Trigger a batch file on a Domino Partitioned server
I would recommend you set this up as a Server Progam document in the Domino Directory (NAB) with a repeat interval of 1. This is the syntax. Basics Program name: nserver Command line: -c “tell amgr run ‘folderfilename.nsf’ ‘agentname’” Server to run on: servername here Comments: Appropriate comment here so people know what it is [...]

View Answer   |  April 9, 2010  7:33 PM
Lotus Domino, Lotus Domino Partitioning, Partitioning, Windows Server 2008

HP DL165 SERVER RAID CONFIGURATION
During boot-up, select F8 when it controller is detecting the drives and raid configuration. If Windows is already installed, then you can installed HP Array Configuration Utility to do the same thing but normally not recommended if modify the boot/system partitions.

View Answer   |  April 9, 2010  6:48 PM
HP DL165 Server, HP server Raid configuration, RAID, RAID configuration, Windows Server 2003

Virus removal: Started with veritas
Run an online virus scan like <a href=”http://housecall.trendmicro.com/”>Trendmicro</a>. When it finds the virus, it will give you what Trendmicro calls it which should be similar to many of the other names out there. The problem is there is no official name for most viruses.

View Answer   |  April 9, 2010  5:49 AM
Antivirus, Antivirus software, Veritas Volume Manager, Virus removal, Windows XP, Windows XP administration

Creating folders using scripts?
Here’s a simplified example (vb script) that should get you started. You might want to add code to check for the existence of the folder, and to display user friendly messages. <pre>Dim objFSO, objFolder, strDirectory strDir = InputBox(“Enter directory name”) Set objFSO = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”) Set objFolder = objFSO.CreateFolder(strDir) WScript.Quit </pre> -CarlosDL

View Answer   |  April 8, 2010  4:18 PM
folder options, Scripting, Windows scripting

Standby server back-up process
The passive node should take over in a matter of seconds to a few short minutes. Typically users will not even know it happened.

View Answer   |  April 8, 2010  2:41 PM
Backup & recovery, Failover, Failover Clustering, Server administration, Server Backup

Data center incident or disaster?
Problem management, which is closely related to incident management, analyzes the causes of incidents and identifies trends so that solutions to reduce the volume of incidents in the future may be developed. How much time is involved in the data center for incident and problem management? Our partner, Metrics Based Assessments, recently did an analysis, [...]

View Answer   |  April 7, 2010  9:17 PM
DataCenter, Disaster Recovery, Incident response

Will a server reboot trigger a failover?
In a clustered environment the application will failover to the passive node if the active node is rebooted. Best practice would be to manually failover the application before the reboot. You could allow the application to failback once the original active has come back but I would recommend doing that under manual control

View Answer   |  April 7, 2010  6:39 PM
Backup Server, Failover, Failover Clustering, Server Reboot

Which task does the backup server do?
It would depend on the service which you are clustering, but typically the failed transaction would be rolled back, and the next command would then be picked up by the database server. Mr Denny, could you explain your statement, “the failed transaction would be rolled back, and the next command would be picked up by [...]

View Answer   |  April 7, 2010  6:09 PM
Backup Server, Failover, Failover Clustering, Server administration

Storage vs Data Warehouse
Storage would be physical hardware, with everything else happening within the software.

View Answer   |  April 7, 2010  4:40 PM
Data warehouse, Storage, Storage in 2010

San Mount Volume Changed HELP!!!
There is no way to convert a spanned disk back to a basic disk without removing all the data from the volume and recreating it. Making changes to the MDS couldn’t convert a disk from basic to spanned. This would have to be done on the Windows host.

View Answer   |  April 4, 2010  4:58 AM
Blade servers, Data Domain, SAN, SAN Configuration, SAN Mount

Object Marix storage company
I’ve never heard of Object Marix. As per “self-healing”, I know only 2 vendors that offer that capability, Xiotech and Copan. I know Xiotech pricing is low compared to EMC (who isn’t nowadays). Copan don’t know their pricing.

View Answer   |  April 1, 2010  12:22 PM
Object Marix, Storage vendors

no external harddrive (usb type) will work on my pc,
The USB external drive may be assigned a drive letter already in use which would not allow you to show up within windows explorer. Open Up Disk Management and first see if your drive shows up there and if so, assign it a new drive letter. ************** One other thing you can try is uninstalling [...]

View Answer   |  March 31, 2010  1:54 PM
USB, USB Controller, USB hard drives

Status of GST Inc
As of the moment I am answering this, their chat is online and responding.

View Answer   |  March 30, 2010  10:48 PM
AS/400, Backup to Tape, Tape drives

Lotus Notes, Messages deleted from INBOX but not received / appeared in Archive
Mmm … Very strange… Check your archive parameter to see if Notes have archived your mails in an other database than your usual archive file.

View Answer   |  March 30, 2010  2:42 PM
Email archiving, Lotus Notes, Lotus Notes administration

How do I automatically move 2 month old mails in local pst though exchange server 2007.
There is no automatic way to do this. The pst file is a locally stored file on the pc to which the exchange server does not have access. The user can manually move the mail from the pst folder to the exchange mailbox folder.

View Answer   |  March 29, 2010  6:11 PM
Email archive, Email archiving, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2007 administration, Exchange Server 2007

Calculating drive volumes and data usage on servers
How often do you restart the servers? We use a method where the servers are rebooted after a backup at 02:00 every day. On reboot, a program called BGINFO, is used to send information about each server to a .mdb file, so we can then compare overall usage, based on a specific time, for all [...]

View Answer   |  March 29, 2010  4:39 PM
Database servers, Disk space, Drive Volumes, Server capacity planning, Server Data Usage, Storage

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View Answer   |  March 27, 2010  8:23 PM
AS/400, CIO, CRM, DataCenter, Development, Exchange, Giveaways, ITKE, Linux, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Mobile, Networking, Oracle, Security, SQL Server, Storage, Virtualization, VoIP

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View Answer   |  March 27, 2010  4:15 PM
CIO, CRM, Database, DataCenter, Domino, Exchange, Linux, Networking, Oracle, SAP, Security, SQL, SQL Server, Storage, Virtual Server, VoIP, Windows

Rebuilding File/Applicaiton Server 2003 – Need Suggestions
<a href=”http://www.scriptlogic.com/products/securecopy/”>Secure Copy</a> is very useful for this type of operation. You can also use <a href=”http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9D467A69-57FF-4AE7-96EE-B18C4790CFFD&displaylang=en”>Robocopy.exe</a>.

View Answer   |  March 27, 2010  2:38 AM
Application Server, File Server, NetBackup, Veritas NetBackup, Windows Server 2003

Mimix replication takes time.
You can check your line speed and duplex values on your line descriptions and sync them up. We have both sides currently running at 1G full.

View Answer   |  March 26, 2010  4:34 PM
AS/400, i series, Replication