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
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Script: Check for Orphaned HomeDirs
It seems no matter how much you try you cannot ever get those damned orphaned homedirs cleaned up. Well, this helps. Our org always has additional groups in the homedir (no, we don't just let the users have whatever they want in there, so we have to monitor). This causes a little confusion amongst most orphaned file checkers (as there is still a group in there that resolves). Read on for the code and an example.
What this script does is it scans a directory's subdirectories (as with many homedirs, the subdirectories are usually the AD account name). It then tries to match the subdirectory to an AD account name. If this proves that one doesn't exist, it prompts and spits out the ACL info and a prompt to move the files. If you say yes, it moves them to the directory you specified in arg1.
New Theme
every once in a while i like to change things up a little, so i changed themes. One thing i noticed was my array of crazy tags off to the right, i'm going to do some cleaning up of those i think.
NetApp Buys Data Domain for $1.5B
An interesting article today on NetApp buying DataDomain. I sent this to my coworkers and it's intersting they are buying a dedupe company when they were just touting their recent success with the penetration of ASIS. Questions now surround, where does ASIS go from here? Will it be the "cheap" version or are they no longer going to give away ASIS with their bundles.
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/05/20/netapp-buys-data-domain-for-15b/
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