Category: Server
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Repair A Thumb Drive After ESXi
ESXI crunks up a thumb drive with multiple partitions that regular disk management can’t handle. Windows does have a command line tool that will repair it, though. This SuperUser article outlines the fix. Connect your disk. Run cmd as an Administrator. Run diskpart.exe. Use ? if you need help in this program. list disk Find…
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BIND9 Notifications
In your bind configurations when a master DNS server makes an update it looks inside the zone file, and any DNS servers listed inside are sent a notice saying there has been an update. After this the slave queries the SOA for updates. If you happen to have an additional DNS server that needs to…
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VLANs In Centos 6
Creating VLANs in centos 6 is simple…well, it’s supposed to be. # cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1.58 VLAN=yes DEVICE=eth1.58 NM_CONTROLLED=no ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=x.y.z.w NETMASK=a.b.c.d For me, though, not so much. I have a CSV with about 200 VLANs that need to be created, so I wrote a quick autoit script to whip up the config files…no biggie. I…
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Installing Rancid On Centos
I actually installed Rancid on my newest CactiEZ install. Rancid is a device configuration backup service. To view the CVS files that are created I used CVSweb. I started with this tutorial to install Rancid on Centos…an extremely useful tutorial. Once this was working I pulled the newest files from the CVSweb site. I dropped…
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Bring Back Shape Tools In Visio 2010 – AKA Unions
I miss all of my toolbars in Visio… After much searching I found Developer Mode. This gives you a new tab that brings virtually everything you miss back!
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Test Exchange Active Sync
I was setting up my new email and it wouldn’t for the life of me work. I found this site www.testexchangeconnectivity.com. It lets you do a test via your browser and quickly diagnosed the issue. I popped into AD and adjusted some permissions as suggested and BOOM…everything is rocking and rolling. 🙂
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CactiEZ0.7 Released
The link to the announcement post is here. There are several key things to note about the new CD. OS is CentOS 6 x64 (there is no 32bit version) Now prompts for a few key items during the installation such as Network info, timezone, and password More secure out of the box than the previous…