Jan/100
OpsMgr 2007 – Author Privileges
Have you run into setting up permissions/privileges for your administrators within the scom console. This can be quite confusion. You often run into cryptic areas where certain functions don’t react as they should and you run into the error “The user domain\user does not have sufficient permission to perform the operation”.
Some important information here:
Jan/100
NetApp OnTap 8.0rc2 Filerview
Take a look at filerview. Not much different here except the branding. I’ll post some other screenies as I go along and explore the new version.
Oct/090
Remotely reboot a server
Always a good tidbit of information to keep around:
To perform a remote shutdown:
1. Open Computer Management (Local)
2. In the console tree, right-click Computer Management (Local), and then click Connect to another computer.
3. In the Select Computer dialog box, click Another computer, type the name of the computer that you want to restart or shut down, and then click OK. You can also click Browse to search for the name of the computer.
4. In the console tree, right-click Computer Management (Remote computer name), and then click Properties.
5. On the Advanced tab, click Startup and Recovery.
6. Click Shut Down to open the Shut Down dialog box.
7. Under Action, select the actions you want to perform on the computer to which you are connected.
8. Under Force Apps Closed, select the circumstances under which you want to force applications to close when you shut down or restart the computer, and then click OK.
Sep/090
Greyed out Domain Controllers
I spent a while searching around for this gem. Basically the domain controllers don’t trust the local system account so you have to run the HSLockdown.exe tool. I found this blog article that explains:
http://scug.be/blogs/scom/archive/2008/08/18/opsmgr-agent-greyed-out-on-domain-controller.aspx
Sep/090
NetApp DS4243 Disk Shelves
Finally SAS disk shelves from NetApp. Also in a 24 drive configuration.
Update: Looks like these will ship with new systems only starting December (and by new systems, it seems maybe only the FAS-3170s). General availability will come a few months later.
DS4243
Sep/090
Mint.com
I have got to say, mint.com is one of the best tools i’ve used in a long time. I used quicken online for a little while and then found if I stopped visiting the site that it would stop pulling transactions. The mint.com site continues to grab them even if I’ve been idle for a month or two. There are some features that are missing (I haven’t figured out how to mark a transaction as a reoccuring bill for tracking) but overall it’s a great tool and I recommend anyone looking for a financial management tool to spend some time setting this one up.
Sep/090
Data ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode RC released
31xx (3160
is not supported in RC1)
Exciting. I’m thinking about installing this on a FAS-3070 next week. Hopefully have some screenshots. Since it’s generally available on the NOW site you should be able to find it.
Aug/090
NetApp VFM Email Alerts
I spent a few hours doddling around with how to do email alerting with the provided VFM scripts. I finally ended up rewriting things just a little, but below is the basics of how to configure VFM to use email alerting.
A quick note, this most likely applies for the Brocade StorageX product as NetApp rebrands StorageX to work with NetApp filers.
