Scenario: I installed a new EQL but didn’t want to physically connect into the ISCSI network to configure the management IP addressing. An alternative is to use the CLI to configure the settings: Resolution: 1) Console to the EQL 2) Select the member you’d like to configure dr-eqlgrp01> member select dr-eql0 3) Activate the Mangement NIC. Read More…
Reset Equallogic Password via CLI
Scenario: I wanted to re-delpoy a standalone Equallogic 6210X but had neither the password or even the IP address of the device Resolution: Steps 1) Console on the Equallogic and powercycle the device 2) Press CTRL+P on boot 3) Use the following commands: EQL> setenv RESETPASSWORD 1 EQL> reload This should reset the password back to Read More…
Zabbix Graphs Showing Incorrect Time
Problem: After a new installation of Zabbix (appliance) 3.4.6 the time on the graphs were 2 hours ahead. The clock on the server was correct. Solution Edit Zabbix configuration file vi /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/zabbix.conf It appeared the timezone in the Zabbix settings is set to Europe/Riga Change php_value date.timezone Europe/Riga to you actual timezone for Read More…
Install Zabbix Agent on CentOS
The following describes how to install Zabbix agent 3.4.6 onto CentOS 6.9 1) Add Zabbix Repository rpm -ivh http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.4/rhel/6/x86_64/zabbix-release-3.4-1.el6.noarch.rpm 2) Install Zabbix yum install -y zabbix-agent 3) . Edit zabbix_agentd.conf vi /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf Server={Zabbix_Monitoring_server} Hostname={your_server_name} 4) Start Zabbix agent service service zabbix-agent start 5) Add Zabbix Agent service to start up scripts Read More…
Install Zabbix Agent on Windows
In this post I will be deployig Zabbix Agent (3.4.6) onto a Windows 2012 R2 system 1. Download the Zabbix agent on the target machine. The .zip file can be downloaded directly from the Zabbix website. 2. Unzip the download to c:\Zabbix 3. Copy C:\Zabbix\confzabbix_agentd.win.conf to c:\Zabbix\zabbix_agentd.conf 4. Edit zabbix_agentd.conf Server=127.0.0.1,{Zabbix_Monitoring_server} Hostname={your_server_name} 4. Install Read More…
Converting Virtual Box OVF to VMware ESXi
Problem: I was attempting to deploy the Zabbix 3.4.x appliance consistiing of an OVF and singled VMDK to a UAT vCenter 5.5 deployment. The following error appeared: The OVF package requires unsupported hardware. Details: Line 25: Unsupported hardware family 'virtualbox-2.2' Solution Edit the OVF (in my case I used notepad++) Change Read More…
vCloud Director 8.20 – API to Grant Privileges to Advanced Gateway
Problem: After upgrading to Advanced Gateway Edge in VCD 8.20 the user is unable to access the new tenant portal due to a permissions issue Example of error message: You need some or all of the following rights [ORG_VDC_GATEWAY_CONFIGURE_SSH, ORG_VDC_GATEWAY_VIEW_SSH] to perform operations [GATEWAY_VIEW_SSH] for (com.vmware.vcloud.entity.gateway:c2c63647-82e7-4a40-8167-xxxxxxxxxx) Solution: To fix the issue a vCloud Director administrator will Read More…
Create Port Forward on Cisco ASA 9.9 using ASDM
In this example I will be opening port 3389 to a VM called RDP-Machine (192.168.2.200) There are two steps when creating a port forward: 1) NAT Policy Go to: Firewall -> Objects -> Network Objects/Groups -> Add -> Network Object Click Advanced 2) Create Access Rule Firewall -> Access Rules -> Add Access Read More…
Enable Outbound ICMP on Cisco ASA 9.9
Scenario: I set up a Cisco ASAv 5525 and placed a Windows VM behind it. I created the NAT (PAT) policy and default route. The Cisco ASA could ping external IP addresses (eg 8.8.8.8). However, the VM behind that could not ping any external IP addresses despite being able to ping the Cisco ASA. Read More…
Download vCloud vApp using OVF Tool
The following command will download a vApp from vCloud Director (8.20). Note the vApp needs to be in a stopped state. vCloud URL: myuatcloud.jordansphere.co.uk Org Name: Jordansphere Org VDC Name: JordansphereUAT vApp Name: CentOS Username: auser Password: Read More…
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