physical network infrastrcture design question
Concerning the physical network design in Data Centers which have quite a mix of high density blade centers, small 1-U servers, storage, mainframe, etc., I’d like to hear what standards are being followed. Are you using fiber fed switches to each rack, patch panels in each rack, cat5 or cat6 e, etc. Do you use [...]

Answer Question   |  February 18, 2008  4:51 PM
Data center design and infrastructure, Data center operations

connecting the 5th and 7th floosr of a building
Hi, Everybody My network covers the 5 th floor of an office building, and now we expanding to the 7th floor (a half-dozen users. All the servers and telecom closet are on the 5th floor and I have to provide network services to the users on the 7th floor. I would like to have the [...]

Answer Question   |  May 24, 2012  2:25 AM
802.11 networking equipment, Cabling, Data center operations, DataCenter, DataManagement, Desktop security, Desktops, DHCP, DNS, Gigabit ethernet, Hardware, Help Desk, Hubs, Information risk management, Networking, Networking Equipment, Networking services, Novell NDS, Routers, Security, Security management, Security products, Servers, Software Quality Assurance, Switches, Tech support, WAP, WEP, Wi-Fi Protected Access, Windows client administration and maintenance, Wired Equivalency Privacy, Wireless, Wireless Application Protocol, Wireless PC cards, Wireless routers, Wireless standards, WPA

Staffing an enterprise level data center
A SearchDataCenter.com member recently asked: What is best practice for staffing an enterprise level data center in terms of FTE numbers? Is there a model that states a minimum of 2 FTE’s per shift for safety and then an FTE per number of monitors?

Answer Question   |  July 27, 2005  12:31 PM
Career development, Data center design, Data center operations, DataCenter

iSeries NetServer Support for Windows Network Neighborhood
I get iSeries NetServer Support for Windows Neighborhood work fine with OS/400 V5R1 by configuring NetServer through iSeries Navigator. However, the same operation does not work with OS/400 V4R2. Are there any PTFs that need to be applied? Your help is very much appreciated. Sincerely, OUMAROU

Answer Question   |  July 23, 2005  1:08 PM
Data center operations, DataCenter, Networking, Tech support, Vendor support

Technical College vs. University
Hello all- Would it be more beneficial to attend a technical college or university? A certain technical college, ECPI (www.ecpi.edu) in VA, has sparked my interest because they advertise ‘they meet with some industry experts to discuss tech trends and what education needs to be put out to keep up with today’s skills.’ I want [...]

Answer Question   |  January 10, 2010  4:20 PM
Career development, CCNA, Certifications, Data analysis, Data center operations, Data mining/analysis, Data warehousing applications, DataCenter, Development, DHCP, DNS, E-mail applications, Ecommerce applications, ERP, Exchange, Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, Exchange 5.5, Hardware, Help Desk, IBM, Knowledge management applications, Lotus Domino, Mail protocols, Microsoft Windows, Network management software, Networking, Networking certifications, Networking Equipment, Networking services, Oracle, Outlook, Security, Security management, Systems management software, Tech support, Vendors

Changing the statement heap parameter on iSeries
Hi, I would like to know how to change the statement heap parameter DB2 (stmtheap) on the AS/400. I tried the command GET DATABASE CONFIGURATION FOR database-alias (giving alias name as the AS/400 server name) but it returns the error “SQL0901N The SQL statement failed because of a non-severe system error. Subsequent SQL statements can [...]

Answer Question   |  June 9, 2005  6:10 AM
Application software, Availability, Backup & recovery, CIO, Computer Associates, Data center operations, Database Management Systems, DataCenter, DB2, DB2 administration, DB2 Everyplace, DB2 Implementation, Development, E-business, Hardware, IT architecture, Modeling, Operating system platforms, Performance/Tuning, Physical security, Services, Space/structure, Storage, Tech support, Third-party services, UDB for iSeries/i5, Vendors

Stop Error (C000021a)
I am receiving this stop error(C000021a) “windows logon process system process terminated unexpectedly” with win 2000 server. Safe mode and Last Known Good Conf. works fine. Is there any solution without reformating the HDD? I have ERD with me. Will that help me? Any advise on this would be highly appreciated. Thanks

Answer Question   |  June 23, 2008  3:29 AM
Biometrics, Call Centers, CIO, Compliance, CRM, Customer relationship management applications, Data analysis, Data center operations, Data mining/analysis, Data warehousing applications, DataCenter, Desktop management applications, Desktop security, Desktops, DHCP, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, DNS, E-mail applications, ERP, Exchange, Graphical User Interfaces, Hardware, Help Desk, IBM, Identity & Access Management, Implementation, Information risk management, Installation, Intel, Intel PC hardware, IT architecture, LANDesk, Microsoft Systems Management Server, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Networking Products, Networking services, Operating system platforms, PeopleSoft, Performance/Tuning, Physical security, Policies, Power management, provisioning, Registry, Risk management, Security, Security management, Security products, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Servers, Single sign-on, System utilities, Systems management software, Tech support, Third-party services, Vendor support, Vendors, Windows, Windows 2000 desktop, Windows 2000 Server, Windows client administration and maintenance

reusedlt *yes
Hi, Has reusedlt *yes behavior changed with V5R3? When I add a record to a PF that is reusedlt *yes in V5R2 is uses a record that has been deleted, however when i do the same thing on a V5R3 system it adds a new record rather than re-use one. Anyone run into this before? [...]

Answer Question   |  November 1, 2011  2:52 PM
Backup & recovery, Data center operations, Data mining/analysis, Data warehousing applications, Database Management Systems, DB2, DB2 administration, DB2 Implementation, Disaster Recovery, Hardware, Help Desk, i5, IBM, iSeries, OS/400, Performance/Tuning, Security management, Software Quality Assurance, System monitoring, Tech support, tips and tricks, Tools

Windows XP using only NBNS, not DNS
Situation is a system with XP Home, that was BADLY infested with spyware, viruses, etc. Hosts file was filled in with a large number of entries. After everything is cleaned up and the OS reinstalled with the “Repair” option, everything seems to work – except DNS. I can ping by IP address only, despite manually [...]

Answer Question   |  May 27, 2005  11:27 AM
Data center operations, DNS, Help Desk, Microsoft Windows, NetBIOS, Networking, TCP, Tech support

problem with Index rebuild
How can I rebuild the indexes online,after trucating/moving partitions tables,so that things has not come in unstable stage and continue keep responsing on same tables. As rebuild takes several minutes. So how could I manage the things when database is online with out interuption.

Answer Question   |  June 13, 2005  2:15 PM
Data center operations, DataCenter, Development, Disaster Recovery, Tech support

Active Directory Migration/Restructure – Windows 2000 SP4
Hi, Question about Active Directory Migration – we have a 2-domain Active Directory Forest – Windows 2000 SP4 (the Forest Root domain and a second domain tree (not installed as a child of the root domain tree). Presently, we use the second domain for most of our operational purposes and only a bit of the [...]

Answer Question   |  May 10, 2005  5:31 AM
Data center operations, DataCenter, Exchange, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Tech support

AS/400 System Saves and Journals
We use the following commands to do our weekly system save: SAVSYS, NONSYS, SAVDLO, SAV. Will this save system journals as well? Thanks in advace for your help.

Answer Question   |  October 24, 2009  5:55 PM
AS/400, Data center operations, Disaster Recovery

AS/400 Printing
I have spool files located in GLOUTQ, what command and how would I start printing this file on PRTS1? Thank You Alex Muir

Answer Question   |  May 6, 2005  4:28 PM
AS/400, Data center operations

AS/400
What “WRK’ command display’s the average response time for a job? Thank You Alex Muir

Answer Question   |  May 6, 2005  4:24 PM
AS/400, Data center operations

Inserting data into a vargraphic data type field
How to insert data into a vargraphic data type field. I have done the following CREATE TABLE TEST_TABLE (FLD1 VARGRAPHIC(20)) This is done succesfully INSERT INTO TEST_TABLE VALUES(‘TEST’) This gives a SQL error Please let me know how I can acheive it.

Answer Question   |  May 4, 2005  9:44 AM
Application software, Data center operations, Database Management Systems, DataCenter, DB2, DB2 administration, DB2 Everyplace, Development, Hardware, Help Desk, IT architecture, Migration, Modeling, Operating system platforms, Services, Tech support, Third-party services, UDB for iSeries/i5, Vendor support

Windows 2000 Server Crash
I have a Windows 2000 Server for a Client. The Operating System Crashed from a virus. The person who built the server set up a Raid 5 using the IDE controllers. I need help to recover the Data off the Raid. I reinstalled windows server 2000 and also added windows XP Pro. I can see [...]

Answer Question   |  April 25, 2005  6:41 PM
Data center operations, DataCenter, Disaster Recovery

2 quick questions: 1st on reports and 2nd on Call Disposition (Term codes)
I have two basic questions: 1st, what is the difference between canned and Out-of-the-box reports? 2nd, I am facing a challange to measure call center performance and call center statistics for various customers, products, and agents based on call types that an agent receives. I am looking for some suggestions how to do that.

Answer Question   |  April 5, 2005  6:01 PM
Call Centers, Data center operations, DataCenter, Development, IT architecture, Planning

migration from 2000 to 2003 using ADMT v 2.0
We have multiple forests in our organisation.We are now planning to consolidate them into a single forest and a single domain.We have more than 200 different sites spread all across the world. We have now upgraded all our domain controllers to 2000 and 2003 servers.We have a proper test lab being setup for performining all [...]

Answer Question   |  March 16, 2005  6:32 AM
Data center operations, Database Management Systems, DataCenter, Disaster Recovery, Hardware, Microsoft Operations Manager, Servers, Systems management software, Tech support, Windows, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows tools/WSRM

VIRUS Scan
Using the command line prompt in windows (the black box) which command i can use to scan my machine for viruses without using any virus scan tools ?

Answer Question   |  January 30, 2012  12:45 AM
Auditing, Cooling, Data center operations, Disaster Recovery, Electrical, Information risk management, Physical security, SAN, Security management, Security products, Software Quality Assurance, Space/structure

Slow boot-up in win xp home edition
My notebook(40gb HDD, 256mb RAM)with win xp home edition has become dramatically slow in last 1-2 months. It takes more than 5 minutes to boot even after I removed everything from startup group using msconfig. The initial screen (win XP home) stays atleast 2-3minutes. How can I manage this? Is there something wrong with HDD [...]

Answer Question   |  November 2, 2011  4:24 AM
Administration, Application software, Clarify Inc., Data analysis, Data center operations, Database Management Systems, DataCenter, Desktop management applications, Desktops, Disaster Recovery, ERP, FAT and NTFS, Graphical User Interfaces, Hardware, Help Desk, Information risk management, Installation, IT architecture, Microsoft Windows, Network management software, Networking, Operating system platforms, Power management, Registry, Servers, Service and support, Services, Software, Storage, System utilities, Tech support, Third-party services, Vendor support, Vulnerability Assessment & Audit, Windows, Windows 2000 desktop, Windows 95/98, Windows client administration and maintenance, Windows XP