VMWare ESXi Hardware Health Monitor Script
From the skunk works here at Squidworks comes another great monitoring script for Kaseya.
This script uses the SDK provided by VMWare to query the ESX host and return a good or bad variable. If the hardware test fails then the script grabs the log of the test and uploads it to… Continue reading
Active Directory Health Monitor Script
From the skunk works here at Squidworks comes another great monitoring script for Kaseya.
The Active Directory Health Monitor Agent Procedure executes DCDiag on your Windows Active Directory server and captures any failures reported. The script then makes a unique event log entry into the Windows Application Event Log under the Application Events that can then… Continue reading
Grab the Hardware Health of your VMware vSphere ESXi Host
Here is RC1 of my ESX Health Script for the XYmon monitoring server, not to be compared to the ESXi script going around for VM and Snapshot Health. ESXHealth monitors the physical health of the hardware running the ESX hyper-visor This script uses the xymoncgimsg.cgi to send status reports from a remote network to your XYmon Display Server thus allowing you to… Continue reading
So you think your missing the Previous Versions Tab when you open windows explorer, right mouse click and select properties on a Windows 2003 server. The reason for this is that Windows Server Explore only supports the Shadow Copy “Revert” feature when connecting to a local drive using Windows Explorer. To get the “Previous Versions Tab” you should access the the drive as a UNC path in Windows Explorer. The… Continue reading
MAGMA is a Web GUI interface for managing hosts, groups, tests and alarms on a XYmon server.
If you ever used XYmon you know that most of it is configured and managed by text files on the server. If your are not skilled in VI or Nano then this may present somewhat of a challenge at times. Well all… Continue reading
VMware vSphere vCenter Server 5.1 now uses a new SSO (Single Sign On) service to authenticate with Microsoft Active Directory when deploying vCenter. If you do not install this services and configure it for AD then you will not be able to use your domain accounts with vCenter 5.1 During the initial install you may get errors when installing SSO. KB 2034374 reports that a error of ” Error 29155 Identity source discovery… Continue reading
Microsoft made some changes to the network printing security in Windows 7 and as a result, many non-admin users are not able to install network printers with an Access Denied message.
I did some research on this today, and found a solution. We just need to make a new GPO on the domain level for each client network that is experiencing this problem. These are newer GPO extensions, so… Continue reading
Blank e-mail bodies being sent from Outlook when Save and Send feature is used.
Are you having strange problems where on occasion a random contact in outlook will disappear from your contacts but you can still see that contact on your IPhone or when users create Word documents, then select “save and send,” “send via e-mail” then “send as attachment.” They then write a short note in the body of the e-mail… Continue reading
Do we have any Connectwise Sql hackers out there that might need a SQL script to grab a list of all primary company contacts for all companies invoiced over the last 6 months so you can submit that to Microsoft Partner Portal for the survey Microsoft expects you to send out twice a year? You know the one where you submit a excel spreadsheet of those customers and Microsoft send them a… Continue reading
