TechColumnist Directives from a Director
/ October 26, 2009 / Leave a comment

Remotely reboot a server

Always a good tidbit of information to keep around:

To perform a remote shutdown:
1. Open Computer Management (Local)
2. In the console tree, right-click Computer Management (Local), and then click Connect to another computer.
3. In the Select Computer dialog box, click Another computer, type the name of the computer that you want to restart or shut down, and then click OK. You can also click Browse to search for the name of the computer.
4. In the console tree, right-click Computer Management (Remote computer name), and then click Properties.
5. On the Advanced tab, click Startup and Recovery.
6. Click Shut Down to open the Shut Down dialog box.
7. Under Action, select the actions you want to perform on the computer to which you are connected.
8. Under Force Apps Closed, select the circumstances under which you want to force applications to close when you shut down or restart the computer, and then click OK.

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/ September 30, 2009 / Leave a comment

Greyed out Domain Controllers

I spent a while searching around for this gem. Basically the domain controllers don’t trust the local system account so you have to run the HSLockdown.exe tool. I found this blog article that explains:
http://scug.be/blogs/scom/archive/2008/08/18/opsmgr-agent-greyed-out-on-domain-controller.aspx

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/ September 18, 2009 / Leave a comment

NetApp DS4243 Disk Shelves

Finally SAS disk shelves from NetApp. Also in a 24 drive configuration.

Update: Looks like these will ship with new systems only starting December (and by new systems, it seems maybe only the FAS-3170s). General availability will come a few months later.

DS4243

DS4243

an update:

We finally ordered some of these shelves, and they’re quite nice!

Slot:            1a
Description:     SAS Host Adapter 1a (PMC-Sierra PM8001 rev. C)
Firmware Rev:    01.07.13.03
Base WWN:        5:00e00x:0000xxx:xx
State:           Enabled
In Use:          Yes
Redundant:       Yes
Phy State:       [0] Enabled, 3.0Gb/s (9)
[1] Enabled, 3.0Gb/s (9)
[2] Enabled, 3.0Gb/s (9)
[3] Enabled, 3.0Gb/s (9)

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/ September 6, 2009 / Leave a comment

Mint.com

I have got to say, mint.com is one of the best tools i’ve used in a long time. I used quicken online for a little while and then found if I stopped visiting the site that it would stop pulling transactions. The mint.com site continues to grab them even if I’ve been idle for a month or two. There are some features that are missing (I haven’t figured out how to mark a transaction as a reoccuring bill for tracking) but overall it’s a great tool and I recommend anyone looking for a financial management tool to spend some time setting this one up.

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/ September 4, 2009 / Leave a comment

Data ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode RC released

The following models of storage systems are supported:
60xx

31xx (3160

is not supported in RC1)

3070
3040
SA600
SA300
SA310

Exciting. I’m thinking about installing this on a FAS-3070 next week. Hopefully have some screenshots. Since it’s generally available on the NOW site you should be able to find it.

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/ August 3, 2009 / Leave a comment

NetApp VFM Email Alerts

I spent a few hours doddling around with how to do email alerting with the provided VFM scripts. I finally ended up rewriting things just a little, but below is the basics of how to configure VFM to use email alerting.

A quick note, this most likely applies for the Brocade StorageX product as NetApp rebrands StorageX to work with NetApp filers.

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/ July 7, 2009 / 2 Comments

Script: Check for Orphaned HomeDirs

It seems no matter how much you try you cannot ever get those damned orphaned homedirs cleaned up. Well, this helps. Our org always has additional groups in the homedir (no, we don’t just let the users have whatever they want in there, so we have to monitor). This causes a little confusion amongst most orphaned file checkers (as there is still a group in there that resolves). Read on for the code and an example.

What this script does is it scans a directory’s subdirectories (as with many homedirs, the subdirectories are usually the AD account name). It then tries to match the subdirectory to an AD account name. If this proves that one doesn’t exist, it prompts and spits out the ACL info and a prompt to move the files. If you say yes, it moves them to the directory you specified in arg1.

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/ July 7, 2009 / Leave a comment

New Theme

every once in a while i like to change things up a little, so i changed themes. One thing i noticed was my array of crazy tags off to the right, i’m going to do some cleaning up of those i think.

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/ May 18, 2009 / 2 Comments

NetApp OnTap 8.0

I’m awaiting the release of OnTap 8.0, but there are several things I’m waiting for that will come after 8.0.

Jeff O’Neal, NetApp’s senior director of Data Center Solutions, said Data OnTap 8.0 — which will merge Data OnTap 7G with the Data OnTap GX cluster platform — will be released later this year. “NetApp remains on track to release our first converged operating system in calendar ’09,” O’Neal told Enterprise Storage Forum.

This is exciting if they can get 8.0 released this year. That means we might be able to look forward to 8.1 coming out sometime 2010. 8.1 should be an even more exciting release from what I’ve heard through the grape vine. I’m hoping still that 8.0 might have some of the advancements that GX had in the core OS. I’m hoping for tab-complete, a more GX light na-admin, and quite a few other GX like enhancements.
What do you guys think? What have you heard about 8.0?

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/ April 16, 2009 / Leave a comment

backup and restore dfs structure

DFSUTIL Backup
dfsutil /root:\yourroot.localDFS /export:c:DFSbackup.txt

DFSUTIL Restore
dfsutil /root:\yourroot.localDFS /import:c:DFSBackup.txt /set

http://metalsushi.blogspot.com/2008/07/dfs-backup-and-restore-using-dfsutil.html

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