Problems with some Users connecting to NAS
Can you ping the Nas by name? You may have a netbios resolution problem or DNS problem.
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| January 31, 2005 8:45 AM
NAS, Network Appliance
Can you ping the Nas by name? You may have a netbios resolution problem or DNS problem.
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| January 31, 2005 8:45 AM
NAS, Network Appliance
Deleting journal receivers
Try this. I use it in a SBMJOB CL *PGM that clears a library with *JRNRCV CHGJOB INQMSGRPY(*SYSRPYL) ADDRPYLE SEQNBR(999) MSGID(CPA7025) CMPDTA(&LIB 11) + RPY(I) Delete receivers…. RMVRPYLE SEQNBR(999)
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| January 18, 2005 11:21 AM
Backup & recovery, Database Management Systems, DB2, DB2 administration, Hardware, i5, iSeries, OS/400, Performance/Tuning, Servers, tips and tricks, Tools
Try this. I use it in a SBMJOB CL *PGM that clears a library with *JRNRCV CHGJOB INQMSGRPY(*SYSRPYL) ADDRPYLE SEQNBR(999) MSGID(CPA7025) CMPDTA(&LIB 11) + RPY(I) Delete receivers…. RMVRPYLE SEQNBR(999)
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| January 18, 2005 11:21 AM
Backup & recovery, Database Management Systems, DB2, DB2 administration, Hardware, i5, iSeries, OS/400, Performance/Tuning, Servers, tips and tricks, Tools
New way of handling RAID 5?
This depends on your disk subsystem. Our Oracle database resides on a SAN attached IBM shark and we have enough write cache in front that we do not have a write penalty for using raid-5.
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| January 17, 2005 8:08 AM
Oracle DBA, RAID, RAID 5
This depends on your disk subsystem. Our Oracle database resides on a SAN attached IBM shark and we have enough write cache in front that we do not have a write penalty for using raid-5.
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| January 17, 2005 8:08 AM
Oracle DBA, RAID, RAID 5
Data Visibility in RBAC and Rule-based systems issues
There exists a lot of doctrine, but no easy answers. Access can be regulated by role, task and sometimes security level (secret, top secret or some commercial equivalent, but the more granular these become, the tougher it gets to administer them and to adapt to new conditions (reorgs, changes in role, task, etc.). What you [...]
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| January 16, 2005 7:10 PM
Biometrics, Compliance, CRM, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, Identity & Access Management, Information risk management, Policies, provisioning, Risk management, Security, Security management, Security products, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Single sign-on
There exists a lot of doctrine, but no easy answers. Access can be regulated by role, task and sometimes security level (secret, top secret or some commercial equivalent, but the more granular these become, the tougher it gets to administer them and to adapt to new conditions (reorgs, changes in role, task, etc.). What you [...]
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| January 16, 2005 7:10 PM
Biometrics, Compliance, CRM, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, Identity & Access Management, Information risk management, Policies, provisioning, Risk management, Security, Security management, Security products, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Single sign-on
SQL backups on Veritas
Maybe I am stating the too obvious, but Veritas has agents for specific applications such as MS SQL Server. I would purchase and install the VERITAS Backup Exec Agent for Microsoft SQL Server.
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| January 14, 2005 12:26 PM
Backup & recovery, Veritas
Maybe I am stating the too obvious, but Veritas has agents for specific applications such as MS SQL Server. I would purchase and install the VERITAS Backup Exec Agent for Microsoft SQL Server.
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| January 14, 2005 12:26 PM
Backup & recovery, Veritas
Security COncern, Files deleted from Server
Unfortunately there is nothing after the fact that will do this. but for future reference, if you turn on auditing on that computer and enable auditing for file and object access, then configure auditing for select folders/files it can be set up to create an event in the security log when files or folders are [...]
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| January 14, 2005 10:58 AM
Auditing, Compliance, CRM, DataCenter, Disaster Recovery, Hardware, Intrusion management, Managed security services, Policies, Risk management, Security, Security management, Security Program Management
Unfortunately there is nothing after the fact that will do this. but for future reference, if you turn on auditing on that computer and enable auditing for file and object access, then configure auditing for select folders/files it can be set up to create an event in the security log when files or folders are [...]
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| January 14, 2005 10:58 AM
Auditing, Compliance, CRM, DataCenter, Disaster Recovery, Hardware, Intrusion management, Managed security services, Policies, Risk management, Security, Security management, Security Program Management
Best Practice for EX-emplyee data storage/handling HELP!!
1. Create “Read Only” Share 2. Create user folder/copy data 3. Create CD/DVD each month of all removed (30 days, 60 days…) 4. Send DVD to HR department 5. Pick up last month’s CD/DVD, send to offsite storage
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| January 13, 2005 11:49 AM
Backup & recovery, Career development, Networking, Storage
1. Create “Read Only” Share 2. Create user folder/copy data 3. Create CD/DVD each month of all removed (30 days, 60 days…) 4. Send DVD to HR department 5. Pick up last month’s CD/DVD, send to offsite storage
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| January 13, 2005 11:49 AM
Backup & recovery, Career development, Networking, Storage
Access to security log in Windows 2000
I would just go to the C:WINNTsystem32config directory and apply security on the files. Just select all the files, especially the .EVT files and right click and go to properties. In the properties you can set access to whomever you want to access the files and what permissions they will have. Dont get rid of [...]
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| January 11, 2005 4:03 PM
Biometrics, Compliance, configuration, CRM, DataCenter, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, Identity & Access Management, Managed security services, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, provisioning, Risk management, Security, Security management, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Single sign-on, Tech support, vulnerability management
I would just go to the C:WINNTsystem32config directory and apply security on the files. Just select all the files, especially the .EVT files and right click and go to properties. In the properties you can set access to whomever you want to access the files and what permissions they will have. Dont get rid of [...]
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| January 11, 2005 4:03 PM
Biometrics, Compliance, configuration, CRM, DataCenter, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, Identity & Access Management, Managed security services, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, provisioning, Risk management, Security, Security management, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Single sign-on, Tech support, vulnerability management
Setting up an extended fabric over DWDM
Let?s start with a couple of questions to try a fill in the blank and an important one is how far apart the Nortel DWDM cards/devices are? Knowing the distance involved is important to have a handle on how many buffers will be needed on each end to support your ISL. For example at 2Gb/sec [...]
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| January 11, 2005 3:45 PM
Brocade Switches, Dense wavelength division multiplexing, DWDM, Extended fabric, SFP, Switches
Let?s start with a couple of questions to try a fill in the blank and an important one is how far apart the Nortel DWDM cards/devices are? Knowing the distance involved is important to have a handle on how many buffers will be needed on each end to support your ISL. For example at 2Gb/sec [...]
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| January 11, 2005 3:45 PM
Brocade Switches, Dense wavelength division multiplexing, DWDM, Extended fabric, SFP, Switches
DOS attack, DNS question
Howdy! SonicWall is actually pretty good. Not like Firewall-1, but still pretty good. I own several, but have also worked on tons of other stuff. The SonicWall has a log. Have you looked at it? If you had trouble reaching the firewall inside, I’d suspect virus or worm activity before I’d suspect a DOS (Denial [...]
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| January 10, 2005 8:30 PM
Compliance, configuration, CRM, Disaster Recovery, Firewalls, Forensics, Incident response, Information risk management, Intrusion management, IT architecture, Managed security services, Network security, Networking, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, Product/service procurement, Risk management, Security, Security management, Security products, Security Program Management, Tech support, VPN, vulnerability management, Wireless
Howdy! SonicWall is actually pretty good. Not like Firewall-1, but still pretty good. I own several, but have also worked on tons of other stuff. The SonicWall has a log. Have you looked at it? If you had trouble reaching the firewall inside, I’d suspect virus or worm activity before I’d suspect a DOS (Denial [...]
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| January 10, 2005 8:30 PM
Compliance, configuration, CRM, Disaster Recovery, Firewalls, Forensics, Incident response, Information risk management, Intrusion management, IT architecture, Managed security services, Network security, Networking, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, Product/service procurement, Risk management, Security, Security management, Security products, Security Program Management, Tech support, VPN, vulnerability management, Wireless
How to generate a listing of security information of Win 2003 server folders
Check out the following…it can produce an output of what I think you are looking for. Group Policy Management Console with Service Pack 1, The Microsoft Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) with Service Pack 1 (SP1) unifies management of Group Policy across the enterprise. The GPMC consists of a MMC snap-in and a set of [...]
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| January 8, 2005 8:47 PM
Auditing, Data center operations, DataCenter, FAT and NTFS, Hardware, Help Desk, Operating system platforms, Performance/Tuning, Policies, Registry, Remote management, Servers, Space/structure, Storage, Tech support, Windows, Windows 2000 desktop, Windows 2000 Server, Windows client administration and maintenance, Windows Server 2003
Check out the following…it can produce an output of what I think you are looking for. Group Policy Management Console with Service Pack 1, The Microsoft Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) with Service Pack 1 (SP1) unifies management of Group Policy across the enterprise. The GPMC consists of a MMC snap-in and a set of [...]
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| January 8, 2005 8:47 PM
Auditing, Data center operations, DataCenter, FAT and NTFS, Hardware, Help Desk, Operating system platforms, Performance/Tuning, Policies, Registry, Remote management, Servers, Space/structure, Storage, Tech support, Windows, Windows 2000 desktop, Windows 2000 Server, Windows client administration and maintenance, Windows Server 2003
Restricted access to win XP professional
You’d be best off if your Win2K server is upgraded to a domain controller using ‘dcpromo’ at the command line. Then you would add all of your XP machines to the domain you have created and restrict access on ALL of the machines according to a single set of users which exist within active directory… [...]
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| December 28, 2004 6:16 PM
Administration, Application security, Compliance, CRM, Database, DataCenter, Desktop management applications, DHCP, Disaster Recovery, DNS, Encryption, Exchange, Firewalls, Forensics, Help Desk, Implementation, Incident response, Information risk management, Instant Messaging, Intrusion management, Management, Network monitoring, Network security, Networking, Networking services, Physical security, Policies, Remote management, Remote users, Risk management, Secure Coding, Security, Security management, Security Program Management, Servers, System utilities, Tech support, Third-party services, VPN, Windows, Windows 2000 Server, Wireless
You’d be best off if your Win2K server is upgraded to a domain controller using ‘dcpromo’ at the command line. Then you would add all of your XP machines to the domain you have created and restrict access on ALL of the machines according to a single set of users which exist within active directory… [...]
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| December 28, 2004 6:16 PM
Administration, Application security, Compliance, CRM, Database, DataCenter, Desktop management applications, DHCP, Disaster Recovery, DNS, Encryption, Exchange, Firewalls, Forensics, Help Desk, Implementation, Incident response, Information risk management, Instant Messaging, Intrusion management, Management, Network monitoring, Network security, Networking, Networking services, Physical security, Policies, Remote management, Remote users, Risk management, Secure Coding, Security, Security management, Security Program Management, Servers, System utilities, Tech support, Third-party services, VPN, Windows, Windows 2000 Server, Wireless
No bootup with W2k – after “Verifying DMI pool data”
If the computer stop at “verifying DMI pool data” mean hard drive is not responding for the call from BIOS. I would like to advise you to go to BIOS setup and to make sure that your hard drive is shown there and to restart with a boot disk ( you can make with any [...]
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| December 27, 2004 2:40 PM
Backup & recovery, Desktops, Hardware, Servers, Storage, Storage products and equipment, Tech support, Windows client administration and maintenance
If the computer stop at “verifying DMI pool data” mean hard drive is not responding for the call from BIOS. I would like to advise you to go to BIOS setup and to make sure that your hard drive is shown there and to restart with a boot disk ( you can make with any [...]
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| December 27, 2004 2:40 PM
Backup & recovery, Desktops, Hardware, Servers, Storage, Storage products and equipment, Tech support, Windows client administration and maintenance
Windows 2000 won’t give LKGC option
You might try www.bootdisk.com to create a boot disk from download. I’ve not tried it myself, but it might be worth a try. It almost sounds like that reset hosed your MBR
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| December 27, 2004 11:49 AM
Backup & recovery, DataCenter, Hardware, Servers, Storage
You might try www.bootdisk.com to create a boot disk from download. I’ve not tried it myself, but it might be worth a try. It almost sounds like that reset hosed your MBR
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| December 27, 2004 11:49 AM
Backup & recovery, DataCenter, Hardware, Servers, Storage
Microsoft: Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT)
Hello, You can refer to the information contained in this tech note to assist you with both the planning and migration steps to move all or some of your current NT 4.0 users and computers. http://www.windowsitpro.com/WindowsMigration/Article/ArticleID/4692/WindowsMigration_4692.html Good Luck!
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| December 22, 2004 3:04 PM
Active Directory, Administration, Application management, Application software, Backup, Client management, Clustering/High availability, Database issues, DataCenter, DataManagement, DHCP, Disaster Recovery, DNS, Exchange, Exchange 2003, Exchange 5.5, Help Desk, Installation, LDAP, Lotus Domino, Maintenance, Microsoft Windows, Migration, Networking services, Outlook, Software testing, Software testing tools, Storage management, Tech support, Third-party services, Vendor support
Hello, You can refer to the information contained in this tech note to assist you with both the planning and migration steps to move all or some of your current NT 4.0 users and computers. http://www.windowsitpro.com/WindowsMigration/Article/ArticleID/4692/WindowsMigration_4692.html Good Luck!
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| December 22, 2004 3:04 PM
Active Directory, Administration, Application management, Application software, Backup, Client management, Clustering/High availability, Database issues, DataCenter, DataManagement, DHCP, Disaster Recovery, DNS, Exchange, Exchange 2003, Exchange 5.5, Help Desk, Installation, LDAP, Lotus Domino, Maintenance, Microsoft Windows, Migration, Networking services, Outlook, Software testing, Software testing tools, Storage management, Tech support, Third-party services, Vendor support
Storage Products
I have never worked with HDS but I have always had reasonable luck with IBM. Availability of RedBooks (IBM how to docs written by people actually using the products) is very valuable. Also once you know how to work the IBM support process you can get qualified support persons working on it very shortly… The [...]
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| December 22, 2004 9:21 AM
Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, Storage
I have never worked with HDS but I have always had reasonable luck with IBM. Availability of RedBooks (IBM how to docs written by people actually using the products) is very valuable. Also once you know how to work the IBM support process you can get qualified support persons working on it very shortly… The [...]
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| December 22, 2004 9:21 AM
Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, Storage
Recovering data from hard drive
I just sent this out to the person who wanted to “unformat” his hard drive. Here is the procedure that I’ve created for the technicians at our company. 1. We purchase another hard drive of equal or larger capacity. We call this drive “new drive” 2. In a diagnostic machine (one that is already running [...]
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| December 21, 2004 6:07 PM
DataCenter, Security, Storage, Tech support
I just sent this out to the person who wanted to “unformat” his hard drive. Here is the procedure that I’ve created for the technicians at our company. 1. We purchase another hard drive of equal or larger capacity. We call this drive “new drive” 2. In a diagnostic machine (one that is already running [...]
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| December 21, 2004 6:07 PM
DataCenter, Security, Storage, Tech support
how DNS works
OK – another deep hole – just love these. Simplest answer is that there is a server (arbitrarily chosen by the appropriate admins) which is THE authority for example.com, and its associated address range 168.192.in-addr.arpa (which covers all of 192.168.x.y). note the reversing of the byte ordering for the address range. Other servers can get [...]
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| December 21, 2004 2:58 AM
Active Directory, Backup & recovery, Bind, DHCP, DNS, Hardware, Installation, Intel servers, LDAP, Linux, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Networking services, Servers, Storage, Tech support, Toubleshooting, Unix, Unix Servers
OK – another deep hole – just love these. Simplest answer is that there is a server (arbitrarily chosen by the appropriate admins) which is THE authority for example.com, and its associated address range 168.192.in-addr.arpa (which covers all of 192.168.x.y). note the reversing of the byte ordering for the address range. Other servers can get [...]
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| December 21, 2004 2:58 AM
Active Directory, Backup & recovery, Bind, DHCP, DNS, Hardware, Installation, Intel servers, LDAP, Linux, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Networking services, Servers, Storage, Tech support, Toubleshooting, Unix, Unix Servers
Information Security
You might want to look here: http://www.sans.org/resources/policies/ for sample policies. SANS is a security training/certification organization, associated with GIAC (Global Incident Analysis Center) who are heavily and directly involved with the state if system and internet security. They also publish a “Top 20″ vulnerability list.
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| December 16, 2004 9:12 AM
Compliance, CRM, Disaster Recovery, Incident response, Policies, Risk management, Security, Security Program Management
You might want to look here: http://www.sans.org/resources/policies/ for sample policies. SANS is a security training/certification organization, associated with GIAC (Global Incident Analysis Center) who are heavily and directly involved with the state if system and internet security. They also publish a “Top 20″ vulnerability list.
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| December 16, 2004 9:12 AM
Compliance, CRM, Disaster Recovery, Incident response, Policies, Risk management, Security, Security Program Management
How can I resolve a GUID name to its CN Object Name?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;325649 This will show you how to do it in reverse. You give the name and it will give you the guid. If you do this for all your sites then you should be able to match it up with your unknown guids.
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| December 14, 2004 7:46 AM
Active Directory, Bind, Distributed File System, DNS, Exchange 2003, LDAP, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Monitoring, NFS, Windows, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows tools/WSRM
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;325649 This will show you how to do it in reverse. You give the name and it will give you the guid. If you do this for all your sites then you should be able to match it up with your unknown guids.
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| December 14, 2004 7:46 AM
Active Directory, Bind, Distributed File System, DNS, Exchange 2003, LDAP, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Monitoring, NFS, Windows, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows tools/WSRM
