by skufel | May 15, 2012 | Automation, Infrastructure, Scripting, SysAdmin, Windows
Recently I was wondering how to list all available drives in Windows 7 PE Command Prompt. That happened to me when stuck in PXE boot command prompt window trying to find out what letter is assigned to USB stick I just plugged in. It looks like it’s not quite...
by skufel | Mar 1, 2012 | Automation, Infrastructure, Network, SysAdmin
In previous articles in the RANCID series I described: How to install RANCID on openSUSE Add devices to RANCID So, we have RANCID collecting configuration from network devices to repository with version control. Only question is how to get access and make use of...
by skufel | Jan 23, 2012 | Automation, Infrastructure, Network, SysAdmin
Some time ago I described How to : Install RANCID on openSUSE 11.4 “Celadon”. However, just after installation RANCID will do nothing without proper configuration. So, in this lab I will show how to: create group of devices in rancid add information about...
by skufel | Dec 15, 2011 | Automation, Infrastructure, Messaging, Scripting, SysAdmin
In some companies performance is measured based on number of emails someone sent. regardless the reason for those emails and content, what matters the most is if someone is sending something to others. So, I was asked to produce quick count how many emails one...
by skufel | Dec 11, 2011 | Automation, Infrastructure, Network, System Center
As we can download SCOM 2012 RC from Microsoft, I decided to do quick installation in LAB environment. Whole test environment is based on VMware Workstation 8. Deployment of SCOM 2012 will be spread across few servers to separate certain functions (in fact similar to...
by skufel | Dec 8, 2011 | Automation, Infrastructure, Virtualization
Often using VMware Workstation platform we need to quickly create new virtual machine. reasons for that might be different. For example additional machine for our Lab environment or just quick test without affecting other machines we have setup in our virtual...
