Notes on NLB, VMware, etc
Just some notes to myself so I am clear about it while reading about it. In the context of this VMware KB article – Microsoft NLB not working properly in Unicast mode. Before I get to the article I...
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Unable to login to vSphere because the admin@system-domain password cannot be...
vSphere 5.1 has admin@system-domain as the default admin account. vSphere 5.5 changes that to administrator@vsphere.local. However, if you upgrade from 5.1 to 5.5 the default admin account remains...
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Power cycle/ Reset an HP blade server
Was getting the following error on one of our servers. It’s from ESXi. None of the NICs were working for the server (the NICs seemed to be working, just that the driver wasn’t loading). Power cycle...
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Using Solarwinds to monitor Windows Performance Monitor (perfmon) Counters
Had a request from our Exchange admin to setup Solarwinds alerts for some of our Exchange servers based on Performance Monitor counters. MSExchangeTransport Queues(_total)\Active Remote Delivery Queue...
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Mute Solarwinds alerts during reboots/ maintenance windows
I wanted to mute Solarwinds alerts during our patch weekends when all servers are rebooted because they have to be and our mailboxes get flooded with Solarwinds alerts. I decided to use custom...
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Using Solarwinds to monitor Windows Services
This is similar to how I monitored performance counters with Solarwinds. I want to monitor a bunch of AppSense services. Similar to the performance counters where I created an application monitor...
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Removing a monitored resource from multiple nodes in Solarwinds
Had to remove a drive from being monitored from multiple servers in Solarwinds. Rather than go to each node, edit its properties and untick the drive, I figured that if you do a search for the nodes...
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Create Solarwinds account limitations based on Custom Properties
I wanted to create account limitations in Solarwinds based on Custom Properties but the web console by default doesn’t give an option to do that. Then I came across this helpful video. The trick is to...
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Solarwinds –“The WinRM client cannot process the request”
Added the Exchange 2010 Database Availability Group application monitor to couple of our Exchange 2010 servers and got the following error – Clicking “More” gives the following – This is because...
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Solarwinds AppInsight for IIS – doing a manual install – and hopefully fixing...
AppInsight from Solarwinds is pretty cool. At least the one for Exchange is. Trying out the one for IIS now. Got it configured on a few of our servers easily but it failed on one. Got the following...
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Using SolarWinds to highlight servers in a pending reboot status
Had a request to use SolarWinds to highlight servers in a pending reboot status. Here’s what I did. Sorry, this is currently broken. After implementing this I realized I need to enable PowerShell...
View ArticleFind which bay an HP blade server is in
So here’s the situation. We have a bunch of HP rack enclosures. Some blade servers were moved from one rack to another but the person doing the move forgot to note down the new location. I knew the iLO...
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Solarwinds not seeing correct disk size; “Connection timeout. Job canceled by...
Had this issue at work today. Notice the disk usage data below in Solarwinds – The ‘Logical Volumes’ section shows the correct info but the ‘Disk Volumes’ section shows 0 for everything. Added to that...
View ArticleInstalling a new license key in KMS
KMS is something you login to once in a blue moon and then you wonder how the heck are you supposed to install a license key and verify that it got added correctly. So as a reminder to myself. To...
View ArticleAdd-DnsServerZoneDelegation with multiple nameservers
Only reason I am creating this post is coz I Googled for the above and didn’t find any relevant hits I know I can use the Add-DnsServerZoneDelegation cmdlet to create a new delegated zone (basically a...
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Bug in Server 2016 and DNS zone delegation with CNAME records
A colleague at work mentioned a Server 2016 DNS zone delegation bug he had found. I found just one post on the Internet when I searched for this. According to my colleague Microsoft has now confirmed...
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Citrix breaks after removing the root zone from your DNS server?
Two years ago I had removed the root zone on our DNS servers at work. Coz who needs root zones if your DC is only answering internal queries, i.e. for zone sit has. Right? Well, that change broke our...
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Notes on ADFS Certificates
Was trying to wrap my head around ADFS and Certificates today morning. Before I close all my links etc I thought I should make a note of them here. Whatever I say below is more or less based on these...
View Article[Aside] Useful CA/ Certificates info
Obtaining a certificate on Windows Server without IIS CA Web Enrollment Determining the type of CA (standalone or AD integrated) Another option is certutil -CAinfo – look for CAType. Difference...
View ArticleCertificates, Subject Alternative Names, etc.
I had encountered this in my testlab but never bothered much coz it was just my testlab after all. But now I am dabbling with certificates at work and hit upon the same issue. The issue is that if I...
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