By D87 on May 2, 2012
For some reason there are no 64bit drivers for the Linksys Wireless-G USB Network adapter. Well, there is a work around.
Download the following driver:
WUSB54g 64-bit Driver [Zip]
Ralink Official Link [exe]
In the Device Manager, Right-click on the Wireless USB Network Adatapter and select “Update Driver Software”. Follow the instructions below:
Select to Browse my computer for driver
Select to Browse my computer for driver
Select to pick from a list of device drivers. From the list, select “Network Adapters”.
Select to pick from a list of device drivers
Select the downloaded driver from disk
Select the downloaded driver from disk
Select Ralink Technology Corp. & RT2500 USB Wireless LAN Driver
Select Ralink Technology Corp. & RT2500 USB Wireless LAN Driver
Click Next, and Finish. The driver should now be installed on your system.
Posted in Computer & Technology, Windows | Tagged 64bit, driver, wusb54g |
By D87 on April 4, 2012
To add new users for the web interface of Nagios you will need to run the following command:
# htpasswd /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users username01
Where “username01″ is, type the name of the user you are trying to add. It will later prompt you for a password.
You will also need to edit your cgi configuration file.
authorized_for_system_commands=nagiosadmin,username01
authorized_for_all_services=nagiosadmin,username01
authorized_for_all_hosts=nagiosadmin,username01
authorized_for_all_service_commands=nagiosadmin,username01
authorized_for_all_host_commands=nagiosadmin,username01
Careful when editing the cgi config file. For security reasons you might not want to give full access to every user.
Posted in Computer & Technology, Linux | Tagged adding users, nagios |
By D87 on April 3, 2012
If you are monitoring network devices in Nagios and you get the following error:
“Return code of 127 is out of bounds – plugin may be missing”
Most likely you are missing some SNMP packages. Make sure you have the following:
net-snmp-libs-x.x.x
net-snmp-x.x.x
net-snmp-utils-x.x.x
Run this command to make sure that you don’t have them:
For RHEL\CentOS\Fedora:
rpm -qa | grep net-snmp
For Debian based distros:
dpkg --get-selections | grep net-snmp
If the command does not return anything, then you are missing all three packages. Proceed to install them using your package manager.
After you are done verify that the packages are installed:
# rpm -qa | grep net-snmp
net-snmp-libs-5.5-37.el6_2.1.i686
net-snmp-5.5-37.el6_2.1.i686
net-snmp-utils-5.5-37.el6_2.1.i686
One last step. You will need to stop Nagios to recompile and re-install the Nagios Plug-ins.
Go to the folder where the plug-ins are downloaded.
/configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios
Make
Make Install
service nagios start
Posted in Computer & Technology, Linux | Tagged Linux, nagios, net-snmp, snmp |
By D87 on April 2, 2012
If you are getting this error, you will need to install the gcc automake. Type the following command:
yum -y install gcc automake autoconf libtool make
That’s it!
Posted in Computer & Technology, Linux | Tagged centos, make command, yum |
By D87 on March 29, 2012
If you find yourself working on a computer that is locked down and are in need of doing some tasks that required administrative privileges, the following command might be helpful. This can be done directly from the “RUN” command window.
runas /user:Domain\Admin "C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe /separate"
Replace the yellow highlighted text with your own credentials. The credentials can be for a domain or a local admin user. The light-blue text represents the application you are trying to run with elevated rights.
Posted in Computer & Technology, Windows | Tagged administrator, runas, windows |
By D87 on March 7, 2012
In a event where you are running low on disk space after applying a service pack or a set of updates, there are two unique tools that can be used to safely remove some of the archived information that is set aside by Windows.
The two tools that can be used for Windows Server 2008 are COMPCLN and DISM. COMPCLN is the older utility that’s been around since Vista, and it is recommended that you run DISM instead. Either way both commands seem to do the same function. Please note that COMPCLN does not work in Windows 7.
DISM Command
dism command
There are many switches when running this command and is recommended that you look into all the options in the Microsoft manual. For the most part the command should look like this:
dism /online /cleanup-image /spsuperseded
Upon completion, you will not be able to remove any service packs that were installed, since they are now permanent in the OS.
Posted in Computer & Technology, Editors' Picks, Windows | Tagged Clean Tool, COMPCLN, DISM, windows server |
By D87 on March 6, 2012
Symantec Enpoint Manager
You can use the resetpass.bat tool to reset the user name and password for the account that you use to log on to Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager. If the user name or password is something other than admin, running resetpass.bat changes the user name and password back to admin.
Note: If the account has been locked out due to repeated logon attempts, the resetpass.bat tool does not unlock the account. The default lockout period is 15 minutes.
To reset the administrator password
- Open Windows Explorer on the computer that runs Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager.
- Locate the Drive:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager\Tools folder.
- Double-click resetpass.bat. The user name and password are reset to admin.
- Log on to Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager using admin for both the user name and the password, and change the password.
Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager password reset
Posted in Computer & Technology, Editors' Picks, Uncategorized, Windows | Tagged endpoint, reset password, symantec |
By D87 on March 4, 2012
When looking to upgrade your Active Directory system and Domain Controllers from a Windows Server 2003 to 2008, you will need to go over the Checklist provided by Microsoft. One of the first steps in the checklist consist of preparing your environment to properly work with 2008. The following command will prepare your current AD and DC.
Load the Windows Server 2008 installation cd & navigate to adprep folder via comand promp: D:\sources\adprep
Now run the following command, which will prepare the forest schema:
adprep /forestprep
adprep command
We will also need to run another command:
adprep /domainprep /gpprep
domainprep command
Posted in Computer & Technology, Windows | Tagged active directory, upgrade, windows server |
By D87 on March 3, 2012
To remove the current product key in your Server 2008 installation follow these simple steps:
Open the command promp
START > Run > type “cmd“
Navigate to the system32 folder
path: C:\Windows\system32
Type the following:
slmgr.vbs -upk
Wait a few seconds and a window will popup confirming the removal of the product key.
Posted in Computer & Technology, Windows | Tagged product key, windows server |
By D87 on October 21, 2011
If you keep getting this error in the Event Viewer you should do the following:
The description for Event ID ( 100 ) in Source ( MySQL ) cannot be found
It seems like the local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. We will have to use a program to edit the mysqld.exe to add the required information.
- Locate and backup mysqld.exe – \MySQL Server\bin\mysqld.exe Make sure to backup!!!!
- In XN Resource Editor open mysqld.exe and you should see both panes blank.
- From the menu select Resource, and then Add Resource. A window will open with a list of options, select Message Table.
mysqld.exe XN Resource Editor
- Right click on “Language Natural” and click on Properties. A window will open, change the Language option to English (United States).
Resource Properties
- From the menu select Strings, and then Add String. It will create a default string with a 00000001 id.
- Opinally add the following string :
%1For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://www.mysql.com.
- Change the ID from ’00000001′ to:
'C0000064'
- Now Save and exit. Start MySql server now.
That should do it. From now on you should see all the actual event messages in the Event Viewer.
Posted in Computer & Technology | Tagged error, event viewer, mysql, server |
