Recently, we got into a debate on how could we get all possible connections from various (unidentified) standalone applications, to several SQL Servers. Although a solution would be to constantly look the SSMS Activity monitor and collect all relevant information, the time a connection was occurring, it appeared less appealing, time passing, as there would... » read more
This guide has been written by a fellow IBMer, John Kyriazis (Kudos to him for his detailed document), in order to help us deploy Tivoli Monitoring Agents to several dozens of Linux VMs within a customer’s vInfrastructure. Before you begin to install any agent in RedHat Environment in a corporate environment you must first make... » read more
Recently, I joined a migration task of moving several VMs of various Linux distros to RHEL7. There was the time consuming option to create new VMs and reconfigure everything from the beginning, adding each one of the custom packages, or converting to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), using the convert2rhel utility. The most interesting this by using... » read more
There is an unfortunate situation, where your Active Directory’s database gets corrupted and you are left with no clues of what has caused this inconvenience, or how to resolve it. Sadly, we had to recently face that issue as this Event ID gets accompanied by several others, including Event ID 1084, of task category Replication,... » read more
Starting from Edition 2017, Microsoft SQL Server is available for deployment on Linux systems. This short guide lists the steps for installing SQL Server 2019 on a Mac. I will be setting this up on the following system: Beginning with it, it is necessary to install Docker for Mac. You can download it from this... » read more
If you are using Lenovo servers for your VMWARE infrastructure, you should consider following the below steps in BIOS: a) System Settings – Devices and I/O Ports – PCI 64-BitResourceAllocation set to Disable b) System Settings – Devices and I/O Ports -MMConfigBase set to 3GB c) System Settings – Processors – Processors.C-States set to Disable... » read more
Recently, we had to deal with an issue where several esxi hosts within a vCluster appeared to have non-identical datastores presented among them. First, we had to create an inventory of which datastores should be presented to this group of hosts and distinguish which of the hosts were unable to connect to them. So, in... » read more
A very simple project that can be completed within 20 minutes and provide a network-wide ad-blocking solution, is using your Raspberry Pi 4 with Pi-hole. There are numerous articles and guidelines on how to implement the solution. I found the most clear to be the one described on https://pi-hole.net/. Start by updating your Raspberry Pi,... » read more