Tool for determining how many SIP proxy servers are needed for installation
How can we determine how many sip proxy servers are needed for a new installation? Is there a tool for this?

Answer Question   |  February 11, 2011  10:06 PM
Proxy Server Configuration, Proxy servers, Server installation, SIP

Monitoring software for data center
Is there a monitoring software or appliance that can monitor the status of all systems in our data center from cisco router/firewall to servers and other devices on the network like printers and what not.

Answer Question   |  December 6, 2010  10:00 PM
Data Center management, Monitoring software, Network Monitor, Network monitoring software, Network Monitoring Tools, Network security

Can’t Set different Activation group in ILE SQL COBOL.
Does anyone know why when I compile an ILE SQL COBOL program it shows it going to Activation Group QILE but in the COMPILE prompts I don’t see any option to change the group to something else like our company name?  In a Cobol ILE program the option is there but not in COBOL SQL ILE program? [...]

Answer Question   |  December 8, 2010  3:45 PM
AS/400, AS/400 SQL, COBOL ILE, SQLCBLLE, V5R4

Free IT Book: Two-for-one this week!
We got into the holiday spirit for this week’s free IT book giveaway. Answer one of the unanswered questions below and win two IT books from our coveted technology library. Another plus? You get to pick which two books you receive. So get to answering, because you have a week to throw your name into [...]

Answer Question   |  December 7, 2010  3:24 PM
BRMS, Data Center management, DHCP, Domain Administration, Failover, Giveaways, IT Books, Network security, Network Security Management, Proxy servers, SSL, VNC

Migrate, backup and restore all servers in data center
We want to migrate all servers in our datacenter to be backedup with backup exec instead of brightstore. Can we convert or import the database to bring in backup records and still be able to restore?

Answer Question   |  December 21, 2010  2:59 PM
Backup and restore, Backup Exec, Data center design, Data Center management, data center servers, Data Center Storage

Copying LTO 3 Drive to tape
We back up everynight to a LTO3 drive. Can we copy the tape to send it to multiple locations and not just store it in our datacenter? We use brightstore.

Answer Question   |  December 8, 2010  2:57 PM
Data center consolidation, Data Center management, Data Center Storage, LTO 3 tape library, LTO3 Tape Drive, Tape Backups

Pushing out VNC to all servers in data center
We need to push out vnc to all servers in our data center. They are all in different workgroups but all have a common local admin username and password. How can we do this easily?

Answer Question   |  December 21, 2010  2:54 PM
Data Center management, data center servers, Server management, VNC, VNC Installation

DB2 table load JCL with current timestamp
Hi I need load the data from the flat file to db2 table by dsnuproc (mainframe ) utility my file dont have the timestamp value but the cloum in the table col2 declared as timestamp not nulll caould you please help how do load current timestamp.Thanks in advance Regards Manju

Answer Question   |  January 13, 2011  5:56 AM
AS/400 flat file, DB2, DB2 Table, JCL

Making Virtualized Physical Resources Portable
Suppose I have a datacenter with a number of vitualization and cloud-based solutions running at the same time – KVM, VMware, Xen, etc. all of which have type 1 hypervizors and demand the undivided resources of a single physical server. How can I port physical servers from one environment to another without rebuilding from scratch? [...]

Answer Question   |  December 6, 2010  10:48 PM
Data Center management, Data Center Virtualization, Hyper-V Physical Server, KVM, Virtualization, VMware, VMware administration, Xen

Creating a bonded T1 for our data center
We have two T1 connections coming into two cisco routers. The lines are from different providers. Can we make them into a bonded t1 for our data center? What equipment will we need and what configuration?

Answer Question   |  December 3, 2010  9:43 PM
Cisco Routers, Data center design, Data Center management, Router configuration, T1 line

Changing to only one DHCP server and the other to a failover
If we have two offices connected via sonicwall vpn how can we make it so we only need one dhcp server and it can fail over to the other one if necessary?

Answer Question   |  December 6, 2010  9:41 PM
DHCP server, DHCP Server Configuration, Failover, SonicWALL, SonicWall VPN, VPN, VPN design

Transporting computers in cold weather
We have Hp Netbooks at our school and the tech people will not allow the computer carts (each holds 25 netbookc) to travel about 150 feet across a paved parking lot in the winter (we are in Iowa)because they feel the 60 seconds they are outside will damage the computers. We feel this is not [...]

Answer Question   |  December 2, 2010  2:25 PM
Hardware devices, Netbooks, Open IT Forum

Can I remove my RAID 0 configuration
Can i remove my RAID0 configuration beacuse i want to make changes in RAID configuratuion

Answer Question   |  December 2, 2010  9:33 AM
Dell PowerEdge, Dell Poweredge 2950, RAID 0, RAID configuration, Windows Server 2003

Interconnecting UPS devices for redundancy in our data center
In our datacenter we have 22 separate rack mounted apc ups devices all power comes from a single source. How can we interconnect the ups devices for redundancy?

Answer Question   |  January 5, 2011  3:07 PM
Data center design, Data Center in 2010, Rack mounted servers, Redundancy, UPS, UPS maintenance, UPS system

How can we offer backup service over network
Several customers reside in the same data center with totally separate networks but all internet comes in from the same ISP. Can we offer interested clients backup service over the network for sale? How can it be implemented?

Answer Question   |  November 8, 2011  3:06 PM
Backup and Recovery Hardware, Data Center Clients, Data Center in 2010, Data Center management, Network Backup

Monitoring server and networking health for clients
We have a data center with 25 racks and cabinents. They are all owned by individuals or other companies. It is not our equipment but the racks and the network is. Long story short how can we monitor server and network health monitoring for our clients?

Answer Question   |  December 1, 2010  3:04 PM
Data Center in 2010, Data Center management, Network Monitor, Network monitoring, Network Monitoring Tools, Server monitoring

Forgotten password function error in Maximo 7.1
We have set all the security within Maximo but can not get the forgotten password function to work.  Error message Cannot log in to perform this action.  Please contact your system administrator.

Answer Question   |  January 5, 2011  2:57 PM
Maximo, Maximo 7, Password recovery, System administrator

Recovering SATA hard disk and data after faulty connection
I accidentally connected my PC cabinet fan power plug into my SATA hard disk power, causing the HD power connector to spark. After that, my PC isn’t recognizing the HDD and there’s no power reaching it. How can I recover my data? Is it fried?

Answer Question   |  November 2, 2011  6:40 PM
Backup and recovery software, Data Center in 2010, Data Center management, Data Recovery, Hard disk performance, hard disk storage, HDD, HDD failed, SATA hard disk, SATA Hard Drive

Open IT Forum: What are some of the inexpensive or high-impact green tactics for a data center today?
With power costs increasing significantly, more hardware per rack creating more heat and using more power and cooling solutions, it seems that power rather than space seems to be the limiter amongst data centers. What are your suggestions for reducing power consumption? What are you doing to make your data center more green? We’ll give [...]

Answer Question   |  June 16, 2011  5:51 PM
Data Center administration, Data center design, Data Center in 2010, Data Center management, Green data center, Green IT, Open IT Forum

Using Virtualization?
Installing Mac on a Windows Machine? Possibly dual boot…

Answer Question   |  November 30, 2010  3:56 AM
Dual booting, Mac OS X, Virtualization, Windows