Icinga, an open source monitoring tool, monitors networks and its resource, can send notifications, and generate reports. Icinga is scalable and can monitor small to large network environments. Icinga is a fork of Nagios and is backward compatible. Nagios configurations, plugins and addons can be used with Icinga. Icinga has retained the existing features of Nagios, however, is actively maintained…
Read More »Where once things had worked, a user had upgraded from a Microsoft Windows XP to Microsoft Windows 7 operating system. In doing so, the Webtrends Report Exporter that was prepackaged with a slightly older version of Webtrends failed to install. Once the installation issues seemed to iron out after much trial and error with permissions and with running as administrator…
Read More »I needed a list of files from a folder with only filesize. The first choice of commands was the DIR command, however, there is no command line switch or combination that will allow for this type of output. I didn’t want to have to install any third party application or Microsoft extras to get the desired result. Since, I am…
Read More »Recently discovered that some servers were not reporting the correct time. I originally decided to use a freeware utility called tSync, an Internet and network time synchronization utility. While this little utility works great, I wanted something a little cleaner. Microsoft offers a couple of ways to resync the times. How to synchronize the time on a member computer in…
Read More »Scooter Software has a fantastic program called Beyond Compare. It is available in both Windows and Linux. Having used this in Windows, I wanted to give it a shot in Linux. All the instructions are available on the vendor’s website; however, after reading through them, here is a simplified set of instructions. This was a fresh install of CentOS 5.7…
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Only having terminal access to a server running CentOS 5.7, I had to determine if the server was actually a physical or virtual machine. There are a few methods to do this, however, here are a couple of the easier methods. Vendor: VMware Model: Virtual disk Rev: 1.0 Vendor: VMware Model: Virtual disk Rev: 1.0 Vendor: VMware Model: Virtual disk…
Read More »To check for the version that CentOS and RedHat Enterprise Linux (“RHEL”) there are a couple of commands that are useful and will provide the desired results. CentOS release 5.7 (Final) CentOS release 5.7 (Final) Release: CentOS release 5.7 (Final) If lsb_release is not available then use yum install to install it. yum install redhat-lsb CentOS release 5.7 (Final) Kernel…
Read More »For one reason or another, your WordPress site may get hacked. Code may be attached to various files throughout the site that could do a wide range of things including site redirection. There are many different types of hacks, however, there are several tools and commands that may prove useful for remediation. If these tools do not re-mediate, then these…
Read More »There was a need to delete log files that were older than a certain date from a folder on a Microsoft Windows based computer. This proved to be a difficult task to develop the proper command line that would accomplish this task. However there is a native Microsoft Windows command that does provide the necessary tools to delete files that…
Read More »Google Books Downloader is a little software that allows Google Books to be saved in PDF or JPEG format. It is a Windows based utility that will allow the downloading of a single book as a PDF, JPG or PNG in one of many resolutions ranging from 350px to 1280px. The default is 800px. The utility is a very effective…
Read More »There are many users in the BlackBerry user community whom has complained that for one reason or another their BlackBerry Messenger is no longer accessible. BlackBerry apps indicates that it is installed, however, there is no means to access this application. This anomalous behavior recently effected this user. Although this did annoyance existed, it turns out to have been the…
Read More »An early configuration where JIRA and Subversion were installed on the same server using LDAP for user credentials worked as designed. However, the design of the working environment was modified significantly: New hardware, upgraded applications, and JAVA versions. JIRA would be installed on one server and Subversion on another. In this new configuration, JIRA was no longer able to authenticate…
Read More »User Account Control was introduced with Microsoft Windows Vista. The intent was to improve secutiy by limiting application software to standard user priveges until an administrator approves an increase or elevation. To open a command prompt with administatrative privledges a few extra key strokes are required. To launch an elevated command prompt: This also works with Windows Vista.
Read More »A universal remote control was needed to operate an old Pioneer LaserDisc player. While the LaserDisc functions within its operating parameters, it lacks in functionality without a remote control. I discovered that the RCA universal remote control, model D900, supported the Pioneer LaserDisc; however, none were available. After reviewing many images of the CRK91F, the conclusion was drawn that the…
Read More »Using vBulletin 4.1.2 for forum software, the logo on the top left corner defaults back to the forum. The goal is to have that logo point to the homepage of the website and not the blog. This is the process to make this change possible. Original Code Updated Code ResourcesCMS Logo Link for CMS instead of Forum Link your logo…
Read More »An instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 was once installed in evaluation mode. After the mode had expired, when launched, the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio would present a message that the “Evaluation period has expired. For information on how to upgrade your evaluation software please go to …”. This message persists even after the in place upgrade. Here is…
Read More »While in the process of cleaning off several applications from an older server, one application remained regardless of the uninstallation procedure. This application was McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.5i. There is a a method that worked successfully in the removal of this stubburn application. After the uninstall completed, a reboot was not necessary and the uninstall did remove the entire application….
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