I've got Comcast on a couple of clients in 'remote' regions where only T1 is served. No problem there, and since the clients had 3 year contracts with Telepacific I upgraded them to a Cisco AS520 firewall so they can use the T1 as a failover line.
I deployed Comcast business to a customer for their new hosted phone system, it was very nice and Comcast was very easy to work with. I kept hooking my laptop up to the comcast lines just to get the totally awesome speeds as opposed to the fractured T1 line that was running into the office for the data.
RDP problem.
One of my coworkers is unable to rdp to the term server where we manage one of our applications from. It is telling her there are no licenses availble. But we normally about 15 people in it simultaneously during the week. There's only 3 of us here right now. Me and the other guy can get in out of it no problem. I've had her reboot her PC and I've rebooted the term server.
edit: Problem seems to be isolated to her computer. I had her log in to one in a neighboring cube and she got in.
when troubleshooting problems, it never ceases to amaze me how often i feel like a total fool once i stumble upon the solution. i wonder if it's a common feeling in other lines of work...
we recently made the switch from xp to 7. this switch also involved moving from a 32-bit OS to a 64-bit one. i tested and tested before deploying, all our software seemed to work fine; but, inevitably i would overlook something. this something was a web based application that is hosted by a vendor who does not 'officially' support windows 7. talking to their tech support guys, it should work though, they've seen it work other places. i have spent hours trying to get this thing to work in our environment. the thing that pissed me off more than anything, is that for some users it just seemed to work, others it did not. i spent so much time re-imaging machines, rebuilding profiles...
today i go in off-hours to take care of a couple things, while i'm there i have the opportunity to take one of the trouble user's account and profile and play to my heart's content (as their not working until monday). i start with a fresh profile and begin moving her stuff over piece by piece, checking the web app after each step. it's working fine on the fresh profile, and fine as i'm bringing stuff over. i get to her desktop. you see, i had been launching internet explorer from the start menu and plugging in the URL until this point. but, hey, she's got a shortcut on her desktop, i'll use that since i've just transferred it over. this shortcut originated when she was using XP (redirected desktops). the fucking thing is pointing at 'C:\Program Files\[etc]'. son of a bitch, on 7 that means it's launching the 64-bit version of internet explorer, and the web app is 32-bit. when i was launching it manually, i was never picking the 64-bit version. seems so fucking obvious in retrospect. i'm embarrassed at how much time i'd spent on this thing.
Apothe0sisHave you ever questioned the nature of your reality?Registered Userregular
The 64-bit Internet exploder has been the downfall of many of us.
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Apothe0sisHave you ever questioned the nature of your reality?Registered Userregular
Hoorah.
Having successfully navigated the inscrutable minefield that is Cisco service contracts I can finally update our ASDM to something which works with Java 7.
On the downside, I still have to use Java. I should really make everyone use the CLI to configure the ASAs...
Having successfully navigated the inscrutable minefield that is Cisco service contracts I can finally update our ASDM to something which works with Java 7.
On the downside, I still have to use Java. I should really make everyone use the CLI to configure the ASAs...
you can do so much more, so much quicker, so much easier with the CLI with cisco I can't comprehend why anybody wouldn't/
@TyrantCow RE: Troubleshooting feeling like a fool.
I have a confession to make. I'm an idiot. I had a few users complaining that this one computer would shut down every Friday at 8PM. Every Friday. Always at 8PM. I couldn't figure out what it was. I checked group policy, I checked Windows Update, I checked the virus scanner. I ran 4 different virus scanners trying to find whatever it could be causing this issue. This went on for months.
Then I checked scheduled tasks. Guess what was there? Reboot on Friday at 8PM. I don't know who put it there, but I will take this information to the grave before I tell someone at work about it. As far as they know/care, I found the virus causing it and took care of it.
Anyone have any good suggestions for a cheap dial-in phone conferencing service? We don't need a ton of bells and whistles, we're just looking for something a little more professional than "hold on a minute while I call someone else" ten times to get everyone in on the call, then messing up sometimes and having to start over. Cost is the main concern.
Have you used them? I'm nervous about recommending a service that may turn out to have, like, advertising in order for people to get in or something like that.
Have you used them? I'm nervous about recommending a service that may turn out to have, like, advertising in order for people to get in or something like that.
Just got off a conference call with a client that uses them. I, too, looked for the catch but couldn't find it. I say sign up and test it for yourself.
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We use them as well as FreeConferenceCallHD.com - neither seems to have any catches in the months we've used them. The latter has marginally better sound quality, but I doubt anyone would notice without using them back to back.
TL DRNot at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered Userregular
So does anyone know how to print from the fax console in Windows 7? I know in XP you could generate a fax coversheet and then print a hard copy, but in 7 the 'Print' button is greyed out.
I have a client who receives loads of hard copy documents and is accustomed to being able to print a cover sheet, and training the staff to use Word templates or something is "a deal-breaker" for moving the office to Win7 :rotate:
If I use VirtualBox to setup a VM (with Windows 7 on it) can the host machine physically see the VM? A coworker wants to setup a versioning server on his computer in the virtual environment.
You can put it straight on the network, or you can put it on it's own private subnet so only the host machine can see it. Or you can not give it network at all.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
Anybody using VMWare for virtual servers? I have a 3 host cluster and have 22 virtual machines on it and the CPU % usage never breaks 3%. Do I just have a stupid amount of overhead on this thing?
Anybody using VMWare for virtual servers? I have a 3 host cluster and have 22 virtual machines on it and the CPU % usage never breaks 3%. Do I just have a stupid amount of overhead on this thing?
Yeah we use VMWare. But not with that number of VMs in it. Typically only host one or two servers in it - its mainly a disaster recovery solution.
We have two 3 host clusters as well, and CPU is never the problem, but memory. How's your memory usage? I'll noticed spikes during heavy usage periods, but the CPUs really do handle it incredibly well. Depends on your hosts though. I have some hosts that are just insane for what we're running on them, and others that are probably 75% of capacity.
Remember you need to spec for a single host cluster. In a worst case scenario, you need to be able to be able to keep all the VM's running on the one host while you fix the other two.
That's a good point Gilbert0. I hadn't considered the possibility of having to run on just 1 host, though I am sure it would be pretty unlikely for two of the three to fail simultaneously.
Looks like I'm sitting at around 80 GB of assigned memory. It's odd that I can check the Active Guest memory on each VM individually, but it won't tell me the sum of that information for the cluster, or even each individual host.
Without having any idea what your VMs are actually doing there's no way to say if that's normal or not. Running SQL and Matlab? That's probably odd. Bunch of file and print servers? Sounds about right.
Seeing as you have 22 VMs and 36 actual cores, not even counting HT, I'm not really shocked that you're running so low.
And I believe the Advanced button on the Performance tab, and then the memory view will give you the memory statistics you're looking for.
A couple file and print servers, an exchange server, blackberry server, a handful of workstations, some small scale application servers running sql, apache, etc. and seveeral servers that are just running a service to monitor several hundred machines data.
I still can only get active memory for each VM individually in the performance graphs and not for an entire host or the cluster.
A couple file and print servers, an exchange server, blackberry server, a handful of workstations, some small scale application servers running sql, apache, etc. and seveeral servers that are just running a service to monitor several hundred machines data.
I still can only get active memory for each VM individually in the performance graphs and not for an entire host or the cluster.
If that's all you're hosting, given that you're populating fewer VMs than you have physical cores, I am utterly unsurprised that your cpu usage is so low.
For the memory info, are you looking at Home > Inventory > Hosts and Clusters? Then select a single host, and you should be able to see the stats. You can see my active memory for the full host in kb here.
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I need some advice. One of our clients has a DMZ set up a bit wrong, and as a result it appears that some machine on their system is launching a zero-day internet explorer attack. AT&T is rightly threatening to take down their T1. I've been assigned to handle this issue.
I don't have direct access to the Cisco router to block the IP, but I am trying to get that. All signs point to it being some kind of a VM though. How would I go about hunting that down and exterminating it?
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One of my coworkers is unable to rdp to the term server where we manage one of our applications from. It is telling her there are no licenses availble. But we normally about 15 people in it simultaneously during the week. There's only 3 of us here right now. Me and the other guy can get in out of it no problem. I've had her reboot her PC and I've rebooted the term server.
edit: Problem seems to be isolated to her computer. I had her log in to one in a neighboring cube and she got in.
we recently made the switch from xp to 7. this switch also involved moving from a 32-bit OS to a 64-bit one. i tested and tested before deploying, all our software seemed to work fine; but, inevitably i would overlook something. this something was a web based application that is hosted by a vendor who does not 'officially' support windows 7. talking to their tech support guys, it should work though, they've seen it work other places. i have spent hours trying to get this thing to work in our environment. the thing that pissed me off more than anything, is that for some users it just seemed to work, others it did not. i spent so much time re-imaging machines, rebuilding profiles...
today i go in off-hours to take care of a couple things, while i'm there i have the opportunity to take one of the trouble user's account and profile and play to my heart's content (as their not working until monday). i start with a fresh profile and begin moving her stuff over piece by piece, checking the web app after each step. it's working fine on the fresh profile, and fine as i'm bringing stuff over. i get to her desktop. you see, i had been launching internet explorer from the start menu and plugging in the URL until this point. but, hey, she's got a shortcut on her desktop, i'll use that since i've just transferred it over. this shortcut originated when she was using XP (redirected desktops). the fucking thing is pointing at 'C:\Program Files\[etc]'. son of a bitch, on 7 that means it's launching the 64-bit version of internet explorer, and the web app is 32-bit. when i was launching it manually, i was never picking the 64-bit version. seems so fucking obvious in retrospect. i'm embarrassed at how much time i'd spent on this thing.
Having successfully navigated the inscrutable minefield that is Cisco service contracts I can finally update our ASDM to something which works with Java 7.
On the downside, I still have to use Java. I should really make everyone use the CLI to configure the ASAs...
I mean, just, ugh.
I have a confession to make. I'm an idiot. I had a few users complaining that this one computer would shut down every Friday at 8PM. Every Friday. Always at 8PM. I couldn't figure out what it was. I checked group policy, I checked Windows Update, I checked the virus scanner. I ran 4 different virus scanners trying to find whatever it could be causing this issue. This went on for months.
Then I checked scheduled tasks. Guess what was there? Reboot on Friday at 8PM. I don't know who put it there, but I will take this information to the grave before I tell someone at work about it. As far as they know/care, I found the virus causing it and took care of it.
http://www.freeconferencecall.com/faq.asp#catch
I have a client who receives loads of hard copy documents and is accustomed to being able to print a cover sheet, and training the staff to use Word templates or something is "a deal-breaker" for moving the office to Win7 :rotate:
Yeah we use VMWare. But not with that number of VMs in it. Typically only host one or two servers in it - its mainly a disaster recovery solution.
3% sounds awesome
PSN - sumowot
2x Intel Xeon X5680 (totaling 12 cores, 24 with hyperthreading)
72 GB of RAM
8 NICs
They are connected to a couple EMC SANs with 4 TB of storage each. All 10k rpm drives running RAID 5 or 6.
Now that I've typed it out methinks the guy that arranged this went a bit overboard...
If it's not a problem, I wouldn't worry about it
Looks like I'm sitting at around 80 GB of assigned memory. It's odd that I can check the Active Guest memory on each VM individually, but it won't tell me the sum of that information for the cluster, or even each individual host.
Seeing as you have 22 VMs and 36 actual cores, not even counting HT, I'm not really shocked that you're running so low.
And I believe the Advanced button on the Performance tab, and then the memory view will give you the memory statistics you're looking for.
I still can only get active memory for each VM individually in the performance graphs and not for an entire host or the cluster.
Cluster use the Performance tab and under Memory is shows you total memory used.
Host use the Summary tab and the first thing under resources is your CPU and Memory usage as a whole.
If that's all you're hosting, given that you're populating fewer VMs than you have physical cores, I am utterly unsurprised that your cpu usage is so low.
For the memory info, are you looking at Home > Inventory > Hosts and Clusters? Then select a single host, and you should be able to see the stats. You can see my active memory for the full host in kb here.
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EDIT: ArcSyn had the much easier way to get there, which I for some reason completely forgot.
like... the kari system software for controlling doors with keyfobs?
IBM DOORS. No idea what it does, but my PM wants me to install it on a server... But i'm not sure which one.
I don't have direct access to the Cisco router to block the IP, but I am trying to get that. All signs point to it being some kind of a VM though. How would I go about hunting that down and exterminating it?