ILO Setup without restart

C:\Program Files\HP\hponcfg>hponcfg /w iLoConfig.xml

To change settings you need to create an xml file containing the parameters you want to change, formatted using the RIBCL language. RIBCL allows you to write XML scripts to configure and manage iLO config settings.

To modify the network settings I created the following script:

DHCP Server Database Corruption

Error on DHCP server running on Windows Server 2008 (DC)

Fix:
run cmd as administrator

• net stop dhcpserver
• cd \windows\system32\dhcp\
• jetpack dhcp.mdb temp.mdb (this copies the existing database, compacts it then copies it back to the original location.
• net start dhcpserver 

What is jetpack?

Utility to pack/defrag and run maintenance on dhcp.
Jetpack.exe is located in c:\windows\system32\

Office 2007 Pro Plus (using VLK) on Terminal Server 2008 - freeze

Installed Office 2007 Pro Plus on Terminal Server 2008 sometimes Excel will freeze on remote users and other times it will work for 2-3 weeks without a freeze.

Investigation, findings and recommendations:
Add winword, excel, etc to DEP

DEP:

• Click Start, click Run, type sysdm.cpl, and then click OK.
• On the Advanced tab, under Performance, click Settings.
• On the Data Execution Prevention tab,
• Make sure The option "Turn on DEP for all programs and services except those I select" is selected
• Example: Add: c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\excel.exe
• Add all exe files for Outlook, word and excel.

Backup SQL Database to Disk

http://msdn.microsoft.com/es-es/library/ms191304.aspx

Nagios and Cacti Integration

Combine Nagios and Cacti

Make sure you have Ubuntu's LAMP Server installed
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/step-by-step-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-lamp-server-setup.html


Reference: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/install-and-configure-cacti-monitoring-tool-in-ubuntu-810-intrepid-ibex-server.html

Cacti - easy tutuorial http://openmaniak.com/cacti_tutorial.php

Sudo apt-get install snmp
Sudo apt-get install cacti
Sudo apt-get install rrdtool


connect to cacti to finish setup

http://hostname/cacti/

user login: admin/admin

Integration
http://theanswersquad.com/?p=212

Cacti is up and running!!

Runing Cacti on Ubuntu 9.10 Server on VirtualBox

http://localhost/cacti/

Ninja for Nagios

https://wiki.op5.org/ninja:docs:quickstart-ubuntu

Nagios backup & upgrade to latest version

INSTALL ZIP & BACKUP Nagios

Install zip
sudo apt-get install zip

Zip Nagios directory
zip -r nagiosbackup.zip /usr/local/nagios/etc/

Create backups directory
mkdir backups

Copy nagios.zip into backups directory
cp nagios.zip /backups

Verify the zip file is in the backups directory


UPGRADE NAGIOS - Download, Extract, Install, Verify, Restart

Download new nagios version
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagios/files/nagios-3.x/nagios-3.2.1/nagios-3.2.1.tar.gz/download


Extract the tar ball

tar xzf nagios-3.2.1.tar.gz

cd /nagios-3.2.1/

./configure --with-command-group=nagcmd

make all

make install 

Verify configurations

/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

Restart Nagios

/etc/init.d/nagios restart