Directory on it you have to add Identity Management for Unix to the server: * Start the control panel (in classic view) and go to 'Programs and Features'. * Click on 'Turn Windows features on or off'. * Under 'Server manager', expand the 'Roles' section an… text/html 2011-05-04T15:58:11+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/adpasswordpolicy On Domain Controllers with administrative tools installed: * Go to start -> All Programs -> Administrative Tools -> Group Policy Management * Browse to the Forest -> Domain -> Organizational Unit where you want to apply the policy * Rightclick -> 'Create a GPO in this domain, and link it here': text/html 2011-05-11T14:01:37+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/adscreensaver On Domain Controllers with administrative tools installed: * Go to start -> All Programs -> Administrative Tools -> Group Policy Management * Browse to the Forest -> Domain -> Organizational Unit where you want to apply the policy * Rightclick -> 'Create a GPO in this domain, and link it here': text/html 2011-08-28T16:04:53+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/advertising It is possible to advertise on warmetal.nl. By continually adding articles (over 400 technical articles right now) this site now attracts over 20.000 unique visitors each month and still growing. This is an overview of the statistics for the last year, taken on 28 August 2011: If you want to advertise you can show your banner on the left upper side. Max size is: 234 x 60. Costs is 30 euros for a full month which can be paid through paypal. Website takeover You can also advertise on all… text/html 2011-07-14T13:08:33+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aix61 The purpose is to create a Standard Operating Environment which can be installed through NIM, and offers all functionality as configured on 5.3: * All default configuration and setup * For example DNS, NTP, filesystems, additional software, etc. text/html 2010-03-04T12:25:17+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixautohomedir Under normal circumstances you would use the PAM module pam_mkhomedir.so to create a home directory when it not exists and a user logins. This does not work using SSH because this is considered a security breach. This article is about the autocreation of a home directory when users login using SSH. Because the pam module doesn't work anymore we use the “make_home_dir” program from TrustSec. Note: The recommendations used here are mostly from the readme, this readme was however created for linux… text/html 2009-11-19T10:57:46+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixftp Since I restricted access for local users to my AIX boxes users have a problem with placing files on the boxes. The files needs to be accessible for local users for compiling, deploying or whatever purpose they are intended for. This is more complex than it seems, we are talking multiple users working at the same time on the same project, placing and editing files all the time. When these files are not changed to belong to a local or one user in common a permission and owner nightmare will occur… text/html 2010-06-15T10:09:57+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixinfo Introduction This is an overview of the commands to retrieve information about the AIX installation and the hardware it's installed on. The commands are grouped into these sections: * Hardware * Storage * CPU * Memory * Network * Installed software * AIX itself * Other software text/html 2011-01-13T12:55:09+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixinstallx When you have an already installed AIX system it might happen you'll need to install X on the system. Oracle dba's will love you for it, since it will make it easier for them to install Oracle for example. This is an how to install X on AIX, assuming you have a AIX NIM server. If you don't have one you'll need to install the filesets from a different medium. The basic required fileset for X on AIX is X11.base.rte. You can check for the fileset with this command: lslpp -L | grep X11.base.rte text/html 2010-08-26T11:23:23+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixivmlpar When logged into the IVM installed on the VIOS you see the existing LPARs in the right panel. One is always there, the vios itself. If you want to create a new LPAR click on the “Create Partition” button right above the existing LPARs. This will start a wizard which gives you the opportunity to create a LPAR: text/html 2012-01-06T09:36:54+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixldapad As a counterfeit on AIX LDAP authentication on eDirectory this article will explain everything if you don't want to authenticate on eDirectory but on Active Directory. The AIX level will be the same, the AD will be a Windows 2008 AD and is installed as described in here. Requisites The LDAP client has a few requisites which you need to install: text/html 2010-03-05T10:40:31+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixldapedirectory This is a tutorial on how to setup AIX local authentication through LDAP on eDirectory. The version eDirectory that is being used is 8.8.4 which is installed on a NetWare 6.5 SP8 server. This server is for testing purposes and installed according to this installation report only upgraded to SP 8. The AIX version being used is 5.3 TL 6 FP 7 (5300-06-07-0818). This server is also for testing purposes but (because it's a POWER architecture based OS) can't run inside VMware and is running as a LPAR … text/html 2011-01-06T11:20:18+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixmail Because AIX is by default delivered with sendmail, and cronjobs results are delivered to the associated users mailbox here is some information about AIX sendmail and how to deal with the day-to-day administration. In case you have a working email system configured on your box, this is how you actually send mail: " Note: I replaced the @ in the mail addresses by a _ because of spam. Use correct email addresses" text/html 2011-02-17T13:22:25+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixmailwithencryptedattachments #!/bin/bash ######################################################################################################################## # Author : Sjoerd Hooft # Date Initial Version: 16 feb 2011 # Comments: sjoerd_@_warmetal_nl # # Description: # This is a sample script to send encrypted attachments over mail # # Recommendations: # The script is designed for a 120 column terminal. # The running user must be able to do a passwordless sudo to root. # # Changes: # Please comment on your changes to th… text/html 2010-03-23T18:22:24+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixmemory This article handles AIX memory, info about it and the configuration. Please note that it is not a complete page! I just have to optimize the memory configuration on a few boxes and thought I post my research here. Amount of memory in the system: # lsattr -El mem0 goodsize 640 Amount of usable physical memory in Mbytes False size 640 Total amount of physical memory in Mbytes False text/html 2011-06-15T15:41:36+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixmigratepv This is an article about migrating data from one physical volume to another on AIX. This is the scenario: * An AIX VIOS server with multiple LPARs on it * All data is now on a old SAN * There is a new SAN and we want to migrate all data to the new SAN without downtime text/html 2011-02-14T16:00:17+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixnim NIM: Network Installation Manager This page is to cover all steps taken and done to do get to the following objective: * Design a new NIM environment * Based on AIX 6.1 * Define name conventions * Support AIX 5.2; 5.3 and 6.1 * Support 6.1 VIOS text/html 2010-09-01T17:12:27+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixnimclientadd This page shows you how to add a standalone client to the NIM environment, and how to reset and remove it again. This is mostly done through smitty. smitty nim * Perform NIM Administration Tasks * Manage Machines * Define a Machine (smit fastpath: smit nim_mkmac) Fill in the hostname the NIM server can resolve! If not, NIM will create a new network or disply other miscellaneous errors. NOTE: without proper DNS A and PTR records the NFS mount will fail text/html 2010-09-14T12:02:11+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixnimclientmove I was in the situation that I created a new NIM environment to replace the old NIM environment. I didn't want to follow IBM's documentation on how to move NIM clients from one master to the other so I created my own procedure. Steps are pretty simple: * Remove the NIM client from the old master * Add the client to new master * Check the niminfo file text/html 2010-06-24T15:43:49+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixnimdr These are the required steps to use NIM in your disaster recovery procedure. * Check network and DNS requirements for your host / network * AIX NIM Network * Host needs A and PTR records * Check storage NIM server * The NIM server needs at least the amount of space of the rootvg of the host text/html 2009-07-02T16:22:13+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixniminstall Before we can install a client we have to prepare the server and the client for this operation. On the server the resources have to be allocated for the client, and the client has to boot over the network. NIM server smitty nim * Perform NIM administration tasks * Manage Machines * Manage Network Install Resource Allocation * Allocate Network Install Resources * ITO_AIX_53-06-07-0818_LPP_FULL (lpp_source) * ITO_AIX_53-06-07-0818_LPP_SPOT_FULL (spot) text/html 2010-03-17T15:34:51+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixodm This is a small article about the AIX Object Data Manager, and is created by combining several sources, including this IBM redbook and this old and this newer articles. I ran into the usage of ODM the first time we had an error referring to the CuDv database. Although I heard about it I didn't know what to do so I started searching and reading. One of the first things I notices is that there is not that much information about it. The redbook for example is last edited in 2004, 6 years ago. I can… text/html 2010-03-19T14:31:08+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixpostinstall Change root's password: Issue this command when you're logged in as root: * passwd Change root's account Through smitty: * Set root's home directory to /home/root * Set the 'su' group to netwheel Set the command line as the default user interface: # /usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -d The Command line is now set as the default user interface. This interface will appear on login for all users of the system. To see this change take effect you must shutdown and restart your system. text/html 2010-09-08T10:53:15+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixprofile Everything on this page is usable for as well AIX 5.3 as 6.1. Change the prompt to something useful Change the /etc/security/.profile file: PATH=/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:$HOME/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/sbin:. # Set the prompt to username@hostname:/current/directory HOST=$(hostname -s) PS1='$USER@$HOST:$PWD>' # Set environment for Korn Shell ENV=$HOME/.kshrc export PATH HOST PS1 ENV if [ -s "$MAIL" ] # This is at Shell startup. In normal then echo "$MAILMSG" # operation,… text/html 2012-01-16T11:53:49+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixrcscripts Allthough I thought RC scripts were pretty simple I ran into some scripts yesterday that were so not rc.scripts, but configured for them anyway. The point was, they didn't had an start/stop parameter defined... So, how do rc.scripts work: * Write a single script, put it into /etc/rc.d/init.d, make sure the script accepts a single parameter of start or stop and does the right thing. * In /etc/rc.d/rc2.d create a link (ln -s) to the script in init.d called Sxxname where xx is a number that di… text/html 2011-02-16T14:51:47+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixreadingpasswords If you have a script which requires a password somewhere as input and you don't want to have that password displayed on the screen, this is how you do it: # Request for the password of the ORACLE_USER printf "Provide password %s user: " $ORACLE_USER # Save the current settings of the terminal session stty_orig=`stty -g` # Change the terminal session settings so it won't display input anymore stty -echo # Read the input from the script operator read ora_secret # Set the terminal back to it's old… text/html 2010-10-05T14:40:36+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixrootpassword In AIX 6.1 and AIX Post Install we set up a standard password policy for users. However, in AIX LDAP authentication on eDirectory we setup user authentication through ldap, which means accounts are managed in a ldap-based directory (like eDirectory or Active Directory). That means the password policy only applies to local user accounts (as for services) and root. The last is especially important because root only gets used in emergencies or when something does not work with Sudo. text/html 2011-06-06T15:18:33+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixrsync Download the latest version from the IBM Website and install it: sjoerd@lpar1:/tmp/sft>sudo rpm -vi rsync-3.0.6-1.aix5.3.ppc.rpm rsync-3.0.6-1 sjoerd@lpar1:/tmp/sft> Setup * Local Directory: /var/backup/oracle/10.2/archive/ * Destination: syncsrv:/srv/syncdata/rsynctest * User performing the sync: syncuser text/html 2009-06-12T10:30:47+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixsmittyfastpath System Management Interface Tool. aix text/html 2010-03-02T16:44:42+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixsoftware AIX Install Additional Software bash-3.2# cd 5.3/CD-1/installp/ppc/ bash-3.2# smitty install Install Software Type or select values in entry fields. Press Enter AFTER making all desired changes. [Entry Fields] * INPUT device / directory for software . * SOFTWARE to install [+ 5.3.0.0 Base Application Development Math Library > + P… text/html 2012-03-05T13:57:18+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixstorage Overzicht AIX Storage: * Volume Group (VG) * Verzameling schijven die toegankelijk zijn onder 1 naam. * Volume Group Description Area (VGDA) * Per PV is er minimaal één VGDA waarin de data wordt bijgehouden van de gehele VG. * Physical Volume (PV) * Een fysieke schijf, deze kan maar in één VG zitten. text/html 2011-01-19T10:56:35+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixtar The tar utility which get installed by default on AIX does not have the possibility to tar/untar files larger than 1 GB. To overcome this install the tar utility that is available on the AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications CD-ROM. I've used tar version 1.14-2 with success. Create TAR tar -cvf /scratch/myfile_20030617.tar /scratch/mydir/results/stat/* text/html 2010-11-24T13:29:38+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixtelnetescape AIX Do you also get this message when using telnet on AIX: telnet 10.10.10.110 1059 Trying... Connected to 10.10.10.110. Escape character is '^]'. And you can't get out? Press <CTRL>+5 followed by <ENTER> to logout: Escape character is '^]'. telnet> quit Connection closed. text/html 2010-10-26T10:57:37+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixtz We experienced problems setting the timezone in a mixed AIX 6.1 NIM environment with AIX 5.3 clients. After installing clients we need to set the timezone manually. First check Timezone >echo $TZ Europe/Amsterdam This is a AIX 6.1 timezone, we need to set this to AIX 5.3 timezone: text/html 2011-04-14T11:54:16+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixunzip By default, AIX does have an option to unzip .zip files, it's just a little bit hidden. Normally one would use 'unzip' but that's not available by default. You can install it as a rpm, but that's not necessary. Java is installed by default and is also capable of unzipping .zip files, with these simple steps: text/html 2010-12-22T16:17:20+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixusers When working on the AIX LDAP authentication on eDirectory project we came to a point where there was also need for local users to which we could su. This proved a little problematic because of the su configuration on AIX. I did manage to solve the problem and the need for this page was born, I needed a place to store my new information about AIX User Management. text/html 2010-06-10T16:13:47+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aixvios Installation This installation is done by CDROM on a blade. After starting up you'll see the first screen: Press F1 and continue to the next screen: Press 1 to have English during install and continue to the next screen: Press 2 to see the installation options: If you press <ENTER> now you'll start the installation right away: Post-Installation You have to login using the account padmin. After login you'll have to change the password immediately. After that you'll have to do a couple of things… text/html 2011-03-07T10:55:30+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/alertsuroot We have bought the ManageEngine Eventlog Analyzer. I do not think it's the best tool for the job but sadly it's the one we bought so I'll just have to deal with it. We already have a lot of hosts syslogging to the server, so I wanted to have alerts when an user switches to root. To do so I needed to create an alert profile: * Login with a user with the required permissions * Click on the tab alerts * On the left, a list of current alert profiles appear, including a link to “Add alert profil… text/html 2010-03-04T17:50:22+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/algemenevoorwaarden Inleiding De toepasselijkheid van algemene voorwaarden is en blijft een voorwerp van geschillen tussen partijen. In een recente zaak (augustus 2008) bij de rechtbank Rotterdam gaat de eisende partij die zich op de toepasselijkheid van zijn voorwaarden beroept, helaas nat. De rechtbank constateert dat uit de overgelegde bewijsstukken enkel blijkt dat op de factuur staat vermeld dat eiseres algemene voorwaarden hanteert.Vervolgens concludeert de rechtbank: “volgens vaste rechtspraak is het verstu… text/html 2011-06-27T16:00:18+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/alloweddowntime Required Availability Required Uptime hours/year Allowable Downtime /year 90% (0.9) 7889.4 36.525 days 99% (0.99) 8678.34 3.6525 days 99.9% (0.999) 8757.23 8.766 hours 99.99% (0.9999) 8765.12 52.596 minutes 99.999% (0.99999) 8765.91 5.2596 minutes ITmanagement text/html 2011-01-03T16:08:06+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/apacheaccesslog This is a small howto on how to analyze the amount of data requests for a webserver using the access log. /var/log/apache2 If you need older logs as well, you'll need to unpack them. They are zipped using bzip. Uncompressing them is done like this: bunzip2 access_log-20101226.bz2 text/html 2011-01-17T14:34:13+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/apachemodules How to check which modules are already installed in apache2:Static modules: apache2:~ # httpd2 -l Compiled in modules: core.c prefork.c http_core.c mod_so.c Shared modules: apache2:~ # httpd2 -M Loaded Modules: core_module (static) mpm_prefork_module (static) http_module (static) so_module (static) authz_host_module (shared) actions_module (shared) alias_module (shared) auth_basic_module (shared) authz_groupfile_module (shared) authn_file_module (shared) authz_user_module … text/html 2008-11-23T10:14:03+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/apacheredirect This is a HTML redirect script. Replace '/gw/webacc' two times with where you want your web server to redirect and you're done. If your webserver listens to both http and https it will work for both protocols. <html> <!-- This is all just a super-duper redirect to the Welcome page If the user has Javascript 1.1 installed, they don't get their history messed up. Otherwise, it behaves like a normal redirect, and even has fallbacks to non JS and browsers that don't hand… text/html 2012-02-24T15:22:16+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/apachereverseproxy This is an overall page for an Apache reverse proxy, including installation, configuration, security and cache. The reverse proxy in my case is a virtual. It will have three NICs, one for the outside, one for the inside and one in the management VLAN. During initial installation, we only use one NIC, the one on the outside. Later on we'll add the other NICs. * VM NAME: SLES11-REVERSEPROXY * CPU: 1 * MEM: 1024 MB * DSK: 8 GB * NIC: VMXNET3 * Extern IP: 10.10.10.20 * VLAN: 10 text/html 2008-12-21T15:37:02+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/arcticwinterchallenge This is my report on my trip to Rovaniemi, and the wonderful time I had. It will not be accurate, but it will give a good insight on my impression on how I experienced the trip and what I learned... I think :) Saturday 24-02-07 We met each other at 07:30 at the Schiphol National Airport, at the meeting place. Everyone, except Robert was right on time so we waited for like an hour or so for Robert to arrive. The line at the check in desk was quite big, bigger than accounted for by Schiphol, and… text/html 2008-12-21T15:46:39+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/ardennenwarriorsvol1 November 2007 was de eerste keer van onze trips naar de Ardennen. Het was koud ('s morgens -7 graden) en het was gaaf. Hierbij een foto impressie: personal, outdoor text/html 2008-12-21T15:50:10+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/ardennenwarriorsvol2 In januari 2008 gingen we voor de tweede keer naar de Ardennen, en weer was het koud, en weer was het gezellig: personal, outdoor text/html 2009-10-12T22:39:04+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/ardennenwarriorsvol4 Op zaterdag 26 en zondag 27 juli ben ik alweer voor de vierde keer op weg gegaan naar de Ardennen. Dit keer samen met mijn goede vriend Patrick, wat dan ook nog eens als resultaat heeft dat er foto's worden gemaakt: personal, outdoor text/html 2010-08-30T11:03:56+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/assignstorageivmiqstor IVM storage has to be MPIO or has to be part of a volume group, as in, it need a PVID, a Physical Volume Identifier. If those requirements are not met you cannot assign storage to a LPAR in IVM. Since we also boot from the IQstor it's not possible to install the MPIO software from IQstor, booting is not supported and will fail (we tried, it won't work). So MPIO is not an option, so the only solution is to create a PVID for the hdisks. text/html 2011-04-06T15:15:38+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/autoexecncf This is a template for the autoexec.ncf as it can be used for netware servers and keeping them understandable: ############################################################################# ### ### NETWARE 6.5 - SYS:SYSTEM\AUTOEXEC.NCF ### ### !!! WATCH OUT !!! ### - NEVER CHANGE THE LOAD ORDER ### - CHECK THE SERVER NAME ### - ONLY UNCOMMENT THE SERVICES YOU NEES ### !!! LET OP !!! ### ### CONFIG VARIABELEN -> ### - $SERVERNAME ### ################################################… text/html 2008-12-02T10:37:03+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/automaticpurgenetware Netware NSS volumes do not delete files during a delete. They are just flagged as deleted, and can be easily retrieved with salvage. Though this is quite nice, there is no automatic way to keep those files under control. You don't want your servers to become slow just to maintain files that were deleted years ago. Follow this guide to create a script that will just do that, and schedule it to run every night. The Script # Written by Sjoerd # 2 june 2008 # sjoerd [@] warmetal.nl # tested on Ne… text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:03+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/aviramanualinstall * Verwijder eerst andere antivirus software (bijvoorbeeld Panda) * Start het Avira Security Management Center * Ga naar Network Neighborhood * Selecteer de machine waar je Avira op wilt installeren en ga met de rechtermuisknop naar Installation -> Avira SMC Agent -> Install * Na de installatie van de SMC Agent installeer je de daadwerkelijk antivirus software. Ga weer met de rechtermuisknop naar Installation -> Avira AntiVir Workstation -> Install text/html 2011-01-13T12:57:03+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/avirascriptedinstall SMC Agent installatie bestanden: Installagent.bat: @echo off call "%~dp0\AntiVir_Security_Management_Center_Agent.exe" /s /f1"%~dp0\installsmcagent.iss" Installsmcagent.iss: [InstallShield Silent] Version=v7.00 File=Response File [File Transfer] OverwrittenReadOnly=NoToAll [{F3493E2F-B147-4EDD-9AE2-5DEDB8776232}-Parameters] serverip=10.1.8.4 serverport=7000 evmgrip=10.1.8.4 evmgrport=7010 updateuri=http://10.1.8.4:7080 agentport=7030 smcdisplayname=EMPTY networkname=EMPTY guid=EMPTY setupco… text/html 2011-06-16T16:44:35+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/awstats In this page we extend our Apache Reverse Proxy with a statistics tool called awstats, which is nothing more than a collection of perl scripts and tools. I did this with version 7.0 which I downloaded as a gzip/tar package for linux systems. If you run the script from a non-standard location you'll get this warning: Warning: AWStats standard directory on Linux OS is '/usr/local/awstats'. If you want to use standard directory, you should first move all content of AWStats distribution from current… text/html 2008-11-22T20:09:06+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/backupbasics Different kinds of Backup NameExplainationABCRestoreFullA backup of all data. Most of the times combined with Incremental or Differential backups.YesFastDailyChecks the date for files to backup. Only files that has been changes during the day are being backupped.NoNormalIncrementalAn incremental backup will only back up files that have been changed since the last backup of any type. This provides the quickest means of backup, since it only makes copies of files that have not yet been backed up.… text/html 2011-06-27T16:02:04+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/backupoverview I believe communication to board and users is the way to deal with forgotten agreements, deals etc. Communication about backup is a very important part of the backup procedures, and since you should document what you backup, and keep that up to date (see here) why not document it on your intranet or wiki and let people check that once in a while. The template below is what I used to communicate what is in the backup and what is not. Meaning, if there is a server which is not in the backup, it st… text/html 2011-06-27T16:01:25+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/backupprocedure Below are the basic procedures outlined for backup, restore and restore test. In your final procedure you should name the * responsible (responsible for the processes) * accountable (the one that should be accounted to, for example the customer) * supportive (supports the responsible one with performing the tasks) * consulted (gets consulted on forehand and can influence the process) * informed (gets informed afterwards and cannot influence the process) text/html 2008-12-18T13:11:55+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/bagagelijstfestival Overzicht met wat ik meeneem op een festival Eten en drinken * Bier * Komkommer * Crackers * Eetbakjes, lepel, mok * Chips en snoep * Flesjes water Slaapspullen * Tent * Slaapzak * Matje Toiletspullen * Papieren zakdoekjes * Medicijnen * Wespen allergie * Ibuprofen * Azaron * Paracetamol * Rennies * Imodium text/html 2009-11-28T17:21:49+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/bagagelijstnz 2 December 2009 vertrek ik voor 12 weken rond de wereld, 1 week Japan, 9 weken Nieuw Zeeland, 1 week Australië en 1 week USA. Dit moet de lijst worden van spullen die ik meeneem, dat geeft me hopelijk wat overzicht en inzicht in gewicht etc. Ook staat beschreven hoe het ingepakt wordt. Uiteindelijk moet het allemaal in mijn backpack passen, een 70+20 liter berghaus backpack. * Zomer slaapzak * Lakenzak * Matje * Tipi-tent * Extra lijnen en haringen text/html 2009-09-16T17:33:40+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/bagagelijstweekend Overzicht met wat ik meeneem op een weekend * 3 Liter water, onderverdeeld in 2 x 0,5l flesjes en de rest in een waterzak * 2x Lunch pakket * Ontbijt * Avondeten * Snackbag * snoep * chocola * pinda's * liga's * sultana * Aluminiumfolie / vershoudzakjes * Plastic zak / pedaalemmerzak voor vuilnis * Bord, kom, mok * Bord moet hard zijn, dan kan het ook worden gebruikt om mee het vuur aan te wapperen * Mok en kom hebben maataanduidingen text/html 2010-04-16T15:01:18+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/bbab Well, this doesn't work as expected. As long as I don't get this straight this will just be a collection of links and hints. A summary of the installation of BlackBerry Enterprise Server in combination with GroupWise KB05182 Synchronize GroupWise System Address Book KB11608 How to use the Clear and Sync GroupWise System Address Book option in BlackBerry Manager KB04514 Novell GroupWise Frequent Contacts address book should not be synchronized with the BlackBerry smartphone KB03736 How t… text/html 2010-04-09T15:58:24+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/bbmodel All BlackBerry phones have an option in the settings menu to show you information about your BlackBerry device: * Go into the main menu * Go to Options * Select About This will then show you your model number on the top line and information on the software running on your BlackBerry will be shown underneath. To go back to the main screen from here, just press the back arrow 3 or 4 times. text/html 2010-04-19T14:00:57+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/bbsetup To enable your blackberry within an organization, as in with a BlackBerry Enterprise Server, you can follow the procedures below. After the procedures there are some tips that might get you going a little bit faster. Enterprise User The first step is to add a user to the BlackBerry server through the BlackBerry Manager. To do so, open the BlackBerry Manager and select the server on which you want to add the user: Fill in the name of the user and select the correct one to add: This will add… text/html 2010-10-09T12:06:53+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/bbstandby When I'm on standby I need my blackberry on during standby hours but off when standby is not required. This means the blackberry has to be turned off automatically at midnight, so I don't wake up during the night when it's not required. And in the morning, the blackberry has to be turned on automatically without my intervention so standby can start. This functionality can be obtained in two steps: * Setup Automatically On/Off * Disable security for turning the blackberry on text/html 2010-04-09T16:06:31+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/bbwipe Wipe The wipe feature is hidden pretty deep in the device to prevent accidental usage of the option. Navigate to the option through these menus: * Go into the main menu * Select the Options menu * Select Security Options * Select General Settings * Press the BlackBerry Menu button * Wipe handheld text/html 2011-02-18T17:20:53+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/bieramstel Amstel is sinds 1870 onlosmakelijk verbonden met de Nederlandse biercultuur. Dankzij het no nonsense karakter was en is Amstel voor álle lagen van de bevolking gewoon een heel goed bier. Niet voor niets is Amstel het tweede grootste biermerk in de thuismarkt en staat het al jaren in de top 10 van grootste supermarktmerken in Nederland. Wereldwijd is Amstel het zesde internationale biermerk. Logisch, gezien de lange en trotse geschiedenis in het brouwen van bier. Daarnaast bestaat het assortiment… text/html 2011-02-18T17:08:51+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/bierbrugsezot Brugse Zot is een goudblond bier met een rijke schuimkraag en een fruitig aroma. Het bier wordt gebrouwen met 4 verschillende moutsoorten en 2 aromatische hopvariteiten die het bier een unieke smaak geven. Met het alcoholgehalte van 6 % Vol is het een evenwichtig doordrinkbier met karakter. Brugse Zot is een natuurlijk bier, dat ontstaat uit een selectie van alleen de beste ingrediënten. De hergisting op fles zorgt er bovendien voor dat het bier een langere natuurlijke houdbaarheid heeft. Brugse… text/html 2011-02-18T17:03:32+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/bierfrissewind Vanaf de eerste dag verkrijgbaar aan de toog. In de aanvankelijke filosofie zou Frisse Wind de grote pilsvervanger worden in het Brouwcafé. Lange tijd werd pils dan ook niet getapt. Door de immer toenemende vraag waren wij uiteindelijk genoodzaakt om toch ook pils te gaan verkopen, opdat wij de kwaliteit van dit gerstenat konden blijven waarborgen. text/html 2011-02-18T16:36:28+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/biergrimbergendubbel De mengeling van verschillende moutsoorten geeft Grimbergen Dubbel deze typisch dieprode “Bourgogne” kleur. Smaak: Grimbergen Dubbel is een zoet-bitter bier met veel volheid en toetsen van karamel. het is een rijk bier met dubbele gisting waarvan u optimaal kan genieten in uw vrije tijd. text/html 2011-02-18T16:46:21+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/bierkarmaliettripel Tripel Karmeliet is een Belgisch bier dat in 1996 werd gelanceerd. Het is een tripel (6,4% in gewicht en 8% in volume) waarin behalve gerst ook tarwe en haver zijn verwerkt. In dat opzicht zou men het ook een zesgranenbier (Dubbel Tripel) kunnen noemen. Elk van deze granen wordt namelijk zowel in ruwe als in gemouten vorm gebruikt. Volgens de website: Tripel Karmaliet wordt nog steeds gebrouwen volgens een authentiek bierrecept uit 1679, afkomstig van het oude Dendermondse Karmalietenklooster.… text/html 2011-02-18T16:53:43+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/bierlachouffe LA CHOUFFE Blond Ale from the Ardennes * Description : LA CHOUFFE is an unfiltered blonde beer, which is re-fermented in the bottle as well as in the keg. It is pleasantly fruity, spiced with coriander, and with a light hop taste. * Alcohol : 8% alc./vol. * Serving temperature : 4 to 10°C (bottle) text/html 2011-02-18T16:26:58+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/bierlatrappeisidor La Trappe Isid'or is een ongefilterd Trappistenbier met een mooie symbolische waarde. Bevat 7,5% alcohol. Isid'or is vernoemd naar broeder Isidorus, de eerste brouwer van abdij O.L.V. van Koningshoeven. In eerste instantie werd dit jubileumbier gebrouwen ter gelegenheid van het 125-jarige bestaan van de Trappistenbrouwerij in 2009. Isid'or werd echter zo goed ontvangen dat abt Bernardus heeft besloten om dit Trappistenbier in het vaste assortiment op te nemen. Dit lichtzoetig amberbier met kara… text/html 2010-11-23T14:53:08+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/bladecenterconfig Go to MM Control -> General Settings MM Information:Name: bladecenterContact: Warmetal - <phone>Location: Delft, The Netherlands Go to MM Control -> Network Protocols SNMP Disable all three SNMP levels and agents. DNS Set the primary DNS Server to 10.10.10.53 SMTP Set the smtp server to 10.10.10.25 (you have to use the IP-address)Set the SMTP email domain name to company.local (only available since AMM Firmware version bpet54p, see IBM Firmware updates for more information on how to update f… text/html 2010-03-08T17:41:27+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/bladecentersol This is how to use SOL (Serial Over LAN) on an IBM Bladecenter H. The point is to access the blade without having to use the graphical Remote Control option. Why? Well, because sometimes the graphical Remote Control option does not work... Log into the Management Module webinterface of the bladecenter, and click on “Blade Tasks”, Followed by “Serial Over LAN”: You can check the SOL settings here, as well as if SOL is enabled for the blade. Console command Log into the Management Module telnet i… text/html 2010-03-08T17:41:39+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/blademove Introduction This is a step by step plan for moving a blade from one bladecenter to another. The hardware used is an IBM Bladecenter H and an IBM Blade JS22. These power blades are installed with AIX V5.3L. The reason of this article is we also want to change the network the blade is in. Which means we have to change the IP configuration of the blade and of the IO Ethernet Module in the bladecenter. Steps to take are: * Change IP address * Change the bladecenter IO module * Move the blade *… text/html 2012-05-01T16:09:10+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/bmrstartpage This is an overview page for the implementation of Bare Metal Restore at warmetal. Bare Metal Restore is a Symantec Netbackup product to restore complete systems to the same or other hardware. For the Symantec NetBackup BMR Administrators Guide, click here (PDF). For the technote on how to restore to alternate hardware, click here. text/html 2008-11-22T21:37:12+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/bordermanagerconfig Inleiding In dit document wordt beschreven hoe je bordermanager moet inrichten om: * De eigen webserver alleen op de interne interface te laten luisteren * Een port forwarding aan te zetten voor een interne webserver * Een exception toe te staan voor NTP synchronisatie text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:03+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/bordermanagernat Inleiding In bordermanager wordt NAT gebruikt om poorten en diensten te forwarden naar interne IP adressen. Hier wordt eerst het NAT zelf behandeld. Als je speciale poorten heb die moeten worden doorgestuurd moet je ook deze poorten open zetten in de “filtcfg” utility. Zie hiervoor het einde van dit document.Wel worden een aantal voorwaarden aan de server gesteld. Uiteraard moeten er minimaal twee netwerkkaarten in de server zitten en hij moet ingesteld zijn als router (in inetcfg). Secondaire … text/html 2008-11-22T22:00:41+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/bordermanagervpn Inleiding In dit document wordt beschreven wat er nodig is om Bordermanager VPN te draaien. De situatie is met 2 servers, waarbij op de bordermanager zowel de proxy als de firewall draaien inclusief NAT. Op deze server moest ook de VPN service komen draaien. De VPN services van Bordermanager ondersteunen twee manieren van een VPN maken, site to site (tussen twee bordermanager servers) en client to site. In deze handleiding wordt alleen aandacht besteed aan client to site verbindingen.Het implem… text/html 2011-08-31T15:25:58+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/capabilitymaturitymodel Level 1 - Initial (Chaotic) It is characteristic of processes at this level that they are (typically) undocumented and in a state of dynamic change, tending to be driven in an ad hoc, uncontrolled and reactive manner by users or events. This provides a chaotic or unstable environment for the processes. Level 2 - Repeatable It is characteristic of processes at this level that some processes are repeatable, possibly with consistent results. Process discipline is unlikely to be rigorous, but wher… text/html 2010-03-04T17:49:41+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/cartoonsandcomics An overview of the comics I had on my site. I know I don't have permission to host these comics, but I don't make any money out of it and I have links to the authors webpage. If you have a problem with this, please email me about it. My records are on my own page . text/html 2008-11-22T20:12:41+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/cdromautorun There is no option to enable or disable automatically running cdroms in the user interface. To enable or disable automatically running cdroms, you must edit the registry: * Click Start, click Run, type regedit in the Open box, and then press ENTER. * Locate and click the following registry key: * HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CDRom text/html 2010-12-22T12:47:16+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/changepasswordrdp It can be hard to change your password when you're in a RDP session in an Active Directory environment (as in no local accounts). When you're just one session deep, you could try to use this key combination: <CTRL>+<ALT>+<END> If that doesn't work, and you're on Windows 7 you could try this: Go to Start -> Windows Security and click the link to change your password. text/html 2011-06-27T16:02:11+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/checksprocedure On this page is a list of checks you should do as a System Administrator for your systems. I like suggestions if I've forgotten anything, or tips how to handle these checks. The point is really to write a best practice procedure. This is not a complete list, it's just the checks I do for my company and checks I did for previous companies, completed (?) with the checks my (ex-)colleagues do. The first part is really the checks. What do you check and how frequently. The second part is how to make… text/html 2010-11-12T16:55:09+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/ciscoaaa This is a page with information about cisco authentication. It is an addon to the Cisco Radius Authentication on Active Directory 2008 article. All commands assume you've already logged on to the switch with privilege level 15 access and are already in config mode (conf t). text/html 2010-11-26T13:31:46+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/ciscoaaaasa This is a page with information about cisco authentication on an ASA firewall, and it is an addon to the Cisco Radius Authentication on Active Directory 2008 article. All commands assume you've already logged on to the switch with privilege level 15 access and are already in config mode (conf t). text/html 2011-10-06T09:46:09+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/ciscobasics This is a notes page, extended with tips & tricks. This page is not really documentation, just stuff for me to remember. Sometimes things will get removed from these pages and turned into real documentation, sometimes not. You might find these notes to come in hand, maybe not. For me, it's just things I don't want to forget. text/html 2011-04-26T11:53:53+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/ciscoportspeed This is an example of an interface on a cisco switch with the port speed configured: interface GigabitEthernet1/0/18 switchport access vlan 150 switchport mode access duplex full speed 100 spanning-tree portfast cisco, network text/html 2010-10-09T12:45:05+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/ciscoradius Op deze pagina wordt er beschreven hoe je Cisco componenten voorbereid voor het authenticeren met het gebruik van Radius geïnstalleerd op Windows 2003. Verder zullen we waar mogelijk gebruik maken van DNS. Maak eerst een groep aan in je radius source, authenticatie geschiedt aan de hand van group membership: text/html 2010-11-01T15:34:11+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/ciscoradiusad2008 This article describes the installation and configuration how to authenticate on Cisco devices with the use of Microsofts Active Directory. The Active Directory will be running on a Windows Server 2008 SP2, standard edition (64 bits). The steps coming towards this configuration are these: text/html 2011-04-26T11:52:32+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/ciscosn If you want/need support for your cisco devices you'll need the serial number. You can get it from the software, along with other interesting information about the device: switch1#sh version Cisco IOS Software, C3750 Software (C3750-IPBASE-M), Version 12.2(35)SE5, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) Copyright (c) 1986-2007 by Cisco Systems, Inc. Compiled Thu 19-Jul-07 19:15 by nachen Image text-base: 0x00003000, data-base: 0x01080000 ROM: Bootstrap program is C3750 boot loader BOOTLDR: C3750 Boot Loader … text/html 2010-11-01T15:38:07+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/ciscosyslog This is a page with information about how to send cisco logging to a linux syslog server. All commands assume you've already logged on to the switch with privilege level 15 access and are already in config mode (conf t). To make sure the logs are displaying the correct timestamp first configure the date and time correctly. text/html 2011-11-24T11:24:17+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/ciscovlanaccesslists This page is to give a basic view on how to configure access lists on VLANs on Cisco switches. This page is created with AIX NIM Network in mind, the ports are defined as for this purpose. Log into the vlan database switch (core switch) with level 15 access and issue these commands: Vlan database Vlan <vlan#> name <vlanname> Exit text/html 2010-10-22T10:15:11+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/citrixlostadmin Introduction If you've lost your Citrix Administrator Account you can't access the Citrix Management Console, which means you can't change anything in your Citrix farm. Citrix should prevent you from deleting the last administrator account, but that doesn't work if this is an Active Directory object. In this case you should delete all the local metaframe administrators so the local admin automatically gets the full administrative privileges in the farm. Slim Jim is an official but unsupported C… text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:04+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/citrixprinterproblems Users can't print on Citrix, but can from the local workstation Solution: * Ask the user to log out * Log in to the specific server as administrator * Open a DOS box * Issue the command: * Net stop spooler * Delete all print jobs in c:\winnt\system32\spool * Go to Start - Configuration - Printers * Delete all printers automatically created by the user with the problem text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:04+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/citrixsoftwareinstall Installatie software en updates op Citrix server * Log fysiek in op de juiste citrix server met het lokale administrator account * Start een command prompt op en type change user /install en druk op Enter * Start nu de setup op van het programma dat je wil uitvoeren * Herhaal deze stappen op elke citrix server text/html 2011-03-31T15:44:46+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/clonedslesvmnic After cloning a Linux VM, you might find your network interface is no longer named eth0, taking on eth1 instead. This will work and cause no functional impact, however, for several reasons you might want to change it to eth0 anyway. SLES for VMware/SLES 11 SP1, uses udev to provide persistence to various devices. While this model is a big step forward from the semi-random device name assignments of the past, one side-effect is that a new MAC address, whoch will happen when you clone a virtual m… text/html 2010-03-23T14:16:01+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/commvaultlinuxunixclient Copy the software to the client: bash-3.00# cd /tmp/cv/ bash-3.00# ls .oem cvpkgcut.ini cvpkgpush_exp fw_utils silent_install.example acsls_utils cvpkgcxx cvpkgpush_work ksh sss aix5.3 cvpkgmove cvpkgrm license subsys.txt branding cvpkgoem db2_add_utils ora_add_utils timestam… text/html 2010-05-11T13:14:54+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/consoleone This is a page about ConsoleOne. These topics will be discussed: * ConsoleOne and ZENworks Configuration Management 7 * ConsoleOne and Windows 7 * ConsoleOne parameters Installation ConsoleOne is an application which does not have to be installed in the traditional meaning of the word. All you need is the application files to be in the correct file hierarchy. In other words, to run ConsoleOne locally all you need to do is to copy the files to your local hard drive. This was already possib… text/html 2011-07-11T14:34:47+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/cron Scheduled tasks: minutes hour dayofmonth month dayofweek user command * * * * * root everyminute */5 * * * * root every5minutes (only works on linux, aix needs 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55) 1 * * * * root everyhour 1 1 * * * root everyday 1 1 * * 0 root everyweek (0=Sunday) 1 1 1 * * root everymonth text/html 2011-02-11T11:30:41+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/cutavi This is a small tutorial on how to cut parts of AVI videos. The tool we'll use for the cutting of the videos is VirtualDub. I use the portable edition which can be downloaded here. Follow these steps to cut an AVI video: * Go to 'File' -> 'Open video file...' * Once opened, we need to mark the start and the end of the videofile. Use the slider to go the the first frame you want to keep. * Click the 'Mark In' button * Use the slider to go the the last frame you want to keep. * Click the… text/html 2011-07-12T11:17:35+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/cv Bijgewerkt tot en met 31 juni 2011 * Haagse Hogeschool * Deelopleiding Informatica en Informatiekunde 3 jaar (diploma) * Informatica en Informatiekunde Bachelor (gestopt tijdens afstuderen) * Segbroek College * VWO (diploma) * Certificeringen * CNE Netware 5.1 * CNE Netware 6 * CNS 2005 * CNS 2006 * Master CNE * Elective: Groupwise 6 text/html 2009-09-08T14:10:30+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/cvaddstorage To add storage mount paths in CommVault go to tghe control panel in the CommCell Console and select “Library And Drive Configuration”: Select the media agent you're adding the mount paths to: Go to the “Data Paths” tab and right click the Magnetic library (the disk cabinet) and select “Add Mount Path”: Select the folder you created: Check if the storage was indeed added to the system: text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:04+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/cvexporttapes How to export tapes within CommVault to store them on an external location. Open “Storage Resources” -> “Libraries” -> Right-Click “STK SL500” -> Select “Export Media”. Select “Next” as we do not use VaultTracker. Select the tapes that you want to export and check the “New Export Location” box, select “IronMountain”. Click “Finish” to start the export of tapes. text/html 2010-03-11T14:00:44+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/cvreport Commvault has extended possibilities to create reports, but I wanted to start simple, just create a weekly report for the full backup of some specific backup clients and have it emailed to a couple of users so they know the status of the backup of their machines. This is a relative easy task, and start with setting up an email server, then create a custom report and finally creating a schedule. Log into the CommCell Console and open the Control Panel. Select the “E-Mail and IIS Configuration” op… text/html 2010-03-11T13:31:02+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/cvrestore This is the procedure to restore data from the CommVault backup implementation. There are two main types of restore, a restore of a recent backup and a restore of a backup some time ago. The difference between these two is that data of recent backups is stored on disk and is immediately available. When a tape backup has been performed and the data is safe out of the building the data can be removed from the disks which means you'll have to retrieve a tape from the external storage facility befor… text/html 2010-03-01T15:53:12+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/cvrmfullbackup During implementation of our CommVault backup solution we encountered some serious space shortages, which meant we had to delete backups on the disk system after it was backupped to tape. Since it was only a temporary solution we decided to do this manually. Open “Policies” -> “Storage Policies” -> “Normal Backup” and right-click “to_disk” and select “View” -> “Jobs”. Select Backup Type “Full”, select the dates of the full backups you want to remove. When done, click OK. A list like this w… text/html 2010-08-06T11:36:50+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/cygwin Je kan X schermen op je windows pc krijgen, en wel met behulp van cygwin. * Download cygwin van de site * Installeer cygwin (start setup.exe) Je kan alles default houden, dan worden diverse standaardzaken geinstalleerd inclusief wat je nodig hebt voor X. (note dat je installeerd vanaf internet en dat veel mirrors worden geknepen. Ik heb goede ervaringen met de ftp mirror van de tu van dresden <ftp://ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de>)In ieder geval moet je onder de X11 sectie de xinit aanvinken. Dan … text/html 2012-01-06T09:38:45+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/dailycheckscript #!/bin/bash ######################################################################################################################## # Author : Sjoerd Hooft # Date Initial Version: 27 Dec 2010 # Comments: sjoerd_@_warmetal_nl # # Description: # This is a sample script to perform the daily checks on AIX servers. # # Recommendations: # The script is designed for a 120 column terminal. # The running user must be able to do a passwordless sudo to root. # # Changes: # Please comment on your changes t… text/html 2012-03-19T11:31:39+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/datapatterns Here you can find some information with explanation about some commonly used terms in storage terminology. Refers to reading or writing data records in sequential order, that is, one record after the other. To read record 10, for example, you would first need to read records 1 through 9. This differs from random access, in which you can read and write records in any order. text/html 2008-11-22T20:13:17+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/deleteservice In cmd To Delete A Service * Click Start, click Run, type cmd in the Open box, and then press ENTER. * Type: sc delete <service name> * Reboot the system (not always required) In the registry * Click Start, click Run, type regedit in the Open box, and then press ENTER. * Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services * Scroll down the left pane, locate the service name, right click it and select Delete. * Reboot the system (not always required) text/html 2012-02-14T10:38:58+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/deploystoragetovsphere I'm actually quite proud on this script. It will create a volume, LUNs, connects the LUNs to the required esx hosts and creates a datastore. On top of that it also sets the MPIO settings correct on the esx host: ######################################################################################################################## # Author : Sjoerd Hooft # Date Initial Version: 29 December 2011 # Comments: sjoerd_warmetal_nl # # Description: # This script creates a volume per vSphere cluster, th… text/html 2012-01-02T15:33:40+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/determiningnumberofvmspervmfsvolume This article explains the following two articles in more detail: VMware Performance Study: Scalable Storage Performance Yellow Bricks article: Max amount of VMs per VMFS volume The reason for this is that both articles are quite technical and can be quite confusing. I have a lot of experience with storage and I would say a little bit more than the avarage system administrator but not like the guys who work with NetApp and EMC for 20 years. I thought I'd write an article on going through t… text/html 2009-02-09T11:59:53+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/dfdu It happened to me today. Df shows 90% full, du shows just about 10% in use. So how does this happen?If the files are deleted (by rm command for example) while they are being opened or used by a Linux program / process, the evil of “open file descriptor” problem arises and confuse the Linux file system on reporting the real figure of used disk space or free disk space available. In order to resolve the fake “disk space full” problem, i.e. to reclaim “used disk space”, you need to kill or terminat… text/html 2012-02-21T16:05:11+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/disablentfsaccesstime The NTFS file system used in MS Windows operating systems is in fact some sort of database that keeps track of all the changes that happen on your hard disk. It uses a couple of file system attributes for that, the Created, Modified and Accessed timestamps. The first two are fairly common and are available by default in Windows explorer: To see the accessed attribute click the “More...” option on the bottom of the list in the picture above: Which results in an explrer view like this:… text/html 2011-11-21T10:27:17+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/doscommands Introduction This is a not complete overview of DOS / MsDOS / CMD commands. DOS itself cmd.exe /T:0A Gives a DOS box with a black background and bright green characters Network Net use j: \\servername\sharename “password” Creates a drive mapping J to \\servername\sharename with the logged in username and the given password Net use j: /delete Deletes the drive mapping J Net use Gives an overview of the mappings on the box Ping –t –L 1450 –w 5000 www.website.nl -t continues -L 1450 packetsize … text/html 2010-03-04T17:52:26+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/dynamiclocaluser Introduction If you log into a windows workstation using the Novell client you are only logged into eDirectory. Not into the workstation itself, which has it's own user database, called the Security Access Manager (SAM) Database. That's why you get a second login window, to login into windows. To prevent that from happening (the second login, that is) you could enable the Dynamic Local User policy. A Dynamic Local User (DLU) is a user object that is temporarily or permanently created in the wor… text/html 2010-03-04T17:55:37+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/edirectory881upgrade Introduction This is a small reference on what to do and think about when you're upgrading an eDirectory 8.7.3.x environment to 8.8.x. The upgrade done is to 8.8.1 with field patch 2 already included in the installation source. All the mentioned issues and reminders are probably valid for 8.8.2 and 8.8.3 as well. Covered items are: * Before the upgrade * The readme * The compatibility list * Creating the installation source * Startx preparations text/html 2011-04-06T15:05:51+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/edirectory882install These are notes from installing eDirectory 8.8.2 on an OES server some time ago. I came across these notes and they might come in hand sometime: SLP installeren: rpm -ivh "slp RPM van eDir882.iso" SLP starten: /etc/init.d/slpuasa start NICI installeren: rpm -ivh "nici rpm van eDir882.iso" NICI initialiseren: ln -sf /var/opt/novell/nici /var/novell/nici NICI servermode: /var/opt/novell/nici/set_server_mode text/html 2010-03-04T17:57:49+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/edirectoryfreeradius Installatie verslag om eDirectory en FreeRadius te laten samenwerken Server naam: OESNW.shift.local IP-adres: 192.168.177.10.admin.n-team: beheerTaak: edir met ldap en radius support Geïnstalleerd volgens dit installatieverslag. Server naam: sles10.shift.local IP-adres: 192.168.177.100 Root ww: beheer taak: radius server met edir support Geïnstalleerd volgens dit installatieverslag. Hostname: opensuse.shift.local IP-adres: 192.168.177.31 Root ww: beheer taak: linux client voor authenticatie ov… text/html 2010-03-04T17:56:11+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/edirectoryhealthcheck Introduction This is a simplification of the novell document NDS / eDirectory Health Check Procedures - Cross Platform. This article handles only netware and linux, but in the same way. We assume you have the NDSRepair for UNIX Menu Wrapper installed and know how to work with it, which is explained on the download page. If this article refers to DSREPAIR.NLM it also refers to the dsrmenu utility. You still could use original document to determine if you have a static or a dynamic tree, and with… text/html 2010-03-04T17:56:36+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/edirectoryhomedirectories Inleiding Indien je in eDirectory wat achterloopt met het aanmaken van home directories van gebruikers heb je een tooltje genaamd homes om deze makkelijk aan te kunnen maken.Check homes out on their website: <http://www.hbware.com> Instellingen edirectory, storage, tools text/html 2010-03-04T17:57:09+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/edirectoryldapusers Samenvatting De reden voor het maken van dit document waren de onduidelijkheden in de ICE (Import Convert Export tool) syntax om in grote schaal gebruikers uit eDirectory te lezen en weer te importeren in een andere TREE. De TIDs/tips/articles voor het aanpassen van objecten op grote schaal liggen voor het oprapen, voor het importeren was er alleen de documentatie, die alleen voorziet in een basis querie die veel te veel informatie eruit trekt, en waar je dus veel te veel wijzigingen in moet ma… text/html 2010-03-04T17:57:22+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/edirectoryrights Mogelijke eDirectory Rights Object & Entry Rights Geven rechten op het object zelf maar niet op de attributen van het objectSupervisor [S] Hiermee kun je ook de attributen aanpassen, kan geblokkeerd worden door een IRF Browse [B] Create [C] Delete [D] Rename [R] Inheritable [I] Staat default aan en geldt alleen voor containersProperty & Attribute Rights Geven rechten op de eigenschappen en waarden van deze eigenschappen van het object zelf Supervisor [S] Compare [C] De inhoud van een proper… text/html 2010-10-09T12:34:40+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/edirectorytips This is a notes page, extended with tips & tricks. This page is not really documentation, just stuff for me to remember. Sometimes things will get removed from these pages and turned into real documentation, sometimes not. You might find these notes to come in hand, maybe not. For me, it's just things I don't want to forget. text/html 2010-03-04T17:58:04+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/edirectoryvsad eDirectory versus Active Directory - Novell may 2006 ad, edirectory, versus text/html 2008-11-24T17:14:37+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/englimaging Samenvatting De Engl Toolkit is een uitbreiding op het bestaande ZENworks PXE imaging menu. In dit artikel wordt het hele proces om engl imaging op te zetten uitgelegd. Globaal gezien zal je eerst de images en de uitbreidingen moeten maken, en daarna kan je ze gebruiken. Het maken bestaat uit de volgende fases: * Voer de build uit, deze levert de volgende bestanden op: * Addon images * Unattended Windows Installatie bestanden text/html 2011-11-23T08:40:56+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/esxaddingcustomdrivers Installing ESX 4.1 (update 1) on IBM x3690 X5 Servers requires custom drivers. These drivers can be downloaded from VMware. The current latest version can be downloaded here. You can use the driver CD in several ways: * To install drivers for devices as part of a new ESX installation * To update existing drivers or install new drivers for an existing ESX installation with esxupdate * To update existing drivers or install new drivers for an existing ESX or ESXi installation with vihostupda… text/html 2012-04-02T11:33:05+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/esxemailserviceconsole Although it's not enabled by default you can send email from the service console from an ESX server. You'll need a perl script and a MIME module, that's all. This is the script, copy it to /usr/local/bin: #!/usr/bin/perl -w # ====================================================================== # # Perl Source File -- Created with SAPIEN Technologies PrimalScript 3.1 # # NAME: smtp_send.pl # # ORIGINAL AUTHOR: Scott Herold , RapidApp # ORIGINAL DATE : 11/30/2004 # # MODIFY AUTHOR: Jeremy Prie… text/html 2012-05-14T11:12:15+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/esxhosts This is the report on reinstalling ESX hosts, currently installed with ESX 3.5, to VSphere 4.1 Enterprise ESX/ESXi 4.x requires the following minimum hardware specifications: * 64bit Processor * 2GB RAM minimum * One or more network adapters * SCSI Adapter, Fibre Channel Adapter, or Internal RAID Controller text/html 2011-08-30T20:36:30+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/esxpartitioning If you delete a required partition, be sure to create a new one of the same type. You cannot define the sizes of the /boot, vmkcore, and /vmfs partitions when you use the graphical or text installation modes. You can define these partition sizes when you do a scripted installation. text/html 2011-09-07T11:33:47+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/esxpermissions These are the default roles that exist on ESX and vCenter. " Note: These roles do not get synchronized between ESX and vCenter. ESX roles are in place when you connect directly to the host and vCenter roles are in place when you connect to vCenter. " text/html 2011-01-14T13:57:02+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/esxtop Esxtop allows monitoring and collection of data for all system resources: CPU, memory, disk and network. When used interactively, this data can be viewed on different types of screens; one each for CPU statistics, memory statistics, network statistics, disk adapter statistics, disk device statistics, disk VM statistics and interrupt statistics. text/html 2010-08-17T09:59:44+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/exchangesystemforwardrule We use this method if we don't want recipients of the redirected messages to know that they were delivered by way of your Inbox, which also keeps the availability to search for the sender. * In Mail, on the Tools menu, click Rules and Alerts. * Click New Rule. * Under 'Start from a blank rule', click 'Check messages when they arrive', and then click Next. * Under Step 1: Select the check box next to each condition that you want the incoming message to match, in this case 'from people or di… text/html 2008-12-21T16:14:19+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/extrasurvivalbasics In the autumn of 2007 I went on a survival basics course from Extra Survival. I really learned a lot, and will one day definitely do it again and also take the advanced course. These pictures give an impression on what we did. Camp Cooking Tools Shelter Fire personal, outdoor text/html 2011-09-07T16:37:43+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/fcports There are different kinds of Fiber Channel ports. This is an overview. An E_Port is an expansion port. A port is designated an E_Port when it is used as an interswitch expansion port to connect to the E_Port of another switch, to build a larger switched fabric. These ports are found in Fibre Channel switched fabrics and are used to interconnect the individual switch or routing elements. They are not the source or destination of IUs, but instead function like the F_Ports and FL_Ports to relay th… text/html 2011-10-27T13:54:40+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/fcppartnerpathmisconfigured This is a small manual on fixing the error FCP Partner Path Misconfigured which could show in the AutoSupport report created in NetApp/N-series filers. It means that a particular LUN is being accessed over the partner path through the interconnect link rather than through the preferred primary (optimized) path. For more information see the resources. Finding and resolving the issue is a matter of a few steps: text/html 2011-07-10T14:54:01+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/filehandlingscript This is a remake of a script that is designed to check consistency in files. The second line holds a unique number that is always 1 higher than the previous one. They also need to be on time, but only between 8 and 17 during workdays. As since, this script is scheduled according so through cron: #!/bin/bash ######################################################################################################################## # Author : Sjoerd Hooft # Date Initial Version: 6 June 2011 # Comments… text/html 2010-10-27T11:11:27+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/firefoxdistribution Introduction This is a small tutorial on how to distribute firefox in a corporate environment. That's not so easy because the proxy settings (quite important within companies) are in a file in the profile, which on it's turn is in a directory that's created during the install with a random string. So you can't just copy the correct file to the correct location. The distribution software used is ZENworks, but this article doesn't really cover ZENworks. For more information on applications and ZE… text/html 2009-06-22T17:38:15+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/firewallgpo This is how to configure the firewall of your workstations in a domain. There are two configs, one for computers connected to the domain and one for computers who are not connected to the domain, for example, a laptop user working at home. Connected If a workstation is connected to the domain it means it's in a secure trusted network. This means you can turn the firewall off: Not connected If a workstation is not connected to the domain it means it's in an untrusted network. Which means we'll… text/html 2011-03-21T14:57:11+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/fixaixsendmailgethostbyaddrfailed I got these errors in my syslog server after installing new AIX servers on (almost) the latest Technology Levels, for as well AIX 5.3 as for AIX 6.1: message forwarded from aixbox: sendmail[475316]: gethostbyaddr(ipv6:::1) failed: 1 It turned out that since a few technology levels ago sendmail has become IPv6 aware and is now not able to resolve hosts over IPv6. It is solvable by editing these two files and adding the showed lines: text/html 2010-05-11T14:53:39+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/fixaixsftpserver To be exact, I get this message several times a week in my syslog server: 5 auth auth error message forwarded from aixbox: sshd[283116]: error: subsystem: cannot stat /usr/libexec/sftp-server: no such file or directory The message is coming from AIX 6.1 TL4 with openSSH 5.2.0.5300 installed. On another box with AIX 5.3 TL 6 and openSSH 5.0.0.5300 installed the error does not occur. text/html 2011-02-24T10:10:42+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/fixcontrolsputty Whenever I press CTRL+S in putty the terminal seems to freeze. It's actually not, but it doesn't show anything. That is because CTRL+S initiates the XOFF command, which means it accepts keystrokes but doesn't show it. There are two fixes: Press CTRL+Q to initiate the XON command. Anything you pressed will be shown. Add these lines to your .bashrc file: text/html 2011-02-16T10:34:55+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/fixcygwinlisteningsockets We encounter this message sometimes when an user doesn't close it's X-Server correctly on a Windows Server 2008 Terminal Server (although I thing it will happen on other versions of Windows as well). It actually means there are locked files on the filesystem to ensure there are no two sessions at the same time on the same port. These files are found in the tmp directoy under the cygwin installation root, which is by default at C:\Cygwin: text/html 2010-08-06T15:23:24+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/fixerror126pdf I received error 126 when trying to install CutePDF. I never had any problems with the tool, but being unable to resolve the error I tried to install PDFCreator, which failed as well, with the same error. According to Microsofts Solution you have to replace the framedyn.dll which seamed a little weird to me, but I tried it anyway. It didn't solve it because this error 126 is related to the printer path driver and not the wbem path. My solution is to install the PDF driver manually, which I did… text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:05+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/fixgroupwisespellchecker One of my users came with the weirdest spelling checker issues: * All words are underlined as if they were wrong * When it worked, and the language were changed, it didn't work anymore * Correctly spelled words were underlined with suggestions from words that looked like the word * All text was underlined with one big red line (blue in basic view) text/html 2009-08-10T11:26:33+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/fixgwdcawabend I experiences a lot of abends and faulted address spaces on my NetWare 6.5 SP8 GroupWise 8 HP2 server and found out that this was because of the gwdcaw process: 9-08-2009 21:05:51 : SERVER-5.70-2187 [nmID=D0006] Removed address space because of memory protection violation Address Space: GWDCAW.PO_SCP11 Reason: Free detected corrupt preceeding redzone for node 0xD1F53F80 Running Thread: gwdca1-wrkr EIP: 0x97AFACF8 (???.NLM + 0x0) 9-08-… text/html 2009-07-22T15:14:25+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/fiximanagericeerror When trying to extend the eDirectory schema using the windows version of iManager, or actually the standalone version I got this error: The ice process returned an exit code of -1073741819 Turns out that the error is produced because it wants to load the schema file as the local file. I switched to the servers own iManager (<https://192.168.177.10/nps/iManager.html>) and it worked right away. text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:05+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/fixinvalidcscache I wanted to update a CommVault client and received this error: It appears that CS cache is corrupt, delete the cache, download updates again and retry. And when I checked the updates configuration in the commcell console I saw a message confirming that the CommServe Cache was invalid: text/html 2011-01-13T12:53:53+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/fixldaperrdata525 While tooling around creating this page I came across this very annoying error: autoyast:~ # ldapsearch -h 10.10.10.101 -D CN=saldap,CN=Users,DC=adldaptest,DC=local -w ******** -b DC=adldaptest,DC=local -x uid=sjoerd ldap_bind: Invalid credentials (49) additional info: 80090308: LdapErr: DSID-0C0903AA, comment: AcceptSecurityContext error, data 525, v1772 text/html 2010-08-26T13:50:05+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/fixlogoninteractively You get this error when a user is not added to the remote desktop users or you haven't allowed remote desktop users to... well actually... to login remotely. To do so, first add the group to the Remote Desktop Users list: * Go to Start -> Settings -> Control Panel. * Double-click System, and then on the Remote tab, click Select Remote Users. * Click Add and type the user account name, and click OK. text/html 2010-03-15T16:26:10+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/fixndsnsserror I received these messages on a system I tested SuSE LUM on: 71 cron cron error suselum cron[21108]: nds_nss_getgroupsbymember: failed to init socket, status = 0 01 Mar 2010, 03:30:01 72 cron cron error suselum cron[20542]: nds_nss_getgroupsbymember: failed to init socket, status = 0 01 Mar 2010, 03:15:02 73 cron cron error suselum cron[17209]: nds_nss_getgroupsbymember: failed to init socket, status = 0 01 Mar 2010, 03:00:01 74 cron cron error suselum cron[17404]: nds_nss_getgroupsbymember: fai… text/html 2011-05-05T14:33:05+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/fixnetappjavaerror When managing NetApps with your browser over http(s) you can also use the commandline utility. You can find it under 'Filer' -> 'Use Command Line'. However, on one of my filers (strangely enough the other filer did work) I got a java error: load: class com/netapp/admin/FilerSNMPConfigUIApplet.class not found. java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.netapp.admin.FilerSNMPConfigUIApplet.class at sun.plugin2.applet.Applet2ClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source) at sun.p… text/html 2011-03-22T14:18:12+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/fixnfsservernotresponding When installing an AIX server through NIM mksysb I received several of these errors: NFS server nfsstore.company.local not responding still trying The image restore however went successful, and worked alright. These messages are because of a high latency on the line, which was in this case, a 20 Mbit WAN line. This line was also used for backup transfers and the messages showed up every time the backup transfer started. We decided to stop the backup transfers since the installation was more i… text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:05+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/fixntldrmissing Sometimes it happens, when you bootup Windows all you see is a black screen saying “NTLDR missing”. There are a lot of things that can cause this, but what I had last week was a new one for me, a virus had done this to one of my users who should have known better than illegal downloading of some software... off course I didn't know this so I fixed the computer anyway. Afterwards the computer still had a lot of errors and, oh my, his personal photo's were gone. I imaged the machine of course. Be… text/html 2011-02-17T13:21:32+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/fixpostfixdatabaseolder We got these error messages on a few of our postfix servers: warning: database /etc/postfix/virtual.db is older than source file /etc/postfix/virtual warning: database /etc/postfix/transport.db is older than source file /etc/postfix/transport These messages appear whenever one of these databases/tables is changed. text/html 2011-06-27T14:57:23+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/fixscriptvaluetoogreatforbase ./script.sh: line 101: [[: 09: value too great for base (error token is "09") The error occurs when you have a integer value that start with a “0” (zero). Bash will interpret that as an octal, which means 08 and 09 are invalid. I got the error by setting the hour in an variable and making an comparison on it: text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:05+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/fixsecldapclntd When you're trying to configure the LDAP client daemon on an AIX 5.3 64 bits system you could run into this error” root@ms-lpar04:/tmp/sft>secldapclntd Could not load program secldapclntd: Dependent module libibmldap.a could not be loaded. Could not load module libibmldap.a. System error: No such file or directory text/html 2010-11-25T15:35:37+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/fixsshasa Symptom: Unable to establish a SSH session with a Cisco ASA firewall. After logging in using ASDM you see this error in the log: fail to establish SSH session because RSA host key retrieval failed To fix, go to the command line interface: ASDM -> Tools -> Command Line Interface text/html 2011-10-05T18:28:11+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/fixsybaselicenseerror957 After changing the virtual hardware for one of our database servers I got a message from the database administrator that the database in question wouldn't start anymore. The errorlog gave me these errors: 00:00000:00000:2011/10/05 16:08:49.97 kernel SySAM: Using licenses from: C:\sybase\\SYSAM-2_0\licenses 00:00000:00000:2011/10/05 16:08:50.02 kernel SySAM: Failed to obtain 1 license(s) for ASE_CORE feature from license file(s) or server(s). 00:00000:00000:2011/10/05 16:08:50.02 kernel SySAM… text/html 2011-03-04T10:33:10+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/fixvumerror During the upgrade from one of our hosts from 4.0 to 4.1 we experienced that the host would hang during the upgrade process, at exactly 33%. The first time I was unpatient and restarted vcenter, the host and tried again. That time I decided to wait. After more than an hour it failed with this error: text/html 2012-03-19T10:36:17+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/fixwindowstslicenseerror If you receive any of these messages: RDP Disconnected! Error Code: 2056 Any License error regarding Windows Terminal Server You can always try to delete the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSLicensing You can delete the complete key or just the content of the subkey “Store”. text/html 2009-06-17T14:13:54+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/fixx11forwardingfonterror I received this error when trying to install Oracle 10.2g on AIX 5.3. All Oracle requirements were met, so it didn't make sense. Turned out it missed the fonts on my CygWin - X op Windows installation. Error: Starting Oracle Universal Installer... No pre-requisite checks found in oraparam.ini, no system pre-requisite checks will be executed. Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2009-06-17_11-07-38AM. Please wait ...bash-3.2$ Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-l… text/html 2010-03-03T09:05:18+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/fixzmdwarning On some my oes and or sles boxes I get the following warning. It doesn't really seem important, the box is totally functioning but it makes the logfile a bit more unreadable. If it's not relevant I don't want it in my logs. This is the specific error: text/html 2010-03-04T17:50:33+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/gedragscodeinternetgebruik Nieuwe gedragscode voor gebruik internet op het werk In juli 2005 heeft de werkgeversorganisatie VNO-NCW een nieuwe gedragscode opgesteld voor het gebruik van ICT op de werkplek. Het gaat hierbij voornamelijk om e-mail, internet, en (mobiele) telefoons. De richtlijnen zijn aangepast aan recente ontwikkelingen zoals spam (reclame), blogging (internetdagboek) en e-winkelen. De nieuwe gedragscode is in samenwerking het Nederlandse bedrijfsleven tot stand gekomen. Bedrijven kunnen het model op de e… text/html 2012-05-08T22:45:50+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/gimpnotes Examples on logos can be found here:<http://opdenacker.org/gimp/logos.html> colors<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors> bluePowderBlue B0 E0 E6 purple MediumPurple 93 70 DB greenPaleGreen 98 FB 98 file -> new -> 150 x 150Rectangular selection entire square, rounded corners with radius 15Blend tool:Shape:radialforeground DarkCyan 00 8B 8Bbackground MediumAquamarine 66 CD AA text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:06+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/graspop2008 Afgelopen zaterdag ben ik naar graspop geweest, in Belgë. Alhoewel het festival drie dagen duurt ben ik maar één dag geweest, wat voor mij voor het eerst was. Mijn lieftallige vriendin was zo lief om een dagkaartje voor me te kopen omdat ik eigenlijk niet van plan was om te gaan. Het geluid was dit jaar niet zo fantastisch, maar dat is redelijk normaal op graspop. Overigens, weten jullie dat ze grimbergen schenken op graspop? Grimbergen dubbel wel te verstaan... prima! text/html 2010-10-26T14:01:10+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/grep Grep everything except lines starting with # or empty lines cat /etc/squid/squid.conf | grep -v '^[#]' | grep -v '^$' scripts, linux text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:06+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/grouppoliciesverwijderen Indien je last hebt van grouppolicies en je bent administrator op je lokale pc kan je de policies tijdelijk verwijderen: * Ga naar C:\Windows\System32 * Verwijder de map ~GroupPolicies * Wacht een minuut * Open een command prompt * Geef het commando: * gpupdate /force text/html 2010-03-04T17:47:25+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/groupwise8 Installatie verslag GroupWise 8Doel: Werkende groupwise 8 omgeving met MTA, POA, GWIA en Webaccess, twee gebruikers, en een client. Netware server geïnstalleerd volgens dit installatieverslag. Belangrijkste gegevens op een rijtje: OES2NW.n-team.local, 192.168.177.10, eDir 8.8.2, 512 MB RAM. Windows XP SP2 client geïnstalleerd volgens dit installatieverslag. Belangrijkste gegevens op een rijtje: ogdws, DHCP 192.168.177.128, 256 MB RAM, Novell Client 4.91 SP5. text/html 2008-12-30T16:48:50+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/groupwise8calendarpublishing Install More ComponentsInstall Calendar Publishing HostPOA Network Address: 192.168.177.10Calender Publishing port: 7171Apache Web Server voor Netware: Sys:\Apache2LDAP Server Address: 192.168.177.10:389Administration Console Authentication Container: ou=usr,o=shiftAdministration Console Authentication Group: cn=gwcalpub,ou=usr,o=shiftNa afloop moet je nog meer dingen configureren: Selecteer in consoleone het groupwise systeem object, ga naar Tools -> GroupWise System Operations -> Web Calender … text/html 2009-01-05T11:00:16+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/groupwise8internetfreebusy This is a follow-up on GroupWise 8 Calendar Publishing and describes how to enable your users to publish their free busy information on the internet so users outside your groupwise system can free busy search your users calenders. Enabling Internet Free Busy information To enable internet free busy you should set your POA to allow that. How that's done is already described in GroupWise 8 Calendar Publishing so isn't described here anymore. Users should enable publishing of their free busy infor… text/html 2009-01-22T18:56:16+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/groupwise8sharehomeview This is originally not my article, this is the source: Novell Connection Magazine I did make some changes though... I've cut out all the nonsense and promo talk, so it's just a simple how-to now. Sharing your Home View or any other view, is as easy as sending an e-mail. Here's how to share: * Customize your Home View and save your display settings (View | Display Settings | Save Current). * Display the view you want to share. (View | Display Settings | Select). * From the Main Menu, sel… text/html 2009-04-29T11:49:30+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/groupwise8vacationrule In GroupWise 8 there's a new functionality added to the rules. There is a new concept called the vacation rule. Problem was with the former GroupWise 7 client users could forget to turn it off (see here for a workaround). In GroupWise 8 there is a special pre formatted rule to prevent this from happening, and even better, the vacation is automatically added to your calender so your co-workers know you're not in the office. In the GroupWise 8 client go to tools -> Vacation Rule which will give yo… text/html 2009-04-29T11:55:24+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/groupwise8whatsnew * You can choose either OpenOffice or Microsoft Word as your editor when composing messages * Auto-Save protection against message loss * Panels can be configured to display Web pages and RSS feeds * Improved Calendar features include * accepting items into any calendar * publishing personal GroupWise calendars and free/busy schedules on the Web * subscribing to calendars on the Web * checking the free/busy schedules of Internet users text/html 2008-11-23T10:17:14+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/groupwiseadminlockout After a groupwise update you wanna make sure all your sysadmins use the correct snapins. You can force them by setting the minimum snapin release version in the domain object properties: You'll have to set this for each domain separately. groupwise text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:06+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/groupwisechangeserver Introduction What to do when you have to move groupwise from one server to another? Novell has a pretty good TID: <http://www.novell.com/support/php/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=10024917&sliceId=&docTypeID=DT_TID_1_1&dialogID=90822612&stateId=0%200%2090820671> about it, which covers it pretty well. This overview is just as that TID, only with a few extras: * Copy groupwise directories needing to be moved to the new server, Domain, PO, gateway or Software directory. * Launch… text/html 2008-11-25T16:52:32+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/groupwiseclientlockout Introduction After a groupwise update you wanna make sure all your users will update to the latest version. Below you can read how to set this, and how you can prepare for this change. After all, you don't want to receive too many calls! Setting the lockout You can force the minimum client version in the post office object properties: Just change the setting to the desired level and you're done. Prepare If you want to know how many of your users are already updates you can see in the GroupWis… text/html 2009-04-28T16:21:32+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/groupwiseclientrollout Introduction If you don't mind forcing a new client upon your users you can use the SDD options. If you don't want to force an update, or simply don't want to use the SDD to update your clients there are always more options for you. This tutorial explains how to install the GroupWise client at your users workstations with use of MSI technology. It is tested (by me) on GroupWise 7 SP3 as well as GroupWise 8. The screenshots are made with the GroupWise 7 SP3 installation software, I saw one minor… text/html 2009-10-06T17:43:59+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/groupwiseclientstips This page holds some small tips and tricks for the GroupWise Client and holds an overview of existing full documentation of the GroupWise Client. GroupWise 8 Share Home View GroupWise 8 Vacation Rule GroupWise 8 has two main address book components, the component included in the GroupWise client and the standalone address book. Novell's intention is to make the standalone edition unneccessary, but for now some of the settings and functionality is divided and can only be performed using one of th… text/html 2009-04-29T15:05:37+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/groupwisehighsecurity Samenvatting Dit document is bedoeld als leidraad om groupwise 6.5 aan te passen om het zo veilig mogelijk te maken. Desondanks gaat dit document niet over anti-virus en spam. Dat zijn te algemene onderwerpen en sterk aan ontwikkeling onderhevig. De onderwerpen die wel worden besproken zijn POA security in het algemeen, groupwise wachtwoorden, standaard wachtwoorden, LDAP authenticatie, Intruder detection, Open Relay en Mail bom bescherming. Aan het eind wordt er ook nog verwezen naar een docu… text/html 2009-05-04T16:21:05+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/groupwiseinternetdomains Introduction This is a step by step guide to introduce multiple internet domain names in groupwise. In case you run bordermanager mail proxy there's also the directions to adjust these settings. Steps include: * Adjusting the groupwise system * Adjusting the groupwise internet agent * Adjusting bordermanager mail proxy text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:06+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/groupwisemailrules Inleiding Soms krijg je van iets of iemand elke dag wel een paar mailtjes. Je bent blij dat je ze krijgt, want ze vertellen je iets wat je wilt weten. Echter, vaak weet je dat al, of wil je ze alleen gebruiken ter referentie. In ieder geval is het vervelend om ze in je inbox te houden. Te veel mailtjes blokkeren het overzicht en zorgen op deze manier voor inefficiënt gebruik van je email. Met deze kleine handleiding zie je hoe je in drie simpele stappen rules kunt maken om je mail allereerst te… text/html 2010-10-09T12:17:18+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/groupwiseoes This is a notes page, extended with tips & tricks. This page is not really documentation, just stuff for me to remember. Sometimes things will get removed from these pages and turned into real documentation, sometimes not. You might find these notes to come in hand, maybe not. For me, it's just things I don't want to forget. text/html 2009-04-29T11:35:14+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/groupwiseoutofoffice Inleiding Deze pagina laat de correcte wijze zien hoe je een out-of-office regel opstelt. Er zijn namelijk nogal wat zaken waar je rekening mee wilt houden. Je wilt bijvoorbeeld niet dat de regel te vroeg of te laat begint, dat je een antwoord verstuurd naar jezelf (bij vertraagde meldingen over bijvoorbeeld niet bestaande email adressen) of naar een mailinglijst. Zodoende maken we een regel die een begin en einddatum heeft, en rekening houdt met de zojuist genoemde punten. Deze handleiding wer… text/html 2011-02-08T09:45:42+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/groupwiseperformance Samenvatting Dit document is bedoeld als leidraad om groupwise 6.5 aan te passen aan je eigen omgeving om er zoveel mogelijk uit te halen. De onderwerpen die worden besproken zijn quickfinder indexing, NSS volumes, NSS instellingen, architectuur, groupwise aantallen en proactief onderhoud. Vooral de laatste twee zijn zeer nuttig bij het inrichten en onderhouden van je groupwise omgeving. Een extra beetje advies: lees het gehele document door voordat je wijzigingen maakt. Sommige onderwerpen heb… text/html 2008-11-25T15:09:57+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/groupwiseprotectedmemory Protected Memory Groupwise, being one of the best email systems in the world, could be a pain in the ass. Run solely on a fast and reliable server and you will do just fine, but most times, that's not the way it works. You don't always have a spare server available, so maybe there's also running iManager, or ZENworks on it. But email is more important, especially according to your manager. Downtime is not acceptable, so this is what you do, you run it in protected memory space. This makes sure … text/html 2009-02-24T09:49:08+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/groupwiserestore This is a article discussing the way GroupWise should be backupped including how to restore it. Of course, a golden rule applies. No backup is complete until it is fully restored and tested. In case you're also looking for a certification or want to be prepared for an audit you should also let the responsible sign for the quality of the restore. Auditors will be asking for prove that your restore worked flawlessly. The article covers the build-in groupwise backup feature in the TSAFS.NLM in netw… text/html 2009-04-08T15:51:10+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/groupwiserights GroupWise rights are a combination of NSS Rights and eDirectory Rights. This is an overview on how to combine these into working setups. Note that these are created and tested as I go. I need something, I look it up and test it, if it works it gets put up here. text/html 2009-04-20T18:38:39+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/groupwisetopdownrebuild Introduction Prior to performing major and or minor updates and upgrades to your groupwise system, and when your groupwise system is having trouble, you should perform a top down rebuild of your groupwise system. This is to ensure that all of your data is correct and you experience no corruption. This is especially important before support packs upgrades and version upgrades. They could convert your database to a new version which could spell disaster when there is corruption. The manual given … text/html 2009-04-22T17:20:06+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/groupwiseupdate This is a global article on how to update your GroupWise system. All the statements here are valid for both support pack updates as well as version upgrades. This is tested through: * support pack update from 7 SP2 to 7 SP3 * version upgrade from 7 SP3 to 8 text/html 2009-04-16T14:49:30+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/groupwisevsexchange GroupWise vs Exchange - Novell Connection Magazine March 2009 This is a pdf from Novell comparing costs between GroupWise 8 and Exchange 2007: groupwise, versus text/html 2009-04-29T16:03:41+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/groupwisewebaccessssl Introduction Although you can set up the webserver to only listen to port 443 instead of both 80 and 443 (as showed in BorderManagerConfig), there is also a way to redirect all requests on port 80 to port 443. You have to know that SSL is entirely dependant on the webserver. Groupwise webaccess itself is just a collection of web pages that the webserver sends to the browser, so if SSL is required the webserver itself needs to be set up to use SSL. The procedure to do this depends on the webserv… text/html 2009-08-14T11:38:56+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/groupwisewebconsole Inleiding Deze pagina is bedoeld als overzicht over groupwise web console voor de vier hoofdcomponenten van groupwise, de POA, de MTA, de GWIA en de Webaccess. Overzicht componenten ComponentLinkOpmerkingenPOA <http://mail.server.local:7181> Staat standaard aan maar zonder wachtwoord MTA <http://mail.server.local:7180> Staat standaard aan maar zonder wachtwoord GWIA <http://mail.server.local:9850> Tijdens de installatie wordt gevraagd om je het web console wilt aanzetten Webaccess <http://m… text/html 2012-01-05T14:10:20+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/growvmfsdatastore With the introduction of vSphere 4 VMware introduced an extra way for increasing the size of VMFS datastores. In previous versions you could add extra extents to increase the size, since vSphere 4 there is also the option available to just grow the datastore. There is one catch though, the space should be adjacent to the current datastore. Of course that is usually not the case but in our environment the storage is on a SAN from NetApp which uses WAFL, which never uses adjacent space in the firs… text/html 2008-12-19T15:42:17+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/gwiadistlistinternet If you have groupwise distribution lists it's not possible by default to send email to them from the internet. You can enable this functionality in the GWIA: Check the “Expand distribution lists on incoming messages” line and you're done. Note that the GWIA will automatically restart. groupwise text/html 2009-07-08T16:01:58+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/halley Ik heb ook een poes, een heel lieve. Op deze blog zullen af en toe foto's van haar te bewonderen zijn. Halley heeft ook bij Pauline gelogeerd: Selectie van een fotoserie die Patrick heeft gemaakt toen hij nog bij mij woonde: personal text/html 2009-04-24T16:51:09+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/hardwaremgmtconsolecommands This is a not complete overview of commands on a HMC to manage an AIX environment. HMC specific Overview commands hscroot3@sys03hmc:~> ls /usr/hmcrbin/ asmmenu chsyscfg egrep lpcfgop lsmediadev mkdir rmlparutil ssh basename chsyspwd expr lsaccfg lsomsec mkhmcusr rmprofdata ssh-keygen bkconsdata chsysstate fgrep lsavailres lspartition mksyscfg rmsyscfg startdump bkprofdata chus… text/html 2010-10-09T12:16:27+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/hardwarenotes This is a notes page, extended with tips & tricks. This page is not really documentation, just stuff for me to remember. Sometimes things will get removed from these pages and turned into real documentation, sometimes not. You might find these notes to come in hand, maybe not. For me, it's just things I don't want to forget. text/html 2009-04-09T11:12:49+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/horlogenoorden Het is mogelijk om met je horloge het noorden te bepalen. Je hebt hier wel een paar voorwaarden aan. Zo zijn er verschillen tussen het Noordelijk en het Zuidelijk halfrond, en je moet rekening houden met de werkelijke tijd. Wat betekent dat je in de meeste gebieden in de zomer er een uurtje af moet trekken om de werkelijke tijd te gebruiken. text/html 2008-12-18T13:09:18+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/hvrbfamiliedag Zaterdag 21 juni hadden we op post 4 van de HVRB een familiedag en daar zijn een aantal foto's van gemaakt: lifeguard, personal text/html 2011-09-07T16:37:53+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/ibmfirmware Always, when downloading IBM firmware updates go to IBM fixcentral: <http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/> Download Download the latest version of the AMM software from IBM. The firmware is linked to the bladecenter chassis. The exact version of your chassis can be obtained from the AMM, go to 'Monitors' -> Hardware VPD -> and in the top you can click 'Chassis'. * Product family: Bladecenter H Chassis * Type: xxxx * Model: xxx text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:07+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/ice I want to promote this initiative so I's thought I make a small note on this. As you can read on wikipedia ICE is a smart and fast way to enable first responders to help you and gain information on important medical information. Joining is quite simple, just add a contact to your cell phone under the name of ICE and enter the information of the one you want to be contacted in case of emergency. You can add more contacts by adding a record under ICE1, ICE2 etc. personal text/html 2009-04-16T11:39:16+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/ichainncplogon This is a small howto on logging on to iChain to make it possible to perform administrative tasks on iChain. Basically you'll have to do some configuration changes on the iChain box before you can login and use something like ConsoleOne. These are the steps to take: text/html 2010-03-04T17:48:33+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/identitymanageractivation ! Introduction Identity Manager needs to be activated to be able to use it for more then 90 days. Default the drivers and the product works for 90 days and then stops. To prevent this you need to activate it, which counts for the bundle edition as for the full edition. In this small howto we activate Identity Manager bundle edition with a ZENworks 7 license. Though getting the activation code differs from the full product, the activation it self is the same for both products. Novell TID about g… text/html 2010-05-19T15:45:40+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/idmaddriver This article will eventually show how to create a fully functional synchronization between Novell's eDirectory and Microsoft's Active Directory. With fully functional I mean including password synchronization and implementing business rules on what is allowed to change where. The steps taken are: * Install a SLES box with eDirectory and iManager * Install a Windows box with Active Directory * Install IdM on the SLES box * Install IdM Remote Loader on the Windows box * Create and configur… text/html 2010-03-04T17:48:44+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/idmdrivers This page is meant to provide a basic overview of how Identity Manager drivers work, what data goes over what channel and how to work with them. Because there are two main types of drivers I will discuss the eDir2eDir driver and the connected system driver, and then especially the AD driver. eDir2eDir driver This is the designer view of the eDir2eDir driver: This is a schematic view of the eDir2eDir driver: As you can see, data travels over both channels to get from the eDirectory Tree to the V… text/html 2010-05-19T16:43:12+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/idmdstrace This is a small page on how to get a level 3 trace log of a driver (like created in Identity Manager AD Driver) and how to read that. Set DS Trace Log Level First you need to set the ds trace log level to 3. Level 3 gives you all the information you need, I never came across a situation that required a higher level: * Log in to iManager * Go to 'Identity Manager' and on to 'Identity Manager overview' * Search for driver sets and click on the one holding the driver you need to troubleshoot … text/html 2010-06-02T10:31:33+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/idmmultivalue This is an article on how to combine multiple values from a multi-valued attribute into a single valued attribute. This is required when you have multiple values in for example the Location or Room Number in eDirectory. We are first going to see what goes wrong: One value When we populate the location field in iManager for a synchronized user the value gets synced as well:Enter the single value in iManager: And the value get synced to Active Directory: Two values Now we first remove the o… text/html 2010-06-04T12:20:59+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/idmreadme Before you start with Identity Manager there are a few articles that are more clear than Novell's documentation, especially when you're just starting with this complex piece of software. This is a tour through Identity Manager in three articles, very well readable and it will get you started with the terminology and basic concepts:<http://www.novell.com/communities/node/6679/guided-tour-novell-identity-manager> <http://www.novell.com/communities/node/6696/guided-tour-novell-identity-manager> … text/html 2008-11-26T12:57:06+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/imanagermobileproxy Introduction iManager mobile is a very nice tool which makes it able for you to run iManager on your PC, thus moving some of the load off your server to your workstation. This might be handy in case you're servers are performing poor and you want every cycle and memory bit to be in use for your users, or, as in my case you switch a lot of computers and sites and always want the latest version of iManager and additional plugins to be close to you. There is one thing though, iManager needs plugin… text/html 2012-04-27T16:15:05+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/installredhat5 This is a very basic description on installing Red hat 5.5 Enterprise Linux. There are a few notes that need to be shared: Subscription / Installation Number After booting and starting the installation you are requested to fill in the installation number (subscription number). To find it do the following: text/html 2012-04-19T13:48:55+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/installsolaris10u8 This is an installation report for installing a default Solaris 10 update 8 server. Note that the server is a virtual machine with a new VMXNET3 network card. This network card is not supported by the Solaris native filesystem so to the installation process it's like there is no network card to configure. We'll install and configure the network card afterwards after installing the VMware Tools. Also note that the VMware Paravirtual SCSI adapter is not supported on Solaris so keep the default SCS… text/html 2010-03-04T17:52:58+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/intruderdetectionedirectory What is Intruder Detection Intruder detection is the act of detecting actions that attempt to compromise the confidentiality, integrity or availability of a resource. In the context of eDirectory this means you detect false logins and brute force attempts. Normally, when implemented different levels of security are taken into account. Because the impact of a compromised user account is lower than a compromised administrator account there are different restrictive levels. User intruder detection… text/html 2011-08-30T12:00:46+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/iscsi Terminology:iSCSI (for “Internet SCSI”) is a protocol that allows clients (called initiators) to send SCSI commands (CDBs) to SCSI storage devices (targets) on remote servers. It is a popular Storage Area Network (SAN) protocol, allowing organizations to consolidate storage into data center storage arrays while providing hosts (such as database and web servers) with the illusion of locally-attached disks. Unlike Fibre Channel, which requires special-purpose cabling, iSCSI can be run over long di… text/html 2010-03-04T17:49:49+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/itfouten 40 fouten die een IT-er niet moet maken Bron: Infoworld: <http://www.infoworld.nl/web/Artikel/10-fouten-die-een-IT-er-niet-moet-maken-4.htm> Waar gehakt wordt vallen spaanders en fouten maken is menselijk. Dat neemt niet weg dat lang niet iedereen zich fouten kan permitteren. Een vakkenvuller die een zak basterdsuiker in het verkeerde vak plaatst, komt daar waarschijnlijk beter mee weg dan een plastisch chirurg die u het verkeerde oor aan naait. Hetzelfde geldt voor de IT industrie, waarin fout… text/html 2011-06-27T16:01:42+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/itil This is a notes page, extended with tips & tricks. This page is not really documentation, just stuff for me to remember. Sometimes things will get removed from these pages and turned into real documentation, sometimes not. You might find these notes to come in hand, maybe not. For me, it's just things I don't want to forget. text/html 2010-06-03T12:09:25+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/juridischestatusemail Dit artikel heeft als doel een klein overzicht te verschaffen in helder Nederlands over de juridische status van email. Dit zonder moeilijke juridische taal, maar wel met de links naar de officiële artikelen die de genoemde status onderbouwen, dus met de moeilijke juridische taal. Status email Email valt in Nederland niet onder het briefgeheim. Het briefgeheim is een artikel uit de grondwet wat bepaalt dat post, telegraaf en telefoon privé zijn en als zodanig dus niet door anderen dan waarvoor… text/html 2008-12-21T16:25:37+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/kroatie2007 In September 2007 zijn we met z'n vieren naar Kroatië gegaan. Het motto was om alles zo relaxt mogelijk te doen, leuke dingen te gaan en vooral veel plezier te hebben en heel veel bier te drinken. We zijn zo'n beetje elke dag uit eten gegaan, dat scheelt namelijk amper in kosten en het geeft zo weinig troep. Hier een klein fotoverslag: text/html 2010-10-09T12:22:30+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/ldapfilters This is a notes page, extended with tips & tricks. This page is not really documentation, just stuff for me to remember. Sometimes things will get removed from these pages and turned into real documentation, sometimes not. You might find these notes to come in hand, maybe not. For me, it's just things I don't want to forget. text/html 2011-05-11T15:22:18+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/ldaploggingad How to make event viewer show information that's actually useful when trying to troubleshoot AD's LDAP? I got triggered because I got this event in my AD LDAP server and I wanted to know which clients it was about: During the previous 24 hour period, some clients attempted to perform LDAP binds that were either: (1) A SASL (Negotiate, Kerberos, NTLM, or Digest) LDAP bind that did not request signing (integrity validation), or (2) A LDAP simple bind that was performed on a cleartext (non-SSL/TL… text/html 2010-10-09T12:24:38+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/ldifsyntax This is a notes page, extended with tips & tricks. This page is not really documentation, just stuff for me to remember. Sometimes things will get removed from these pages and turned into real documentation, sometimes not. You might find these notes to come in hand, maybe not. For me, it's just things I don't want to forget. Versie behoor je bovenaan de file te specificeren:version: 1 text/html 2011-07-11T14:34:36+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/linuxtips This is a notes page, extended with tips & tricks. This page is not really documentation, just stuff for me to remember. Sometimes things will get removed from these pages and turned into real documentation, sometimes not. You might find these notes to come in hand, maybe not. For me, it's just things I don't want to forget. text/html 2009-06-22T17:37:59+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/localadministratorgpo Introduction This is how to make a GPO to make every domain user a local administrator. Please remember that this is not best practice and you should have a really good reason to do this. The reason I did it is that software developers need local administrator rights to compile software. There isn't much I can do about it. The only thing I can do is have a good imaging policy. They break it, I image it! AD Users and Computers Creating the GPO can be done in a couple of ways. I take the easy w… text/html 2010-06-17T16:35:59+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/logrotation # Set var to directory which needs to be cleaned up LOGDIR=/var/log/app/logs cd $LOGDIR find . -type f -ctime +28 -name 'applogfile.log*' -exec rm {} \; find . -type f -ctime +28 -name 'app2logfile.log*' -exec rm {} \; Note: this cleanup script removes files more than 4 weeks ago and have a name that starts with applogfile.log or app2logfile.log. text/html 2012-03-09T13:12:22+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/lunaligning For information about why you should keep LUNs aligned with your vmdks I'd like to refer to this article from yellow-bricks.com. It explains why alignment is important, but I'll tell you it comes down to performance. When the LUNs, vmdk and Guest OS blocks are not aligned the array will request more blocks than the VMs are actually asking for. Please note the following remarks: text/html 2012-01-16T14:49:51+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/manageengineeventloganalyzerinstallation Download the appropriate version from <http://www.eventloganalyzer.com/download.html>, note that there are different editions for 32 and 64 bit systems.Start the installation by following these steps: * Assign execute permission using the command: chmod a+x <file_name>.bin * Execute the following command: ./<file_name>Bin -console text/html 2011-06-27T16:01:33+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/modellen Overview of useful models. Het vinden van de passende oplossing Met de SWOT-analyse probeer je sterktes (strengths), zwaktes (weaknesses), kansen (opportunities) en bedreigingen (threats) van een plan te benoemen. Het model stamt uit een onderzoek van de Stanford-universiteit in de jaren zestig van de vorige eeuw. Hierin werden de belangrijkste Amerikaanse bedrijven onderzocht. De uitkomst: het verschil tussen dat wat een onderneming gepland had en dat wat daadwerkelijk uitgevoerd was, bed… text/html 2008-11-23T12:07:18+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/movenssvdbetweenoesvms Yeah that's a nice title! I had to move a virtual disk to another virtual machine because of... ah well, leave the poor man alone. It's as worse as it is. But after cleaning up the tree the disk had to be inserted again some how. Although there aren't any TID's, manuals, cool solutions or anything to describe this it's pretty straight forward. That might be the reason there aren't any manuals on this, but still... text/html 2009-09-15T10:11:41+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/msirolloutoptions Introduction This is a small tutorial on the rollout of MSI applications. MSI is a Microsoft format for applications on Windows, and stands for Microsoft Installer. Nowadays the installer is referred to as the Windows Installer. Covered topics: text/html 2011-12-16T13:42:14+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/myownbb Things I do to make my blackberry mine. FacebookWhatsAppScoreMobile FCLogicMail WallpaperTime -> 24h, correct timezone Options -> Device -> Convenience Keys: * Right: Camera * Left: Pictures phones, myown text/html 2011-12-14T14:28:25+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/myownsuse This is a page with how I've setup my Lenovo T500 laptop with openSUSE 11.1. I will document here everything I have configured, but I will not document the obvious such as agreeing to license agreements etc. Exact model: Lenovo ThinkPad T500 2056-4QG text/html 2008-11-24T17:24:34+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/nalbasics Wat is de NAL De NAL staat voor Novell Application Launcher en is een onderdeel van het product ZENworks Desktop Management. ZEN staat weer voor Zero Effort Networking. Het doel van dit product is dan ook met zo weinig mogelijk moeite alle desktops in je netwerk omgeving zo goed mogelijk te beheren. Dus de NAL kan worden gebruikt om iedereen op dezelfde manier van applicaties, updates en instellingen te voorzien. Verdere functionaliteit van de NAL en ZENworks kan onder andere worden gevonden in… text/html 2010-08-20T10:26:54+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/named This is the installation of bind on SLES 11 to create a forwarding DNS Server. This is installed on the proxy server since that is the only server which has internet access. The main DNS servers (which handle the internal domain) will then use this DNS server as their forwarding server. Go to yast -> Network Services -> DNS Server. If this is the first time it will prompt you that bind needs to be installed. This is of course no problem since we use an update server, so follow the prompts to do … text/html 2008-12-18T13:07:59+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/natuurmonumenten Steun Natuurmonumenten: <http://www.natuurmonumenten.nl> Array better world, personal text/html 2011-06-13T17:20:48+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netappaddroute First, check the current route on the filer: filer2> netstat -rn Routing tables Internet: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface default 10.100.250.1 UGS 3 538323776 e0M 10.100.150/24 link#2 UC 0 0 e0a 10.100.250/24 link#1 UC 0 0 e0M 10.100.250.1 0:0:c:7:ac:96 UHL 1 0 e0M 10.100.250.101 0:a0:98:29:38:34 UHL 0 0 e0M 10.100.250.231 … text/html 2011-05-05T15:13:15+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netappaggrsnap Changing the Snap Reserve on an Aggregate cannot be done using Filer View but must be done using the CLI: netappfiler01> snap reserve -A Aggregate aggr0: current snapshot reserve is 5% or 13824 k-bytes. netappfiler01> snap reserve -A 10 usage: snap list [-A | -V] [-n] [-b] [-l] [[-q] [<vol-name>] | -o [<qtree-path>]] snap create [-A | -V] <vol-name> <snapshot-name> snap delete [-A | -V] <vol-name> <snapshot-name> | snap delete [-A | -V] -a [-f] [-q] <vol-name> snap delta [-A | -V] [<vol-name> [… text/html 2011-05-31T15:39:48+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netappcaveat When configuring a NetApp and designing the aggregate size there is something really important to keep in mind. So bear with me while I write it down. In a NetApp filer are disks. Disks themselves are point of failures, and that's why we use RAID. In this story I'll keep to raid_dp, which stand for raid double parity. This means that in each raid set that is configured two disks can fail before you're screwed. However, since NetApps work with WAFL (write anywhere file layout) you as a administra… text/html 2011-05-31T15:43:38+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netappconfig This configuration is done on a simulator. There might be small differences compared to the real world. This configuration is done on ONTAP 7.3.4. LX-Simulator:/sim_install # ./setup.sh Script version 22 (18/Sep/2007) Where to install to? [/sim]: Would you like to install as a cluster? [no]: Would you like full HTML/PDF FilerView documentation to be installed [yes]: Continue with installation? [no]: yes Creating /sim Unpacking sim.tgz to /sim Configured the simulators mac address to be [00:5… text/html 2011-05-05T14:33:14+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netappdataplanning With the introduction of all kind of options in their filers NetApp provides several ways to plan for your data consumption. In this article I'll discuss a few of the most confusing options and clarify them and their interaction with each other by showing an example. text/html 2011-05-18T14:54:41+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netappdeduplication <http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/03/31/quick-guide-to-setting-up-netapp-deduplication/> <http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/04/24/using-netapp-deduplication-with-block-storage/> <http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/05/20/provisioning-luns-for-use-with-deduplication/> storage, netapp, unfinished text/html 2012-01-06T09:33:25+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netappoperationsmanager " Note: Operations Manager is also known as Data Fabric Manager, although I understand it's the old name and should officially not be used anymore. " Installation is codetty straight forward so nothing about that. There are a couple of things though, you'll need to grant the Operations Manager server access to the filer, and you need to add the filers you want Operations Manager to, well you know, manage. After the installation, before you can access the console center you'll have to open a r… text/html 2011-12-15T13:19:30+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netappperformancecounters This is a list from the help from NetApp Management Console Help. You can identify counters by using the list of performance counters that collect data for each performance object. The following are the descriptions of counters for objects. Availability of counters and their descriptions might vary with the version of Data ONTAP.total_transfers Total number of disk operations serviced by the aggregate per second user_reads Number of user read operations serviced by the aggregate per second user_… text/html 2011-05-06T11:40:03+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netappreboot halt halt -t [interval] reboot reboot -t [interval] Sometimes you could also reload the rc configuration in stead of booting: source /etc/rc netapp, hardware text/html 2012-04-26T11:19:25+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netappreplication This article describes how to setup replication between two filers using SnapMirror. Configuring this is pretty forward, but there is a big catch, which will never show by error messages: ALWAYS USE HOSTNAMES! I had several issues when using IP-addresses or when mixing IP-addresses and hostnames. Also, in a simulated environment use different names for the volumes. That's only in a simulated environment, in my production environment I had no issues while using the same names for the volumes. Thi… text/html 2011-09-07T16:38:05+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netappstorage This is a page intended to give a small summary on creating usable storage on a NetApp SAN. Topics covered are: * Terminology * Create a volume * Create a LUN * Create an initiator group * Create a mapping between an initiator group and a LUN * References text/html 2012-01-06T09:33:59+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netappsyslog Configuring syslog on a netapp filer is pretty straight forward, with one catch. You can't edit the /etc/syslog.conf file, and that for two reasons: * There is no syslog.conf * There is no editor You can create an empty syslog.conf file however, and while doing that, put in all the required configuration. So first step is looking at the current sample file so you can create the syslog.conf from that: text/html 2011-01-13T12:51:42+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netbackupaixclient Change directory to the software: sjoerd@ms-lpar05:/home/sjoerd>cd /tmp/sft/ sjoerd@ms-lpar05:/tmp/sft>ls LICENSE NBClients VSM_README install sjoerd@ms-lpar05:/tmp/sft>ls -l total 160 -rw-r--r-- 1 sjoerd ssh-acce 44867 Jan 7 02:52 LICENSE drwxr-xr-x 5 sjoerd ssh-acce 256 May 25 16:06 NBClients -rw-r--r-- 1 sjoerd ssh-acce 2416 Jan 7 02:52 VSM_README -rw-r--r-- 1 sjoerd ssh-acce 31962 Jan 7 02:52 install text/html 2010-06-18T13:38:50+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netbackuppolicy To access the data paths that should be included in the backup, right click the policy and select 'change'. Then go to the tab 'Backup Selections': Windows Exclude Lists For Windows boxes there is a graphical way of excluding files. To go there, right click the policy and select 'host properties'. Then go to 'Windows Client' and select 'Exclude Lists': AIX Exlude Lists For AIX clients there is no GUI way of adding exclude lists. To exclude files you need to create a file on the host. There… text/html 2012-04-27T16:11:40+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netbackupredhatbmr To use a Red Hat server as a NetBackup Bare Metal Server you can simply activate that service, it is installed by default when you install the Netbackup server or client software. I installed the server software for this purpose, but, with hindsight, installing the client is probably a better option and you need the client later on anyway to create the boot media. That is, by the way, the purpose of this setup. We're not going to use the boot server, we already have a few network boot servic… text/html 2010-06-18T10:59:20+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netbackuprestore This is the way to restore files using NetBackup. The restore software is a different program from the Netbackup Administration Console and called 'Backup, Archive, and Restore': After starting the software you'll first have to select the client you want to restore data from. Go to 'File' and select 'Specify NetBackup Machines and Policy Type': Now enter the backup machine, the client to restore data from and the client to restore data to. If the client is not in the list, click 'Edit Clien… text/html 2011-03-22T14:06:47+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netbackuprestore2 This is a special procedure for restoring data within the cluster from one side to the other side. In this test we restored data from the host1 in PRD to the host2 in ACC. The tape with the required data is already in the tape robot in ACC, and is recognizes as the specific tape after running an inventory. text/html 2012-04-19T14:59:19+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netbackupsolarisbmr To use a Solaris server as a NetBackup Bare Metal Server you can simply activate that service, it is installed by default when you install the Netbackup server or client software. I installed the server software for this purpose, but, with hindsight, installing the client is probably a better option and you need the client later on anyway to create the boot media. That is, by the way, the purpose of this setup. We're not going to use the boot server, we already have a few network boot services… text/html 2012-04-24T10:33:52+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netbackupsolarisbmrrestore Here we are going to restore a Solaris client using NetBackup Bare Metal Restore. Before we are able to do that we have to enable this option in the NetBackup policy for the client: When the backup was done succesfully you're ready for a NetBackup Bare Metal Restore. text/html 2012-05-04T10:33:40+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netbackuptapeexpiration If you want to change the expiration date on data images on tapes in NetBackup, the functionality in the gui in useless. You can use the bpexpdate command on the commandline. To use it, start a cmd box as administrator: To change a date on a media with media id O731L4: text/html 2010-06-18T10:22:11+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netbackuptapeprocedure This is the procedure to move a tape within a tape robot for NetBackup so it can be picked up by your tape courier. Open the NetBackup Administration Console, select 'Media and Device Management', and then select 'Media'. Sort the media on 'Last Written' and note the slot the tape is in: Open the 'Quantum SuperLoader 3' On Board Remote Management through Internet Explorer: After logging in, select the 'Commands' section. In the 'Moving Tapes' section select the noted slot to move to the mai… text/html 2012-04-27T17:07:16+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netbackupwindowsbmr Setting up BMR Master server on Windows Before you can do a lot with Bare Metal Restore you'll first need a bara metal restore master server. Gaining one is pretty simple, just run the wizard you can find on the NetBackup Master Server: text/html 2010-03-04T17:47:06+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netware655 Installatie verslag Netware 6.5.5 Guest OS: Netware6SCSI harddisk: 10 GB LSI Logic BusNetworking mode: NATRAM: 512 MB IDE CDROM 1:01 ProcessorFloppy disk not connected at power up Country: 031 NetherlandsCode Page: 850 MultilingualKeyboard: United States Boot Partitie: 500 MB SYS volume: 4000 MB DATA volume: 5745 MB text/html 2010-03-04T17:47:15+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netware657 Installatie verslag OES Netware 6.5.7Installatie datum: 22 november 2007Door: Sjoerd Hooft Guest OS: Netware6SCSI harddisk: 10 GB LSI Logic BusNetworking mode: NATRAM: 512 MB IDE CDROM 1:01 ProcessorFloppy disk not connected at power up Country: 031 NetherlandsCode Page: 850 MultilingualKeyboard: United States Boot Partitie: 200 MB SYS volume: 4000 MB DATA volume: 6043 MB text/html 2010-12-31T13:19:32+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netwareconfigtomcat tomcat4.ncf \\server\sys\tomcat\4\bin ; Description: ; This is a sample NCF file for starting the application instance of Tomcat. ; ; This NCF file assumes tomcat is located on the sys volume in the tomcat/4 ; directory. ; If different than sys:/tomcat/4/bin then this NCF needs to be MODIFIED to ; reflect to where tomcat was installed. setenv CATALINA_OPTS=-vm160m -Xmx256m -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=sys:/adminsrv/conf/.keystore -Dsun.io.useCanonCaches=false ; we use LDAPVerifier here, to … text/html 2011-04-06T16:27:37+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netwarehosts ### Netware 6.5 Hosts bestand ### ### Command to reload the hosts file: ### ws2_32 reload hosts ### # # # SYS:ETC\HOSTS # # Mappings of host names and host aliases to IP address. # # normal loopback address 127.0.0.1 loopback lb localhost # IP-address and hostname of server 10.10.10.10 server1.warmetal.nl server1 # IP-address and hostname of backup server 10.10.10.17 bck1.warmetal.nl bck1 # IP-addresses and hostnames of edirectory master servers 10.1.1.42 dir1.warmetal.nl d… text/html 2011-04-06T16:22:47+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netwareiprint [Novell] ;Do not modify this section NovellWinVersion = 426 ;This is set by Novell, Inc. NovellWinVer2K = 426 NovellWinVerXP = 426 [Configuration] AllowAutoUpdate = 0 ;Get newer iPrint client from Server? ;0 = Don't automatically update client. ;1 = Update client at boot time, prompt user. ;2 = Update client at boot time, don't prompt user. ShortInstallNam… text/html 2011-04-06T16:30:22+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netwareparameters Save these settings as a .ncf file and run it to set all these settings: ### Netware 6.5 Server Tuning & Parameters ### ### TID 10012765 Tuning prior to Netware 5.x ### TID 10018661 TCPIP Tuning ### TID 10096649 Memory Fragmentation & Tuning ### TID 10091980 Memory Fragmentation ### Miscellaneous SET MINIMUM SERVICE PROCESSES = 250 SET MAXIMUM SERVICE PROCESSES = 1000 ### Communication SET MINIMUM PACKET RECEIVE BUFFERS = 2000 SET MAXIMUM PACKET RECEIVE BUFFERS = 10000 ### Common File Syste… text/html 2011-04-06T16:20:40+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netwareresolv # Name Search Order # Herladen met "WS2_32 reload resolve" domain net.warmetal.nl domain warmetal.nl nameserver 10.1.1.53 nameserver 10.2.1.53 netware, config text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:10+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netwarerestoreperformance Restore Performance Indien een restore op een netware server verschrikkelijk traag is kun je deze versnellen door de onderstaande twee parameters uit te zetten. Vergeet niet om ze weer aan te zetten na de restore: * Laad monitor met het volgende commando op het console van de server waar je heen gaat restoren: * monitor !H text/html 2010-10-09T12:18:36+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/netwaretips This is a notes page, extended with tips & tricks. This page is not really documentation, just stuff for me to remember. Sometimes things will get removed from these pages and turned into real documentation, sometimes not. You might find these notes to come in hand, maybe not. For me, it's just things I don't want to forget. text/html 2010-04-16T15:03:36+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/networkbasics On this page will network basics be explained. For more network basic knowledge not explained or showed on this page check Network Ports and Notes, Tips & Tricks: Cisco. This page is not finished yet.Layer TypeData Unit Layer Function Example Host Layer Data 7. Application Network process to application DNS, FTP, HTTP, NFS, NTP, SMTP, SNMP, Telnet Host Layer Data 6. Presentation Data representation and encryption MIME Host Layer Data 5. Session Interhost communication NetBIOS Host Layer Segment … text/html 2010-10-13T14:08:36+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/networkports A not complete list of TCP / UDP ports PortProtocolService / Description25 TCP SMTP 53 UDP and sometimes TCP DNS 67 UDP BootP Serverside 68 UDP BootP Clientside 69 UDP TFTP 80 TCP HTTP 110 TCP POP 111 TCP and UDP Portmapper for NFS 123 UDP NTP 137 UDP Windows File & Printer Sharing 138 UDP Windows File & Printer Sharing 139 TCP Windows File & Printer Sharing 143 TCP IMAP 389 TCP LDAP 427 TCP SLP 443 TCP HTTPS 445 TCP Windows File & Printer Sharing 514 UDP Syslog 524 TCP NCP 636 TCP Secure LDAP 8… text/html 2009-07-08T11:54:50+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/nfsclientforwindows I needed to access some AIX and linux NFS shares so I tried to find a tool to access the NFS shares. Although there are some tools like diskaccess but these are not free, and I really don't like to pay for software when it's not necessary. After searching some more I found there is a NFS client included with Windows, you just have to download the software and install it. text/html 2010-06-02T16:37:46+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/nimnetwork To use NIM with a client behind a firewall we need to know which ports and protocols should be allowed to access through the firewall. The documentation of IBM gives us an overview of the ports and protocols: In addition to these protocols there are a few more things that you should do: text/html 2012-05-07T16:56:07+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/notespowershell Function Optellen { param ($x, $y) $Ans = $x + $y Write-Host “Het antwoord is $Ans” <# .SYNOPSIS Een zeer nuttige funktie .DESCRIPTION Dit script telt 2 waardes bij elkaar op .NOTES File Name : optellen.ps1 Author : Roel Slob Requires : PowerShell V2 CTP3 .LINK http://ThePowershellGuru.org .EXAMPLE Optellen 1 2 #> } met params $var = $(throw "enter variable"), kan je de variable vereist maken met een foutmelding (enter variabele): { param ( $x = $(throw "g… text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:11+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/novellclientdependencies Introduction Indien je wilt dat de novell client pas verschijnt zodra de netwerk configuratie klaar is, bijvoorbeeld indien je automatisch wilt inloggen in een draadloos netwerk kun je daar de windows services op aanpassen. Aangezien je services moet aanpasssen die niet voorkomen in je “services.msc” console zul je daar de tool “sc.exe” voor moeten gebruiken. Deze is onderdeel van je windows resource kit. Onderstaand zie je de services die je moet aanpassen en de sc.exe syntax om dat te doen:… text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:11+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/novellclientinstall Introduction This article will tell you how you can create a custom Novell client setup, and will tell you how you can adjust the environment to support that new setup. This is including: * Contextless login * Using DHCP to get the tree and server information * Using the Novell Client Installation Manager to create the final custom install * Rollout text/html 2010-10-09T12:12:42+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/nsmtips This is a notes page, extended with tips & tricks. This page is not really documentation, just stuff for me to remember. Sometimes things will get removed from these pages and turned into real documentation, sometimes not. You might find these notes to come in hand, maybe not. For me, it's just things I don't want to forget. FSFEvent Queues verhogen/verlagen:Indien FSFevent draait:fsfevent maxcopydir=xxIndien FSFevent niet draait:SYS:/FACTORY/FSFEVENT -S EngineServer -maxcopydir xx Bestanden om … text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:11+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/nssbackuparcserve By default, the backup of NSS by Arcserve is really slow. Edit your asconfig.ini file to this and it will speed up your backup: [BAB Release] NWAGENT=11.10 NWAGENT_VERSION_STAMP=2000.4 [AGENT DOS] defaultTimeOut=30 MaxBadConnectionListItems=1000 [NWagentLoader] CSNLM1=Var:\NWAgent\NLM\PFC /NC /PFASCONFIG.INI /M /FVar:\NWAgent\NLMINFO.LOG /SFNWAPFC.INI CSNLM2=Var:\NWAgent\NLM\NWAGENT ARP ORDER=CSNLM1 CSNLM2 LOGFILE=Var:\NWAgent\NWLOAD.LOG [NetWare Agent] ActivityLogGroomDays = 30 NumberOfBuffe… text/html 2008-11-23T12:44:40+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/nssmountiso Netware 6.5 Netware 6.5 Support Pack 2 introduces the possibility to mount an ISO image of a CD or DVD as a Netare volume. This is achieved through the following 2 new NSS commands: nss /MountImageVolume=path_imagefilename add and mount the specified CD or DVD image file as a read-only NSS volume text/html 2008-12-02T10:43:34+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/nssreadaheadblocks Introduction On Netware 6.5 servers you can improve backup and restore performance by adjusting the read ahead blocks for NSS. This is an per volume setting and can be changed through nssmu and through the nss startup file. NSSMU Startup nssmu and go to the volumes section. Press enter on the volume you want to change: Go the the value, press enter and change the value to what you want. NSS start file Create a NSSSTART.CFG file in c:\nwserver\ and insert the following line: /ReadAheadBlks=DAT… text/html 2009-04-08T15:44:06+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/nssrights Mogelijke Directory en File Rights Directory & File Rights Supervisor [S] Kan niet gefilterd worden door een IRF Read [R] Write [W] Create [C] Geeft ook het recht om bestaande bestanden te salvagen Erase [E] Modify [M] Naam en attributen aanpassen File Scan [F] Access Control [A] Gebruiker kan rechten uitdelen en of veranderen File Attributes Archive Needed [A] Can't Compress [Cc] Wordt automatisch gezet indien het geen zin heeft om te compressenCompressed [Co] Wordt automatisch gezetCopy … text/html 2010-03-04T17:46:56+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/oes2linux Installatie verslag Open Enterprise Server 2 Linux Taal: English USKlok en tijdzone: Hardware Clock set to local time - Europa - AmsterdamPartitietabel: /dev/sda1 /boot 200 MB EXT3, Fstab options: No Access Time /dev/sda2 5 GB Linux LVM /dev/evms/lvm2/system 5 GB EVMS lvm2/system /dev/evms/lvm2/system/SYSLX / 4.4 GB EVMS EXT3, Fstab options: No Access Time /dev/evms/lvm2/system/swap swap 512 MB EVMS text/html 2009-05-22T12:54:33+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/oes2registration Introduction This article is actually not written, it's mostly my bash history and some output. Thing is, after I installed Open Enterprise Server 2, I registered it. Well, at least, that's what I thought. I got an update source, applied all patches, rebooted (kernel update) and checked my eDirectory edition. It was still eDirectory 8.8 SP2 as it comes with the installation media. That's weird, because I knew there should be an eDirectory FTF 2 update, which cannot be applied manually, only thr… text/html 2010-03-04T17:53:43+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/oes2sles10 Introduction This is a small collection of screenshots and hits on what you need to different to turn your SLES 10 installation into an OES 2 installation. To make myself clear, OES 2 is SLES 10 SP1 with a software addon. The most important difference between these two is that OES 2 most important feature is the support for eDirectory out of the box. Media addon When installing SLES 10 SP1 you get the chance during the installation process to add an addon media to the installation: After chec… text/html 2010-10-09T12:27:18+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/oestips This is a notes page, extended with tips & tricks. This page is not really documentation, just stuff for me to remember. Sometimes things will get removed from these pages and turned into real documentation, sometimes not. You might find these notes to come in hand, maybe not. For me, it's just things I don't want to forget. text/html 2009-10-29T12:02:15+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/office2007installation Introduction This is a small tutorial on how to create a managed installation of MS Office 2007. Covered topics are: * Creating an adminfile * Using the adminfile * Compatibilitymode * Removing Office 2007 * Visio 2007 Creating an adminfile If you go to the root of the installation source and issue the command: * setup.exe /? text/html 2010-10-26T13:15:46+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/offsitecopy This is an external function used in several other scripts. The point is that you can use the same external functions within multiple scripts. function offsitecopy { COPY=`echo ${1}` TOUSER="${2}" TOHOST="${3}" TODIR="${4}" LOGFILE="${5}" WHATAMI="${6}" HOSTNAME="${7}" MAILTOSUCCESS="${8}" MAILTOFAIL="${9}" DATESTAMP=`date +%Y"-"%m"-"%d" "%H":"%M` echo >> $LOGFILE echo "Starting Copy of $COPY[@] to $… text/html 2011-06-27T16:02:24+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/onderhoudsaankondiging Filled in for a GroupWise version upgrade. Start Nederlands Onderhoud mededeling:Datum: Donderdag 1 januari 2009Tijd: 18:00 uurWat: Upgrade backend GroupWise omgevingOffline: GroupWise, e-mail, blackberry Verwachtte eind tijd: 22:00 uurExtra info:Aangezien het onderhoud van afgelopen maandag succesvol is verlopen zal nu donderdag 1 januari GroupWise worden geüpgraded naar de nieuwste versie. Dit zal direct invloed hebben op WebAccess gebruikers. Voor deze gebruikers zal voorafgaand aan de upgra… text/html 2011-03-22T14:27:27+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/opendsindexes To be able to create indexes on openDS LDAP you need X11 access to the application. To check how to set this up check CygWin - X op Windows and ssh_x11_forwarding_and_su. Indexes are created using the control-panel which is part of the installation. Start the control-panel like this: text/html 2011-04-15T13:56:22+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/opendsinstall This article describes the installation and configuration of the OpenDS 2.2.0 directory server on AIX. Installation LDAP Listener Port 389 Administration Connector Port 4444 LDAP Secure Access disabled Root User DN cn=manager Directory Data Create New Base DN o=company.local Base DN Data Only Create Base Entry (o=company.local) * Download OpenDS 2.2.0 from the OpenDS website * Unpack (as root, like this) under /opt and start setup text/html 2011-04-06T16:30:33+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/opendsldifexport This script will create a ldif export from a running OpenDS installation. #!/bin/bash # set -x # Created by s.hooft, 22-03-2011, sjoerd_warmetal.nl ### Script Variables WHATAMI=`basename $0` ### LDAP Variables DUMPDIR=/var/backup/ldif MANAGER=cn=manager PASSWD=xxxxxxxx HOSTNAME=`hostname` HOSTNAME_SHORT=`hostname -s` LDAPBASE="o=company.local" ### Offsitecopy Variables GZIP=/usr/bin/gzip . "/opt/scripts/mail.txt" . "/opt/scripts/offsitecopy.func" TOUSER="repluser" TOHOST="syncsrv.company.loc… text/html 2012-01-05T16:09:58+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/opendsmemoryconfiguration By default openDS only gets a minimum of 128 MB and a maximum of 256 MB memory assigned ( -Xms128m -Xmx256m ). That is a bit low in large environments. You can check current settings like this: sjoerd@ldapsrv:/opt/OpenDS-2.2.0/config>ps -ef | grep Open root 4063566 1 316 Mar 11 - 141937:27 /usr/java5/jre/bin/java -server -Xms128m -Xmx256m -Dorg.opends.server.scriptName=start-ds org.opends.server.core.DirectoryServer --configClass org.opends.server.extensions.ConfigFileHandler -… text/html 2010-10-06T14:41:50+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/opendsrestore This is a restore from LDAP data created in Script: Bash: TDS LDAP Backup. scp backup.ldif.gz sjoerd@opends.company.local:/tmp gunzip backup.ldif.gz Rename the unzipped file to import.ldif mv backup.ldif import.ldif /opt/OpenDS-2.2.0/bin/import-ldif \ --ldifFile /tmp/import.ldif \ --backendID userRoot \ --replaceExisting \ --rejectFile /tmp/import-rejected.log \ --clearBackend \ --bindDN cn=manager \ --bindPassword <secret> text/html 2008-12-18T13:10:47+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/openoffice OpenOffice is a free office product. It can't do all the thing Microsoft Office can, but that's mainly things only companies want. I used it for my own since somewhere in 2006, and I never missed functionality. Check it out here: <http://www.openoffice.org> better world, windows, linux text/html 2008-12-18T13:10:28+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/opensuse The OpenSuse project is a worldwide community program sponsored by Novell that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. Zoveel gezegd, openSuse better world, linux text/html 2010-03-04T17:46:46+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/opensuse103 Installatie verslag OpenSuse 10.3 OpenSuse 10.3 Taal: English USKlok en tijdzone: Hardware Clock set to local time - Europa - NetherlandsPartitietabel: /dev/sda1 / 7.2 GB EXT3, Fstab options: No Access Time * Base System en Enhanced Base System * Novell AppArmor * C/C++ Development tools en kernel source * Gnome Desktop Environment * X Window System * Office & multimedia * Java * Desktop effects * rdesktop text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:12+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/opensuseotap Samenvatting Wat is een OTAP omgeving? De afkorting OTAP staat voor Ontwikkeling Test Acceptatie en Productie. Het is een veelgebruikte afkorting in de ICT en geeft een pad aan dat wordt doorlopen tijdens bijvoorbeeld softwareontwikkeling. Het pad dat wordt doorlopen is als volgt: Een programma of component wordt eerst ontwikkeld of geïnstalleerd in de Ontwikkelomgeving. Als de programmeur denkt klaar te zijn wordt het gekopieerd naar de Testomgeving. Daar kan gecontroleerd worden of het progra… text/html 2010-03-19T14:01:45+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/oracleclientinstall Download software Installation manual Oracle client has several requirements. Please note that this article is purely for my environment because we don't use an out-of-the-box installation but AIX SOE. I can skip these steps because they are all taken care of in the SOE, or because the blades are specifically bought for this purpose and meet requirements by far: * X Window System requirements * Hardware requirements * Operating System level * Operating System filesets * Network setup * Ch… text/html 2010-04-16T11:34:45+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/oracleclientinstallwin The Oracle Client installation for Windows is a lot more easy than on aix. There is a setup with a help option, a record option and a responsfile option: This is the command to view the help: setup.exe -help This is the command to start the installation with the record option: text/html 2010-04-20T15:04:46+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/oracledbinstall To be exact, oracle 10g release 2 on AIX 6.1 TL4 Download software Installation manual Information on user limits Release notes Oracle 10.2 - info for installation on AIX 6.1 (patch 6613550 info) Oracle database has several requirements. Please note that this article is purely for my environment because we don't use an out-of-the-box installation but AIX SOE. I can skip these steps because they are all taken care of in the SOE, or because the blades are specifically bought for this purp… text/html 2012-01-16T15:47:19+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/oracledbinstallredhat Red Hat 5.7 64 bits installed with default settings, with development server software group added during the installation. Required Packages " Note: Starting with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2), all the 32-bit packages, except for gcc-32bit-4.3, listed in the following table are no longer required for installing a database on Linux x86-64. Only the 64-bit packages are required. However, for any Oracle Database 11g release before 11.2.0.2, both the 32-bit and 64-bit packages listed i… text/html 2010-10-11T13:59:32+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/oracledump Normally when creating backups you should prefer a RMAN backup. However, this is nog the way to go when you want to transfer a database across an operating system. So say you have an Oracle database on AIX and you want to transfer it to Windows, you should use another method, simply being a dump. I have gathered here the required commands and variables you need just for the dump. If you need a script that creates this, use RMAN backup as an example and work from there. BACKBACKUPDIR=/var/backup… text/html 2009-10-22T17:12:04+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/oraclelistener The oracle dba-er told me there was something wrong with the network on a new AIX box. The Oracle listener didn't listen on localhost which caused the oracle enterprise manager installation to fail. This was shown using the netstat command: sjoerd@oraclebox:/home/sjoerd>netstat -na | grep 1521 tcp4 0 0 10.10.10.100.1521 *.* LISTEN tcp4 0 0 10.10.10.100.1521 10.10.10.1.1429 ESTABLISHED tcp4 0 0 10.10.10.100.1521… text/html 2010-10-11T15:38:19+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/oraclerestore If you've created a RMAN backup and have created a pfile backup you'll also want a way to restore this. * Restore the files like this RMAN backupset /var/backup/oracle/rman_workdir/<oraclesid>_helotm9m_2606 RMAN controlfile backup /var/backup/oracle/rman_workdir/<hostname>ctl_date20100927 Archivelog backup directory /var/backup/oracle/tmp/archive PFILE $ORACLE_HOME/dbs/init<oraclesid>.ora * Log in as the oracle owner text/html 2010-11-02T14:00:43+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/oraclerman This describes the way to handle Oracle backup and restore through rman. #!/bin/bash # set -x ### Script Variables WHATAMI=`basename $0` BASEDIR=`dirname $0` ### Oracle Variables ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/product/10.2 ORACLE_BASE=/opt/oracle ORACLE_SID=<sid> ### Offsitecopy Variables GZIP=/usr/bin/gzip TAR=/usr/local/bin/tar . "$BASEDIR/mail.txt" . "$BASEDIR/offsitecopy.func" HOSTNAME=`hostname` HOSTNAME_SHORT=`hostname -s` BCKROOT=/var/backup/oracle BCKPDIR=${BCKROOT}/rman_backupdir RMANDIR=$… text/html 2010-11-05T15:29:29+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/oraclestartup Start The Oracle Database As the oracle user issue these commands: UNIX> sqlplus / as sysdba SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production on Wed Oct 20 10:07:24 2010 Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All Rights Reserved. Connected to an idle instance. SQL> startup ORACLE instance started. Total System Global Area 1.7180E+10 bytes Fixed Size 2114208 bytes Variable Size 2164264288 bytes Database Buffers 1.4999E+10 bytes Redo Buffers 14659584 b… text/html 2010-10-11T16:15:08+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/oracleusers The listed commands assume you're logged into the system as the oracle owner user, this way you don't have to provide the password when connecting to the database. The command below unlocks the account and sets a new password: * alter user username identified by new_password; * alter user username account unlock; text/html 2010-09-16T11:48:18+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/oracleversion On AIX, login as the oracle user and change directory to the ORACLE_HOME/OPatch (Note: OP are in capital) directory: cd $ORACLE_HOME/OPatch Then issue the opatch lsinventory command. I use these options: * all (will check all oracle installations in ORACLE_HOME) * invPtrLoc (provides the file location of oraInst.loc, which will provide the oracle inventory location) text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:12+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/outdooreten01 Gestoomde kip Snijd de kip in heel kleine stukjes (geen risico nemen) en voeg daar allerlei lekkere groenten aan toe. Te denken valt aan tomaat, paprika, ui en aubergine. Verder zou je er geraspte kaas of feta aan toe kunnen voegen. Wikkel het geheel in aluminumfolie en leg het op gloeiende kolen. Na een minuutje of 10 is het klaar. Opmerkingen: text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:12+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/outdooreten02 Rijst prut Breng een halve liter water aan de koop en voeg daar 130 gram rijst (een derde van een pak) aan toe. Voeg ongeveer 150 gram groente toe en kook deze mee. Om wat meer smaak te creëren kun je ook een bouillon blokje eraan toevoegen. Maak ondertussen alvast een klein blikje tonijn open en snij een tomaatje in kleine blokjes. Voeg deze alvast samen. Zodra de rijst en groente zijn drooggekookt kun je ook deze eraan toevoegen. Goed husselen en eet smakelijk. Opmerkingen: text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:12+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/outdooreten03 Tips wat je kan eten voor ontbijt en lunch Beleg voor brood, crackers enz. * Sandwichspread * Leverpastei Pitabroodjes * Beleg ze met kaas en of ham en wikkel ze in aluminiumfolie. Leg ze ongeveer 5 minuten op gloeiende kolen. * Je kan variëren met tomaat, ui, ananas, salami, paddestoelen enz. text/html 2011-02-25T13:05:06+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/outlooklinebreaks I receive a lot of mail which is plain text, coming from unix and linux servers who are trying to tell me something. The bad luck is, the company has settled for outlook :( . And outlook breaks these emails. I do get an information bar telling me: “Extra line breaks in this message were removed” but I have to click and click again and it's just not working how I like it. This so-called feature is called “Auto Remove Line Breaks” and is enabled by default in Outlook. To disable it follow these st… text/html 2010-03-08T10:22:01+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/overview Technical documentation (Newest on top) Personal articles (Newest on top) Private articles (Newest on top, login required) wiki text/html 2009-01-13T17:31:48+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/pandaavremovescript This is a script to remove the Panda AntiVirus Software from a Windows workstation. Afterwards you'll have to reboot your workstation manually to complete the removal of the software: @echo off color A echo Warning! echo Panda software and all of it contents will be removed! c: cd\ cd Program Files\Panda Software\Panda Administrator 3\PavInst\AVTC AVTC.exe -a:UNINSTALL -del echo But not yet! cd\ cd program files\panda software\panda administrator 3\pavinst\plagent\ pavagent -a:uninstall echo Re… text/html 2010-11-02T09:51:39+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/pfilebackup You need a pfile when restoring the Oracle RMAN Backup. #!/bin/bash # set -x ### Script Variables WHATAMI=`basename $0` BASEDIR=`dirname $0` ### Oracle Variables export ORACLE_SID=<oraclesid> export ORACLE_BASE=/opt/oracle export ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/product/10.2 ### Offsitecopy Variables . "$BASEDIR/mail.txt" . "$BASEDIR/offsitecopy.func2" BACKUPDIR=/var/backup/oracle/pfile HOSTNAME=`hostname` HOSTNAME_SHORT=`hostname -s` LOGFILE="$BACKUPDIR/log.txt" TOUSER="repluser" TOHOST="syncserver… text/html 2010-10-12T09:36:18+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/porttunnel Target: Access a SFTP Server which is only accessible by a production box.Production Box: AIX with SSH/SSL capabilities, login is possible.SFTP Server: Login credentials are available. Used Tools: Putty for the tunnel, WinSCP to connect * Open and load the putty profile of the server who is able to access the sftp server. * Go to Connection -> SSH -> Tunnels * Fill in the Source Port, any port that's not in use and above the 1024 will do. * Fill in the Destination address, and add the po… text/html 2011-02-14T17:04:39+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/postwindowsinstall After installing Windows Server 2008 Standard SP2 64 bits like this there is always a lot to configure before a server can be taken into production. cscript c:\Windows\System32\slmgr.vbs -skms kms.company.local:1688 cscript c:\Windows\System32\slmgr.vbs -ipk XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX cscript c:\Windows\System32\slmgr.vbs -ato text/html 2011-08-16T10:48:13+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/powercli-dailycheck This is NOT my script! All the honor goes to Alan Renouf . This is the original version 5.0 script: param( [string] $VISRV) ############################### # vCheck - Daily Error Report # ############################### # Thanks to all who have commented on my blog to help improve this project # Especially - Thanks to Raphaël SCHITZ (http://www.hypervisor.fr/) for his contributions and time # And also thanks to the many vExperts who have added suggestions for this report. # $Version = "5.0" # … text/html 2011-09-28T15:00:05+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/powerclicsvvminfo This is a powershell/powercli script which retracts all kind of VM Info and puts that in a csv file. Retracted info includes: * Regular information like VM name and hostname * Extended network information like all IP addresses and in the case of multiple NICs all MAC addresses, nic types and network names * CPU information * Memory information * Guest information including the Installed OS and Running OS (if different this could have impact ) * VMWare tools information * The host the … text/html 2011-08-29T16:28:35+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/powercligethostnetworkinfo This script will grab all network information from a host including: * vmnic configuration * vmkernel ports information * service console information * all virtual switches * all port groups # Basehost must be an exact match to the name in vcenter $BASEHost = Read-Host "Enter the name of the server as found in vCenter" $timestamp = Get-Date -format "yyyyMMdd-HH.mm" $outfile = "D:\sjoerd\$timestamp-$basehost-networkinfo.txt" $timestamp | Out-File $outfile # Original command: # Get-VMHo… text/html 2012-05-14T09:23:57+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/powerclinotes This is an overview page with small PowerCLI scripts and or commands. If only I knew then what I know now! When working on Script: PowerCLI: Create CSV with VMInfo I spent some serious time on finding what properties and values are available on certain objects. Today I finally figured it out, simply use “Select *”: [vSphere PowerCLI] C:\> Get-NetworkAdapter -vm testvm01 | select * MacAddress : 00:50:56:89:2e:18 WakeOnLanEnabled : True NetworkName : SFT0-VLAN2 Type : Fle… text/html 2011-12-15T11:12:17+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/powerclirdmvms This is a remake of a script found on <http://www.virtu-al.net/2008/12/23/list-vms-with-rdm/> with the following changes: * Added RDMs in virtualmode * Added csv export * Added the vmhost in the output * Made some code readability changes #Script Source: http://www.virtu-al.net/2008/12/23/list-vms-with-rdm/ #Connect-VIServer MYVISERVER $timestamp = Get-Date -format "yyyyMMdd-HH.mm" # $csvFile = Read-Host "Enter csv file" $csvfile = "D:\sjoerd\$timestamp-rdmvms.csv" $report = @() $vms = … text/html 2011-08-16T11:33:55+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/powerclivmupgrade This is a powershell/powercli script which upgrades VMs to the latest level of VMware Tools and to hardware level 7. The script works in phases: * phase 1 * It makes a selection of the VMs to upgrade, depending on your input. That can be a single VM, a Folder, a ResourcePool, all VMs or a file with listed VMs. text/html 2011-06-27T16:01:56+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/projectplanklein Inleiding Ik heb in mijn carrière al een flink aantal kleinere en een kleiner aantal grotere projecten gedaan. Tot nu toe eigenlijk altijd binnen tijd, en indien er gewerkt werd met budgetten ook binnen budget. In 2004 heb ik samen met een toenmalige collega een aantal projecten opgezet, en de methode die we toen gebruikten/bedachten gebruik ik nu nog steeds. Dit artikel is bedoeld om een leidraad te geven voor kleine projecten, en dan met name met betrekking tot de kantoor automatisering. Deze… text/html 2010-08-17T10:04:14+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/proxypac If you've created a proxy server you can create an automatic proxy script so your users don't have to turn off the proxy for internal addresses and it's easier to make changes. An example proxy pac file /* * Standard proxy.pac automatic proxy configuration. * * sjoerd [@] warmetal.nl * 22 aug 2008 * * Will not proxy for short hostnames for domain.local and raw URL http://10.* * */ function FindProxyForURL(url, host) { // If no domain name in the host(no dots) are found go DIRECT if… text/html 2009-11-11T11:52:45+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/radautoinstall We've been busy on this for more than a week but we finally got it running, an fully automated installation of Rational Application Developer, including the IBM Installation Manager and the WebSphere Application Server. We have some general tips and I'll post our configuration files and installation commands in this article. The most important thing before you start is to make sure you have all the desired software you want installed located on your local network including patches, fixes etc. We… text/html 2012-03-19T14:22:39+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/reallocate On one of our filers we had a weird status on one of our aggregates and all of it's containing volumes. An appreciated opportunity to dive into reallocaton on NetApps filers. Because that's what the status was about: Aggregate status: redirect " Meaning: Aggregate reallocation or file reallocation with the ”-p” option has been started on the aggregate, read performance will be degraded" text/html 2012-01-16T14:51:57+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/redhatalignment Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 should align it's disk correctly to the underlying LUNs but to make sure you should always check: First, check which partitions are seen by the kernel: [root@redhatbox ~]# cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 0 20971520 sda 8 1 204800 sda1 8 2 20765696 sda2 253 0 2097152 dm-0 253 1 5242880 dm-1 253 2 5242880 dm-2 253 3 5242880 dm-3 253 4 2097152 dm-4 text/html 2012-04-19T13:03:09+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/redhatinstallation Name: redhatbox Ip address: 10.10.5.14 Disk size: 20 GB vCPU: 1 vRAM: 2 GB Used media: rhel-server-6.2-i386-dvd.iso After starting the VM boot from the iso and follow these steps to install the server: * Select “Install or upgrade an existing system”: text/html 2012-01-18T11:13:20+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/redhatlvm Environment: Virtual Machine Red Hat 6.2 with one virtual disk, fully used. Disk is partitioned like this: /dev/sda1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux /dev/sda2 26 5221 41736870 8e Linux LVM And has the following file systems: text/html 2012-01-16T15:53:26+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/redhatrepo First mount the dvd: mkdir /mnt/cdrom; mount -o loop /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom Add the repository by going to the /etc/yum.repos.d directory and create a file. The name doesn't matter that much as long as it ends on .repo: [root@redhatbox yum.repos.d]# vi dvd.repo [dvd] baseurl=file:///mnt/cdrom/Server enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:12+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/removeavirapassword This is a small howto on how to bypass the password protected security build in Avira Antivir * Go to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Avira\AntiVir Workstation * Open AVWIN.INI with your favorite text editor * Remove the lines that start with 'securityextention=' and 'password=' in the [COMMON] section * Change the value of the 'protect*=' lines the same section from '1' to '0' * Rightclick on the Avira icon in the system tray, select 'start update' to restart the Avi… text/html 2010-05-12T09:51:42+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/resizeesxvirtualdisk It's possible to resize disks in a VMware ESX / Infrastructure environment. Increasing is easy, and there's almost no risk on losing data. If you need to make a disk smaller you should always turn the guest off, since there is a serious chance of losing data. To resize disks there are two steps to follow, first resize the actual disk and then you need the guest operating system to recognize the new available disk space. There are two ways to resize disks: Through the client * Open the client… text/html 2011-12-23T14:37:07+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/retensionscript This is a collection of retension scripts I created for different servers. #!/bin/bash #This script should run after the backups has been placed on the server ### Script Variables TODAY=`date +%Y%m%d` LOGFILE=/srv/syncdata/retension.log MAIL="sjoerd_ @ _ warmetal.nl" FAILMAIL=0 HOST=`hostname -s` ### LDAP Cleanup Variables LDAP_BASE=/srv/syncdata/LDAP LDAP_RETENSION=+7 LDAP_BACKUPFILE="${LDAP_BASE}/frontend.company.local_o=warmetal.nl_${TODAY}0255.ldif.gz" ### Oracle Cleanup Variables ORACL… text/html 2010-10-08T13:25:14+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/scriptbashaix1 This is a short special page just dedicated to one command or script. The purpose here is just for me to learn scripting. I think most people will think these snippets are too simple too take notice from. for i in `ls -1 | grep was-`; do if [ -f $i/.run ]; then echo start slot $i; fi; done text/html 2010-10-08T13:24:57+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/scriptbashaix2 This is a short special page just dedicated to one command or script. The purpose here is just for me to learn scripting. I think most people will think these snippets are too simple too take notice from. for i in `ls -1`; do if [[ -d $i ]]; then sudo du -sm $i; fi; done text/html 2012-01-06T09:32:17+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/scriptbashenvironment This is a script I use to warn users for the environment they work on. We have a lot of different environments and I like to take every opportunity to warn them about the environment, especially production. This is based on the hostname. I also use it to show a few specific thing, for example, where their system mails gets forwarded to. Below the script you'll find a section on how to set the script into action. text/html 2011-05-04T09:46:24+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/scriptbashfind This is a short special page just dedicated to one command or script. The purpose here is just for me to learn scripting. I think most people will think these snippets are too simple too take notice from. find /tmp/archive/. -type f -mtime +31 -exec rm {} \; text/html 2010-10-09T13:30:43+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/scriptbashwhile This is a small example of a while loop which lists the current directory every 10 seconds until you manually stop it with <CTRL-C> while true; do ll; sleep 10; done scripts text/html 2010-08-17T11:53:42+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/scripthtmlredirect Place the following HTML redirect code between the <HEAD> and </HEAD> tags of your HTML code. <meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://www.5p-it.com/"> The above HTML redirect code will redirect your visitors to another web page instantly. The content=“0; may be changed to the number of seconds you want the browser to wait before redirecting. text/html 2011-08-29T16:28:19+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/scriptsshnopassword I want to change a config file on multiple esx servers to solve the problem that after updating them to ESX version 4.1 I can't copy/paste into the VM console anymore. The solution is to add two lines to the /etc/vmware.config file. But I don't want to log on to each host and make the change. And ssh doesn't allow for passwordless logons unless you use keu authentication. In this case I didn't want to do key authentication so created and used this script to solve my problem. Some information to… text/html 2011-05-13T11:22:49+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/securingnetapp This article is about securing access to a NetApp filer. We'll discuss the following options in securing access: * Enabling SSH access * Disabling Telnet access * Allowing multiple sessions * Using an Administrative Host * Defining users in a LDAP environment * Using privileged commands text/html 2011-07-11T10:31:21+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/securitylayers This article explains the authentication infrastructure for system administrators of WARMETAL BV. Throughout this document the terms 'users', 'sysadmins' and 'system administrators' are all used referring to logged-on persons maintaining the infrastructure and applications for this environment. Authentication is divided into layers: Layer 1: Central administration The first layer of authentication and security is created by a central point of administration for user accounts and passwords. T… text/html 2010-10-25T17:13:52+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/sed Basic sed search and replace line: sed "s/$FIND/$REPLACE/g" $inputfile > /tmp/outputfile Code line to make email adresses unusable by adding the extension .local to the complete email address: sed "s/^mail.*$/&\.local/g" inputfile > outputfile * s : substitute * ^mail : all lines that start with mail * .*$ : and match everything after the initial match * & : everything that has been matched * \.local : Add .local (\ is for escaping the '.') * g : global text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:12+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/sendmailsecurity As one of the most enduring Unix applications and one of the most ubiquitous, sendmail has been the target of numerous attacks over the years -- from buffer overflows to denials of service. And, even with constantly improved security, sendmail can be prodded into a state of improved security through a number of quick fixes that any sysadmin can make to reduce the vulnerability of their sendmail servers. text/html 2010-11-02T09:59:47+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/sjoerd Personal data Geboortedag / birthday: 2 sep 1981Woonachtig / living in: Communicate with me Email: sjoerd [@] warmetal . nlMSN: sjoerd [@] warmetal . nlGoogle talk: sjoerdhooft [2] gmail . comICQ: 470 322 772 Picture me Pet me ;) Check my cat Halley personal text/html 2010-03-04T17:46:36+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/sles10sp1freeradius Installatie verslag Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 met FreeRadius Taal: English USKlok en tijdzone: Hardware Clock set to local time - Europa - AmsterdamPartitietabel: /dev/sda1 / 7 GB EXT3, Fstab options: No Access Time text/html 2010-04-23T14:34:20+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/sles10sp2 Installatie verslag Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 install=http://<ip-adres of hostname>/install/sles10sp2/CD1 noapic nolapic nosmp clock=pit vnc=1 vncpassword=12345678 Taal: English USKlok en tijdzone: Hardware Clock set to local time - Europa - AmsterdamPartitietabel: /dev/sda1 / 7 GB EXT3, Fstab options: No Access Time * Base Technologies: * Server Base System * Novell AppArmor * C/C++ Development tools text/html 2010-04-26T10:03:01+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/sles10sp3 Installation review Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3Installation media: Through the network (Installation Server) install=http://<ip-adres of hostname>/install/sles10sp3/CD1 noapic nolapic nosmp clock=pit vnc=1 vncpassword=12345678 2048 MB RAM12 GB SCSI Disk2 CPU(VMware) Keyboard and Language Language: English USKeyboard layout: English US Time Clock and Time Zone: Hardware Clock set to local time - Europa - Amsterdam Partitioning swap partition /dev/sda1 2GB root partition /dev/sda2 … text/html 2010-08-17T11:29:12+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/sles11 This is my installation report for a default installation of Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11. For the installation I used the installation server I have created a while ago. This gave me the following installation option: install=http://<ip-adres of hostname>/install/sles11/CD1/ noapic nolapic nosmp clock=pit vnc=1 vncpassword=12345678 text/html 2010-10-05T14:23:28+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/slescache Most times, with linux server you can flush dns and other name services cache by simply restarting the name service cache daemon. However, as you can see here, this does not work on SLES for LDAP group cache: List the LDAP groups of the user: # groups sjoerd sjoerd : LDAPUsers autoyast server2 text/html 2010-08-17T11:32:16+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/slesdisablefscheck On SLES 10, the sytem performs an auto check on the file systems by default. This can be very annoying when performing an emergency reboot on a production system. This behavior is adjusted for SLES 11 but as far as I am concerned I'd still check the setting. text/html 2010-08-17T10:08:22+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/slesinstallationupdateserver11 The installed SLES 11 is installed through this installation report Although there is already an article on the Suse Installation Update Server, I created this article especially for 11 (64 bit). This article will be less extensive and will only cover installation and update services for SLES 11, while the original article explains the installation for openSuse, SLES 10, updating them, and combining multiple installation and update services. text/html 2012-01-06T09:30:51+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/slesretention This is a simple retention script used on SLES. It can be easily modified to add directories for cleanup. #!/bin/bash ######################################################################################################################## # Author : Sjoerd Hooft # Date Initial Version: 27 Jun 2011 # Comments: sjoerd_ @ _warmetal.nl # # Description: # This is a default retention script for the /tmp directory on SLES linux servers. # # Recommendations: # The script is designed for a 120 column ter… text/html 2008-11-23T14:01:45+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/slipstreamsp3intoxp Introduction This is a small tutorial on how to slipstream a support pack, i.e. SP3, into the installation source of Windows XP: * Copy the content of a Windows XP cd to the directory C:\WinXPSource * Download and save Windows XP SP3 to your local c-drive as C:\WinXPSP3.exe * Open a command prompt and enter the following comand: text/html 2010-03-04T17:53:58+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/slpedirectory Samenvatting SLP staat voor Service Location Protocol en wordt gebruikt om services aan te bieden en op te vragen binnen je netwerk. In feite is het een Naming Resolution Protocol net als DNS, alleen veel flexibeler omdat het ook andere services dan alleen IP-adressen kan opvragen en omzetten. Dit document gaat in op hoe je SLP moet configureren in grote omgevingen met veel WAN verbindingen. Binnen dit document worden een aantal keuzes gemaakt en beargumenteerd, wat het ook geschikt maakt als l… text/html 2011-05-31T11:12:27+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/snapmirrordata In this article I'll describe a couple of scenarios I could think of regarding the usage of snapmirror data. First Scenario: ESX ISO Store In this scenario we have a ISO store in our easy accessible acceptance location. This ISO store is used by ESX to mount ISOs to install VMs. However, we need these ISOs in our production environment as well. Copying the ISOs manually is quite a hassle, so we want this to go almost automatically. Second Scenario: Disaster Recovery In this scenario we'll … text/html 2012-05-04T13:39:38+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/solarisnotes Shutdown & reboot You have more than one command option that you can use. The best command is this, executed as root: shutdown -y -i5 -g0 This will immediately shut the system down. You can also use the older command that still works: sync;sync;init 5 You can even use: text/html 2010-12-22T11:38:23+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/squid This is the article on installing and configuring squid on SLES11. The SLES 11 server is installed like this. Squid is in the support channel for SLES 11, so you'll also need to add the update repository to the server. See SLES Installation Update Server 11 on how to do that. The end situation will be two networks (private and public), with squid in the middle and protected by the firewall for the public network. text/html 2011-01-05T14:25:13+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/sshloginwithoutpassword The goal is to have an automatic login for ssh so my script doens't need any passwords in it's configuration files. Automatic login through SSH works with PKI (public key infrastructure). We want to create a public key which can be placed on the remote server user's .ssh directory. As the user who is going to start the script issue this command (do not enter a passphrase): bash-3.00$ ssh-keygen -t rsa Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/home/dbuser/.ssh/… text/html 2010-10-09T13:37:40+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/start About me and this site This page is my personal website and is for my own convenience. I document my life, private as well as work related, here. In this little box are links and remarks regarding me and this website. All Articles See a list of all articles on this site RSS feeds <http://www.warmetal.nl/feed.php> Disclaimer <http://www.annotatie.nl/disclaimer.html> License Licentie informatie This site technically DokuWiki Formatting Syntax Build This Site Upco… text/html 2011-08-09T15:14:44+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/startscript This is an overview of variables I use within my scripts. It makes it easier to start. #!/bin/bash ######################################################################################################################## # Author : Sjoerd Hooft # Date Initial Version: 11 July 2011 # Comments: sjoerd_ @ _warmetal.nl # # Description: # This is the description for this script. # # Recommendations: # The script is designed for a 120 column terminal. # The running user must be root. # # Changes: # P… text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:13+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/subversion When you've created a subversion server as described here at opensuse you really should add a repository, LDAP authentication and provide a backup: A seperate IP address is needed for every repository if you want to use SSL to connect. The newly selected IP address should be added to the subversion server as an additional address. Next is to configure the Subversion repository (in this case the repository “it”). text/html 2010-04-22T15:32:18+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/sudo Because of the raised security demands within my company I recently had to learn a lot about things as su, sudo, etc. LDAP authentication was already never a problem but the enhanced security you'll get from a proper sudo configuration was something I never explored before. I found out that sudo is not the holy grail regarding security. If you want to get to the perfect configuration you'll have to maintain the configuration on a daily base to keep up with new commands and bypasses. I did also f… text/html 2009-08-13T17:44:37+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/suseinstallationupdateserver Installation Server The Installation Server being created is running on Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 sp1. First we'll have to make installation sources so that clients can be installed over the network. We'll do this for both SLES 10 sp1 as well as for openSuse 10.3. After that we'll create update sources for these clients, and finally we'll configure the clients to use these installation and update sources. Create An installation server is created en configured within YAST. Start YAST, go … text/html 2010-03-04T17:54:22+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/suseldap Since the Novell Linux User Management doesn't work as well as desired I decided to take a look at simple LDAP authentication for SLES boxes, or SLED or openSuSE. They all work the same for as far as the user authentication is concerned. This turned out to be pretty simple, following these steps: * Configuring install sources * Setting up LDAP authentication * Check and troubleshoot * Sudo text/html 2010-03-15T16:09:26+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/suselum This is a page with the intention to document the way to get Linux User Management (LUM) on SLES 10... however, it doesn't work... or rather, it doesn't work predictable. After a long time I finally got it working, so I left it like that, logged in the next morning and what do you think... broken... with exactly the same errors as before. So I changed the LDAP server to a different server and it started working again, but now on the server I couldn't get it to work on the day before. So I decide… text/html 2010-11-01T15:35:40+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/susesyslogng Bron To enable syslogging to a different log host edit this file: OES:~ # vi /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf.in An add these lines to the bottom of the file: destination loghost_udp { udp("10.10.10.11" port(514)); }; log { source(src); destination(loghost_udp); }; text/html 2010-03-04T17:58:15+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/syncback Introduction Syncback is a small and free windows utility I use to synchronize my data. Maintaining a synchronized backup with this tool isn't that hard, all it needs is a little discipline. In this tutorial I'll show you how to make an exact copy of your data somewhere else on the network. There is also a paid version of. Check it out on their website. New Profile Follow these steps to create a new profile which will copy the entire directory (including empty sub directories):Create new prof… text/html 2010-11-27T10:10:39+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/tapasgehaktballetjes Canarische tapas: Spaanse gehaktballetjes in tomatensaus (albóndigas) Spaanse gehaktballetjes in tomatensaus oftewel ´albóndigas´ is een klassiek Spaans gerecht, dat niet alleen als hoofdgerecht geserveerd wordt, maar ook als tapas. Het is tevens enorm populair op de Canarische eilanden en je kunt het dus vrijwel overal op de menukaart aantreffen. Hier volgt het recept, dat vrij eenvoudig is.Het woord ´albóndiga´ komt uit het Arabisch: al - bundiga en betekent ´bal´. De Arabieren hebben het rec… text/html 2010-03-05T16:25:33+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/tapasspinaziepasteitjes Empanadas de espinacas - Spinazie-pasteitjes Ingrediënten * olijfolie * 2 teentjes knoflook (fijngehakt) * 50 gr. fijgehakte chorizo * 500 gr verse spinazie (fijngesneden) * 1 pimiento * zout * peper * bladerdeeg * 1 ei (losgeklopt met 1 el water) text/html 2010-09-20T10:14:41+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/tdsinstall Kernel mode To check if your kernel is in 64bit mode, as well as your hardware: run the command below: bootinfo -K bootinfo -y Both commands should return 64. OS level and filesets ITDS 6.x requires at least maintenance level 5300-01: oslevel -r text/html 2010-10-08T13:25:49+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/tdsldapbackup Below you'll find a script I've used to backup TDS LDAP data which can be restored using this script into openDS or into Tivoli Directory Server with this script. #!/bin/bash # set -x ### Script Variables WHATAMI=`basename $0` ### LDAP Variables DUMPDIR=/var/backup/ldif APPDIR=/opt/IBM/ldap/V6.0 LDAPSEARCH=/opt/IBM/ldap/V6.0/bin/ldapsearch MANAGER=cn=manager PASSWD=<password> HOSTNAME=`hostname` LDAPBASE="o=company.local" LDAPPORT=389 ### OLD LDAP Variables #INSTANCE=idsldap ### Offsitecopy … text/html 2010-10-08T13:26:50+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/tdsldaprestore Below you'll find a script I've used to restore LDAP data which was backup with this script: Script: Bash: TDS LDAP Backup. #!/bin/bash #set -x ### Export HOME and APP Settings export LDAP_INSTANCE=idsfop export LDAP_HOME=/opt/IBM/ldap/V6.0 export LDAPSEARCH="${LDAP_HOME}/bin/ldapsearch" export APPDIR=$LDAP_HOME ### Read LDAP Restore Instance Settings LDAPUSER1="cn=Directory Manager" LDAPBASE1="o=organization.nl" echo echo "Please provide Directory Admin DN [$LDAPUSER1]:" read LDAPUSER echo e… text/html 2008-12-18T13:12:35+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/tekengevaar Inleiding Als je outdoor bent, onafhankelijk van het seizoen maar vooral in de zomer, is er één ding waar je mee moet rekening houden: de teek. Het is een zeer klein zwart beestje, dat zich vanuit het struikgewas of vanuit bomen op je laat vallen, een warm plekje zoekt en zich dan met z'n hoofd in je huid nestelt om bloed te zuigen. De beet op zich doet geen pijn en kan geen kwaad maar de teek kan net als muggen en andere insecten ziektes overdragen zoals de ziekte van Lyme. De teek Op het ein… text/html 2011-06-27T16:02:36+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/templateweekoverleg How far are you and what do you need to proceed itmanagement, unfinished text/html 2008-11-23T11:06:22+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/testgroupwise Things to test when you want to know your groupwise system is still working * Login * Mail within post offices * Mail to another post office * Mail to another post office in another domain * Mail with local attachment * Mail with network attachment * Address book * Webaccess * Mail within post offices * Mail to another post office * Mail to another post office in another domain * Mail with local attachment * Mail with network attachment * Address book text/html 2010-10-14T11:08:52+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/tivoliaixclient Introduction Installing and configuring the tsm client software on AIX. Download Download the latest software from the IBM website Install software : mkdir /tmp/tivoli cp /exports/install/ibm/Tivoli\ Storage\ Manager/5.5.1.0-TIV-TSMBAC-AIX.tar.Z /tmp/tivoli cd /tmp/tivoli uncompress 5.5.1.0-TIV-TSMBAC-AIX.tar.Z tar -xvf 5.5.1.0-TIV-TSMBAC-AIX.tar smit install text/html 2009-04-09T14:47:17+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/tivolibasics This picture explains the basic working of Tivoli Storage Manager backup text/html 2009-06-19T13:23:11+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/tivoliincrementalforever Tivoli Storage Manager has a few settings which determine how long files are kept in the incremental forever cycles. Below you'll find them: Versions data exists The Versions Data Exists attribute specifies the maximum number of different backup versions retained for files and directories currently on your file system. If you select a management class that permits more than one backup version, the most recent version is called the active version. All other versions are called inactive versions… text/html 2009-01-08T15:14:47+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/tivolilinuxclient Introduction Installing and configuring the tsm client software on linux. Download Download the latest software from the IBM website and make sure it's in /tmp/tivoli Install software cd /tmp/tivoli tar -xf <filename> rpm -i TIVsm-API.i386.rpm rpm -i TIVsm-BA.i386.rpm text/html 2010-03-04T17:54:52+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/tivolindsbackup Environment Upgraded to eDirectory 8.8 sp2 ftf2 (ds version 20216.62)Tivoli TSM client is 5.5.0.1Everything was backing up fine prior to the upgrade. After the upgrade, when TSM tries to backup NDS, it errors out and asks for a username/password.Error: ~ANS1874E error Explanation TSM is unable to deal with case-sensitive passwords. It stores all passwords in uppercase in the TSM.PWD file. When you have a UP policy on the TSM account that requires case-sensitive passwords, this can cause TSM to… text/html 2009-07-21T16:21:49+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/tivolistoragemanagerexclusions Manage exclusions Server Side Windows XP To only include the data on the C-drive in the backup create an Option Set and add the following Client Options: DOMAIN ALL-LOCAL -A: -B: -D: -E: -F: -G: -H: -I: -J: -K: -L: -M: -N: -O: -P: -Q: -R: -S: -T: -U: -V: -W: -X: -Y: -Z: -systemobject Use Option Set Value (FORCE) Yes text/html 2008-12-23T13:14:51+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/tivolistoragemanagerupgrade Current server version: 5.3.3.0Target server version: 5.5.1.0 Support Technical Support for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.3 will end on April 30, 2008 for all platforms except z/OS, which will go out of support on April 6, 2008 Device Support Installation Guide Upgrade Guide text/html 2010-12-31T13:18:45+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/tomcatdata Tomcat users are defined in the tomcat-users.xml, which is located in the TOMCAT_HOME/conf directory: * cat tomcat-users.xml <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <tomcat-users> <role rolename="tomcat"/> <role rolename="manager"/> <user username="admin" password="password" roles="tomcat,manager"/> </tomcat-users> text/html 2009-11-11T12:16:37+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/totalcommander Total commander has a built-in configuration file which lets you configure an automatic installation. This is quite easy to configure the file to your needs and create an automatic installation. Because the configuration file is built-in you need to get the configuration file. Follow these steps to create an automatic installation: text/html 2011-05-25T10:57:56+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/tsinstall This is the installation of Windows 2008R2 Enterprise Edition 64 bits. Installed like Windows Server 2008. VMware Tools have been installed on the system. cscript c:\Windows\System32\slmgr.vbs -skms kms.company.local:1688 cscript c:\Windows\System32\slmgr.vbs -ipk XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX cscript c:\Windows\System32\slmgr.vbs -ato text/html 2011-09-07T14:08:14+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/tssessions To check the sessions on a Windows Server 2008 Terminal Server do this: * Start Server Manager (either right click Computer and select Manage, or start Server Manager from Start -> All Programs -> Administrative Tools -> Server Manager) * Expand the Roles, and go to the Terminal Services role. * Select the Terminal Services Manager text/html 2008-11-24T17:35:31+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/ultraeditrollout The Ultraedit part Ultraedit has it's own rollout mechanism. What we want is a silent installation, and that end users are not bugged with registration and update issues. We just want them to start working. To create a silent installation, you basically perform a manual installation, register the product, copy some files, make some registry changes and set them all up in a source installation directory: * Perform your manual installation * Start the installation and register your version * … text/html 2010-05-19T14:55:45+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/universalpassword Universal Password Introduction Universal Password is a way to simplify the integration and management of different password and authentication systems into by providing the following key features: * Providing one password for all access to eDirectory. * Enabling the use of extended characters in password. * Enabling advanced password policy enforcement. * Allowing synchronization of passwords from eDirectory to other systems. text/html 2011-01-26T13:48:45+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/updodatewithnews uptodate text/html 2011-11-04T11:25:07+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/updodatewithsport uptodate, personal text/html 2012-03-01T14:39:40+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/upgradevmhardware This script does the following: * Upgrade hardware * Replaces the NIC by the VMXNET3 NIC * Replaces the SCSI Controller for the paravirtual SCSI controller * Checks if the VM can be resolved and pinged after processing all VMs * See the information in the script for more information, there are several checks and progress can get emailed to you, so you don't have to watch the screen all the time. * The script only works on Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP, and I tested both with 32 bits… text/html 2012-04-18T14:47:45+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/upgradewin2008virtualhardware This is a manual and checklist to be used when upgrading Windows Server 2008 VMs from hardware version 4 to hardware version 4 including the newest paravirtual SCSI adapter and VMXNET3 network card. Network information (through ipconfig /all and MAC address is only needed with multiple NICs): text/html 2011-04-08T10:17:45+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/uptodatewithaix uptodate, aix text/html 2011-08-17T13:32:57+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/uptodatewithitlaw uptodate, law text/html 2011-11-04T11:26:44+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/uptodatewithnetapp NetApp Virtualization Overview NetApp Blogs uptodate, netapp text/html 2011-02-02T10:57:37+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/uptodatewithnovell uptodate text/html 2011-11-04T11:45:58+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/uptodatewithscripting uptodate text/html 2011-08-19T10:07:18+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/uptodatewithsecurity uptodate, security text/html 2011-11-04T11:24:35+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/uptodatewithsurfing uptodate, personal text/html 2011-01-27T13:52:54+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/uptodatewithtech uptodate text/html 2012-02-14T10:18:14+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/uptodatewithvmware uptodate, vmware text/html 2012-05-14T09:58:10+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/uptodatewithwork MOgelijkheid misschien om hier automatsich op vacatures te zoeken die voldoen aan mijn eisen? uptodate text/html 2011-09-07T11:28:26+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/vcenterscheduledtask How to schedule a task in vCenter to start a Virtual Machine: * Logon to vCenter -> Tasks & Events -> Scheduled Tasks * Click on the “New” button * In the “Schedule Task” dialog select the “Change the VM power state” * In the “Change a Virtual Machine's Power State” dialog: * Select the virtual machine * Select the required Power Operation (Power on) * Note that it's possible to select a specific host to power on the virtual machine on. text/html 2011-09-07T11:45:14+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/vcinstall This is the installation of VMware VirtualCenter on Windows Server 2008 Standard SP2 64 bits. Installed like Windows Server 2008. Server activation: cscript c:\Windows\System32\slmgr.vbs -skms kms.company.local:1688cscript c:\Windows\System32\slmgr.vbs -ipk XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXXcscript c:\Windows\System32\slmgr.vbs -ato text/html 2008-11-22T20:56:22+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/virtualscsi Introduction This is a short howto on configuring virtual SCSI on a virtual IO server on an AIX managed system. The steps are pretty easy: * Login * Create a mapping to map disks to the virtual SCSI server adapter * Check So to clearify, if you look to the overview below the step taken here is the mapping from the virtual SCSI server adapter to the physical storage: text/html 2011-02-15T13:33:08+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/visitorinformation network, scripts text/html 2011-12-05T15:34:59+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/vmaffinity If a service request regarding VM affinity is received you should follow this procedure to implement the service request: * Check validity of service request * Create groups if required * Create affinity rule * Update documentation Vms can only have a (anti-)affinity if they are part of the same cluster. So always check first if the VMs are in the same cluster. If not, deny the request, if they are, continue. If the request if to host a VM onto specific hosts you first need to create gr… text/html 2011-07-13T10:48:32+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/vmhardwareupgrade With the introduction of vSphere VMware also introduced a new hardware level for virtual machines, being version 7. The most important reason for me was that with the new hardware version I got a new NIC, vmxnet3. This one is a lot faster that previous ones and wisely accepted in the operating systems we run in our environment. See VMware Change NIC VM Manually on how to change running VMs to use the new network adapter. Of course, first follow this guideline to upgrade the VMware Tools and the … text/html 2011-10-14T09:23:43+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/vmperformancetroubleshooting Business case: Overall performance of virtual infrastructure is fine. One VM is not performing according to what can be expected based on results of the past or according to specs of the vendor. Step one, defining an incident and performing standard troubleshooting failed. Activities in this step may include but are not limited to: text/html 2011-10-13T15:06:53+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/vmperformancetroubleshootingdatasheet VM Name VM Version Number of CPUs CPU Reservation Mhz CPU Limit Mhz CPU Shares Amount of Memory Memory Reservation Memory Limit Memory Shares SCSI Controller Number of Disks Raw Luns Remarks Disk Shares Disk information per disk: Disksize, datastore, LUN ID, LUN identifier, Disk drive in Guest Storage Type NIC Type Number of NICs Network Labels DirectPath Devices NPIV enabled NX/XD masked Part of DRS Cluster Guest OS File com… text/html 2011-06-30T13:57:57+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/vmtemplatewin2008 The way we'll do this is pretty simple and is designed to give you the best and quickest Windows Server 2008 R2 SP2 that is possible. You'll need your regular Windows Server 2008 R2 Installation files, vCenter configured and running in your VMware environment and the The Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows 7. After the install we'll go through everything you might consider changing. That can be done through the supplied checklist, and should be considerd as an advice which you … text/html 2012-01-06T09:30:09+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/vmwarealarms With the introduction of vSphere 4.0 the possibilities of using Alarms in VMware are greatly improved. This article describes some of the possibilities that are now available while using alarms. We'll go through some of the default defined alarms and customize them to our environment to make sure they do what we want. Note that we'll only use Email Notification in our environment. SNMP traps are also supported, but not used with us. Since Alarms consists of 4 tabs we'll go through them per tab… text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:14+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/vmwarebiosoptions Do you also think that the boot screen is gone before you know it in VMware. Ever tried to boot into the BIOS and you couldn't do it because the boot screen was already gone when you got control of the keyboard? This is your solution: The first setting here is in milliseconds how long the boot screen will stay, but the second one is even more handy. Check the box to make sure the VM boots into bios on next boot. How nice is that! text/html 2010-03-29T15:06:35+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/vmwareclient What can you do with the vmware client (vSphere Client): Auto Authenticate to VirtualCenter The vSphere client is (by default) installed in: C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Launcher\VpxClient.exe Since VirtualCenter 2.5.2 you can pass your Windows credentials automatically to the virtualcenter when you log on. To do so, add these switches to the executable: text/html 2011-06-20T09:11:10+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/vmwarecpumgmt On an ESX server run multiple virtual machines which are all competing for the same resources. The first resources that are obvious to the end user if underperforming are CPU and memory. In two articles I will explain a little bit about what lies beneath, and then how to find out what is causing the decreased performance. Of course, you should always keep in mind that performance issues are subjective to the end users view. Some users will complain about their systems being slow just on a feelin… text/html 2008-12-30T16:36:52+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/vmwareexportevents In VMware Infrastructure Virtual Center you can see the events and tasks that has happened recently. However, there is no way to go back further in time if you wish, at least, not right away. There is however a way to export the data you need. Follow these steps to retrieve all needed information. Open the export tool Go to File -> Export -> Export events: Select your data In case you want system events make this selection: In case you want user tasks make this selection: You'll receive a text… text/html 2011-09-07T16:36:55+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/vmwarefibre Zoning Is done at the Fiber Channel switch (soft and hard) or at the Storage Processor (SP) and controls LUNs visibility per WWN. Fabric zoning (hard zoning) controls target presentation and tells an host whether a target exists. If the host cannot get to the target then it cannot see the LUNs. Soft zoning: LUN visibilityHard zoning/fabric zoning: target visibility (the entire SP, required when using multiple SPs/SANs) Zoning is especially important in environments where physical Windows Ser… text/html 2011-07-01T11:19:55+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/vmwarememorymgmt This story is a follow-up on Vmware CPU Management and will show you how to find performance issues regarding memory. When troubleshooting memory performance the most important thing to find out is whether your host is having memory issues (as in you overcommitted memory and need to add more memory to the host) or whether the problem is restricted to the VM (as in you need to allocate more memory to the affected VM). If the host is affected you can notice pretty fast because of the predefine… text/html 2011-07-13T11:00:01+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/vmwarenicchange This is a procedure to change the network adapter of a VM after the hardware version has been upgraded to version 7. This is only compulsory when you were using the old VLANCE adapter. This adapter will simply disappear from your guest as it is no longer supported. As far as I've noticed all other adapters keep working fine (but should be upgraded to benefit from the new performance possibilities). text/html 2011-06-22T09:44:00+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/vmwareresources A reservation is the amount of physical RAM or the amount of CPU cycles that are reserved for the virtual machine. Memory Reservation Reallocation " Memory Reservation If a virtual machine has a memory reservation but has not yet accessed its full reservation, the unused memory can be reallocated to other virtual machines." text/html 2011-07-01T14:30:30+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/vmwarestore This is a short how to on creating a data store in VMware ESX. It is a follow-up on this story. We're going to create a VMware store out of the created LUN. All of the steps are performed with the VMware infrastructure client. Inside the VMware infrastructure client go to the first host in the cluster you want to connect to the new LUN, go to configuration and then storage adapters. Click the “rescan” button on the right: You'll receive a new window. Although you haven't yet created a new … text/html 2010-10-27T12:11:03+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/vmwaresvmotion To manually move a VM to different storage use the tool SVMotion, which is a VMware Infrastructure (VI) client plug-in that extends the client's functionality by providing an integrated, graphical tool that can be used to invoke storage VMotion (SVMotion) operations. text/html 2012-01-18T11:30:46+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/vmwaretips This is a notes page, extended with tips & tricks. This page is not really documentation, just stuff for me to remember. Sometimes things will get removed from these pages and turned into real documentation, sometimes not. You might find these notes to come in hand, maybe not. For me, it's just things I don't want to forget. text/html 2011-09-02T09:19:52+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/vmwareupdatemanager Hardware Requirements: * Processor: Intel or AMD x86 processor with two or more logical cores, each with a speed of 2GHz * Network: 10/100 Mbps. For best performance, use a Gigabit connection between Update Manager and the ESX/ESXi hosts * Memory: 2GB RAM if Update Manager and vCenter Server are on different machines. 4GB RAM if Update Manager and vCenter Server are on the same machine text/html 2011-10-26T09:36:02+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/vmwarevcp This is a page about VMware certification. Summary Format: ClassroomLength: 5 Days Overview This hands-on training course explores installation, configuration, and management of VMware vSphere™, which consists of ESX/ESXi and vCenter Server. The course is based on ESX/ESXi 4.1 and vCenter Server 4.1. Completion of this course satisfies as a prerequisite to take the VMware Certified Professional 4 exam. Students who complete this course may enroll in any of several more-advanced vSphere cour… text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:14+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/vmwarevlan This is a small howto on adding a VLAN to your VMWare ESX environment. In this example we add VLAN 20: VLANs are added through the host, so in your VirtualCenter select a host, click on the tab 'Configuration', and from the Hardware part select 'Networking': To add a VLAN you first have to go into the properties of the Virtual Switch, so click on 'Properties', which will give you this window: After clicking 'Add' you'll get this Wizard. Select 'Virtual Machine' as connection type and click… text/html 2011-02-24T13:21:40+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/vmwarevmxfile I used this small command/script to grep all nic devices from all the virtual devices that are registered on the host: for vm in `vmware-cmd -l`; do grep -i displayname "$vm"; grep -i 'ethernet..virtualdev' "$vm" ; done This could also be implemented in a script to make it more readable: text/html 2011-11-14T15:56:33+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/vmwarevswitch esxcfg-vswitch --add-pg=SFT0-VLAN2 vSwitch0 esxcfg-vswitch --add-pg=SFT0-VLAN10 vSwitch0 esxcfg-vswitch --add-pg=SFT0-VLAN20 vSwitch0 esxcfg-vswitch --add-pg=SFT0-VLAN5 vSwitch0 esxcfg-vswitch --add-pg=SFT0-VLAN25 vSwitch0 esxcfg-vswitch --add-pg=SFT0-VLAN15 vSwitch0 esxcfg-vswitch --pg=SFT0-VLAN2 --vlan=2 vSwitch0 esxcfg-vswitch --pg=SFT0-VLAN10 --vlan=10 vSwitch0 esxcfg-vswitch --pg=SFT0-VLAN20 --vlan=20 vSwitch0 esxcfg-vswitch --pg=SFT0-VLAN5 --vlan=5 vSwitch0 esxcfg-vswitch --pg=SFT0-VLAN25 … text/html 2011-08-31T11:37:12+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/vsc The Virtual Storage Console is the connection between vCenter and NetApp. It gives VMware administrators an insight in the storage provided by NetApps. This article is based on the installation edition “Virtual Storage Console 2.0.1 win 64 bits”. Update: this article is now also based on the installation of “Virtual Storage Console 2.1 win 64 bits”. " NOTE: START THE INSTALLER THROUGH 'RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR' otherwise it won't work. If you didn't, remove the software through the installer, re… text/html 2012-01-03T09:42:01+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/vspherepowercli Getting Started with vSphere PowerCLI. * .NET 2.0 SP1 or higher * Windows PowerShell 1.0 or higher * Download PowerShell 2.0 * For Windows Server 2008, it's an feature that can be installed through server manager. On R2 it's called Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE). text/html 2011-01-13T12:56:28+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/websphere This is a notes page, extended with tips & tricks. This page is not really documentation, just stuff for me to remember. Sometimes things will get removed from these pages and turned into real documentation, sometimes not. You might find these notes to come in hand, maybe not. For me, it's just things I don't want to forget. text/html 2011-01-06T14:05:37+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/websphereldap This is an howto on how to get the WebSphere Integrated Solutions Console to authenticate administrators through LDAP, in our case Microsoft's Active Directory 2008. This is installed with Windows Server 2008 and Active Directory. By default, when WebSphere gets installed everybody can access the WebSphere portal because there is no security. This is how the portal looks like: text/html 2011-01-18T14:18:18+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/webspherestartup This script can start, stop, backup and restore your WebSphere environment, and has been tested on AIX #!/bin/ksh # # Set you environment here [ACC,FOP,PRD] ENV=FOP # Set your company name here COMP=WARMETAL # # APP_HOME setting APP_HOME=/opt/sft/${COMP}-${ENV} # Change here the WAS userid, WAS group and sid if necessary WAS_USER=wasuser WAS_GROUP=wasgroup WAS_PROCESSES="dmgr nodeagent Front_Server Security_Server APP_Server JMS_Server" WAS_CELL="${COMP}-${ENV}.cell" WAS_NODE_EB="${COMP}-${E… text/html 2010-10-25T21:26:23+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/wereldreis20092010 20 aug 2009 - Nieuw Zeeland is geboekt! Ik moet even wachten op een build op de zaak en heb dus even tijd om wat goed nieuws te spuien: Nieuw Zeeland is geboekt! Of eigenlijk, m'n wereldreis is geboekt! Door een tip heb ik een drie maanden durende reis rond de wereld geboekt. Ik vertrek begin december en dan ga ik eerst een week naar Japan, vervolgens breng ik 9 weken door in Nieuw Zeeland... waar Pauline mij ook komt bezoeken voor 6 weken :-d Begin februari ga ik dan nog een week naar Austral… text/html 2010-11-01T15:36:31+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/win2008notes This is a notes page, extended with tips & tricks. This page is not really documentation, just stuff for me to remember. Sometimes things will get removed from these pages and turned into real documentation, sometimes not. You might find these notes to come in hand, maybe not. For me, it's just things I don't want to forget. text/html 2011-06-23T15:45:29+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/win2008snmpservice * Start Server Manager * Go to Features -> Add Features * Select the complete “SNMP Services” subtree * Click Next -> Finish After installing you'll see an extra service in the services overview. After installing you can open the properties of the SNMP service in the services overview, but there are no extra tabs yet where you can configure the community strings etc. Before you can configure those you'll have to close all MMC (-related) applications and log off. After logging in the tabs … text/html 2011-06-30T10:13:00+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/win2008tasks The location of the Windows Server 2008 Task Scheduler is a little bit changed. You can find it by starting Server manager -> Configuration -> Task Scheduler. If you created custom tasks you can find them under Task Scheduler -> Task Scheduler Library. text/html 2010-03-04T17:46:05+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/windows2003ent Specific edition: Enterprise 4 GB SCSI Harddisk, allocated, for C:8 GB SCSI Harddisk, not allocated, for E:512 MB RAMFloppy disk and CDrom not connected on startup Installed with all default settings. * Administrator password: beheer * Server name: win2003 * Network settings: * Ip-address: 192.168.177.10 * Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 * Gateway: 192.168.177.2 * Set up DNS to internal server text/html 2010-10-09T12:30:23+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/windows7tweaks This is a notes page, extended with tips & tricks. This page is not really documentation, just stuff for me to remember. Sometimes things will get removed from these pages and turned into real documentation, sometimes not. You might find these notes to come in hand, maybe not. For me, it's just things I don't want to forget. text/html 2010-06-02T17:09:20+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/windowsradius Dit is een beschrijving van de installatie van een standaard Windows Server 2003 Radius server. Installeer 'IAS' via 'Add/Remove programs' -> 'Windows Components': Open 'Internet Authentication Service' (via Administration Tools) In IAS klik met de rechtermuis op Radius Clients en kies 'New Radius Client' text/html 2011-02-08T10:21:52+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/windowsserver2008 This is an installation report for Windows Server 2008, which comes in different editions: Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition Windows Server 2008 Standard is one of Microsoft's entry level server offerings (alongside Windows Web Server 2008) and is one of the least expensive of the various editions available. Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions are available, and in terms of hardware Standard Edition supports up to 4GB of RAM and 4 processors. text/html 2010-03-04T17:45:54+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/windowsxpsp2 Installatie verslag Windows XP SP2 (installatie ISO)Installatie datum: 20 april 2006Door: Sjoerd Hooft Guest OS: Windows XPIDE harddisk (ATAPI): 8 GB BUSLogic BusNetworking mode: NATRAM: 512 MB IDE CDROM 1:01 ProcessorCDROM en Floppy disk standaard op disconnect gezet en Auto detect. Computernaam: OGDWSAdministrator wachtwoord: beheerWerkgroep: OGD * VMware Tools geïnstalleerd * Windows Update gedraaid - Alleen essentiële updates, Windows Media Player 10 en .NET framework 1.1 * Screensaver… text/html 2010-03-04T17:45:40+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/windowsxpsp2novell Installatie verslag Windows XP SP2 om Novell Beheer mee uit te voeren Guest OS: Windows XPIDE harddisk (ATAPI): 8 GB BUSLogic BusNetworking mode: NATRAM: 512 MB IDE CDROM 1:01 ProcessorCDROM en Floppy disk standaard op disconnect gezet en Auto detect. Computernaam: OGDWSAdministrator wachtwoord: beheerWerkgroep: OGD * VMware Tools geïnstalleerd * Windows Update gedraaid - Alleen essentiële updates, Windows Media Player 10 en .NET framework 1.1 * Screensaver uitgezet, schermresolutie op 1024… text/html 2011-07-14T13:02:11+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/winver To find out which windows edition and version you run simply run this command: winver This will show you a screen with information about the edition, service pack and build number: windows text/html 2010-10-09T12:31:45+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/wiresharknotes This is a notes page, extended with tips & tricks. This page is not really documentation, just stuff for me to remember. Sometimes things will get removed from these pages and turned into real documentation, sometimes not. You might find these notes to come in hand, maybe not. For me, it's just things I don't want to forget. text/html 2008-12-18T13:09:51+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/wnf Support het WNF of het WWF Array better world, personal text/html 2010-12-06T16:08:12+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/wordfooter To create a different header or footer for the first page of a document or section, follow these steps: * Go to the first page of the document, and then click Header and Footer on the View menu. * On the Header and Footer toolbar, click the Page Setup button. * Click the Layout tab. * Under Headers and footers, select the Different first page check box, and then click OK. * The words “First Page Header” or “First Page Footer” appear in the upper left of the dotted Header or Footer box. * … text/html 2009-06-22T17:50:46+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/wsus Deze pagina beschrijft het installeren en configureren van WSUS ( Windows Server Update Service). De service zorgt er voor dat de werkstations en servers geen updates meer halen van het internet, maar intern van een update server. Requirements HARDWARE Virtual Standaard configuratie + 2e partitie 100GB E-schijf Installatie directory SOFTWARE Windows Server 2003 SERVICE IIS Extra er bij installeren dit heb je nodig voor de WSUS Applicatie APPLICATIE WSUS Deze kan je downloaden van de micr… text/html 2009-08-18T14:53:52+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/yahoomessengerstartup If you've installed Yahoo Messenger it starts up automatically with Windows. If you disable it with msconfig from starting up it rewrites the entry and the software starts up anyway. There is another way to prevent it but you have to log in... and strangely, I don't want to... I'm a sysadmin and I only installed it for an image but I don't have a yahoo messenger account. So that's no option for me. I did found a way however: text/html 2010-04-26T16:38:05+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/zen10 This is the installation review of ZENworks Configuration Management 10 SP3, the primary server component. The installation has been performed on a Suse Linux Enterprise Server installed according this report. Installation Guide To start the installation mount the CDrom and start the install script: zenbox:~ # mount /dev/cdrom /mnt mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only zenbox:~ # cd /mnt/ zenbox:/mnt # ls Common Upgrade readme.html readme_es.html read… text/html 2010-04-27T13:18:47+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/zen10addadmin During the installation of ZENworks Configuration Management a default administrator gets created, and this user has full administrative privileges in ZENworks. Because we have to keep track of who does what it is for a necessity to have the administrators log in using their personal credentials. To do so, follow these steps: * Go into the ZENworks Control Center and click the 'Configuration' tab * Locate the 'Administrators' panel, and click 'Add': text/html 2010-04-28T16:09:36+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/zen10imaging When we started using ZCM Imaging we still had ZENworks 7 Imaging enabled in the network. We do the imaging only using PXE and because you should only have one pdhcp service in your network the migrating scenario should be as simple as possible. When we migrated we experiences several minor and major problems what explains this page. One day you have to do it all over and you don't want to have these problems again. These are the steps that have to be followed: * Create / Add diskspace for ima… text/html 2010-05-11T10:21:47+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/zen10migration Before you can start migrating applications from your old ZENworks 7 environment to your new ZENworks 10 Configuration Management environment you first need the ZENworks migration tool. You can easily download it from <https://your-zenworks-server/zenworks-setup>: After downloading and installing which is a really simple click-and-go installation the ZENworks migration tool is added to your start menu: After starting the tool you should first of all log in to eDirectory TREE and the ZENworks… text/html 2010-04-27T11:30:15+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/zen10usersources It's possible in ZENworks Configuration Management to assign bundles and policies to devices as well as to users. But before you can assign anything to users they first have to be imported. ZCM can establish a read-only connection to a LDAP user source. To create one to eDirectory follow these steps: * Go into the ZENworks Control Center and click the 'Configuration' tab * Locate the 'User Sources' panel, and click 'Add': text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:15+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/zennalconfig NAL config If you don't want to enforce the NAL on people you can change the default option so it can be closed by your users. To do so, go to the properties of your organization object: zenworks text/html 2010-03-04T17:45:30+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/zenworks7 Gebaseerd op een NetWare 6.5.5 installatie Installatie verslag ZENworks 7ZENworks aanpassingen: * Loginscript gemaakt * Public CN leesrechten gegeven voor contextless login * ZENworks 7 met SP1 geïnstalleerd * MiddleTierServer geïnstalleerd * user context: usr.n-team * Achtergrond user policy ingesteld text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:16+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/zenworksapplicationreporting Inleiding Binnen ZENworks kun je bijhouden in hoeverre je applicaties nou worden gebruikt. Deze functie, genaamd Application Reporting, kenmerkt zich door een grote flexibiliteit en een hoge graad van simpelheid. Dit document gaat in hoe je op simpele wijze Application Reporting op een database kan zetten en deze database gaat vullen door de applicatie objecten zelf te bewerken.Dit geschiedt door een stappenplan bestaande uit in totaal 8 stappen: * Maak een nieuw database object. * Maak een … text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:16+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/zenworksapplicationrestrictions Introduction This is a small tutorial on how to restrict ZENworks applications to show up everywhere. This is not a complete list, it's just some settings that I use, tried and tested. Only show up on Windows XP Below settings make sure your application only shows up on a Windows XP box: The Microsoft Windows version numbering is set as follows: x.x.x.x (Major.Minor.Revision.Build) text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:16+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/zenworksapplications Inleiding Binnen ZENworks kun je een aantal verschillende soorten applicaties aanbieden waarbij het verschil zich uit in de uitrol methode. Onderscheidt wordt onder andere gemaakt op de volgende gebieden: * Geen installatie benodigd, en kan vanaf het netwerk draaien * Geen installatie benodigd, maar moet lokaal draaien * Installatie kan via een .msi file * Installatie door middel van snapshot text/html 2008-11-23T12:25:19+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/zenworksdriverdevelopment Introduction This is an overview of all the trouble you can walk into when you have a nic that's not natively supported by ZENworks. These troubles include compiling a new driver, adding it to the boot source and editing the boot source. This article was written because I had some trouble with the “Marvell Yukon” nics. But... they work now. The article is divided in five parts: * Development trees * Driver development * Adding the driver * Loading the driver manually * Tips, tricks and re… text/html 2010-03-04T17:55:17+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/zenworksedirectorylicenses ZENworks 7 " Novell eDirectory™ Software license. The quantity of licenses for the Novell eDirectory software included with Your lawfullyacquired licenses of the Novell ZENworks 7 Suite Software is equal to the greater of (1) the quantity of licenses You have lawfullyacquired for the Novell ZENworks 7 Suite Software, or (2) 250,000 Users per company/entity. The foregoing Novell eDirectorylicenses are not upgradeable and are otherwise subject to the license agreement accompanying the Novell eDi… text/html 2010-10-09T12:33:55+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/zenworksnotes This is a notes page, extended with tips & tricks. This page is not really documentation, just stuff for me to remember. Sometimes things will get removed from these pages and turned into real documentation, sometimes not. You might find these notes to come in hand, maybe not. For me, it's just things I don't want to forget. text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:16+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/zenworkspxevmware Introduction ZENworks imaging can give you a powerfull imaging environment with a lot of options to adjust and manage your images, and with that your workstations. There are a few ways to image your workstations, using a bootable CD or DVD and then through the network, using a bootable CD or DVD to image without the network, and the way I use the most, through PXE. PXE stands for Preboot eXecution Environment and makes it possible for a workstation to boot through the network, and in our case p… text/html 2008-11-24T22:07:42+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/zenwworksapplicationfolder Folder config To organize your ZENworks applications you can create an application folder. In this folder you can create subfolders, so you can organize the applications for your users. Create: After creation you can create the folders and subfolders: text/html 2010-04-02T20:20:16+02:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/zweden2008 In september 2008 zijn we met een aantal vrienden naar Zweden gegaan. Het doel was genieten van de natuur en lekker een paar dagen buiten rondbrengen, het liefst zo dicht mogelijk bij het water en gebruik makend van het zogeheten Allemansrätten, beter vertaald als allemansrecht. Dat zorgt ervoor dat wij zo goed als overal vrij mochten wildkamperen, met een paar restricties natuurlijk, zie hier de complete uitleg. Dit heeft de volgende foto's opgeleverd: