FreeNAS was configured and installed as a VM on ESX6 using pass PCI passthrough for the HBA. iSCSI performance seemed uneffected. From a VM on the same host as FreeNAS write speeds were in the 30 MB/s range and reads were under 5 MB/s. The solution was two fold. Improving Write Speeds: Freenas was configured […]
Taming Windows logs in Splunk
Bumping up against Splunk quotas can be frustrating. One reason why you might be hitting your quotas is because of the verbosity of Windows logs. The inspiration for taming Windows logs came from Mark Runal’s Blog. My Window’s server firewalls log dropped packets. These dropped packets are logged in EventID 5156. Through some regex magic in […]
SCOM Console Task to Forward Alert as Email
Problem: Some alerts in SCOM are considered incidents, in ITIL terminology, and should be tracked in a ticketing system. The easiest way to get a SCOM alert into appeared to be email. I did not want all alerts becoming tickets, just the ones I decided required tracking. Solution: On a cursory search it seemed easy enough […]
AppV 5.1 Oracle Instant Client 11.2 Recipe
Sequencing Environment: Windows 7 x64 (Patched) AppV 5.1 Steps: Download Oracle 11 Instant Client (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/instant-client/index-097480.html) 4 files needed. instantclient-basic (x86 & x64), instantclient-odbc (x86 and x64) Start App V Sequencer Create c:\oracle Extract the downloaded files. Extract both files for the respective architecture need to be extracted to the same directory. A suggested file structure […]
SiteOrigin Features Widget Custom Icon Image Size
SiteOrgin’s Features Widget allows the user to use a custom icon image. However, the image actually used is the thumbnail of the original. This caused my icons to look very low resolution. In the Features Widget code (/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/so-widgets-bundle/widgets/features/tpl/default.php) there is a line of php According to WordPress Support the function wp_get_attachment_image_src() will return the url […]
System Center Operations Manager client failed to install
On a subset of similarly configured servers I had problems installing the SCOM agent. At the time I installed the client I used the NOAPM=1 switch. However, when an update came out for the client through windows update, the update would fail and the client service would stop. The error when using an interactive installer […]