Scenario Our Wavecom Fastrack 9000E GSM modem suddenly started giving an error and was refusing to send text messages. The device is attached to Centos 5.x VM which in turn uses a serial port on an ESXi 5.0 server. We use smsd to send the text messages. # tail -f /var/log/smsd.log 2013-07-27 10:35:18,6, GSM1: Modem Read More…
Month: July 2013
Terminal Services Stopped and Grayed out in Windows 2003
One of our Windows 2003 servers became inaccessible via RDP. All other services were fine/ (eg FTP/HTTP) When we got a console into the machine I noticed that the Terminal Services service was stopped and I didn’t have the option of starting it due to the menu being greyed out. I suspect a windows update Read More…
VCSA : Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password
Occasionally you may forget your vCenter login password. If you are using the VirtualCenter Server Appliance (5.0 in my case) and fail three times (by default) then you’ll get locked out To check this is the case. SSH (via root) to your appliance Then examine /var/log/messages . I found this line: Jul 11 14:49:50 jord-vcenter Read More…
Add an IP alias to NIC on FreeBSD
Here are the steps for adding and removing an alias to a NIC on a FreeBSD 8.x machine. Find out the name of the NIC : # ifconfig As you’ll see from the above screenshot the NIC is called em0 Now to add the alias: # ifconfig em0 192.168.9.50 netmask 255.255.255.0 alias Read More…