I was looking for some documentation on howto enable SNMP on VMware ESX 4.0.
I couldn’t find a clear overview and had to merge all documentation myself (see the links at the bottom of this post). For documentation purposes I wrote this blog.
To configure SNMP you need vSphere CLI. Instead of installing it I decided to have a go at the vSphere Management Assistant (vMA). This is a virtual machine you can download and allows you (amongst other features) to run scripts.
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Tags: VMware
I needed to set registry permissions on a lot of Windows Server 2003 machines. I don’t like regini and find setacl a bit complex, so I turned to PowerShell. None off the servers had PowerShell installed, so I decided to run a script on one of the servers to fix them all.
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Tags: Microsoft Windows · PowerShell
My good old linksys router with DD-WRT firmware on it could not keep up with my fast internet connection. The cpu usage was at 100% at a 20 mbps download speed. So I traded it in for a free Netgear WPN824v2.
You cannot configure everything from the web management page. I wanted a portforwarder with a different source and target port. I found that you can use telnet. Take a look a this page. I decided to give it a go!
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A domain user asked for permissions to view services on a database server. A remote desktop wasn’t necessary. I decided to create a services.msc snapin to the server. I received an “Access Denied” error.
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November 10th, 2009 · 7 Comments
As a former notary of Thawte’s discontinued Web of Trust (WOT) I got an offer for a free 2-year SSL certificate. Thank you Thawte!
I wanted to use this certificate on my Synology Disk Station (DS 107). A first I received the error message “Private key and certificate are not matched.”
In this article I explain the steps I followed.
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Tags: Synology
The outbox in my Exchange account kept growing. I’m using Outlook 2007 in Cached Exchange Modus.
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September 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments
In Windows 7 it isn’t possible to expand folders any more. Well, actually it is.
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September 15th, 2009 · No Comments
I wrote a DISKPART script to mount a virtual disk (VHD) and a assign a drive letter. I ran into a problem. Right after attaching the VHD there aren’t any volumes available, so the assignment of a drive letter failes. DISKPART doesn’t provide a solution for this (no pause or sleep functions).
The error message is:
There is no volume specified.
Please select a volume and try again.
So I decided to build a PowerShell script!
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Tags: Microsoft Windows · Windows Scripting
I’m running a couple of scripts on my computer, I want to run as admin. Since (and because) I’m using Windows 7 I didn’t switch off UAC (which I did when running Vista).
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April 10th, 2009 · Comments Off
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