While cleaning up logs reports in check_mk – I came across a dcom error and thought it would be useful to document how to track down which supplier / app might be the cause of it. Specifically the message I was tracking down was DCOM The server {4991D34B-80A1-4291-83B6-3328366B9097} did not register with DCOM within the […]
Found this issue when investigating an error regarding backup of system state on an SBS 2011 server. A colleague mentioned issues he had with Sharepoint and other updates causing backups to fail. When a manual wbadmin job was run with the systemstate option – part of the backup would run but then the remaining steps […]
According to a Microsoft email I got today This fortnight marks 2 years to go until support for Windows XP SP3 and Office 2003 comes to an end. After April 8th 2014 there will be no more security patches, no updates to online technical content and no free or paid assisted support options from Microsoft. […]
A colleague sent a link for a 5 part tutorial for users new to the Notes client in 8.5. You can locate it here and its broken down into 5 sections… IBM Lotus Notes Client v8 for Beginners: Part 1 – Installing and configuring IBM Lotus Notes Client v8 for Beginners: Part 2 – Notes […]
Been working on an enhancement to a current Nagios monitoring system by adding Check_MK to the mix. Its quite interesting to see how easy it is to add multiple remote monitoring hosts to a central control host using the OMD’s built in distributed monitoring. In fact its really a case of – installing the OMD package […]
Many clients have legacy apps that have an access database storing important business critical data. Mainly the normal backup software that is used for backing up user files is used but if a more frequent backup of the files is required then thats not going to be sufficient. One client who had suffered data corruption […]
A further investigation into getting Windows 8 Preview on to a HP Touchsmart TX2 (Lazarus) involved putting a blank hard disk in and re-running the install to rule out previous failure was to do with Windows 7 being on the machine already. In this particular model of tablet there is an adapter for the sata […]
If you are hoping to run check_mk_agent in conjunction with a Check_MK installation be aware that the install option may fail silently with no error. This happens on SBS 2011. The solution is intitially to test checks with check_mk -I from the server with the agent launched from a dos session with the adhoc flag. This […]
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