Saturday, January 24, 2009

Dell OpenManage

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Map your current knowledge of the HP Systems Insight Manager(tm) toolset to Dell OpenManage tools using the Systems Management Competitive Mapping chart aka the Secret Decoder Ring.

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how you can use a few simple components to update the firmware on any number of Dell Systems automatically.

Learn to navigate support.dell.com and figure out what parts of Dell OpenManage you should download by reading this blog entry on the SystemsEdge blog.

Dell IT Assistant is a comprehensive, standards-based console for managing Dell Servers, Storage Arrays, Tape Libraries, Network Switches, Printers, and Clients distributed throughout your network. From a central console, you can gain increased control over the availability of Dell platforms through proactive alerts and notification. 

"Installing Dell OpenManage in a VMware ESX Server Software Environment". -PDF

If you've never installed OMSA on ESX, don't start with this script ! Read this piece of documentation first, "Installing Dell OpenManage in a VMware ESX Server Software Environment". Then once you have a grasp of the steps necessary, you can use this script that will install and configure the OMSA agent on VMware ESX 3.x. It will also configure the SNMP settings, and open the default ports in the firewall to allow communication.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Install Windows Server 2003 Administration Tools Pack (adminpak) on Windows Vista

@echo offREM RegisterAdminPak.cmdREM (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.set filelist=adprop.dll azroles.dll azroleui.dll ccfg95.dllset filelist=%filelist% certadm.dll certmmc.dll certpdef.dll certtmpl.dllset filelist=%filelist% certxds.dll cladmwiz.dll clcfgsrv.dll clnetrex.dllset filelist=%filelist% cluadmex.dll cluadmmc.dll cmproxy.dll cmroute.dllset filelist=%filelist% cmutoa.dll cnet16.dll debugex.dll dfscore.dllset filelist=%filelist% dfsgui.dll dhcpsnap.dll dnsmgr.dll domadmin.dllset filelist=%filelist% dsadmin.dll dsuiwiz.dll imadmui.dll lrwizdll.dllset filelist=%filelist% mprsnap.dll msclus.dll mstsmhst.dll mstsmmc.dllset filelist=%filelist% nntpadm.dll nntpapi.dll nntpsnap.dll ntdsbsrv.dllset filelist=%filelist% ntfrsapi.dll rasuser.dll rigpsnap.dll rsadmin.dllset filelist=%filelist% rscommon.dll rsconn.dll rsengps.dll rsjob.dllset filelist=%filelist% rsservps.dll rsshell.dll rssubps.dll rtrfiltr.dllset filelist=%filelist% schmmgmt.dll tapisnap.dll tsuserex.dll vsstskex.dllset filelist=%filelist% w95inf16.dll w95inf32.dll winsevnt.dll winsmon.dllset filelist=%filelist% winsrpc.dll winssnap.dll ws03res.dllfor %%i in (%filelist%) do ( echo Registering %%i ... regsvr32 /s %%i )echo.Echo Command Completed

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

What happens if two AD objects have the same RDN?

Every Active Directory (AD) object has a distinguished name (DN—e.g., CN=John Savill,CN=Users,DC=SavillTech,DC=Com) that uniquely identifies the object and its position in AD. The system also creates a relative distinguished name (RDN), which is a name relative to the container (e.g., CN=John Savill for the user).
Two objects with the same RDN can't exist in one container. For example, in the container CN=Users,DC=SavillTech, CN=John Savill and OU=John Savill are allowed because one is a user and the other is an organisational unit (OU). However, CN=John Savill and CN=John Savill aren't allowed.

The only way you can have a duplicate RDN is if two objects are created on different domain controllers (DCs). But at the next replication cycle, the system will rename the older object.


To find objects that the system has renamed because of RDN collisions, use the search.vbs script in \support\tools\support.cab as follows:

cscript search.vbs "LDAP:///dc=,dc=com" 
/C:"(CN=*\0ACNF:*)" /P:distinguishedName /S:SubTree 
Any matches will display the RDN for the renamed objects.

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