Posts from the 'Various' Category

Power Outage on UPS without network card: How to configure multiple server warnings/shutdown

I have a situation where I have two APC Smart UPSes without network card, and I need to control few servers and shut them down in case of power failure. APC PowerChute Business software does not know how to manage multiple servers without network card. I can control one server via USB interface, but it won`t shut down other servers, because APC PowerChute Agent does not know how to communicate without serial or RJ45 interface. Read More

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NetApp FAS: How to reformat storage

I recently came upon few NetApp FAS SAN Filers. In order to get more space out of them, I had to reconfigure them. Person who initially configured them had too much disks attached to root aggregate, I wanted to completely reconfigure storage so I had to destroy current configuration and rebuild all the RAID fields. Read More

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9 simple security tricks

I`m using these tricks whenever I can. They are simple and effective. I learned them mostly while working with Microsoft Windows Server 2000 and SQL Server 2000 (blank SA for example) which are a bit unsecure by default. You probably know these, but anyhow, here we go: Read More

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