Enabled SSH Login on your VCenter Appliance ( this can be done through the GUI or via Direct Console Access )Run the below commands replacing username and […]
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Roll Back \ Downgrade of ESX 6.5 to ESX 6 Settings
After I found HP’s version of 6.5 wasn’t stable yet : http://pariswells.com/blog/random/hp-vmware-6-5-psod We needed to roll back to v6 UP2You can usually do this if you’ve done an upgrade […]
HP Vmware 6.5 – PSOD
Recently installed VMware-ESXi-6.5.0-OS-Release-4564106-HPE-650.9.6.0.28-Nov2016.iso after installing the lastest support HP Firmware : 871790_001_spp-2016.10.0-SPP2016100.2016_1015.191.isoOn a G8 Proliant server , upon Vmotioning servers onto the box 5 minutes after the install, I got […]
Enable HTTPS and Disable HTTP on Netapp
7 Mode Configure SSL on the storage system by issuing the following command:filerprompt> secureadmin setup sslEnter the following information when prompted:Country Name (2 letter code) [US]:State or Province […]
Google 2 Factor Authentication not working
I recently tried to login to a service which uses the Google Mobile App for 2 Factor Authentication and it suddenly stopped working after no apperent change.The […]
How to set SNMP on Vmware
ESX Version 5You need to use the CLI to edtit this per below : PowerCLI C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI> get-vmhostsnmp | set-vmhostsnmp -enable:$true -readonlycommunity @(“%communityname%”) -addtarget -targetcommunity ‘%communityname%’ […]
Minimum permission Solarwinds Polling account needs for domain controller
Solarwinds has an Application Monitoring Template for Domain Controllers.The permission usually recommended is to give the account Local Administrator on the computer , however on a domain […]
IBM IMM Module can’t login Internet Explorer
Been working on a IBM X3550 M4 Server. When trying to login to this server using Internet Explorer 11 the pages refresh and just takes me back […]
Power-on Reset Occuring on Vmware Host
Use this command on the host to check for Power-On Reset Errorse.g.Note – ESXi uses UTC for its timezone so minus 5 hours to match ESTThese should […]
IIS Performance Counter – Total Locked Errors – How to detect locked files
We had some alerts coming up for an IIS site in Solarwinds which read the value for this Win32_PerfFormattedData_W3SVC_WebService(SITECODE)\TotalLockedErrors And alerted us when above 0. This is […]