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 10, 2011 | Infrastructure, Scripting, Windows
Background image on logon screen os common issue with pre-installed servers, for example from Dell. That makes accessing those systems via Remote Desktop painful and slow (it happenes that serer is shipped to location, racked and stacked, and then whole configuration...
by skufel | Dec 8, 2011 | Databases, Infrastructure, Scripting, SysAdmin
By default when I installed mysql on openSUSE, root password for mysql access was blank. First thing then is to change password as this might pose security issue. First of all login to openSUSE using root account and then: lab-net-01:~ #mysql Welcome to the MySQL...
by skufel | Dec 8, 2011 | Infrastructure, Network, Virtualization
VMware Workstation and GNS3 are two platforms which are very handy to test and evaluate solutions before live implementation. By default each of those platforms is separate, however both have components which allow integration. What that means is that it is possible...
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...
by skufel | Dec 8, 2011 | Infrastructure, Network
This is simple Lab environment I built when was working on IPsec VPN tunnel between our internal network environment and 3rd party vendor systems. As we had some issues with establishing IPsec communication, to make sure that everything is fine on my side I start...
