This is my 3rd article on Opalis. You can check my other two articles out here: http://www.misdivision.com/blog/creating-an-automated-e-mail-notification-in-opalis and http://www.misdivision.com/blog/integrating-opalis-with-system-center-essentials. This time, I will show you how to create a policy that will look at Windows services. The policy will check to see if a service is stopped or paused and if so, the policy will attempt [...]
InnoDB is a storage engine used by MySQL. It supports commit, rollback and crash-recovery capabilities to protect user data. Very large database are configured on InnoDB due to its maximum efficiency. To maintain data integrity, InnoDB also supports FOREIGN KEY referential-integrity constraints. You can freely mix InnoDB tables with tables from other MySQL storage engines, [...]
Today i’m going to show you how to write an auto login script for the .net framework. This script automates Internet Explorer via the COM interface, which exposes the entire Document Object Model (DOM) to the awesomeness that is Powershell. # initialized two variable for the username and password $username=”username” $password=”password” # Create the IE [...]
In my last article, I talked briefly about Opalis and its ability to automate monitoring tasks. Opalis can also work hand in hand with SCE (System Center Essentials), taking advantage of the wide array of built in alerting and monitoring of SCE and combining it with the easy-to-understand workflow and automation that Opalis offers. Opalis [...]
System Center Opalis is a Windows solution for automating tasks that would normally be done by computer technicians monitoring computers and devices. Workflows are created visually for tasks using an Opalis client. In this article, I will show you how to create an automated e-mail notification in Opalis. This article already assumes you have deployed Opalis and [...]
What is a paging file? Basically, an operating system uses a paging file as virtual memory on your hard disk when the processes running on your computer have used up all the RAM; with a paging file, you are less likely to get an out of memory error. The trade off is that programs using [...]
Today I’m going to introduce a way to share files and folders with other across the internet using Dropbox. Dropbox is a Web-based file hosting service operated by Dropbox, Inc. that uses cloud computing to enable users to store and share files and folders with others across the Internet using file synchronization. There are both [...]
DNS can be a tricky thing. Host names to IP mappings have to be propagated by DNS servers which can take some time to happen; in other words, DNS changes don’t happen immediately. Computers can cache DNS settings which can make things even more complicated. If you are a network administrator or computer programmer, DNS can present [...]
There may be many reasons why a server can get overloaded and so there must be some work done to find where the bottleneck may be. Common problems, in order of probablity, are usually with the CPU/RAM, hard disk speed, and unoptimized software. In this post I will discuss these common problems. You can use the [...]
Running hardware diagnostics typically means downtime for servers. Luckily for Dell server administrators, there are tools that allow you to check and test hardware without taking the server offline – Dell Online Diagnostics. Dell Online Diagnostics is available for Windows, Linux, and ESX operating systems. You can download the tools from the following links: Dell [...]
