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Comment on Scripted management of Solaris 10 COMSTAR iSCSI targets by Timothy Creswick

Timothy Creswick — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:39:23 +0000

Hi there – looks to me like you’re not putting in a name for the new backing store. This script will contain all of its activity within the path defined by the ZFS_BASE variable.

Try entering something different at the “New backing store:” prompt.

Comment on Using the Dell Latitude E6400 Built-in GPS by Timothy Creswick

Timothy Creswick — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:36:37 +0000

Yes I think it does, but at the time that I wrote this Google Maps didn’t support it.

Sorry took so long to approve your post – for some reason I didn’t get an email alert and my blog updates have been slow to say the least!

Comment on Scripted management of Solaris 10 COMSTAR iSCSI targets by roth

roth — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:46:40 +0000

Hi Tim, having trouble. i am newbie to solaris. I have created the following zpool create nas_pool c9d0
vi create create-iscsi-target.sh
changed ZFS_BASE=nas_pool > to nas_pool

roth@rac1:/var/tmp# sh ./create-iscsi-target.sh

—————————————————————–
ZFS / iSCSI / COMSTAR Simple Management Toolset
(c)Copyright 2009 Thoughtspace Ltd. Developed by Timothy Creswick
—————————————————————–

Please specify the name for the new ZFS backing store.
Your new store will be created inside nas_pool
-e
Existing backing stores are:
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
nas_pool 83.5K 293G 31K /nas_pool
-en
New backing store: nas_pool/

-e
ERROR: The ZFS name you specified is already in use.
Will now exit.

cannot open ‘nas_pool/’: invalid dataset name
roth@rac1:/var/tmp#

Thanks
What am I doing wrong here

Comment on Using the Dell Latitude E6400 Built-in GPS by Jason

Jason — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 01:04:50 +0000

I’m very interested in your app. I want to try it on my new E6410. Please send me a copy. Thanks!

Comment on Using the Dell Latitude E6400 Built-in GPS by Jonathan Gaze

Jonathan Gaze — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:48:11 +0000

Does it talk to Google Maps equally easily out of the box? The Google Latitude app (an option within Google Maps) can publish your location to other chosen users of Google Latitude, as well as keep a for your eyes only record of your movements. Cheers

Comment on Using the Dell Latitude E6400 Built-in GPS by Yps

Yps — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:49:32 +0000

Google have a app called Latitude that works with Chrome and Dell Latitude E6400

Comment on Automated batch reboot of HP ProCurve switches via telnet by Timothy Creswick

Timothy Creswick — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:49:05 +0000

You’re absolutely right, this is a much better way of doing things. The main reason for my original method was a lack of time to lookup the MIBs, and the fact that we were performing some other commands at the same time (not included in the post) which would have made the SNMP route considerably more time-consuming.

Thanks for providing the correct OID for performing a reboot – this will certainly be preferred in future, and I would recommend that to anyone else reading this.

Unfortunately the above method was “quick and dirty” given the relative urgency to perform the reboots and the knowledge of existing tools, as is often the case!

Comment on Yubikey Authentication with Outlook Web Access by Timothy Creswick

Timothy Creswick — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:43:27 +0000

Unfortunately I can't provide the module code as this is a business asset, and something that we have continued to develop in the last year since I posted this article. The blog post covers the procedural process of the custom module, which is as much as I can freely give-away. The same applies to the YubiKey authentication server, which is now also a custom implementation, since the Yubico Java server is no longer supported and also contained several bugs and shortfalls. If you are interested in this commercially, I would be delighted to discuss this solution with you. You can find more information and contact details at www.vorboss.com, and also our Yubico integrators entry here http://wiki.yubico.com/wiki/index.php/Integrators:Vorboss_Ltd.

Comment on Yubikey Authentication with Outlook Web Access by Jesper Nexø Jørgense

Jesper Nexø Jørgense — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:35:26 +0000

Specifially I’d like to enquire about the custom module that validates users on the radius-server. Can you shed any light on the code?

Comment on Automated batch reboot of HP ProCurve switches via telnet by Jeroen van Ingen

Jeroen van Ingen — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:55:22 +0000

Argh, some stuff disappeared due to formatting… the commands are:

snmpset -c [community] [switch IP or DNS name] hpicfReset.0 i 2
(if you have the proper SNMP MIBs installed)

or
snmpset -c [community] [switch IP or DNS name] .1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14.11.1.4.1.0 i 2 (which should always work).

By default, HP switches have a community named “public”, but it’s bad practice to keep that on (same as not setting a password or leaving factory default credentials on a device).